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Printing recipe cards

Jan 19, 2005 5:13AM PST

When printing recipe cards, how do you print only the cards and not the advertisement at the top of the page. When I try to copy and paste into new wordpad document it wont let me paste the box that is around the recipe and I want the whole card, and not the advertisement up top. Thank You

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Copying from where?
Jan 19, 2005 6:44AM PST

Are you talking about copying from a web page?

If so, you have to be sure there are no legal issues like copyright involved.

But assuming there are not, and I wouldn't expect there to be any with recipes, copying and pasting a web page is not as straightforward is it seems.

The web page is full of special codes and characters that make up the page. It is not like typing a page in a Word Processor. The borders are hard wired into the web page and the images are placeholders referring to an image held on the server.

If the advertisement is text based then when you copy the whole page, the advert is copied as well, but the borders and images are not.

What you will have to do is place your cursor before the first letter of the first word of the recipe and click. Then, holding down the left mouse button, drag the mouse down to the bottom of the receipe to highlight all the words.

Then goto Edit, then select copy.

Then in a word processor, open up a blank page and paste into the page. But it is most likely you will have to do some reformatting yourself to get it to look right.

Mark

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Kdelorme, Another Program Should Do It..
Jan 19, 2005 7:11AM PST

You haven't really given us much to go on such as your operating system, the location where you're copying the recipes from, or anything else. You talk about "Printing the recipe cards" but it sounds like you're talking about "copying and pasting" the recipes from a webpage to a Wordpad document. Is that correct? Wordpad doesn't allow for any formatting of text or pictures and other programs, such as Microsoft Word should allow you to do it better. Once all of the document was pasted into Word, you should be able to remove the pictures.

If you're actually talking about printing recipes to a printer from a webpage, then you DO have the option of printing the text only. Start by highlighting the text only, then opening the "Print dialogue" by clicking on "File" in the upper left, choose "Print". When the Print dialogue box opens, click on the "Selection" option in the "Page Range" section instead of "All". When you click on "Apply", then OK, then selected text will be printed without the other stuff on the page.

Hope this helps and let us know more.

Grif

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Thank You
Jan 19, 2005 11:38AM PST

Thank You both for helping me I really appreciate it, even thought I did not give you much information to go on, but thank you anyways the selection suggestion did work. Thank you again.
Michele

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Ahh
Jan 19, 2005 7:44PM PST

I had forgotten about the "print range selection".

Glad it worked for you kdelorme

Mark

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(NT) (NT) Michelle, Good Job & Glad We Could Help !
Jan 20, 2005 12:04AM PST