Help: wild printer

Subject: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 08:39 AM

Sometime ago Mudguard told me how to print just one page out of many, but, your instructions just dont work on my confuser. When I go to file menue, and hit Print, there is no dialog box, no radio button, no selection. Now what? I want to copy the words for the Griesly Bride, but, there are 72 other pages in that thread.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: SDShad
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 09:06 AM

What browser are you using, Kendall? Netscape brings up the Print dialog even when you use the button on the toolbar, so if it's Netscape, I'd say reinstall. If it's Internet Explorer, it should come up from the menu, so if it doesn't I'd probably recommend the same thing. Our Windows 2000 Server trainer a couple of weeks ago said the standard troubleshooting cycle for all things Microsoft is 1) reboot 2) reinstall 3) add more memory. :-)

Chris

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 09:08 AM

cut and paste. highlight the text; cut and paste into a word processor.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Willie-O
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 09:40 AM

To expand slightly on what Mario's saying: click and drag your cursor over the text you want to print--it should highlight (don't accidentally activate a link--click around links not on them). Hit "copy" in your edit menu, or easier still Ctrl and C on your keyboard. The highlighted text --just what appears on the screen, not the HTML code-- is now on your Windows clipboard and you can paste it into any text editor or word processor, which is far preferable and faster than trying to print from your browser.

Its not really cut and paste, you can't cut text from your browser, just copy.

One final thing: if the line breaks make the text look weird when you have pasted it, there's ways of sorting that out. I use a dandy free multi-file text editor called Note Tab, which you can get free from Tucows.com . It's got a "join lines" function which cuts all those line breaks out and reformats a paragraph together.

Best, Willie-O

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 09:49 AM

This should be interesting. The last time Kendall tried to print something, his printer went into overdrive and chased him out the door. There is always the pen and paper method. Or WO could PM you with the lyrics. Kendall? Kendall? Uhoh.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 09:51 AM

And it's nay no never....

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Willie-O
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 10:01 AM

Kendall, taking the fish club to that printer was unnecessary.

I think.

Or am i wrong?

W-O

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Midchuck
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 10:33 AM

And there, on the printout, was Mrs. Ravoon....

Peter.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 11:34 AM

It didn't work...it highlighted ok, but when I hit ctrl and C, nothing happens. If I hit edit and copy, nothing happens.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: SDShad
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 12:37 PM

Hey (he says, bringing on thread creep), I've done the pen-and-paper printout method. I was on the road, in a cheap little motel in White River, South Dakota, wanted the words and chords to "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and I had a laptop but no printer. Dialed up to the 'Net, found it, saved it to a text file, and then sat there transcribing it onto a brown paper sack (the only large spare bit of paper I had at the time).

I think I still have the sack.

C.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 12:45 PM

Great, but this is the 21st century. I threw out all my quills last New Years Eve,!!

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 01:18 PM

Kendall,
I have the same problem. It's either print the entire thread or nothing. Frustrating. Maybe someone with the right browser can copy it and email it to you or PM it so you can print. I was only half joking when I suggested this before.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 01:23 PM

Try this? Highlight the text you want to print. Then when you go to print, click on "print selection" instead of "print all" and it will work.

--M

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 01:23 PM

Kendall - want me to PM you the words seperatly?

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Noreen
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 01:30 PM

Kendall, did you try pasting it in somewhere else? Just asking....

Noreen

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 01:43 PM

Kendall........Did you open up your clipboard to see if its there?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:05 PM

there is no selection what is a clipboard? pasting does not appear sure Mario, send them along. My browser must be retarded

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:14 PM

When you click "print" from the File Menu, contained within the Print Box, on the middle left-hand side should say "Print Range" there should be 2 options, "All", "Pages" and "Selection". Click "Selection" and it will print only what you have highlighted.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:34 PM

none of that appears on my file menue

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:34 PM

none of that appears on my file menue

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:43 PM

Is there a "Print" on your file menu dropdown? What system are you using Kendall?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:49 PM

The selection option on mine isn't active. Maybe that's Kendall's problem too. Don't say it Spaw! We're talking about the computer.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 03:51 PM

It's not active unless you have something highlighted, or "selected" to get the "Print Selection" option!

--M

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 04:16 PM

Mbo,
Young man! Don't you dare use that tone with me! (I feel stupid enough already). Thanks.
Mary

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 04:21 PM

*ahem* Mbo? I don't have that either. Not on my computer here at work, which is netscape, nor on my computer at home, which is IE.

On the other hand, my copy and paste works fine....

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 04:23 PM

Ok, I think I got it. I'm using Windows 98. Could that be the problem? I know that Windows NT has the feature as well, I've used it enough at the school library.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: IvanB
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 04:34 PM

kendall, when you press CTRL/c, although nothing appears to happen, the selected (highlighted) text is copied to the clipboard (which is nothing more than a temporary file Windows creates, usually in memory). Then, when you open Notepad, WordPad or some other word processor, you can press CTRL/v and the contents of the clipboard will be dumped on to your open page.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 04:45 PM

(Just now I tried highlighting text and doing a Print Preview. When it came up, the page was blank!)

The way it works for me, Kendall, is highlighting it, going to Edit, Copy then to File, New, and then Blank page. At that point, on the blank page, I can tweak it any way I wish, including printing it.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 04:47 PM

Yet another difference! I don't have Print Preview on mt browser. Is it a Netscape thing?

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 05:34 PM

Nope, because I have it on IE. You do have to paste if first, and click the file button, not the print button. It does not show in the print button, just in the file menu.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 05:51 PM

It's easier to cut and paste using the mouse. Highlight the text, then click the right mouse button. That will bring up a little menu. Click "copy." Then open your word processing program, Word, Notepad, etc. Again click the right mouse button, and this time select "paste" your text will be pasted.

--Matt (too busy to be bothered with memorizing billions of hotkeys)

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 05:56 PM

When I click on file menu this is what comes up...
NEW
OPEN
Edit with Mocrosoft Front
Page editor
Save as
Print
Send
Import and Export
Properties
Work offline
Close.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 06:02 PM

See, kendall, select "print". It's right there between "Save As" and "Send".

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 10:14 PM

I did, it prints the whole 7 pages

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 10:21 PM

Did you highlight what you want to print? Are you using 98??? After you select print, what happens?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 10:21 PM

When you hit that "print" that is in the File menu, it should bring up the print dialog box, from which you hit the print button, and it will print. This is were you find "Cancel," "Print Options," Paper sizes, and print range. Are you saying this box doesn't pop up?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 11:12 PM

Kendall..do you HAVE a word processing program?...you DONT want to be printing from your browser..you need to open some sort of program to do that 'pasting' into they are talking about...you 'copy' the highlighted text you want, switch to the open program, 'paste'...then print from there...

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 11:18 PM

I'm with Bill........Kendall. FIRST tell us what your system is. Is it 98....95.......are you uing Explorer or netscape or what? Is the thing powered by hamsters? Tell us what you have.......got a word proc program.....what printer?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 11:21 PM

if you are in Windows95-98, you 'should' have a button that says 'start'...hit that, hold your mouse button down...move to 'programs', then slide over to 'accessories'...in THAT list should be something called 'Wordpad'. This is something you can paste those words into, if you don't have another program.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jul 00 - 11:26 PM

Somebody (preferrably somebody more literate than me) should PM kendall with absolute "click by click" instructions. That was what it took for me when I was just starting. I agree with Mbo that using the mouse is easier than the Control buttton + "X" button. I did finally figure it out, but it wasn't easy. Dont' feel bad kendall, it's a whole different world for us ancients.
PS--it's very very OK to feel frustrated!! LOL, except that it is not funny when it is yourself.

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 12:01 AM

funny, this computer stuff came sort of easy for me..(NOT programming..my wife does that!)..just pushing buttons and figgering out what they do and 'seeing' models in my mind and translating it into 'how to'...and I started from a DEAD stand-still in Oct.96...it was VERY mysterious then, but now I do the downloading and installing and 'kicking the tires'....and I am 61....

(durn it, Kendall, if I could sit down there with you for an hour, we'd have you doing the equivlent of barred Fs on that damn machine!)

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:28 AM

I have windows 98..my printer is a HP desk jet 600c. My word processor program is Word Perfect.(Corel)

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:34 AM

Okay Kendall............Highlight my post here. Then go to the upper left and click on "FILE"..........On the dropdown, click "Print"......A window should pop up....it says PRINT at the top......Half way down, in the second box, it says PRINT RANGE with three choices: ALL, PAGES (whatever) and SELECTION....Click on Selection

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:47 AM

Uh......Kendall????

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 11:56 AM

I think he deleted you 'spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: kendall
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 01:47 PM

Like I said...none of that stuff comes up

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 05:11 PM

Well Kendall......I think your stuff is busted.

Honestly, like Bill, I too got into it late and in my case there's still a lot of things that this computer can do that I can't. But if your printer starts printing without any setup screen at all, there's something wrong in the printer setup. Some box or another isn't checked.

I run 98 with IE and if I do what I said above, clicking FILE gets me a dropdown and PRINT ios on the dropdown. Clicking PRINT brings up a PRINT WINDOW that gives me the other info. Sorry, I can't be there either. Got anybody local who knows something?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: wild printer
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jul 00 - 05:31 PM

yes. 'spaw...he has done essentially that, but it pribts 7 pages instead one a few lines..he needs to transfer those few lines to another program to print them, but has some sort of problem with that transfer...sure wish there was someone locally who could drive over and check the settings, etc