Word 2003 Must Print Text Only

[BC000]

I have MS Word documents that consist of text and graphics (photos).

Is there any way to print only the text from these documents and not the graphics, so that I can save on some toner?

Help appreciated.

Regards.

 

[MakeItSo]

Have you tried
==>Options==>Print
Deactivate "Background colours and images"?

[navy]"We had to turn off that service to comply with the CDA Bill."[/navy]
- The Bastard Operator From Hell

 

[BC000]

Background Colours and Images is unchecked by default. That prevents or allows only colours and images that form a background to be printed. If any images are in the content of the document, they still print.

 

[MakeItSo]

Are the images embedded or linked in?
If they are linked in, you can simply switch to field code display.
If they are embedded (bad practice anyway if these are highres photos), would you consider linking them instead?

[navy]"We had to turn off that service to comply with the CDA Bill."[/navy]
- The Bastard Operator From Hell

 

[BC000]

Linking images will not be a good idea in my case, because sometimes I have to email the documents.

OK, so what I understand is that there is no simple way to do it, by tweaking the options or introducing a VB Script etc.

Thanks for your inputs.

 

[MakeItSo]

OK, so what I understand is that there is no simple way to do it

Easy there. There are multiple ways, albeit all have slightly different outputs.

Another method would be to save as HTML, copy the HTML file without its images folder to a different location and open it from there.
That'll print an empty box and a small "X" instead of the picture.

Good enough for toner saving?



[navy]"We had to turn off that service to comply with the CDA Bill."[/navy]
- The Bastard Operator From Hell

 

[fumei]

Do you care if the printed text-only version becomes literally that? In other words, what if you executed code that:

1. saved the file first (to make sure the saved file DOES have the graphics)

2. removed all graphics

3. printed

If you are done with the file, simply close it with a DoNotSaveChanges.

Gerry