Mark's question is very confusing and extremely vague but it sounds as if he
is talking about an option on the print dialog for some un-named program(s).
The options that are available in a dialog box within a program are
controlled by the program itself.

While Windows is responsible for "talking" to the printer.  EACH individual
application controls =what= can be printed.  This is why some applications
have a "selection" option on the print menu and other programs do not.

What it comes down to, is whether or not the designer of the program
included the option to print selections.  The more complex the program is,
the more features it will have.  Wordpad is the baby brother to Word, it has
SOME of the same features but there is no comparison to the capabilities of
the two programs.  Notepad is an even more primitive application.

To illustrate the point:

Word give you six different styles of built-in bullets plus the ability to
create customized bullets.  Wordpad gives you one bullet with no options.
Notepad has no bullets.
It's a classic example of "you get what you pay for".

Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Lynn Moncrief
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 1998 9:57 AM
>
> At 12:50 AM 8/15/98 -0400, Mark Simmons wrote:
> >why can't you ever print "selection" (which is almost always not
> >clickable from the print window) from any application,
>
> The only application I've ever been able to do that successfully from is
> Word for Windows, having never been able to get it to work in Notepad or
> Wordpad.