Internet Explorer 6: Using Print Preview for Web Pages
Have you ever printed a Web page, only to find that you had printed not one, but ten pages? Or printed a page with a background so dark you couldn't read the text, and had wasted printer ink, too? You can solve these problems if you preview before you print.
On This Page
 | Preview Web Pages Before You Print |
| Print Web Pages from Print Preview |
| Get More out of Print Preview |
| Add the Print Preview Button to the Internet Explorer Toolbar |
Preview Web Pages Before You Print
Like that last look in the mirror before you leave home, Print Preview lets you see the page you're about to print at a glance or zoom in for a closer look. (It works a lot like Print Preview in other Microsoft programs such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.)
1. | On the File menu, click Print Preview. |
2. | Click Close to return to the Web page.
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Tip: You can quickly switch to Print Preview using the keyboard: simply press Alt+F+V. You can press these keys again to return to the Web page. 
Print Web Pages from Print Preview
1. | On the File menu, click Print Preview. |
2. | On the Print Preview toolbar, click the Print button.  Print button on the Print Preview toolbar |
3. | To print only some of the pages, click Pages under Page range, and type the page number (or range of pages) you want to print. |
4. | Click Print. |
Get More out of Print Preview
To find out all the things you can do in Print Preview, pause your mouse pointer over any button on the Print Preview toolbar for a tip. Not only does the tip tell you what the button does, but also indicates what keys to pressAlt+P to print, for exampleif you want to use the keyboard.
Print Preview toolbar
A. Click to adjust the paper size you'll print on, margins, and page orientation of the Web page.
B. Click to display specific Web pages.
C. Click to get a closer look (zoom in) or a bird's-eye view (zoom out) of the Web page.
D. Click the down arrow, and zoom in or out by a fixed percentage.
E. Click to get more information about Print Preview.
Add the Print Preview Button to the Internet Explorer Toolbar
If you find Print Preview useful, you can keep it at hand by adding the Print Preview button to the Internet Explorer toolbar.
1. | Right-click anywhere on the Internet Explorer toolbar, and click Customize.  Internet Explorer toolbar |
2. | In the Customize Toolbar box, click Print Preview, and then click Add. See step 2 in the image below.  Customize Toolbar box |
3. | Click Move Up or Move Down to move the Print Preview button to the exact spot where you want it. See step 3 in the image above. |
4. | Click Close. |