Print Preview:

The first thing you do before you print a file, is a print preview.
Just click the “Print Preview” button in the “Quick Access toolbar”, or if you haven’t added it to this toolbar, click the “File” tab and select “Print”.

In both cases, the “Print” dialog box opens.
I would like to say, that, at long last, they have thought of adding a preview (a)in the “Print” dialog box. With the arrows at the bottom of the print preview, (b) you can navigate between different sheets in the document. If you are not satisfied, click one of the tabs in the ribbon. This takes you back to your document where you can make the changes.

“Print” Options

The Print window, is divided into three sections.
You have the “Print” (c) section, where both options seem quite clear to me.
You have the “Printer” (d) section, where you make the choice of the printer with which you want to print.
Lastly, you have the “Settings” (e) section, and I will go through its options again.
Clicking on the downward pointing arrow next to the first option (1), gives us a drop-down list where we can choose between “Print All Pages”, “Print selection”, “Current Pages” and “Custom Range Printing” .

• The first will print all pages. Obviously!
• The second, will print only the selected portion of a page
• The third, wil print only the current page. This is the page that is displayed in the preview window.
• And the fourth will print a particular range of pages. If you select this option, you must enter the range.

The second option can be used to print single-sided or double-sided pages. If you select the latter option you will always have to insert a new paper after a page is printed.
The third option (3) can be used to determine the print order of pages. If you are printing two or more copies, you can determine the order of printing, here. You can have all first pages first, followed by all the second pages and so on, or you can have first page one, then page two and so on.
The fourth option (4) can be used to determine the orientation, which can be either portrait or landscape? In this example, also, I must change this to landscape, since, otherwise everything does not fit on one sheet.
In the fifth option (5) you can determine the paper size. A4 seems like a good choice.
In the sixth option (6) you can set the margins of the printout and place the data at the center of the page.
With the seventh option, (7) you can specify how many pages are to be printed on one sheet.
The different options here seem quite obvious.

If you have set everything as desired, you can see the result in the preview:
Click the “Print” button (8) if you are satisfied with the settings.

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