Printing templates in Word

[Capuozzo]

I need to print a copy of the template in Word. Not what prints in the
template but the template itself. Is there a way to do this?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Use File | Open to open the template and print it? If that doesn't do
it, then I don't understand your question. Please try again to explain
what you need to end up with, and state your version of Word and OS.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Maybe he wants to print the code??

Beth

Use File | Open to open the template and print it? If that doesn't do
it, then I don't understand your question. Please try again to explain
what you need to end up with, and state your version of Word and OS.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Sort of. A template is a set of containers. You can print the contents of
some of them.

So you can print the text. You can print a list of commands and keyboard
shortcuts.

Mac Word does not have the full printing abilities: you cannot print the
styles list or some other things that PC Word has.

Cheers

I need to print a copy of the template in Word. Not what prints in the
template but the template itself. Is there a way to do this?

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[Capuozzo]

Use File | Open to open the template and print it? If that doesn't do
it, then I don't understand your question. Please try again to explain
what you need to end up with, and state your version of Word and OS.

I don't want to print text. I want to print the guide lines only. I
want to end up with boxes on my printed sheet to show where text
belongs.

Using Word 2004 for MAC Version 11.3

 

[Capuozzo]

Unless I'm not seeing something in your request, this is just too easy :0)

A template is a file like any other. Navigate to where it is stored (such as
User/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/Business
Forms/Fundraising, open the file & print it like any other.

Alternatively, you can not use Word at all - just use Finder to navigate to
the file, Control+click it & select Print.

You could also use the Project Manager to generate a new doc based on the
template & print that without typing any content.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

I want to print the guide lines in the template, not text, not code.
The image that shows up on my monitor before I start typing any text
is what I'm after. I want to send a blank template that shows
guidelines so my customer knows where to put his text, pictures, dead
flies, old orange peels, etc.

thanks

 

[Capuozzo]

Maybe he wants to print the code??

Beth

No he doesn't want to print the code. He wants to print boxes on a
blank page so his customers can visualize where stuff should be
placed.

thanks

 

[Capuozzo]

Sort of. A template is a set of containers. You can print the contents of
some of them.

So you can print the text. You can print a list of commands and keyboard
shortcuts.

Mac Word does not have the full printing abilities: you cannot print the
styles list or some other things that PC Word has.

Cheers



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I want to print the containers only.

thank you

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I want to print the guide lines in the template, not text, not code.
The image that shows up on my monitor before I start typing any text
is what I'm after. I want to send a blank template that shows
guidelines so my customer knows where to put his text, pictures, dead
flies, old orange peels, etc.

Okay, that makes much more sense. Many templates don't have any sort of
guidelines or containers like that, so the answer to your question
depends on what your template is made of and how those boxes were created.

Do you know what is creating those guidelines? Is it a table, text
boxes, frames? You might need to reformat them, in a COPY, to get them
to print.

Alternatively, dodge the whole issue and send your customers a screen shot.

 

[CyberTaz]

I want to print the containers only.

thank you

There's no facility in Word to do so. In a Memo template, for example, you
might have an address line that displays To: followed by a text box form
field where the recipient's name is to be typed. You can print the template
with the Text Box Form Field displayed, but the To: is going to print as
well. If this is satisfactory, you need to open a copy of the template file,
turn on the Forms toolbar & click the button for Form Field Shading. The
field locations will show up as gray rectangles which print as they display
on screen.

OTOH, if you want the Fields *only* - not including the To: - you'll need to
follow Daiya's original suggestion to identify the areas to be printed and
find a way to "hide" what you don't want to show on paper. This can be very
time-consuming & tricky because the stuff you don't want to print may be
responsible for the positioning of what you do want to print. Therefore you
can't just delete it or format it as Hidden.

The most possible way I can think of (in a perfect world) is if all the
content to not be printed happens to be text and non-In Line graphics.. You
might then be able to just Cmd+A (select all), choose a font color of White,
change the print Preferences to exclude images, then print & change the font
color back to Automatic, reset your print prefs.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

That's what I would do. By far the simplest solution.

Beth

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Its probably a Table. Click in the middle and choose Table>Table
AutoFormat>... And choose Grid 1 and OK.

Sorry: You threw us by using the word "Template": A template is a special
kind of Word file containing invisible storage compartments for special
objects. If that's what you had you would have been able to tell us more
about it.

I suspect that what you have is a "Document" and you want to print the
"Text", which just happens to be a table. In order to see the gridlines,
you have to format them as being "lines". That's what the Grid 1 style
does.

Cheers

I want to print the containers only.

thank you

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