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 NotesLinkedIn

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How to Print Messages to PDF

How to Block someone without them knowing

How to Print Messages to PDF

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Printing to PDF is a very simple thing, or it should be. But by default, it seems very difficult to do to get the formatting just right. It is either cut off on the right hand (maybe we can change to Landscape). But then it only prints a little bit of the message on one page.

How to we print the many items of a very long message conversation? The trick is as follows.

- Use Chrome Browser

- Click Messaging on the top horizontal panel.

- The main screen has a left panel of various people, and the middle panel has the main message history of a chosen person.

- On the left panel, click on the person whose message you want to print, and check that the correct message history is on the main panel.

- For privacy, if you want to hide the people on the left panel before printing, go to the left panel, click on the triple dots on top, and select 'Manage Inbox Request'

- On the middle message panel, scroll up to see the start of the messages you want to print.

- Press Ctrl-P, choose Save as PDF.

- In the browser Print panel, Portrait was enough for my printing. But you can change to Landscape.

- In the browser Print panel, in Scale, choose a smaller number say 70% and try a few different numbers until the size and content of messages is OK for you.

- Then click Save. This will produce a PDF file.

- Open the PDF and print as usual.

The main step above is to choose the scaling to make sure it fits enough information of the messages you want to print.

How to Block someoone without them knowing

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No problem, LinkedIn does the block discreetly. It says:

"The blocked member won't receive any notification of this action." 

in here: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/47081

The steps are very simple and listed on the link above.

Basically you have to go to that person's page, click on More, select Report/Block. 

When a few options are presented, click on the option that says "Block [user name]". Then click Block.

Note: Blocking is different from Removing a Connection. With blocking it seems you are still connected but would not be able to see their profile, updates and cannot message them anymore.

To unblock is a bit different. Go back to your main page.

On top, click Me, click Settings and Privacy, click Block and Hiding, click Block and select Change. Then choose the person you want to block.