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Tips for Printing Survey Reports
Printing pages with two or more frames
Some of our survey reports use frames for navigation, with a "Table
of Contents" in a window at the left side of the screen and the
report itself in a window on the right side of the screen. Clicking
on one of the sections listed in the left frame will cause that section
of the report to appear in the right frame. Before you can print from
a web page that uses frames, you must click within one of the frames.
In Internet Explorer, click in the frame you want to print, then on
the File menu, then on "Print", then check "Only the
selected frame" from the "Print frames" box. See the
section below on Printing a document made up of many HTML files for
directions on printing all the sections listed in the Table of Contents
frame.
In Netscape, click in the frame you want to print, then on the File
menu, then on "Print Frame" or "Print Preview".
Printing a document made up of many HTML files
Generally, our survey reports consist of many separate HTML files,
for example one for each section or chapter, and it can be tedious to
manually print out each file separately. If the document includes an
index page with links to all the sections, then using Internet Explorer
you can automatically print out the index page and all the sections.
Go to the index page, click on the "File" menu, then on "Print",
then check the "Print all linked documents" option.
This technique also works for reports that are set up with frames.
Click within the "Table of Contents" frame on the left-hand
side of the screen, then click on the "File" menu, then on
"Print", then check the "Print all linked documents"
option.
Unfortunately, this method is not available in Netscape.
Page orientation (tall vs. wide, or portrait vs. landscape)
In some of our survey reports, there are wide tables and displays that
may not fit on a page unless you adjust the page orientation.
In Internet Explorer, you can choose between portrait (tall) and landscape
(wide) page orientations by clicking on the "File" menu and
then on "Page Setup". Select the landscape option for printing
a page with a wide table or display.
In Netscape, version 4.7, you must control page orientation via your
printer's setup options. Click on the "File" menu, then on
"Print", then on the "Properties" button, then try
to find the landscape page orientation in your printer's options.
See more tips for printing web documents
PBA:MS L:\www\surveys\printtips - Last updated 01/04/05.
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