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Microsoft Word 2010 Tutorials

Work with Files / Print a Document

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When you're finished creating your document and when you have saved it, you're ready to print it. To print a document make sure it's open on the screen and then choose File and then Print. This is the Print Area of the Backstage View. Your document is on the right of the screen here and you can use these navigation tools to move through the document to get a good look at it before you print it. If there's something wrong with the document you'll need to click File and return to the document to make the necessary changes to it, then choose File and Print again to return to the Printing Area. If the document doesn't look right in the preview on the right of the screen here, it's not going to look any better once it's been printed. Here you have a Print button. You won't click this until you're sure that everything is set up correctly. We're going to print 1 copy of the document, but we could increase the number of copies if necessary. This is the Printer that we're using. In an office situation you may have multiple printers. Click this button and you can choose from the available printers. In an office situation you'll be told which printer to use for what printing task. There's a link here that you can use to configure special Printer Properties. These will vary depending on the printer that you're using. I'm using an HP Color Laser and these are the Properties available for that printer. Your printer will be different in what it offers in the way of printing options and its Printer Properties Dialog will look different to this one. Here's where we can choose what part of our document to print. You can print All the Pages, just the Current Page which is the one that you're looking at in the Preview Window. You can also print a Custom Page Range, or certain Document Properties. Most of the time you'll want to print All Pages, but occasionally you may just want to print a page that you've made changes to, or print a small subset of the pages in the document. If you choose to print a Custom Range you can then select which pages to print. If I type 1-3 I'll print from pages 1 to 3. If there were 4 pages in the document, page 4 wouldn't print. If I have a really long document I could print pages 1-3 and then pages 52-57. Notice the information icon here. If you hold your mouse over it, it tells you how to describe to Word which pages you want to print if you forget how this is done. Here you can select to print on both sides of a sheet of paper. Again, your printer needs to be able to do this for you to be able to select this as an option. Here I can select between collated and uncollated. Uncollated means that if I print, say 10 copies of this document, Word will print Page 1 ten times and then Page 2 ten times and so on. If I want to give copies of this document to other people in the office I'll have to sort them before stapling them. To save myself the trouble of sorting I would select Collated and Word will print the entire document once and then a second time and then a third time and so on. Here I can choose the Orientation of the paper. At the moment I'm using Portrait Orientation but I could choose Landscape Orientation. If I do this, the layout of the document's going to change significantly, so I'd want to check it very thoroughly before I print it. Here's where you choose Paper Size. In this country, Letter Size is the standard, but if you're in England, Europe, or Australia then you'd probably choose A4 instead. The Margins button here lets you set margins on the page. You can select from a number of options such as Normal, Narrow, Moderate, or Wide. The layout of the document will change depending on what choice you make so you'll need to check that the document's going to print correctly if you do make changes to the margins here. This last option allows you to configure Word to print more than one page on a sheet of paper. For example, you might choose 2 Pages Per Sheet. This will print the pages side-by-side on a single sheet of paper. You might use this option if you want a draft of the document so that you can proof it, but so you won't be wasting too much paper. When you've made all your printing choices and you're ready to print, click the Print button. The document will then be sent to the printer.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft Word 2010
Author: Helen Bradley
SKU: 34149
ISBN: 1-936334-42-9
Release Date: 2010-08-05
Duration: 8.5 hrs / 119 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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