Writer Guide

Introduction
General information about printing and faxing documents from OOo is
provided in the Getting Started guide. This chapter describes some
items of particular interest to users of Writer.
Quick printing
Click the Print File Directly icon to send the entire document to
the default printer defined for your computer.
Note
You can change the action of the Print File Directly icon to
send the document to the printer defined for the document
instead of the default printer for the computer. Go to Tools >
Options > Load/Save > General and select the Load
printer settings with the document option.
Controlling printing
For more control over printing, use File > Print to display the Print
dialog box (Figure 144).
Figure 144. The Print dialog box
On the Print dialog box, you can choose:
• Which printer to use (if more than one are installed on your
system) and the properties of the printer—for example,
orientation (portrait or landscape), which paper tray to use, and
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