Preview the appearance of a printed webpage
When you print a webpage, Internet Explorer automatically scales it to fit within the margins of your paper. This sometimes causes the page to be reduced in size. Internet Explorer also reduces the size of a page slightly if a single line of text (sometimes called an orphan) would print on its own page. You can use Print Preview to see how a printed webpage will look and to adjust page orientation, scaling, and margins. For information about troubleshooting printing problems, see Printing webpages: frequently asked questions
| To preview how a page will look when it is printed |
| | 1.
| Open Internet Explorer by clicking the Start button  , and then clicking Internet Explorer. | | 2.
| Go to the page you want to print. | | 3.
| Click the arrow to the right of the Print button 
, and then click Print Preview. | | 4.
| Press ESC to exit Print Preview mode without printing. |
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The following table describes Print Preview options that affect both what you see on the screen and what appears on the printed page. More printer-specific tasks, such as printing a range of pages or choosing paper size, are set in the Print dialog box and are not set in Print Preview. When you are in Print Preview, press ALT+P or click the Print button to open the Print dialog box. In Internet Explorer, press CTRL+P to open the Print dialog box.
Portrait  | Print the page vertically (portrait orientation). |
Landscape  | Print the page horizontally (landscape orientation). |
Page Setup  | Change paper size, orientation, or margins and add headers or footers. |
Turn headers or footers on or off  | Decide whether to print additional information (such as the date, website address, or page number) at the top or bottom of the page. |
Change Print Size  | Stretch or shrink the page size to fill the printed page. This feature replaces the zoom feature that was in previous versions of Internet Explorer. |
Adjust margins 
 | Drag the horizontal or vertical markers to change where the page will print. |
Page  | Specify the page to display. |
Print Document | Opens the Print dialog box, allowing you to print the page using the current settings. |
The following table describes Print Preview options that only affect how things look on the screen; they do not affect the printed copy.
View Full Width  | Zoom the webpage to the width of the preview screen. |
View Full Page  | Zoom the webpage to show the full webpage in the preview screen. |
Show multiple pages  | View multiple pages on the preview screen. |
First Page  | Go to the first page. |
Previous Page  | Go to the previous page. |
Next Page  | Go to the next page. |
Last Page  | Go to the last page. |
The following table describes how to print the date or time, page numbers, window titles, or page addresses to headers or footers on your printed pages. In the Header and Footer boxes, specify the information to be printed by using the text codes shown in the table. These codes can be combined with words (for example, Page &p of &P).
Window title | &w |
Page address (URL) | &u |
Date in short format (as specified by Regional and Language Options in Control Panel) | &d |
Date in long format (as specified by Regional and Language Options in Control Panel) | &D |
Time (as specified by Regional and Language Options in Control Panel) | &t |
Time in 24-hour format | &T |
Current page number | &p |
Total number of pages | &P |
Right-aligned text (put &b before text you want to be right aligned) | &b [text to right align] |
Centered text (put &b before and after the text you want to be centered) | &b [text to center] &b |
A single ampersand (&) | && |
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
An address that uniquely identifies a location on the Internet. A URL is usually preceded by http://, as in http://www.microsoft.com. A URL can contain more detail, such as the name of a page of hypertext, often with the file name extension .html or .htm.
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