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Printer Problems?

 You know the routine- you want one little part of a web page printed, and the printer spews out 42 pages of JUNK...and you can't make it stop...AAAGHHHH!!! The last time it happened to my husband, he finally unplugged EVERYTHING!

Sometimes even rebooting the computer doesn't work!

 Here's how to fix it. On the bar that runs across the bottom of your screen, close to your clock, There should be an icon that looks like a printer. If you have more than one icon that looks like a printer, hover the mouse over each one. The one that says something like, "X document(s) pending for default", is the right one. (It's also the one that only appears when there is something to print!)

 Double-click on that icon and you will get a window with the name of the printer, and a list of print jobs either pending or printing.

 If you want to stop ALL printing, go to the "printer" menu and click on "purge print documents".

 If you want to stop a particular print job, locate it in the list, highlight it with a mouse click, click the "Document" menu, and click "Pause Printing" or "Cancel Printing"

 To stop this from happening in the first place, always print from the "File" menu on your program. Unlike the handy button on most programs, this will bring up a dialog box that gives you options- The most important being "Print Range". From here, you can choose to print all, or only the pages you want. "Selection" means you will only print what you have highlighted beforehand by holding the left mouse button and dragging the mouse over what you want to print.

 To figure out which pages you want to print if it's not obvious, use the "Print Preview" selection on the "File" menu.

If all else fails, Defenestrate your computer!

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