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Section 6. View Pro

6.9.2 Printing Text

To print numerical data, press the Print button

or select File | Print from

the menu. A dialog box will appear allowing you to choose the printer, print
range, number of copies, etc. After setting the properties, press OK to print
the data.

To preview your data before printing, press the Print Preview button

or

select File | Print Preview from the menu. From Print Preview you can browse
among the pages that will be printed and change the paper orientation if
desired. You can zoom in on a particular area of the previewed page by left-
clicking the page. You can zoom out by left-clicking with the Shift button
pressed. You can pan across a page by right-clicking and dragging the page.
To return to normal view, choose the Page Width or the Full Page icon.
Simply press the Print button

on the toolbar to print one or more pages.

See the online help for details of the Print Preview options.

6.9.3 Printing Graphs

With a graph window opened, click the Print button

to preview the printed

page and set various printing options. Then select the Print button to print the
graph. You can also right-click the graph to bring up a menu from which you
can select Print.

6.10 View Pro Online Help

View Pro has an online help system that can be accessed by choosing Help |
View Pro from the toolbar. Once the help file is opened, pressing the
Contents

tab will open the Table of Contents. Choosing the Index

tab will

bring up an index. Keywords can be typed in to search for a topic. An in-
depth search can be performed by choosing the Search tab and typing in a
word.

Help for any of the graphical windows can be accessed by pressing the ?
button in the upper right corner of the graph screen or by pressing F1. Help
for dialog boxes can be accessed by pressing the Help button at the bottom of
the dialog box or by pressing F1 with the dialog box opened.

6.11 Assigning Data Files to View

Windows will let you assign the program with which a particular file type will
be opened based on that file's extension. When a file with an assigned
extension is double-clicked, it will be opened with the associated program.
You may want to associate *.DAT files with the View Pro program for quick
opening of data files. This association can be made by selecting Tools | Folder
Options | File Types from the Windows Explorer menu.

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