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PRINTING TIPS

Methods to consolidate your print jobs and avoid unnecessary printing are described below.

Highlight and Print Selection

Applications such as Encarta and Internet Explorer allow you to print part of an article or Web page. To do so, first highlight the section of text you want printed:

• Move the mouse pointer to the beginning of the section.
• Click and hold the left mouse button.
• Drag the mouse pointer to the end of the text you want to print.

If you are using Internet Explorer, the next step is to:

• Click File on the menu bar.
• Click Print in the drop-down menu.
• Modify the "Page Range" and "Copies" information, if desired.
• Click OK.

If you are using Encarta, after selecting your text you need to:

• Click Options on the menu bar.
• Click Print in the drop-down menu.
• Choose Whole Article Text or Selected Text (available only if you have highlighted a portion of the text).
• Click Print in the Print dialog box.

Copy and Paste into a word processor

Sometimes you will need to collect information from several electronic sources during their research. In this case it is often more handy to create a Word document out of all those snippets of text, and print it once when the research is finished.

To create a word processing document full of collected text (and citations!), complete the following steps:

• First, highlight the section of text you want to copy.
• Move the mouse pointer to the beginning of the section.
• Click and hold the left mouse button.
• Drag the mouse pointer to the end of the text you want to copy.

To copy the text:

In Internet Explorer

• click Edit on the menu bar.
• click Copy.

In Encarta:

• Click Options on the menu bar.
• Click Copy, and click OK in the Copy dialog box. (Pressing the keys CRTL and C together will also copy highlighted text in almost any application.)

The next step is to paste the text into a word processing document such as Word:

• Minimize the application you are copying from (click the left-most of the three little boxes in the upper-right corner).
• Open Word.
• Click Edit on the menu bar.
• Click Paste.

Switch back and forth between applications:

• To move back to the application where you found the text, click the appropriate button on the task bar at the bottom of the screen.
• When you find the next section of text you would like to print or save, you simply need to repeat the highlight and copy actions, then switch back to the Word document using the task bar buttons.
• Once the Word document is active, the newly copied text can be pasted below the previous text.
• Repeat this process until your information gathering is complete. The document can either be printed or saved to a floppy disk and reopened later as a Word document.