I’m sure it’s there right in front of me, but I’ve just spent quite a few minutes trying to find it. Sorry to bug you folks, but can someone please tell me where to find it? Thanks, Ed
ON YOUR KEEYBOARD JUST PRESS CTRL THEN P.
The new software is “GREEN”. They don’t want you killing trees by using your printer…[:D]
I have one of the new printers that actually use paper towels. It’s a lot cheaper. You can just dip them in RO water and they can be reused.
then from the menu bar or from the keyboard.
Okay, you jokers. Methinks the original poster is asking “is there a link you can click on to get the web page contents without the frills - just the contents, not ads and frames and headings and whatnot, so it would be easy to print ?”.
Quite a few web pages have a “print” link that gives your web browser a simplified version of the web page and allows you to print that simplified version using the normal print function in your browser.
Don’t know of any way to do that yet for the new forums.
Smile,
Stein
Hi Ed,
I know the “real” answer. [:)]
The Print feature isn’t in this version of our forum software. Frankly, the Print feature on the old site (which let you print a page with only the forum content, and not their entire site page) either worked occassionally or didn’t work at all. My assumption would be that the developers of this software couldn’t fix the bugs so they removed the feature.
Sorry,
Erik
Often a web page will be set up to allow you to right click, drag, and highight text you wish to capture on paper. Your printer’s driver should open a window allowing you to print “all” or “selection”. You would check selection, and then print it as per usual.
By the time he clicks on ‘print’ then click on ‘print again’ I could press CTRL & P twice as fast. it’s that easy.
Not sure what you are trying to do, but here are some things I do. First, I click on File, then Print.
Stopped using that as I save the page as a HTML. I also take a screen shot which gives me a picture of what I am looking at. I then manipulate the photo to what I need.
Here is a screenshot of my PC desktop. You can see something labeled Files and HTML. I click on the HTML and the page opens like I saw when online with the browser.
Above those is a screenshot of the trains.com page.
Above that is a PDF file I saved but have not put in the proper directory.
On a Windows PC, the process is called Print Screen. There is a key for that. What happens is the screenshot is put in the Clipboard of your PC. Then open a photo program and click Paste. You will have the screenshot.
A little practice and these steps are easier.
Someone had a nice train site. I saved a lot of his stuff as a HTML. When he closed down his site, I had most of the pages that now open up on my PC with the browser as if I was at his site.
Your mileage may vary.
Rich
But doing it my way only gets you the text you want, thus saving another kind of time (less printing) and less cost (less ink, particularly the coloured ink).
My way, I get to select the text only, then the density of print (Quick-print on my Lexmark), which has the sheet in my hands in about 25 seconds from the time I start highlighting the text we’re talking about.
IOW, do you want the message, or all the headers, marqee’s, ads, and so on?
So, the answer to the question I meant (unclearly, to some) to ask is: there is and will not be a “print” button. I’ve got to say that I am quite disappointed. I suspect my visits to this forum will dramatically diminish, as will my pile of “really neat” ideas from this forum. Thank you for the responses, Ed
Your right I don’t see a print funtion for printing of the forums in a formate that doesn’t waste two or more pages of wasted adds and other junk when all you wanted was the answers to a question So too keep from wasting paper I guess I will have to spend the time to ctrl c (copy) and ctrl v (paste) into word perfect
This is very easy to do. Use Print Preview. You can see what pages there are and select the page you want in the Print Option. Also, save the page as an HTML. Then click on the HTML where you stored the download. You can use Print Preview and view the page/s you want to print. I do this a lot. Our PCs have a lot of capabilities. Our PCs are like a huge set of four drawer file cabinets. Use it to categorize your downloads, HTMLs, PDFs, Word documents. Then you have the datat at your fingertips.
A little bit of patience helps. I realized that a few years ago when I entered Geezerhood.
Rich
Some of those replies seem very involved. All I do is to high-light the required text and/or graphic, then hit ctrl+c then paste into Word. Later I can go over the article and edit as required.
Robert
With Internet Explorer 7 there’s a printer icon directly above the web page on the TABS line. I haven’t used it recently but I think it prints the whole thread, advertising and all, in glorious (or is that Gory) color.
You can also click your right mouse button and “Print” and “Print Preview” options come up.
But the MR web page has no print button.
I think this is the only site I’ve ever been to that does not have a print version. With all the new online content and the wide spread use of the computer, one would think MRR would be on the leading edge of things…
Yes, I can ctrl/c and ctrl/p and do all sorts of work arounds, but It is really nice to just hit the print thread, stable, and read it on the way to work in the morning (or at my desk with a deep look of concern on my face so that co-workers really think I’m doing something [:D] )