print to file?

[Guest]

What is exactly "print to file" and what is the common use of this?

 

[garfield-n-odie]

In olden days, office workers made carbon copies and photocopies
of documents, and these copies had to be manually filed in file
cabinets. In Word, the "print to file" option prints a paper
copy that automatically files itself in the proper place in the
file cabinet, thereby saving office workers many hours of tedious
labor and increasing office productivity.

 

[Opinicus]

What is exactly "print to file" and what is the common use
of this?

It produces a file (with the extension ".prn") that contains
all of the commands that Word would have sent to the printer
in binary format. The use is ancient and reaches back to the
days of MSDOS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRN
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=prn&x=15&y=13

Here's what can be done with them.
http://www.chami.com/tips/windows/122196W.html

The features that garfield-n-odie refers to are still
experimental and probably won't be included in versions of
Office for some time to come.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Gee, I hope I didn't violate the non-disclosure agreement.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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