printing random pages of an integrated document

[Reed Sladen]

I maintain several 100+ page manuals with extensive
internal hyperlinks, sections, differing headers and
footers, auto-generated TOCs and indices,...fundamental
Word stuff. What I cannot do is FILERINTAGES and
enter a page range, 55-69 for example. When I do, the on-
screen response is normal and there are no error messages,
but in fact nothing is queued to the printer. The only
way I have found to print selected pages is to, in
fact "select" them with the cursor, leave them
highlighted, and the FILERINT:SELECTION. That, however,
does not print the headers and footers. (I also thought I
remembered being able to print by section number in
earlier Word versions, but maybe I had just eaten a bad
lunch because I see no such thing now -- Word 2002, SP-1)
Help!

 

[Jonathan West]

Do the page numbers restart with each section? If so, then you need to type
"s2p2-s2p4" in order to print out pages 2-4 of section 2.

 

[Reed Sladen]

Thank you for the suggestion. It works for whole sections
(i.i. "s11") but any cobination of s and p for
section/page (like the example you gave) gets an "invalid
page range" error.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That's because Jonathan got it backward. You have to (unintuitively) put the
page number first (the same order as in Word's status bar). For more, see
the "Print specific pages and sections" section of the Help topic "Print a
document."

 

[Jonathan West]

That's because Jonathan got it backward.

Oops! Sorry about that!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It is all too easy to get backward because it is entirely counterintuitive.
This is why I always point out that it is the same order in which the page
and section are listed on the status bar; that's the mnemonic I always have
to use myself because otherwise I would logically put the section number
first.

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Suzanne

It is all too easy to get backward because it is entirely counterintuitive.
This is why I always point out that it is the same order in which the page
and section are listed on the status bar; that's the mnemonic I always have
to use myself because otherwise I would logically put the section number
first.

It should be "intuitive" for you as you live in the US: You guys put the
street number before the street, too ...! ;-)

SCNR & greetinx from Switzerland
..bob
...Word-MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I hadn't thought of it that way, but in fact our address format is strictly
logical, moving from specific to general: recipient, company (if any),
street address, city, state (or equivalent), and country (if needed).

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Suzanne

I hadn't thought of it that way, but in fact our address format is strictly
logical, moving from specific to general: recipient, company (if any),
street address, city, state (or equivalent), and country (if needed).

True enough (I had thought about this but was hoping you wouldn't catch
me )!

To "us" it seems odd if you think about delivering something in an
unknown city, you will sure first have to get to the street before the
number is relevant to you – well, this all just shows how tricky
intuition works.

Greetinx
..bob
...Word-MVP

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Although it's relatively rare, there are some cases where you have to know
the house number to get the right street. In my town, for example, there are
three separate stretches of Bellangee Avenue. Although they're all in a line
(in other words, on a map, the street can be seen to be the same), they are
not continuous: you can't get from one segment to another without going
around several blocks, so the house number is quite relevant. In other
cities, there may be streets with the same name that are on opposite sides
of town, and the number range (and associated ZIP code) is all that
distinguishes them. In Atlanta, for example, there are dozens of variations
on "Peachtree." Even in my own small town I think there are three Grand
Avenues.