Word v. Printer Hell
Help desp. needed.
I just got a flat panel iMac. All fine except I cannot print from Word, I can print from all my OSx packages tho' but I want and need to be able to use Word.
Word is Word 97 and so runs in the classic environment - when I go to print I just get told that I cannot print as the printer port/modem I want to use is already in use or apple talk is (in)active. I have tried altering the apple talk and printer settings in the chooser control panel (my printer is there so the iMac is recognising it) but whatever I select I still get the error message and the changes I make in the chooser control panel don't save.
I read in my book "OSx the Missing Manual" that poss the problem wld be solved if I started the machine in OS 9....I've done that tho' and I still get the same effing message. Aghhhhhhhh.
Can anyone assist? Please, please, please.
I can't afford Word/Office X and Appleworks isn't an accpetable substitute word processor. Please, please help.
Thanks,
Liz Haydon
I just got a flat panel iMac. All fine except I cannot print from Word, I can print from all my OSx packages tho' but I want and need to be able to use Word.
Word is Word 97 and so runs in the classic environment - when I go to print I just get told that I cannot print as the printer port/modem I want to use is already in use or apple talk is (in)active. I have tried altering the apple talk and printer settings in the chooser control panel (my printer is there so the iMac is recognising it) but whatever I select I still get the error message and the changes I make in the chooser control panel don't save.
I read in my book "OSx the Missing Manual" that poss the problem wld be solved if I started the machine in OS 9....I've done that tho' and I still get the same effing message. Aghhhhhhhh.
Can anyone assist? Please, please, please.
I can't afford Word/Office X and Appleworks isn't an accpetable substitute word processor. Please, please help.
Thanks,
Liz Haydon
Comments
thanks for the suggestions.
I am still stuck where when I open the chooser and select my printer I get told that the port I want to use in unavailable as it's already being used by another application or that apple talk is active. I've turned apple talk off - I've resorted to disabling the extentsion to be sure - but I still get the same message....WHY, WHY, WHY?.
thanks.