Print Menu

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Print Menu

The common print menu is shown below.

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Print common menu items

Print

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Select a printer, number of copies, and other printing options before printing.

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Send the document directly to the default printer without making changes.

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Open the Print Options dialog, in which you can change printing options.

Page Setup

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Edit the header and footer of the document.

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Stretch or shrink the printed output to a percentage of its actual size.

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The scaling dialog

 

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Select the margin sizes for the entire document. To apply specific margin sizes to the document, click Custom Margins.

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The margins dialog

Custom Margins

Click this to display the custom margins dialog.

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The  custom margins dialog

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Switch the pages between portrait and landscape layouts.

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The  orientation selector

 

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Choose a paper size for the current section.

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The page size selector

Navigation

 

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Display the find dialog.

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Open the document map which allows you to which allows you to view a structural view of the design.

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Navigate to the first page of the design.

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Navigate to the previous page of the design.

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Navigate to the next page of the design.

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Navigate to the last page of the design.

 

Zoom

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Mouse Pointer

Show the mouse pointer.

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Hand Tool

Invoke the Hand tool to manually scroll through pages.

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Magnifier

Invoke the Magnifier tool. Clicking once on a document zooms it so that a single page becomes entirely visible, while clicking another time zooms it to 100% of the normal size.

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Choose the page layout to arrange the document pages in preview.

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Zoom out to see more of the page at a reduced size.

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Change the zoom level of the document preview.

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Zoom in to get a close-up view of the document.

Page Background

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Choose a color for the background of the document pages.

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The background color dialog

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Insert ghosted text or image behind the content of a page. This is often used to indicate that a document is to be treated specially see Watermarks

 

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The watermark dialog