KB182243 - XL98: Cannot Use Page Setup Property If No Printers Installed

Article ID: 182243

Article Last Modified on 10/10/2006

Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q182243

For a Microsoft Excel 2002 version of this article, see 291298.
For a Microsoft Excel 2000 version of this article, see 213516.
For a Microsoft Excel 97 and earlier version of this article, see 172320.

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, if you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that attempts to set or get the page setup properties for any sheet in a workbook, you may receive either of the following error messages

Run-time error '1004':
Unable to set the <x> property of the PageSetup class

-or-

Run-time error '1004':
Unable to get the <x> property of the PageSetup class

where <x> is any of the following words:

   BlackAndWhite        Order
   BottomMargin         Orientation
   CenterFooter         PaperSize
   CenterHeader         PrintArea 
   CenterHorizontally   PrintComments 
   CenterVertically     PrintGridlines 
   ChartSize            PrintHeadings 
   Draft                PrintNotes 
   FirstPageNumber      PrintTitleColumns 
   FitToPagesTall       PrintTitleRows 
   FitToPagesWide       RightFooter 
   FooterMargin         RightHeader 
   HeaderMargin         RightMargin 
   LeftFooter           TopMargin 
   LeftHeader           Zoom 
   LeftMargin

CAUSE

This problem occurs when there are no printer drivers installed on your computer. Microsoft Excel cannot set or get page setup properties if no printer drivers are installed.

RESOLUTION

To prevent this problem from occurring, install a printer driver on your computer.

STATUS

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Excel, page setup properties are only useful when you print or print preview one or more sheets in a workbook. Because of this, you cannot change or return most page setup properties unless at least one printer driver is installed as the default printer.

If you click Page Setup on the File menu when no printer drivers are installed, you receive the following error message:

Your file could not be printed due to an error on unknown printer (check Chooser). There are several possible reasons:

Just as you cannot access the Page Setup dialog box in this case, you cannot access the properties in the dialog box programmatically.

Additional query words: XL98

Keywords: kbdtacode kbprb KB182243