Printing

Quick reference

• 00:05 Hello, in this lesson I just want to review the printing options that you have
• 00:09 available to you.
• 00:10 Now to go into printing, if I were to float my mouse on this tiny little printer
• 00:14 on my quick access, it's going to send this just like that to my printer.
• 00:18 I have no choices involved at all.
• 00:20 But I want to show you your options.
• 00:22 And so that will be, there are two ways to get there.
• 00:24 You can go to File, and choose Print, or
• 00:28 you can press Ctrl+P, which does the same thing, takes you to the same spot.
• 00:32 Now when you're in this section, File > Print,
• 00:35 you can see a little screenshot on the right hand side of all your pages, and
• 00:39 I happen to have three pages available for printing in this document.
• 00:43 And on the left hand side, this is your print button,
• 00:45 that would say, okay good to go, hit Print.
• 00:48 You can tell it how many copies.
• 00:50 You can do 1 copy, 10 copies, 100 copies, it's up to you.
• 00:53 All you have to do is type in a number,
• 00:55 and then which printer are you going to send it to.
• 00:57 This is the biggest choice right here.
• 00:58 It depends on how many printers you have to choose from.
• 01:01 I do want to tell you that brand name is a Microsoft Print to PDF option.
• 01:07 Now PDF stands for portable document format.
• 01:10 So when you print to PDF, it becomes yet another electronic document but
• 01:15 when you email it to other people, they can't make any changes on it.
• 01:17 It's basically kind of a screenshot of the document.
• 01:21 So that's excellent to have that option in the new software.
• 01:24 Now, my standard printer isn't even on this list cuz I haven't set it up.
• 01:28 If you're going to set up a printer, you simply hit Add printer right here, and
• 01:32 it will ask you what kind of printer and it'll have you plug it in to your
• 01:35 computer, and you'll find all the settings for
• 01:37 you, it's basically paying for you to do the process.
• 01:41 But just so you know, you have that option to set up your own printers.
• 01:45 All right, let's get into our print settings.
• 01:48 If we're gonna custom print something,
• 01:49 that simply means we're telling it exactly what pages to use.
• 01:53 Generally, Print All Pages is the setting, the whole thing as written right there.
• 01:58 So if I hit Print right now, it's going to give me one copy
• 02:02 of all the pages and they're gonna be one sided and collated.
• 02:07 Now one side, I'm sorry, collated means in sets.
• 02:11 So one, two, three, so I can staple them.
• 02:13 One, two, three, so I can staple, so I can make 10 copies collated and
• 02:16 they'll come in a nice set.
• 02:18 But periodically I want them uncollated which means it's
• 02:21 going to send out page 111 then 222 then 333.
• 02:25 But I'm a teacher, so sometimes I like to hand out page 1 to everyone, and
• 02:29 then follow up with page 2, to everyone.
• 02:32 So sometimes I do like to print uncollated, but it's up to you.
• 02:35 It's your choice and you have those settings right there.
• 02:38 All right, what if I want to print just page 2 and 3, so I would type page 2-3.
• 02:45 That means 2 through 3.
• 02:48 What if I just wanted to print page 1 and 3?
• 02:51 Then I would print 1,3.
• 02:54 That means 1 and 3.
• 02:56 So if you know exactly what you're printing, and
• 02:58 of course, the tooltip shows you exactly how to type it there, look at the bottom.
• 03:02 I could type page 1 and 3 and 5 through 12.
• 03:06 Or you could abbreviate with the P and the S's and all that but
• 03:10 I generally use commas and dashes and it works just fine.
• 03:13 Okay, so I'm gonna hit Delete on that,
• 03:15 make sure it says print all pages right here and collated, everything is fine.
• 03:20 This is kind of nice right down here.
• 03:23 If you can print, generally it's always set to 1 page per sheet but
• 03:27 look at this option.
• 03:28 You could put 2 pages per sheet, 4 pages per sheet.
• 03:31 Now when I change to 4 pages per sheet,
• 03:33 my print preview didn't change at all on the right hand side.
• 03:36 But I guarantee you, you'll have one sheet of paper with 4 tiny little pages on it.
• 03:40 It's actually kind of awesome if you just need little screenshots.
• 03:43 Anyway generally I'm gonna leave that at 1 page per sheet, hit Print, and off I go.
• 03:47 All right, I hope that helps you, thank you.

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