Thursday, November 15, 2007

Don't print the whole file

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Time to Reset

At one point or another, we've all inserted a picture into a document, worksheet or presentation and started altering its appearance.

Let's make it larger. No, smaller. No, wait, we'll stretch it only vertically. And let's lighten the colors and crop it a bit over here.

Next thing you know, you've got a mess and you're looking at the Undo button, thinking, "How far back do I have to go to fix this one?"

Or, maybe you figured it would be faster to delete the destroyed picture and reinsert the original.

Both of those ideas work, but there's an even faster and easier one button solution to your problem.

If you're using Office 2007, you're looking for the Picture Tools, Format ribbon that is displayed when you have the picture or clipart selected.

On the far left side, you'll find the Adjust section where the Reset Picture button resides.

Click it and you're back to where you began.

If you're using an older version of MS Office, you should find that when you have a picture selected, the Picture toolbar will open

If it doesn't, don't panic!

Try a right click on the picture and choose Show Picture Toolbar from the menu or use the View menu, Toolbars submenu, Picture choice.

Once the toolbar is open, you're only one button away from resetting the picture to its original state.

The button you're looking for is on the far right end and it's called the Reset Picture button.

Click it and poof. Your picture is restored, with no undo or reinsertion required!

Don't Print the Whole File!

Have you ever found yourself trying to print only a few pages of a long file?

Sound like a familiar situation?

If your answer is yes, here's the solution to your problems!

The next time you go to print your project and you only need a portion of the file, use either the File menu, Print choice (Office Button, Print choice in Word 2007) or Ctrl + P in all versions. (The printer button usually just prints the whole file, with no options, so using that won't help you here).

Take a good look at the Print window.

See the section on the left, in the bottom/middle area?

Maybe you do have an option after all!

By default, the All choice is selected.

  • To only print the page that currently contains the cursor, select Current Page and then click OK.
  • To print an already highlighted section of the document, choose the Selection option and click OK.
  • To print several non-consecutive pages, select the Pages option and list the page numbers, separated by commas in the field. For example, to print pages one, three and seven, you would type 1, 3, 7 in the Pages field and then click OK.
  • To print a range of pages, select the Pages option and type the first page to be printed, then a hyphen and then the last page to be printed in the field. For example, to print pages two through seven, you would type 2-7 in the Pages field and then click OK.
  • The Page field box will also let you mix the non-consecutive method with the range of pages. For example, to print pages three, seven though nine and 12, simply type 3, 7-9, 12 in the Pages field and click OK.


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