Is there any way that a forum thread can be 'printer friendly' so when printed I do not use half acre of rain forest printing daft signatures and avatar's!!! I just want to print the 'meat & 2 veg'.
John
PS Yes mine is daft also.
Highlight the text you want to print with the mouse. Control C to copy.
Open a word document and 'Paste Special' as unformatted text. You should then have the plain text. The next step is to manually remove the places where there are too many carriage returns (that dates me) / line feeds Example below :
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Clair
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Posts 6,759 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense
I don't think the forum software is up to it...
Clair, a Real Virtual French Person
Anton Redman wrote: Highlight the text you want to print with the mouse. Control C to copy. Open a word document and 'Paste Special' as unformatted text. You should then have the plain text. The next step is to manually remove the places where there are too many carriage returns (that dates me) / line feeds Example below :
In Word you can use Find/Replace to remove the carriage returns using a control code, ^p. What I do is ask Word to replace ^p with xxx. This gives a text interspersed with xxx and xxxxxx etc.
Then replace xxxxxx with ^p^p to retain the original paragraph layout. The remaining xxx occurrences can be removed using a Find/Replace with just a spacebar press in Replace.
I find this particularly useful for long .txt passages which have been written in short lines.
You're a genius Mr Y!
It's a wonder that there isn't a button visible somewhere to work the magic. Is this just a configuration option that was missed when the software was implemented?
Albert the InfoGipsy wrote:You're a genius Mr Y
Ernie, well done you!
Did you by any chance find the printthread thingy after doing a google custom search? I've noticed that, when using the advanced google search options to restrict search results within a website or domain, sometimes a printthread/printpost result comes up for some sites, but I'd never made the obvious connection to use it to any advantage.
Cathy
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