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Subject:Re: printing Word outlines without body text? From:Tanya Jessup <tanya_jessup -at- EPICDATA -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:13:55 -0800
I'm not sure what the website says but what you see in print preview is what
will be printed. Outline view is just a view. From my experience, I would
say that you can't print just the outline. The suggestion of generating a
table of contents sounds like the best solution.
Tanya
-----Original Message-----
From: David M. Brown <dmbrown -at- BROWN-INC -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: printing Word outlines without body text?
>Benzi Schreiber wrote:
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how to print an outline in Word 97, without
>> printing the body text? For some reason, when I view the docs in
>> Outline view I see only the levels I select; but when I print the
>> outlines I also get body text!
>
>I think that's how it's supposed to work. Remember, Outline View is
>just that: a view, like Normal View. You wouldn't expect to get
>different output by printing in Normal View, or with text boundaries
>showing, for example.
>
>Instead, insert a table of contents--try the {TOC \n\o} field--and print
>that. You can update it whenever your document changes, and format the
>TOC levels independently of the original paragraph styles.
>
>--David
>
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