Print multiple copies of individual pages in a Word document

Printing multiple copies of a document is easy—the functionality is built right in! From the File menu, choose Print. In the Copies section, select the number of copies you need from the Number of Copies control, and print!

Taking a quick look around, you might notice that there’s no way to print multiple copies of individual pages. For instance, what if you want two copies of page 1 and 2, but only 1 copy of the remaining pages? If you didn’t know any better, you might run two separate print jobs. If you faced this printing task often, you might create a macro. Fortunately, Word has a built-in feature to handle such a unique printing task–even if it isn’t obvious.

To print multiple copies of an individual page or pages, use the Pages control in the Page Range section. You probably already use this feature to print specific pages when you don’t want to print the entire document. You can also use it to print multiple pages. For example, let’s suppose you want to print one copy of page 1, two copies of page 2, three copies of page 3, and then 1 copy of the remaining pages of a seven-page document. Using the Pages control, as follows, you can easily meet this requirement:

1. From the File menu, choose Print. In Word 2007, click the Office button and choose Print.
2. In the Page Range section, enter the following into the Pages control: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4-7.  

   
   

3. Click OK.

By repeating the appropriate page numbers, you can control the number of copies printed for individual pages. Specifically, enter the page number for each copy that you need. The component 4-7 will print one copy of pages 4, 5, 6, and 7.

Now, if you want many copies of individual pages, this method will still work, but creating the Pages entry will be a bit of a nuisance. This neat trick is for those odd situations where you need just a few extra copies of one or more pages, but not all of the pages, in the same document.

Quickly center a heading across columns in a Word document

One way to get a heading or title to span columns is to add the heading before you add the column text. That’s great if you remember to do so or if you know the title before you enter the actual column text. Sometimes you don’t even decide you want a title until after you’ve created the columns! I’ve seen people enter the title as a header, but that comes with a number of problems–such a title in the header inhibits a traditional document or page header, you have to inhibit the column title for other pages, and it doesn’t work for columns that fall in the middle of a page.

It should be simpler, right? Well, it is.

Inserting title text above a section of columns is easy. Just reset the column setting for the title–that’s the trick. You can display a title above columns in almost any configuration, even in-between two sections of columns! To quickly add a title above columns, do the following:

1. Position the cursor at the beginning of the columns—right where you want the title to appear.
2. Enter the title text.
3. Press Enter to push the column text to the next line, leaving the title text in a line of its own.
4. Select the title text.
5. Click the Columns tool on the Standard toolbar and choose one column.

   
   

6. With the title still selected, click the Center alignment tool on the Formatting toolbar.

Now, in this example, the title is centered across two columns that span the entire width of the page (from the left to right margin). You can use this method to span a title across fewer columns than in the actual spread. For instance, the figure below shows the title spanned across two columns in a three-column spread. I used the same method, but in step 5 above, I choose two columns instead of one.

Instead of wrestling with the column margins, you insert the title text, format the title as one (or more) column and then center it, just as you would a title or heading above a non-columned area of text.

That’s all there is to it! Sometimes tasks really are as simply as you think they should be!

Motorola: Droid update to Android 2.1 ‘will start to roll out this week’

We knew Android 2.1 was coming for the Droid, but we’ll confess — we didn’t expect it to come this soon. Motorola is now reporting via its official Facebook page that it’s “happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to Droid will start to roll out this week,” going on to tease that it “will have more information to share on other device upgrades later.” There’s no detail on what the Droid update will entail or whether it’ll roll out to every user this week (we doubt it), but by all indications, this is a promising sign that Moto’s keeping the pedal to the metal, we’d say.

[Thanks, andrewcweaver]

Motorola: Droid update to Android 2.1 ‘will start to roll out this week’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google’s Nexus One ‘equipment recovery fee’ slashed to $150, still a pain

So the good news here is that Google appears to have heard the cries for help, having taken a chainsaw to its brutal $350 “equipment recovery fee” that had been lumped on top of T-Mobile’s $200 ETF for subsidized Nexus One contracts canceled in the first 120 days. The bad news, though, is that it still exists at all — a hairy precedent for an industry being watched with eagle eyes by the FCC right now. The company has knocked $200 off the fee, bringing it down to $150; in other words, if you break your contract, you’ll pay the same ETF that Verizon now charges on its “advanced devices.” Whether that was a deliberate move to let ‘em say that they’re no more expensive than Verizon is unclear, but let’s be honest: $350 is extreme, $550 was highway robbery. At least we’re going in the right direction.

Google’s Nexus One ‘equipment recovery fee’ slashed to $150, still a pain originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Peratech’s QTC sensor technology headed to your next cellphone

We’ve always heard to strike while the iron’s hot, and that’s exactly what Peratech seems to be doing. Just weeks after we heard that the company’s pressure-sensitive touchscreen methodology was being seriously considered by the powers that be, along comes Samsung Electro-mechanics to take ‘em up on their offer. For those unaware, Samsung EM provides components to loads of leading phone makers, which could mean that Peratech’s pressure sensitive 5-way input device is on its way to your next mobile as we speak. These so-called Navikeys will supposedly provide a greater level of immersion when interacting with phones, and we get the feeling that those aging dome switches are feeling mighty frightened by all this encroachment. The best part? Paratech claims that a “Navikey using QTC from Samsung EM is already being used in a Tier 1 mobile phone,” so here’s hoping that we find out exactly what phone that is in the near future.

Peratech’s QTC sensor technology headed to your next cellphone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Qisda’s ultra high-res QCM-330 smartphone and more surface ahead of iF awards

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HTC Hero-controlled Mindstorms bot hints at Android uprising

Using a cellphone to control a robot — or a pretty sweet helicopter — isn’t exactly a new idea, but there’s something about the combination of Android and Lego Mindstorms that promises to break the possibilities wide open. Swedish tech company Enea Linköping is one of the first we’ve seen to directly link an Android app to the Mindstorms brain over Bluetooth — they’re using an HTC Hero to control two simple rover bots. Unfortunately, since Android 1.5 doesn’t support the Bluetooth serial profile, there’s a hack involved: the phone actually sends out commands over WiFi,which are passed through a WiFi-Bluetooth tunneling app on laptop before hitting the bots. That means there’s a little lag involved, but now that Android 2.1 has serial Bluetooth support we’re hoping things get a little more streamlined in the future. Video after the break.

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HTC Hero-controlled Mindstorms bot hints at Android uprising originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC Legend spotted just hanging out, playing it cool

Look familiar? Yep, this is precisely what we expected HTC’s rumored Legend to look like based on the renders we’d seen so far. We don’t have any information here other than the pictures themselves, but from what we can gather, it seems to carry over Sense as we know it today without a trace of that freshened look we’ve caught in recent months (not unlike its Incredible cousin). Maybe more importantly, the Legend looks like it might be kicking off a new styling direction for the company with a big, bold, chromed company logo around back and an aluminum shell that we suspect feels awesome in the hand — particularly if it’s pre-production aluminum. More on this one as we get it; in the meantime, check out a shot of the back after the break.

[Thanks, anonymous tipster]

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HTC Legend spotted just hanging out, playing it cool originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Inbrics’ Android-based M1 slated to ship this year

We already caught a fair amount of play time with Inbrics’ Android-based M1 at CES, but it looks as if the company is fixing to “officially” reveal it next week at Mobile World Congress. We’re still debating whether or not this thing is a bona fide smartphone or yet another MID that’ll have a tough time gaining acceptance in this cruel, cruel world, but either way, it’s apparently on track for release later this year. According to details scooped up by Pocket-lint, the company is hoping that the M1 will double as a media controller for AV junkies, and if all goes well, Europeans could get their hands on it “in 2010 or early 2011.” Just as long as it’s prior to 2012, we’re cool.

Inbrics’ Android-based M1 slated to ship this year originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google working on voice translator phone, redefining synergy

Okay, so Google has this expansive online translation service, which we all know, use, and sometimes even love. Google also has its own branded phone, with a voice recognition function that we frankly adore. So what’s a brave new age company with bottomless pockets to do but try to splice the two together into some kind of omnilingual instant translator? Speech-to-speech translation — long the exclusive plaything of fanciful sci-fi writers — is said by Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services, to be a viable possibility within a measly couple of years. The Mountain View approach to overcoming the inherent problems of variable pitch, tone and accents in speech will be to use each person’s phone to accrue data on his or her linguistic idiosyncrasies, so that the more the phone’s voice recognition is used, the more accurate it becomes. Sounds tres bien to us.

Google working on voice translator phone, redefining synergy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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