Right Click Print.

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Right Click Print.

I am a brand new Imac user. When I am in MS word/excel or any OpenOffice doc. I want to print by simply right clicking and hit print. Just like i used to do on my old dreaded Vista machine. Also When I have a list of 2 or more documents i want printed. I have to open each one and select print. Again, on the vista machine I could highlight all the documents, right click, and select print.

Does anyone know how I can get that feature to work, if at all.

Yes I do have right click enabled.

Imac 20" 2.4Ghz 3G Ram., Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Nov 19, 2008 8:29 PM

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Answer 1

elmac

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Nov 19, 2008 8:40 PM in response to cap41

Hi, you can hit keys:- Apple + P this will give you the Print drop down box.
(I have not used right click for about 5yrs)..L

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Nov 19, 2008 8:46 PM in response to cap41

If you are in the MS Word or Excel document (or Open Office), it does not make sense to right-click on something in the document window to print. There must be a Print button on the toolbar, so you can regular click on that. Or you can type Command-P (in most applications) to print the current document.

If you want to print multiple document consecutively without opening the applications, open a Finder window. Select the multiple documents. There are many ways to select multiple documents. If you need help with doing so, please post back. Once the documents you want to print are selected, go to the menu bar under File and select Print. All the selected documents will print without the need to open each application.

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cap41 Author

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Nov 19, 2008 8:55 PM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

Ok Thanks for the replies, I get how to print multiple documents.

Yes there is a print icon, Or I can goto file/print.

I just thought there would be a way to do it like in windows. I am so used to print with this method i don't think about any other way. I thought there may be a way of adding it to the right click menu.

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elmac

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Nov 19, 2008 9:04 PM in response to cap41

Hi, File/Print is good...L

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Answer 5

Nov 19, 2008 9:05 PM in response to cap41

If you print a lot, I think you'll find Command-P on the keyboard to be the most convenient, just as doing Command-S (to save work in progress) gets to be a habit. 🙂

The reason I said right-click to print does not make sense, is because the right-click is supposed to be the contextual menu. What's on that menu is supposed to vary, based on what the cursor is pointing at or doing. So if you highlight a word in a text document, things like copy and +look up in dictionary+ and +change font style to bold+ should be on the menu. If print is on there, unless you want to print one word, that command applies to the whole document.

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