In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Originally posted by Brenda:
It's 2007 and I also went into my library to speak to the internet people there. Not helpful. The lady was all full of destroying my document and I can't do that.
The poet and her husband are trying to help from her end. But again I'm not sure.
My way would work if you changed the printer output to "Microsoft Print to PDF" instead of the printer at the top (I've actually done so with three documents myself just this week in Word 2007), but try this option in Word 2007.
Save that to the desktop when it asks you where you want to save it. Then drag and drop the PDF file into your email on Gmail.
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It just occured to me...
You ARE using Widows 10 as your operating system, right Brenda?
If you aren't, the "Microsoft Print to PDF" feature isn't available. (It may be in Windows 11, but anything before 10 didn't have that feature).
If that's the case, open up 2 documents in Word 2007. One is your book, the other is a blank document.
Select all of the text you want to send to your friend.
The easiest way to do this is put the cursor right at the beginning of the text you want to send, then scroll down to the page you want to stop at. Hold down the SHIFT key and click the left mouse button at the end of the text you want to send.
That will highlight all of the text you want to send.
Right click anywhere on the highlighted text and a drop down box will appear. Click "Copy" on that drop down box.
Now go to your blank document and right click anywhere on the page and click on "Paste" when the drop down box appears.
Now you can save your selection in the new document. Feel free to make any fixes/alterations to make it appear the way you want to if you'd like and save it again.
Make sure to save it on your desktop and when you open your email just drop it in and it should attach for you to send it.
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I'm glad SIX is here to help out, my system is very different and it's been a long time since I worked with Word. I hope it gets figured out.
Been getting quotes from contractors, it sure sucks up a lot of time! Between that and yardwork and doctor appts and daily chores I'm beat!
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I hope I can help Brenda out. It's hard doing that via Web 1.0 forum.
I tend to avoid contact with contractors by any means necessary myself. They're going to charge far more than I would every pay anyhow, and it's hard to find people to work for you that you can trust.
Had to bite the bullet with the gutter guy and the tree cutters. Both were reasonably priced. One worked out OK. The other was not up to my standards. You get what you pay for I suppose.
I've been busy with the thing I don't want to discuss here yet. It's been eating up most of my time. Making a lot of good contacts and getting a lot of good info.
One of my other friends who I've never mentioned here before asked me if I would help him with his kitchen remodel. He picked a pretty bad time for it with this thing going on, me helping my buddy on his rental on the weekend and then getting my 2nd attempt at the partial reline on Monday/Tuesday.
I'm going to my other buddy's house tomorrow night and we're going to shoot some pool and watch a movie in the new man cave.
Maybe I'll call my friend back up and tell him that I'll make it out there Thursday and Friday to help with his kitchen. I could use a break from the thing I'm doing anyhow and I've got several months to complete it since I'm being super proactive about the whole ordeal.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It just occured to me...
You ARE using Widows 10 as your operating system, right Brenda?
If you aren't, the "Microsoft Print to PDF" feature isn't available. (It may be in Windows 11, but anything before 10 didn't have that feature).
If that's the case, open up 2 documents in Word 2007. One is your book, the other is a blank document.
Select all of the text you want to send to your friend.
The easiest way to do this is put the cursor right at the beginning of the text you want to send, then scroll down to the page you want to stop at. Hold down the SHIFT key and click the left mouse button at the end of the text you want to send.
That will highlight all of the text you want to send.
Right click anywhere on the highlighted text and a drop down box will appear. Click "Copy" on that drop down box.
Now go to your blank document and right click anywhere on the page and click on "Paste" when the drop down box appears.
Now you can save your selection in the new document. Feel free to make any fixes/alterations to make it appear the way you want to if you'd like and save it again.
Make sure to save it on your desktop and when you open your email just drop it in and it should attach for you to send it.
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The operating system on the desk top is Windows 10 and that makes sense because what you are telling me isn't showing up at all.
I just knew that I would have to redo it somehow. Thanks for the help. I will get to it over the next bit.
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Got a call earlier this evening and I have a pick up of mah jong tomorrow afternoon.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
The operating system on the desk top is Windows 10 and that makes sense because what you are telling me isn't showing up at all.
No. If you have Windows 10 than it should show up. Not just in word, but every program with a print function.
Can you get to the Print menu? Do you have a printer? Have you ever printed anything off your computer before?
If you've printed and gotten to the print menu, one of the things on the print menu that you probably never touch is a box that shows your printer as the device to print to. You need to click on that box and a dropdown menu with other options will show up. One of them is "Microsoft Print to PDF".
You can do this in any program that allows you to print on Windows 10. Try it in your current web browser that you're using to talk to me now. Click "File" on the top left and select "Print" from the dropdown menu. From there you will have the option to select the device you want to print to and you can choose to print to a PDF file instead of sending the document to your printer. The process will be more or less the same in Word 2007, just with more options than in your browser.
If you can't do that for whatever reason, use the 2nd method I posted above and copy the 25 pages from your book to a blank document, save that new document with the stuff you copied from your book to your desktop and then drag and drop it into your email that you're sending to your friend.
ETA:
A third option would be to save your book with a 2nd name to your desktop. Then delete everything that you don't want to send. Save that. Then drop it into the email you're sending to your friend.
Just make sure that you're deleting the stuff from the new document that you saved with a different name on your desktop and not your original. Especially if you don't have the book backed up in like 5 different places like you should.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
The operating system on the desk top is Windows 10 and that makes sense because what you are telling me isn't showing up at all.
No. If you have Windows 10 than it should show up. Not just in word, but every program with a print function.
Can you get to the Print menu? Do you have a printer? Have you ever printed anything off your computer before?
If you've printed and gotten to the print menu, one of the things on the print menu that you probably never touch is a box that shows your printer as the device to print to. You need to click on that box and a dropdown menu with other options will show up. One of them is "Microsoft Print to PDF".
You can do this in any program that allows you to print on Windows 10. Try it in your current web browser that you're using to talk to me now. Click "File" on the top left and select "Print" from the dropdown menu. From there you will have the option to select the device you want to print to and you can choose to print to a PDF file instead of sending the document to your printer. The process will be more or less the same in Word 2007, just with more options than in your browser.
If you can't do that for whatever reason, use the 2nd method I posted above and copy the 25 pages from your book to a blank document, save that new document with the stuff you copied from your book to your desktop and then drag and drop it into your email that you're sending to your friend.
ETA:
A third option would be to save your book with a 2nd name to your desktop. Then delete everything that you don't want to send. Save that. Then drop it into the email you're sending to your friend.
Just make sure that you're deleting the stuff from the new document that you saved with a different name on your desktop and not your original. Especially if you don't have the book backed up in like 5 different places like you should.
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Now, I'm confused. Don't think I see a print menu and I have a printer but it is not hooked into this desktop.
I'll have to do the second method you talked about.
I'll get it done.
Appreciate the help.
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Out in a bit. Got to get something done before my game this afternoon.
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I really agree with backing up your book, The one thing you DON'T want is to have one copy and have it garbled somehow. If nothing else, save it under a couple of different names ... [booktitle_backupcopy1, _backupcopy2 etc] which will save you if your original is accidentally] deleted or the file gets corrupted.
Better yet would be to save a copy on another storage device. If you have a removable drive or a second hard drive, store a copy on that. Or if you have a thumb drive ("USB stick") or flash drive, store it there. All you need for a USB stick is another USB port, like the one that (probably) connects your keyboard and PC and the stick itself. The software will figure out the rest for you. If you want to try that and run into trouble, just ask us.
Well, ask SIX.
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