9th March 2001

Coming from the "Choosy Moms Choose GIF" Department, fellow Iowan Tasha Crouse indexes an ink-saving idea. "While working at the library, I get a lot of people who are frustrated when they go to print a Web page because they think they have to print all 5 or so pages of the Web site, when they only needed one paragraph. Someone showed me you could highlight just what you need, then when you go to 'File' and 'Print,' put a dot in the circle next to 'Selection' and it will only print the part you highlighted. As long as I've used a computer, I never realized that little option was there." Most people didn't know that, so it's good you brought it up. We might also take note for Internet Explorer's printing options for pages which are in frames. Flip to the Print dialog's "Options" tab; there you'll see "is laid out on the screen," "only the selected frame," and "all frames individually." Heck, you can even "print all linked documents" or just a "table of links." I just hope your printer is up for it!