Part 1: Professional Tools for Professional Documents in C#

Generator PDF 417 in C# Part 1: Professional Tools for Professional Documents

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Figure 3-2. Full Screen mode maximizes your Print Preview viewing area. Displaying multiple pages

One of the greatest benefits of Print Preview is the ability to view multiple pages at once. This feature enables you to see how your document will flow from page to page before you create a hard copy. You can view up to 24 pages (three rows by eight columns). To show multiple pages, click the Multiple Pages button, and then drag your mouse across the menu s page icons to select the number of rows and columns you want to display. Figure 3-3 shows 24 pages (the maximum number) in the Print Preview window.

Obviously, you can click the One Page button on the Print Preview toolbar to display a single page. Conveniently enough, you can also select which page you want to view if you have displayed multiple pages. To do so, click the page you want to view, and then click the One Page button.

Keep in mind that Print Layout view and Print Preview are two different views. (Print Layout view and Print Preview are discussed in detail in Viewing Documents in Various Lights, on page 13.) To summarize: Print Layout view Displays a document as it will print, showing the standard Word interface. Print Layout view enables you to work with standard Word editing controls while viewing how page elements will print. To switch to Print Layout view, choose View, Print Layout or click the Print Layout view button in the lower-left corner of the Word window. Print Preview Displays your document in a custom interface that contains the Print Preview toolbar. In Print Preview mode, you can view multiple pages at one time as well as making editing and formatting changes before you print. In general, Print Layout view should be used as a working environment, and Print Preview mode should be used to verify your document s layout when you re almost ready to print and when you want to make minor fixes.

Note Pages in Reading Layout view do not represent how pages will appear when the doc ument is printed. Instead, Reading Layout view optimizes the view of a document for online reading. To display how pages will print while using Reading Layout view, click the Actual Page button on the Reading Layout toolbar. For more information about the Reading Layout view, see 1, Gearing Up with Word 2003.

As you zoom in, out, and around in Print Preview, you ll occasionally see details you want to adjust. If you exit Print Preview mode to fix the problems, you ll be returned to your original location, which means that you might have to search all over again for the areas you identified in Print Preview mode. Fortunately, you don t have to leave Print Preview mode to make minor editing adjustments. If you need to edit some text, condense a document slightly, or adjust alignment, you can do so in Print Preview mode using the techniques described here:

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Displaying a Print Preview page in another view When you exit Print Preview, your insertion point returns to the position in which it was located before you selected Print Preview. In some instances, you might prefer to go directly to the page you were viewing in Print Preview mode. Unfortunately, Word doesn t provide an option to display the current page in Print Preview mode in other views you re forced to return from whence you came. A quick workaround to this little impediment is to take note of the relevant page number while you re in Print Preview mode (click in the page, and then check out the page number on the status bar), close Print Preview, and then use Go To (press Ctrl+G or display the Select Browse Object menu) to move to the desired page.