Printing

• Can the stage tree be printed?
• Is it possible that z-Tree generates a printable table (possibly Excel) after each period that shows e.g. the subjects’ efforts and payments of all passed periods?
• How to generate individual receipts

Can the stage tree be printed?

This is not directly possible from z-Tree. But it is possible the following way: The keyboard combination <Alt>-[PrtSc] copies the active window as a picture. This picture can be copied into a paint program and can be printed from there. With the Shareware called SnagIt e.g. one can copy and print windows – even those parts of the windows one can not see on the screen (www.techsmith.com).

Is it possible that z-Tree generates a printable table (possibly Excel) after each period that shows e.g. the subjects’ efforts and payments of all passed periods?

There is a command in the menu File (> Export > Table) that exports a current table, i.e. the table that is in the foreground. After the export, you can save it in any format.

You can also access the *xls file, which z-Tree is currently writing.

How to generate individual receipts

Instead of just printing the payment file you can use it to produce individual receipts with the mail merge function of your word processor. In the following, we explain the procedure step by step (for MS Word).

Before the Session starts:

	- 	Make a Mail Merge document. You can use the fields "Subject", 
		"Computer", "Interested" "Name" and "Profit" and the variable you added 
		to the payment file. You can open the word processor and open 
		the mail merge document.

When the payment file is written.

	- 	Open the mail merge document (or bring it to the front).

	- 	Open Mail Merge (Seriendruck) in the menu Extras.
		Select in point 2 of the mail Merge manager the option "Open Data Source" 
		and select the payment file. You find it in the directory where you started z-Tree 
		or in the directory you defined with the privdir option.
		The easiest way to find it is to view the directory in details mode and sort it 
		according to "Modified". Select point 3 to generate the merged document. 
		Check whether the document is plausible and print it.

Last modified: April 14, 2003; Urs Fischbacher (fiba@iew.unizh.ch), Marianne Sulzer