Print Windows "Help" message instructions ???

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Morgan Perkins

I am in a computer club located in a retirement village. Some 300 members,
all have some
version of Microsoft Windows. Whenever we need help and support we first
hit the "Help"
button in the toolbar and read the specific instructions for solving the
problem. Enough
background. Now, when we have the instructions on the screen we always
send them to
the printer. This is because we are old and cannot remember all the complex
instructions
without the printout. The typeface and font are way too small for old,
weak eyes. After
many years of trying and endless attempts to get answers from Microsoft,
various printer
manufacturers and anyone who will listen, we have found nobody that knows
how to
enlarge the print size coming out of the printer. It normally involves two
or three
paragraphs and that is jammed into the first couple inches of the sheet of
paper. The rest
of the paper is wasted and we are delivered a instruction sheet that is
printed too small to
comfortably read.

This problem dates back before Windows 95 and continues today. We simply
cannot
believe that with all the endless list of "choices" offered by this
software, there is not
a choice for the default type font and size. If YOU can come up with a
solution, try it
first on your own computer, a lot of old geezers will certainly thank you
very much.
 
Put your cursor at the start of the help content you want to print, click
and drag to select, and copy. Go to Word and use Past Special/Unformatted
Text. I have a button on my Word toolbar that runs this macro:

Sub PasteUnformattedText()
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText
End Sub

The text will be pasted in Normal style, which allows you to make the font
size whatever you want. Then print it.
 
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