When you are printing a document from Microsoft Word, the best way to save paper (and ink) is through narrowing the print margins and reducing the size of fonts.
Now if you are in a hurry and have no time to tweak these complex settings, Microsoft Word can do that for you in a click.
This option will also prevent printing of pages that contain little or no text.
All you have to do is open the Print Preview pane (Alt+Ctrl+I) and select the “Shrink One Page” setting – its called “Shrink to Fit” in previous versions of Microsoft Office.
Word will now try to condense the same document in lesser number of pages by slightly reducing the font size and paragraph / letter spacing.
Related: Best Ways to Reduce Printing Costs
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Reader Comments
Handy tip!!
Written by AboutOnlineTips on 06.27.08
Lets hope that everyone uses this feature when they are taking drafts and printouts of news papers and journals. These days people waste lots of paper at Offices because there, the printer comes free. If each one start saving paper, then we will have more trees around…
Written by Arun Basil Lal on 06.27.08
its very important thing….
Written by amit on 06.27.08
simple yet useful tip…
Gr8 going Amit
Written by Prashant on 06.27.08
People don’t realize that paper is made out of trees….If each one of us save even a single paper while giving a print we might end up saving so many trees….Good tip for GREEN cause….
Written by Bizztra on 06.28.08
Really this a GREEN tip. Also its best to use handmade paper for Business Communication Document Prints. This will help your Company to be 100% Green :)
Written by Groomer on 06.29.08