Home

How to Print a Block of Text in Word 2013

|
Updated:  
2016-03-27 11:43:14
|
Word 2010 For Dummies
Explore Book
Buy On Amazon

Word 2013 gives you many options for what you want your printed document to look like. After you mark a block of text onscreen, you can beg the Print command to print only that block. This allows you to print an isolated section of text if ever the need arises. It’s one of the many advanced options that Word 2013 offers. Here’s how:

Mark the block of text you want to print.

Mark the block of text you want to print.

This can be done in multiple ways. Make sure you have isolated only the text you’d like to print prior to moving to the next step.

Summon the Print screen.

Summon the Print screen.

Select the Print option and the print screen will appear and offer you print options. Or you can use Ctrl-P.

From the button beneath the Settings heading, choose the item Print Selection.

From the button beneath the Settings heading, choose the item Print Selection<i>.</i>

The Print Selection item is available only when a block is selected in your document. Make sure you have the block of text already selected before going to the print options.

Click the Print button.

Click the Print button.

The block you selected prints at the same position, with the same formatting (headers and footers) as though you had printed the entire document.

About This Article

This article is from the book: 

About the book author:

Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for 20 years. He has contributed articles to numerous high-tech magazines and written more than 90 books about personal computing technology, many of them accurate.
He combines his love of writing with his interest in technology to create books that are informative and entertaining, but not boring. Having sold more than 14 million titles translated into more than 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes does seem to work.
Perhaps Dan’s most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world’s fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times number-one best seller (although, because it’s a reference book, it could not be listed on the NYT best seller list). That book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomenon to this day.
Dan’s most recent titles include PCs For Dummies, 9th Edition; Buying a Computer For Dummies, 2005 Edition; Troubleshooting Your PC For Dummies; Dan Gookin’s Naked Windows XP; and Dan Gookin’s Naked Office. He publishes a free weekly computer newsletter, “Weekly Wambooli Salad,” and also maintains the vast and helpful Web site www.wambooli.com.