Hi,

I have a shared printer on the network. Many a times the PC to which that printer is connected is turned off. In such a situation, whenever I open ms-word, it unnecessarily starts searching for the printer and usually stops responding during that time, until it shows the following dialog box:
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How can I disable letting it search for the network printer until I give the Print command?

Pradeep