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  • WordTips: Footnotes and Endnotes Be the master of the footnote and endnote tools in Word. Create, edit, manage, modify, position, and print the references your document needs.
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  • WordTips: Indexes and Special Tables Discover how you can add a professional touch to your documents. Indexes, tables of contents, and all sorts of special tables are at your command.
  • WordTips: Printing and Printers Uncover the many ways you can master the full potential of printing with your printer. Regardless of your printer type, you can improve your output.
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WordTips: Printing and Printers

WordTips: Printing and Printers
second edition

WordTips: Printing and Printers, second edition, includes 230 information-packed pages. The following is the Table of Contents:

Introduction

  • Need More Tips?
  • A Special Note of Thanks
  • Sharing this Document

Basic Printing Guidelines

  • Setting Up Your Printer
  • Editing in Print Preview
  • Understanding Background Printing
  • Canceling Printing
  • Understanding Page Sizes
  • Selecting a Paper Size
  • Printing Very Large Paper Sizes
  • Selecting a Paper Source
  • Collating Copies
  • Reversing Print Order
  • Easily Changing Print Order
  • Printing More Than One Copy
  • Scaling Your Output
  • Printing Odd or Even Pages
  • Double-Spacing Your Document
  • Triple-Spacing Your Document
  • Printing a Draft of a Document
  • Printing a Short Selection
  • Printing Only Selected Pages
  • Multiple Pages Per Sheet
  • Printing Documents in a Folder
  • Previewing Before You Print
  • Toggling Print Preview
  • Multi-Page Print Preview
  • Squeezing Everything In
  • Fitting to a Single Page
  • Adding One More Line
  • Printing an Outline
  • Preventing Printing
  • Preparing Files for a Commercial Printer
  • Guidelines for Laser Printer Letterhead
  • Reducing the Curl in Printed Documents

Layout and Design Issues

  • Making Sure a Document Always Has an Even Number of Pages
  • Using Only Odd Page Numbers
  • Leaving Even Pages Blank
  • Opening Documents in Print Layout View
  • Two Page Numbers per Physical Page
  • Printing Personalized Copies of a Document
  • Booklet Printing in Word
  • Headings On Your Printout
  • Printing without Headings
  • Including a Printer's Name in a Footer
  • Forcing Printouts to Black and White
  • Great Gray Tones from a Black and White Printer
  • Controlling the Printing of Highlighting
  • Printing Documents without Markup
  • Printing without Track Changes Marks
  • Printing Only Changed Pages
  • Printing without Footnotes
  • Changing Compression Print Resolution
  • Hiding Graphics
  • Automatic Blank Pages at the End of a Section
  • Removing Blank Pages at the End of Your Document
  • Removing Comment Brackets for Printing
  • Using Non-Printing Notes

Fonts and Printing

  • Transferring Fonts
  • Fonts Unavailable in Word
  • Fonts Missing in Word
  • Automatic Font Color Won't Print Properly
  • Peculiar Font Differences
  • Printing a Font List

Working with Borders and Margins

  • Controlling Where a Full-page Border is Printed
  • Non-printing Page Borders
  • Missing Left Border
  • Chopped Off Page Borders
  • Table Borders Won't Print
  • Printing Close to the Edge
  • Adjusting Margins in Print Preview
  • Mysteriously Changing Margins
  • Margins Incorrect When Printing
  • Getting Identical Margins

Printing Special Items

  • Printing a Style Sheet
  • Printing a List of Custom Styles
  • Printing a Full Style Sheet
  • Printing a Bookmark List
  • Printing Comments
  • Turning Off Comment Color when Printing
  • Printing AutoCorrect Entries
  • Printing AutoText Entries
  • Creating an AutoText Reference List
  • Printing Summary Information
  • Printing Document Properties
  • Printing Custom Properties
  • Finding Default Shortcut Keys
  • Printing Shortcut Key Assignments
  • Printing a Key Assignment List
  • Printing Field Codes
  • Printing a File List
  • Printing Show/Hide Characters
  • Printing Non-Printing Characters
  • Printing in White
  • Printing Graphic Thumbnails
  • Printing Only Document Changes
  • Printing Hidden Text
  • Printing Color Separations
  • Printing Copy Numbers
  • Using Sequential Document Serial Numbers
  • Printing XML Tags

Special Ways to Print

  • Duplexing Documents, by Default
  • Using Duplex Printing
  • Printing On Both Sides of the Paper
  • Printing Reversed Images
  • Printing a Document's Mirror Image
  • Upside-Down Printing

Printer and Printing Information

  • Printer Name on the Status Bar
  • Changing the Default "Print What" Setting
  • Sending Printer Commands
  • Disabling Printer Notifications
  • Inserting the Date Your Document Was Last Printed
  • Discovering Printer Drift

Printing Problems

  • Unwanted Cover Pages with Print Jobs
  • Dealing with the X of Y Bug
  • Correct Line Numbers When Printing Selections
  • Text Prints as Bold, but Displays as Regular
  • Stable Layout on Different Printers
  • Consistent Formatting Between Word Versions
  • Small Printing with Different Word Versions
  • Misbehaving Leader Dots
  • Problem Printing Quotation Marks
  • Colors Only Show when Printing
  • Selecting Printing of Color Pictures
  • Errors While Printing
  • Unwanted Lines on Printout
  • Unwanted Lines on Printout, Take Two
  • Printout Doesn’t Match Preview
  • Opening and Printing a Document
  • Documents Printing Out of Order
  • Extra Shaded Lines
  • Wrong Characters Printed in Equations
  • Improper Index Page Numbers
  • Non-Printing Hyperlinks
  • Hour Glass Bogging Down Word
  • Print Preview Freezes Word
  • Word Freezes When Working with Lots of Clip Art
  • Always Printing Drawing Objects

PostScript Tricks

  • Adding a Diagonal Watermark with a PostScript Printer
  • Adding a Horizontal Watermark with a PostScript Printer
  • Creating a Full-Page Border Using PostScript
  • Using Crop Marks with a PostScript Printer
  • Upside-Down Text with PostScript
  • Printing a Circle Using PostScript
  • Saving in PostScript Format

Macros

  • Printing a Macro List
  • Printing the Active Document from a Macro
  • Printing via Macro without Messages
  • Printing and Exiting Word in a Macro
  • Temporarily Changing the Printer in a Macro
  • Specifying a Paper Tray in a Macro
  • Changing Print Dialog Box Defaults
  • Printing Styles in a Macro
  • Printing Comments from a Macro
  • Printing Shortcut Key Assignments from a Macro
  • Printing Summary Information from a Macro
  • Printing All Open Documents
  • Working With Multiple Printers
  • Defining Default Printers on a Document Level
  • Remembering Copies to Print
  • Setting the Default Print Preview Zoom Factor
  • Suppressing ASK Fields When Printing

Special Offer: To celebrate the release of the second edition of WordTips: Printing and Printers, you can, for a limited time, download your own copy at half off the regular price. This special offer ends November 18, 2009.

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NOTE: If you order the CD-ROM version of WordTips: Printing and Printers, you get not only the PDF version of the e-book, but also the Microsoft Word version. That's right; you get the exact same e-book in two different formats (PDF and Word) so you can decide which is best for your needs! (Due to size constraints, the Word version of the e-book is not included in the download. Since the PDF and Word versions contain exactly the same information, those who choose to download don't miss out on any information at all.)