Lesson 3: Managing Documents

In addition to managing printers, Windows 2000 allows you to manage documents. Managing documents includes pausing, resuming, restarting, and canceling a document if a printing problem occurs. In addition, you can set someone to notify when a print job is finished, set the priority to allow a critical document to print before other documents, and set a specific time for a document to print.

After this lesson, you will be able to

Pause, resume, restart, and cancel the printing of a document.

Set a notification, priority, and printing time.

Delete a document from the print queue.

Estimated lesson time: 20 minutes

Pausing, Restarting, and Canceling a Document

If a printing problem occurs with a specific document, you can pause and resume printing of the document. Additionally, you can restart or cancel a document. You must have the Manage Documents permission for the appropriate printer to perform these actions. Because the creator of a document has the default permissions to manage that document, users can perform any of these actions on their own documents.

To manage a document, right-click the printing device for the document and click Open. Select the appropriate document(s), click the Document menu, and then click the appropriate command to pause, resume, restart from the beginning, or cancel a document, as shown in Figure 13.6.

Figure 13.6 Managing documents

Table 13.4 describes the tasks that you might perform when you manage
individual documents, how to perform the tasks, and examples of situations
in which you might perform these tasks.

Table 13.4 Managing Document Tasks

Setting Notification, Priority, and Printing Time

You can control print jobs by setting the notification, priority, and printing time. To perform these document management tasks, you must have the Manage Documents permission for the appropriate printer.

You set the notification, priority, and printing time for a document on the General tab of the Properties dialog box for the document, as shown in Figure 13.7. To open the Properties dialog box for one or more documents, first select the documents in the printer's window, click the Document menu, and then click Properties.

Table 13.5 describes the tasks that you might perform when you control print jobs, how to perform the tasks, and examples of situations in which you might perform these tasks.

Figure 13.7 Setting notification, priority, and printing time for a document

Table 13.5 Setting a Notification, Changing Priority, and Scheduling Print Times

Practice: Managing Documents

In this practice, you will manage documents by printing a document, setting a notification for a document, changing the priority for a document, and then canceling a document.

To verify that a printer is offline

Log on as Administrator.

Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Printers.

In the Printers window, click the printer's icon.

Do one of the following to verify that the printer is offline:

On the File menu, verify that Use Printer Offline is selected.

Right-click the printer icon and verify that Use Printer Offline is selected.

If the Printers window is displayed in Web view, verify that Use Printer Offline is displayed in the left portion of the folder window.

On the File menu (or by right-clicking the printer's icon), verify that Set As Default Printer is selected.

The printer's icon will display a check mark to show that it is the default. If necessary, press F5 to update the display.

Minimize the Printers window.

NOTE
Keep the printer offline to prevent it from trying to communicate with a nonexistent print device. This will eliminate error messages in later exercises when documents are spooled.

To print a document

Insert the Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.

When the Microsoft Windows 2000 CD dialog box appears, click Browse This CD.

Double-click Readme.doc.

WordPad starts and displays the Readme.doc file.

Click File and click Print.

The Print dialog box appears. Notice that the file will be printed on the HP Laserjet 5SI printer.

Click Print, and then close WordPad.

To set a notification

Restore the Printers window.

Double-click HP LaserJet 5Si.

In the printer's window, select README.txt, and then click Properties on the Document menu.

Windows 2000 displays the README.txt Document Properties dialog box with the General tab active.

Which user is specified in the Notify box? Why?

Answer

NOTETo change the person to be notified, you would type in the name of the user in the Notify box and click apply.

To increase the priority of a document

In the README.txt Document Properties dialog box, on the General tab, notice the default priority.

What is the current priority? Is it the lowest or highest priority?

Answer

In the Priority box, move the slider to the right to increase the priority of the document, and then click OK.

Nothing changes visibly in the HP LaserJet 5Si - Use Printer Offline window.

On the Printer menu, click Use Printer Offline to remove the check mark, and then immediately click Use Printer Offline again.

NOTEIf Windows 2000 displays a Printers Folder dialog box with an error message informing you that the printer port is unavailable, finish the following procedure, and then, in the dialog box, click Cancel.

Check the status of README.txt to confirm that Windows 2000 has started to print this document.

To cancel printing of a document

Select README.txt in the document list in the printer's window.

On the Document menu, click Cancel.

Notice that the Status column changes to Deleting. Then README.txt is
removed from the document list.

TIPYou can also cancel a document by pressing the Delete key.

Close the printer's window, and then close the Printers window.

Lesson Summary

In this lesson, you learned that managing documents includes pausing, resuming, restarting, and canceling a document; setting who is notified when a print job is finished; setting the document priority to allow a critical document to print before other documents; and setting a specific time for a document to print. You must have the Manage Documents permission for the appropriate printer to perform these
actions. The creator of a document has the default permissions to manage that document, so users can perform any of these actions on their own documents.