help when I try to print I get the left side first ..the topics..How can I just print the text????

From the Fodor's Forum FAQ:

Can I print out a message? How?
Yes. Just click anywhere inside the right-hand frame first. That way your browser knows which frame you want to print.

Hi,

1. LEFT Click at the beginning of the part you want to print, drag the mouse while holding the button down to highlight the text. Unclick the mouse. Hit "CTRL" and "P" together.

2. In the right hand pane, RIGHT click on the title of the thread. LEFT click "print". This prints the whole thread.

3. To copy text to WORD, highlight as in 1, Hit "CTRL" and "C" together, go to your document and hit "CTRL" and "V" together.

If nothing normal works, be sure your cursor is in the box you want to print, then hold CTRL P and print from there.

If all else fails, rake your cursor over all you want to print to highlight it. Then copy (CTRL V) into your word processor and print like you normally do.

Remember how much easier computers are making our lives while you fight with this. 8^)

While holding your mouse over the link you can just right click and select 'open in new window'

It will open the post in an entirely new window with none of the topics on the left side. Then you can print as usual.

I tend to set up a folder for each new destination I'm planning to visit and then copy and paste any interesting posts or website snippets into Word documents. That way I can edit what I want to take with me and don't have to print out anything that I don't need.

so, kmoncrief - tell us what you did and how it worked.