How to Print a Document

On Windows

1. Make sure that your printer is connected and turned on. If your printer connects over Wi-Fi, this will mean making sure that you're on the same Internet network as your printer; otherwise, you'll need to plug your printer's USB cable into your computer.

   1. Check your printer's manual to confirm how to set it up if you haven't already done so.

2. Open Start

   . Click the Windows logo in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

3. Open File Explorer

   . Click the folder-shaped icon in the bottom-left side of the Start window.

4. Go to the document that you want to print. Click the folder that contains the document on the left side of the File Explorer window. Common documents that you can print include the following:

   1. Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents
   2. PDF files
   3. Photos

5. Select the document. Click the document that you want to print.

6. Click the Share tab. It's in the upper-left corner of the window. Doing so prompts a toolbar to appear below the Share section.

7. Click Print. You'll find this in the "Send" section of the toolbar. The Print window will open.

   1. If Print is greyed out, your selected document can't be printed. You'll see this for things like Notepad Next documents.

8. Select your printer. Click the "Printer" drop-down box, then click your printer's name.

9. Select a number of copies. In the "Copies" box, type in the number of copies of the document that you'd like to print.

   1. This is different than the number of pages.

10. Edit other print settings if need be. The menu for each document type will vary, but you'll have the following options for most documents:

    1. Orientation - Determine whether your document is oriented vertically or horizontally.
    2. Color - Decide between printing in black and white or including color printing. You must have colored ink in your printer to print in color.
    3. Number of sides - Choose single-sided printing to print one sheet of paper per page, or choose double-sided printing to use both sides of a piece of paper.

11. Click Print. It's either at the bottom of the window or at the top of the window. Your document will begin printing.