Comments on: Restoring the Last 8 Seconds http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/restoring-the-last-8-seconds Stop working for your data. Make your data work for you. Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:06:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/restoring-the-last-8-seconds/comment-page-1#comment-2703 Nick Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:08:58 +0000 http://ExcelWithMonarch.com/xlreport/restoring-the-last-8-seconds#comment-2703 There's one quirk about Excel that has always annoyed me: Whenever you do any type of Page setup in Excel, the app has to "talk" to the default printer in order to correctly set the parameter. I never understood that. All our printers are networked, no locals, so this "handshake" can be considerable across the network. This may be what you were experiencing, though it's hard to say since it has always run efficiently in the past. I explained this to a users of one of my macros and before running, he'll change his default printer to the Adobe Printer. This has shaved many minutes off the runtime of that macro, depending on how many sheets it has to produce. I believed I have since modified the macro so that if the Adobe Printer is available (using API calls to do the checking/switching), it will switch to it before it attempts to do any Page Setup routines. At the end, it will restore the original default printer. There’s one quirk about Excel that has always annoyed me: Whenever you do any type of Page setup in Excel, the app has to “talk” to the default printer in order to correctly set the parameter. I never understood that. All our printers are networked, no locals, so this “handshake” can be considerable across the network. This may be what you were experiencing, though it’s hard to say since it has always run efficiently in the past.

I explained this to a users of one of my macros and before running, he’ll change his default printer to the Adobe Printer. This has shaved many minutes off the runtime of that macro, depending on how many sheets it has to produce.

I believed I have since modified the macro so that if the Adobe Printer is available (using API calls to do the checking/switching), it will switch to it before it attempts to do any Page Setup routines. At the end, it will restore the original default printer.

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