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Bill Gates Hugs Trees (a.k.a. Much MODIW about Nothing)

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with !Daley Real Estate

He may never admit it, so I will claim it for him. Bill Gates is a tree-hugger. I recently discovered Microsoft Office Document Image Writer (MODIW). This cool little program lets you look at stuff as it will print when a print preview function isn't available. It will also let you pick and choose pages with ease or save temporary copies of documents instead of printing them. And it's easy. You just click the prompts as if you are printing and when you get to the screen where you choose which printer to use, simply shift down to the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer icon and instead of cranking out paper, it will crank out a document. Cool, huh?

Here are a couple of tree-saving uses for this software:

1. When bills or other items are paid for online and you have to print out a confirmation code, opt for a digital document. That way, when all goes through and you'd throw out the paper, you just delete the document, but if there is a problem, it is at your fingertips!

2. I use this all the time before I print to make sure that the last page isn't a bunch of junk attached to the website view that actually was of interest to me.

3. Back up copies

4. Selecting multiple pages to keep. Instead of printing and tossing every other page or third page, you can load to MODIW and delete them before they print.

 

I am sure there are a million other uses for this feature, so let me know by posting your comments.

As always, thanks for reading!

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