Printing highlighted text

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Printing highlighted text

I can't figure out how to print only the section of text or page I've highlighted. On windows, a window appears giving you the option (selection), you select selection and it prints whats been highlighted. I can't find the equivalent in OSX, though I'm sure it's there somewhere. HELP!

mac mini power pc, Mac OS X (10.4.3), airport extreme

Posted on Aug 24, 2006 5:03 PM

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Mike-N-nahyunil

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Aug 24, 2006 8:37 PM in response to mofodojo

Think it depends on the application that you are printing from... For instance, printing from MS Word gives the choice to print All, Current Page, Selection, or Range in the Copies&Pages pane, while Safari just gives a page range option. If you need to print just selected text from an application that doesn't offer it-though its a bit roundabout- you could use the Services under the application name on the menubar to select TextEdit>New Window Containing Selection and then print from TextEdit.

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Aug 24, 2006 11:23 PM in response to mofodojo

There is a nice little Service that can do this. You can get it here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24202

This will only work in applications that support Services, though. There may be other applications that will work, as well.

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Aug 25, 2006 11:24 AM in response to Bruce De Benedictis

and two more threads on the same topic:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=728005&#728005
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1285122&#1285122

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