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As you probably know, some high-end business printers are very expensive on a per-impression or per-page basis. Therefore, it behooves you, whether your drawing is in black and white, grayscale or full color, to do everything possible to ensure that your document is as you want it to be before you hit that print button. So in this lesson I'm going to show you how we can access and use the print preview command in order to save toner, save paper and save grief and frustration on our parts. Now then, print preview simply gives us a close approximation to what your printed output will look like. We can access print preview in a few different ways, as I'm sure you know by now. Most Microsoft applications give us multiple paths to the same result. One thing we can do is from the standard tool bar, click the print preview button and you'll notice that hovering over that button gives us the tool tip, or screen tip, rather, that let's us know control F2 will issue this command. The other way is if you're a fan of the file menu, we can come down about half way and select print preview. Either way, we're taken into a different viewing mode. You can tell we're in print preview because number one, the tool bars go away and are replaced by just a single tool bar. Remember, we can right click any tool bar button to get the name of that tool bar. It looks like this one is called, logically enough, print preview. We'll left click off of that to make that go away and the other thing that let's us know we're in print preview is that if we bring our mouse down into the drawing page area, we see what looks like a magnifying glass and sure enough, if you click once, you're brought into a zoomed view and you'll see that the magnifying glass icon now has a minus on it. We can click a second time to back our view up to what it was originally. Now, what are some of these options here? You'll notice that we have on the tool bar the print page, the icon that looks like an inkjet printer. That is going to just send one copy of this document to your default printer. The print button, you know what that does; I'm sure because of the ellipses. This is going to invoke the print dialog box from which we can customize how our print job proceeds. The setup button, if we click that, brings us to page setup. It's just an easy gateway there. If our document covers more than one page, or as print preview calls it, tiles, we can go back and forth. In this case, my network diagram just involves one page, so clicking these buttons doesn't do anything. Another way to see multiple pages at once is to use this whole-page button, but again, it doesn't make a difference in this case. Current view brings you back to your default view. You can manually toggle your zoom controls by using the appropriate magnifying glass icons. We can close out of print preview by clicking the close button or we can receive help by using the blue and white question mark icon. What else do we need about here? I think that's pretty much it. That covers print preview about as thoroughly as we need to. If I can think of a gotcha, it's just that I've had some students not know how to get out of print preview mode to get back into standard view. Again, the thing to remember there is this prominently-marked close button. Give that a click and that will take you out of print preview and back into your main interface in Visio 2007.