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  • Updated: 11 Nov 2008
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Tipical Charlie
Welcome to Tipical Charlie, a repository of all kinds of tips related to computing, from web developer and technologist, Charlie Arehart.
I'll mostly share my own tips that I've found others enjoyed hearing about. I'll welcome tips from others, too.
(Wondering where I came up with the name?)

Printing out a tool's online help: without doing it one page at a time

posted Wednesday, 11 October 2006

If you ever want to print out the online help for some tool, you may notice that you can print any page in the help, but what if you want to print many or even all of the pages? While you could print them one page at a time, did you know that most online help files allow you to choose to print "all subtopics" of a given page/topic? Try it. Put the cursor on a topic and hit the Print icon or right-click and choose "print", as I did on the top-most "Log-Parser" topic below, which gave me this prompt. 

help print screen

From there, you could are shown your printer dialogue to pick which printer and how to print it.

The file above is also an example of a help file that makes this all the more easy, as it gathers all its help topics under a single overall heading. That way, I can print the whole document in one fell swoop (what is a fell swoop?). Nifty!

This tip (especially if you can print the whole file at once, rather than as several major headings) works really well with the tip I shared previously about how to print many pages on a single piece of paper:

http://tipicalcharlie.blog-city.com/print_large_docs.htm

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