Viewing+and+printing+workbooks

Both IGCSE and IB Workbooks need to be collected together and printed. They are your notes, a record of your learning and are critical for revision. They replace the exercise books you used before y10.

There have been a few issues when dealing with workbooks I hope the following advice will help with:

Q - I don't have word and can't see all the images when I open the workbook. What should I do? A - Your best option is to get a copy of word installed. Your second option is to borrow a friend's laptop, print the workbook and work on a hardcopy. I am looking into updating and changing the format of the DCS workbooks so they can be used on earlier versions of Word and OpenOffice, but I cannot promise this will be sorted out anytime soon.

Q - When I print the formatting of drawing objects gets messed up and doesn't reflect what I see on the screen. How can I stop this happening? A - Save your work as a PDF first then print. PDFs manage their formatting much better than word documents when printed especially if you are printing outside of school or from a second computer. See below for how to do this: media type="custom" key="23698826"

Q - When I print it's always in colour which is expensive, how I can print less expensively? A - Print your workbooks in black and white. Just print in colour the pages that really benefit from it. You can print in black and white by following the steps below: media type="custom" key="23698830"

If you have further questions or problems add them the discussion on this page and I will answer them.