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Printing and Archiving
24.1 Printing Project Documentation
Programming with STEP 7
540 Manual, 05/2010, A5E02789666-01
24.1.1 Basic Procedure when Printing
To print, proceed as follows:
1. Open the appropriate object to display the information you want to print on the screen.
2. Open the "Print" dialog box using the menu command File > Print in the application window.
Depending on which application you are in, the first entry in the menu bar may not be "File", but
the object processed by the application, such as "Symbol Table."
3. If necessary, change the print options (printer, print range, number of copies etc.) in the dialog
box and close it.
Some dialog boxes have a "Print" button, for example, the "Module Information" dialog box. Click
this button to print the contents of the dialog box.
Blocks do not need to be opened. You can print them directly in the SIMATIC Manager using the
menu command File > Print.
24.1.2 Print Functions
The following additional functions are available for printing print objects:
Print Objects Menu Command Function Function Function
Print preview Page setup,
"Paper format" tab
Page setup,
"Headers and
Footers" tab
Blocks, STL source
files
File > *
• • •
Module information −
• •
Global data table GD Table> *
• • •
Configuration table Station > *
• • •
Object, object folder File > * −
• •
Reference data Reference Data > *
• • •
Symbol table Table > *
• • •
Variable table Table > * −
• •
Connection table Network > *
• • •
Operator related texts
(user texts, text
libraries)
Texts > *
• • •
* : The * symbol serves as a wildcard for the respective function in the menu
command (e.g. print preview or page setup)
Step-for-step instructions for printing the individual print objects can be found under:
• How to Print