Question:     How do I print my leads from a spreadsheet? Answer:   How to print out your leads: If you are new to the computer and/or the Internet, you may need some help printing your leads. Here's an example that may help in understanding this fast changing technology... and the audience that uses it. Imagine this... try to write a book about cooking popcorn using your microwave oven. Simple enough, right? Just open the door, place the bag of popcorn inside, push some buttons, your done. Now go back in time and give that book to Abraham Lincoln, a pretty smart guy for his time. And then give that book to Christopher Columbus... you know...the guy that went looking for some place... found something else... came back and became famous. Do they "get it"? I mean, how to cook popcorn using the microwave? Probably not. Where do you start your explanation? At the microwave level? At the popcorn level? Or do you start with electricity and the outlet on the wall? Well, we don't know either. But maybe you would start somewhere and figure it out along the way. In the spirit of starting somewhere, here are some instructions in printing out your leads: If you have never done this before, you may want to make a copy of the file and then "experiment" on the copy. That's a good thing to do anyway... it takes the pressure off you. Microsoft Excel and Works are popular programs used in viewing databases. They look like spreadsheets...you'll see columns and rows. If you don't have Excel, you probably have Works. You may need us to send the file in a TEXT format, so you can open it in Works. When we email the leads, they may come in a format that won't print perfectly if you just open it up and hit "print". Why? The data is different in every table we send. You printer's margins are different, etc. Therefore, you may need to make some adjustments along the way. Here's how to make it "fit". You may want to print this out and read along as you work through this. The same instructions may also help if you are using Microsoft Word. 1) Have your Excel or Works spreadsheet open. 2) The go to "File". 3) Then "Page Setup". 4) You will see tabs at the top of the "Page Setup window". We will use three of the four. 5) Have the page print "sideways" by selecting "Landscape". 6) Go to "Margins". 7) Set the left and right margins to "0". This allows you to print all the way from left to right. 8) Go to "Sheet". 9) Select "Gridlines" and "Rows and column headings". This helps you read the data after printing. 10) Select "Print Preview". This will show you what you will be printing if you hit the Print button now. You might be "OK" or you might need to do more. 11) If you still need to make it fit, on "Print Preview", select "Margins". This is where we get really technical, using geek words, and speak in foreign tongues. 12) You'll see your cursor turned into a magnifying glass. Cool, huh? If you want to play, click on something and see it gets big. click again and it gets small. Way cool. This has little to do with printing leads, but it is cool, you have to admit. This helps relieve stress for those learning how to do this the first time. 13) More technical stuff. At the top, find the "little black square with a tail". It probably has a name... but this works for me. 14) When you put your cursor over it, your magnifying glass turns into a "black cross with two arrows". 15) When you "left click" on the two arrows, you can spread the columns to the left and to the right. 16) Experiment with this. If you need to you can always go back and forth to the Print Preview feature to see how you are doing. 17) You can spread the columns in Excel or Works too. Just go to the headings in the spreadsheet. If you bring your cursor to the top, and slide it over to the line that separates the columns, it changes to the "black cross". You can left click and drag or "double click". When you double click, your column will be spread to the widest it needs to be to print the longest record in that column. 18) Try it a few times. Always test print one page, before printing everything. 19) If you have other questions, you can always find a kid. If that doesn't work, try "Help", or call me. Peter Mingils (386) 445-3585 peter@networkleads.com http://www.networkleads.com