Ah-hah! Yes - the first page - instuctions including a logo, call-outs etc,
all took the "hidden" formatting - to my amazement - and when I hit my print
button only page two - the actual form- came off the printer. I even tried
it with Tools - Options - View - Hidden Text checked AND unchecked, and both
ways I was able to see both pages and print only the second. Feeling oh so
victorious, I took it to the form's author, and when she tried to set it up
with the hidden text, it all disappeared! That's when I realized that on my
system, I have Tools - Options - View - ALL checked - which is NOT the
standard setting for the literally hundreds of people who will be required to
use the form, and changing the setting on everyone's PC doesn't seem to be an
option. RATS!! Thank you so much for your help - guess we'll be burning
paper after all...

"Kimmie B" wrote:

Ah, if your nonprinting text comes first, get rid of that Page-break-before
formating on the first paragraph that you want to print.

Look at the paragraph formatting for the first line that actually prints.
(Format Paragraph, and then on the Line and Page Breaks tab, make sure that
Page break before is deselected).

Let me know if that works for you.

"janice" wrote:

Hi Kimmie, this is good info, and I was able to get the text on page one not
to print, but the blank page itself still came off the printer - what we're
looking for is a way to reduce paper consumption... any other ideas?

"Kimmie B" wrote:

A quick, easy way to print text on one page and not on another is to set the
print that you want not to print as hidden text. If the users options are
set to view hidden text (Tools Options View tab, and then under
Formatting marks select Hidden Text), they can view and edit hidden text, but
it doesn't print.

If you want only the first page to print, you can set the first line of the
hidden text to begin on the next page (Format Paragraph Line and Page
Breaks tab, and then select Page break before).

I hope this helps.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

I started to write a reply about intercepting the Print request (using a Sub
FilePrint) - which could go some way towards it - but the more I thought
about it the more I realised that the most likely impact of anything you did
would be total confusion. Are you trying for security purposes (in which
case you are probably wasting your time) or paper-saving ones?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"janice" wrote in message
...
I have a 2-page document which will be used by other people. Is there a
way
to set it up so that by default page one will never print? I know how to
use
the print dialog to print current page, or print a range of pages, but
can't
come up with a way to imbed the command in the document itself so that
only
page 2 ever prints no matter who prints it.