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How to Print Your Word 2013 Document

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2016-03-27 11:41:05
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Printing a Word 2013 document is easy to do. It just takes a quick moment to get everything ready for your print job. Just follow these easy steps to make your digital writing a reality:

Save your document.

Save your document.

Click the little Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar for a quickie save.

Click the File tab.

Click the File tab.

The file tab’s window will appear.

Choose the Print command from the File tab’s window.

Choose the Print command from the File tab’s window.

The Print screen appears.

The keyboard shortcut to display the Print screen is Ctrl+P. Even better, the keyboard shortcut to print a document is Ctrl+P, Enter. Press Ctrl+P to see the Print screen, and then press Enter to “click” the Print button.

Click the big Print button.

Click the big Print button.

The Print screen closes, and the document spews forth from the printer.

Printing may take some time — a long time. Fortunately, you can continue working while the document prints.

If nothing prints, don’t use the Print command again! There’s probably nothing awry; the computer is still thinking or sending information to the printer. If you don’t see an error message, everything will probably print, eventually.

The computer prints one copy of your document for every Print command you incant. If the printer is just being slow and you impatiently click the Print button ten times, you print ten copies of your document.

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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.