Thank you Allen.  I tried your solution, found the default printer option
already selected, and had no success in cycling the settings.  

I believethe issue is what consititutes a 'valid' printer.  For example, my
installation of HP Laserjet 1020 does not allow report previews in MS Access.
If the default printer is Quicken PDF, however, the report previews
properly.  Interestingly I , by Quicken's design, cant use that Quicken PDF
printer except from within Quicken.  In the Quicken case, the report views
valid but printing isnt valid.  In the HP Laserjet 1020 case, I cant preview
reports but I can print them (if an alternate printer is set as the defalt
which allows OpenReport actions).

Are there specific printer settings or characteristics that prevent its
'valid' use in previewing MS Access report?  I truly appreciate your help.

AlenB

Allen, thanks for providing the link to your awesome set printer utility!

I had a couple of hurdles:

1) for whatever reason, setting my report toolbars to 'ReportToolbar' caused
an error and I wasn't able to get the menu item onto any toolbar.  I worked
around this by just putting a checkbox on my application form that the user
can tick off before they hit 'Preview' which will set the desired prompt.

2) I found that when I allowed frmSetPrinter to open and I didn't change the
printer (I just clicked 'OK' with the 'use default printer' selection, I
received an error in the line of code that tries to delete the "Printer2Use"
property because it doesn't exist.  I wrote a condition in the error logic to
skip the error message if the err.number was equal to 3265, so I covered this.

Although I'm pretty much ok, I'm just telling you this In case I did
something wrong in the way I installed this.  It's an awesome set of code,
though, so THANK YOU!

Chris