Online tip: Having problems printing a web page? The most common hitch is that the page is wider than A4 — which makes sense when you think that web pages are designed for landscape screens (wider than they are high) while A4 is normally used in portrait format (higher than wide). So first try changing the orientation of your paper, usually via the Printer properties (Start/Settings/Printers). If that doesn’t work, try copying the contents of the web page (Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy) and then paste it into an editing program such as Microsoft Word (Ctrl-V to paste). Now you can make it fit your paper.
If you keep the Tab ruler open in Microsoft Word (View/Ruler) you can double-click any Indent marker (the small square with up/down pointers above it) to open the Paragraph dialogue box, allowing you to change or check any appropriate settings.
The “Print Screen” (aka PrtSc or PrtScr or PrtScn) key towards the top right-hand corner of your screen does exactly what it says — but not necessarily in the way you’d expect it to. It takes a snapshot of your screen but, rather than sending it to your printer, sends it to the Windows clipboard. From here you can paste the image into more or less any program capable of displaying an image. So you could take a screenshot of a program to paste into a PowerPoint presentation. Note, pressing Print Screen takes a snapshot of the entire screen. If you only want an image of a single program window, make sure the “focus” is on that program (ie, that it’s in front and the one you most recently mouse-clicked) and then hold down the Alt key as you press.
Macintosh tip: If you own an Apple Mac, you can download free software that will help you to match colours between your original picture, the picture you see on your computer screen and what you see when you print it out. Just go to http://www.info.apple.com/support/downloads.html and search for article number 58289 and you’ll find the free ColorSync software and documentation.
If you find that the fonts you see on your screen don’t match those in your printed documents, it may be because you’re using a non-TrueType font. These are designed to look as similar as possible in both media. To make sure you’re using only them, open the Fonts option in Control Panel and click Tools/Folder Options and, on the TrueType Fonts tab, check the “Show only TrueType fonts in the programs on my computer” box and OK your way out. Of course, if you need non-TrueType fonts, don’t check the box.