Tips of the Week - Information Technology

Technology Tip of the Week - January 30, 2007

Shrinking a Word Document to Print

Have you ever been in the position where your Word document is just one or two lines over printing to a single page? If you've already tried adjusting your margins under File - Page Setup and you are still coming up a little too long there is a nifty trick you can use.

Open your document in Microsoft Word
Click on File
Click on Print Preview
Click on the Shrink to Fit button
Click on Print

That's all there is to it!

Note that this trick works best with short, one-page documents.

Unshrinking

In order to shrink a document, Word decreases the font size of each font used in the document. You can undo a Shrink to Fit operation by clicking Undo Shrink to Fit on the Edit menu. Remember to do this before you save and close the document. After you save the document and close it, there is no quick way to restore the original font size.

For more help with these features, please contact one of the IT Instructional Support team (Norm Grant, Gene Grande or Linda Beith) or faculty mentors Tony Basilico or Kathy Beauchene.

Website of the Week

A ROLL-UP MONITOR?

Someday in the near future you may be able to roll up your computer monitor and stick it in your briefcase! Scientists at Cambridge University have developed a prototype of a thin, flexible monitor approximately the size of an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper that can be rolled up. The intent for this monitor is to accompany a laptop, increasing portability by decreasing weight and bulk. They are even envisioning using this technology to create an electronic newspaper. To read a little more on this new technology (and see a picture of it) go to:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/09/22/Roll_up_monitor/

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These tips are provided by the Department of Information Technology instructional support team. If you have any questions on these tips, or wish to offer your own, please feel free to contact Linda Beith at lbeith@ccri.edu. View an archive of past technology tips at http://it.ccri.edu/Training/Tips/tip_week.shtml.