real quick help

[cyberdogl2]

i cannot for the life of me, figure out how to do a "print selected text" on my ibook. anyone?

[NEENAHBOY]

Same here. My God, it's frustrating!

[greenleaf]

sorry but ive been told you cannot do it directly with osx...i resort to copy and pasting it to something like Word or Adobe reader.it does suck :mad:

[aussie_geek]

i cannot for the life of me, figure out how to do a "print selected text" on my ibook. anyone?

It depends what app you are in, but it works in Safari and Preview and unfortuntely not in M$ word :(.

1. Highlight the text you want.

2. Go to Safari / Preview menu and select 'Services'.

3. Select 'TextEdit' then 'New Window Containing Selection'

4. Voila!! TextEdit will open a new window with the selected text
inside

5. Press command p to print.

edit - not sure what other apps it works in - just experiment and see.


aussie_geek

[NEENAHBOY]

It depends what app you are in, but it works in Safari and Preview and unfortuntely not in M$ word :(.

1. Highlight the text you want.

2. Go to Safari / Preview menu and select 'Services'.

3. Select 'TextEdit' then 'New Window Containing Selection'

4. Voila!! TextEdit will open a new window with the selected text
inside

5. Press command p to print.

edit - not sure what other apps it works in - just experiment and see.


aussie_geek

OK, that's FAR too complicated! I fail to see why they can't have a simple button for it in the Print dialog box like Windoze does. Is that so hard???

[NEENAHBOY]

I don't see why that hasn't been corrected yet. Oh well. Maybe 10.3.8 or Tiger? Please???

[hcuar]

sorry but ive been told you cannot do it directly with osx...i resort to copy and pasting it to something like Word or Adobe reader.it does suck :mad:

Wow... that's a first... Windows does something better than OSX (other than getting infected with spyware and viruses.) :cool:

[Agathon]

Can't you just drag a text clipping to the desktop and thence to your desktop printer?