I always print chapters to review - reading on screen is not for me. So I copy and paste and it is a drag, but if I just print the thing from the website I get a load of additional stuff and it costs ink and paper - I need to donwsize and fill the page before I print - any bright ideas to overcome my techigno.
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I print it after copying into word as that way you can draft output your ink which i believe saves some ink.
i also print on the back of scrap paper to save paper.
if i can print at work so much the better. i then keep those mss for scrap.
reading from the screen is not good for the eyes, but sometimes, an extract is so god that after glancing at the first couple of lines i'm hooked and can't be arsed to interrupt my reading to copy paste and print it all out.
the benefit of printing out the work is that you can refer to it if you have problems with the test and also make notes for your review. very often if just reading on screen i might make a point and then forget about it afterwards. and when i do remember it it's too late.

Thanks for replies. Another thing about having it on paper is that you can scribble comments etc and then build your review quite quickly on that - even next day etc.
I know the feeling about format etc but I would rather save the ink and paper - and being retired, I cannot steal it!

I haven't discovered the comment feature in Word. Maybe yours is a more recent version than mine.

I have a guilt complex about printing anything I don't need to print, especially as most of my assignments are 20 pages or more. I consign too much paper to the recycling bin as it is.

I copy and paste into a Word document. On the first read through I change the font colour of anything on which I want to comment to red. On the second read through I add my comments throughout the text in bold. I use those comments to write the review at the beginning of the actual piece because I find it easier to scroll down than to keep changing windows. Finally I copy and paste my review into the submission form.

This may seem a convoluted way of doing it, but it enables me to read through, go away and think about it and maybe change some of my comments when I've pondered a bit.

[quote=slavandria, Monday, 22 Sep 2008 20:51
I'm using Word 2003. If you go to Insert and pull down the menu, there should be a thing called "comment" Just place your curser where you want it and then insert the comment.

Thanks. I've found it. I'll try itnext time.