# Printing Web Site Pages **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 13, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174 "2001-10-13T01:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174/1 "2001-10-13T01:23:33Z")
My 11 year old son just printed out some cheats for his computer game. I’ve let him on this web site before to look around and now he needed them in writing. I left him to it. He complained that he really did not want the advertising that took up roughly the last two printed pages worth of the entire web page. Here’s the question: He claims that at school, when they print web pages off of the Internet, there are defineable page breaks and so you can tell where the good data ends, and only chose pages 1-4 for example, and not print pages 5 and 6. ( sic ). Does anyone know how I can define what will become the page breaks in what appears to be a single flowing web page? Is there a setting in my I.E. ? In my printer? I rarely have this happen but it’s sometimes been an issue. I’d love to be able to show him how to define certain “pages” of data to pull out of a long web site. He’s smart- he thought if he highlighted JUST what he wanted, and NOT the advertising at the bottom, he would get only what he needed. It did not work. Help?? Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174/2 "2001-10-13T01:39:45Z")
Well, that works in IE if you select what you want to print, go to File/Print and choose Selection. ---
**Author:** ![Cargogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@Cargogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cargogal)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174/3 "2001-10-13T01:48:58Z")
If I print web pages, I copy and paste the info into Word. I then can eliminate odd formatting and excessively large fonts, etc., etc. and have it printed just the way I want. MHO, web pages are for viewing, documents are for printing. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174/4 "2001-10-13T11:58:12Z")
Great and simple solution, **Cargogal**. Still, what if my son really NEEDS say… 3 pages of art, photos and descriptive text, but not those pesky ads?. For straight text I will tell him to do just this, however. Thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2001, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174/5 "2001-10-13T15:15:36Z")
Then you can use Netscape & ‘edit’ page & take out the ads yourself. Both browsers have a printer setup that lets you specify printing options but I don’t think any do no ads. On [download.com](http://download.com) you could get a program that keeps ads from displaying though. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174/6 "2001-10-15T10:24:54Z")
In the latest IE, there are a few features that help out immensely here: - Print Preview, so you can see where pages break, - Print selected stuff, so you can print the current page or pages 1-3 or pages 1,4,5, etc. - Changing of margins so you can squeeze more on a page - multiple pages per printed page (2 or 4) - (I think the changing font size affects the printing too, but I’ve never tried it) I use these features all the time. The greatest thing since sliced bread. And for nice stuff, I cut and paste into Word and edit around. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/printing-web-site-pages/87174/7 "2001-10-15T10:55:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bill H. \* > \*\*In the latest IE, there are a few features that help out immensely here: > I use these features all the time. The greatest thing since sliced bread. And for nice stuff, I cut and paste into Word and edit around. \*\* [Rocky Balboa]Yo. I look like a loser to you or what? How do I get dis heah IE? [/Rocky Balboa]. 😃 This does sound perfect **Bill** , thank you so much. I’ll download the new IE and show my son how to do what he needs to do. Now if only everything on my monitor wasn’t that annoying amber color !!! 🆒