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Microsoft Office: wrong default printer #

Microsoft Office apps like Word and Excel may suddenly stop defaulting to the user-specified default printer:

• Office 2016 does not use Win 10 default printer
• Office 2019 Default Printer issue
• Office 365 won’t let me change the default printer
• Default Printer in Outlook 2016 is different than Windows 10 Default Printer

Its_Garth's lonely (and locked) November 29, 2018 post (Office 365 on Windows 10 not using Windows default printer) held the unlikely solution:

1. Start > Settings > Devices > Printers & scanners > enable "Let Windows manage my default printer"
2. Launch a Microsoft Office app (say, Word), print a file to the desired printer, then close Word.
3. Disable "Let Windows manage my default printer"
4. Reopen Word and open the print dialog; the desired default printer should be automatically selected.

/windows | Jul 30, 2019

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