How do I customize the print layout of a SharePoint list item?

Answer 1

You could use CSS to hide all the navigation etc. that you don't need using a media="print" stylesheet, but you won't be able to make the exact changes to the layout you've illustrated.

If it doesn't have to be exactly like the example, it would be fairly trivial to hide all but the name->value table and just print that. If you really do need to merge fields and re-layout the table then you likely have to hack up the server-side.

Why can't you create your own version of the page?

Answer 2

Using Sharepoint Designer, you could create a custom aspx page that uses a dataview webpart to do this...

Answer 3

Creating a custom list form is probably what you want. Without the master page attached to it or anything.

You can find a walkthrough here that will get you started:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101191111033.aspx

Enjoy.

Answer 4

Alternatively, you could export to a spreadsheet & print from there.

Answer 5

This isn't an answer so much as a note to the above.

Use a custom list form but keep in mind that if any of the columns have versioning turned on you will not be able to get at the "data" easily. For example if one of your colums is a Notes column and everytime someone edits the notes field a new version is appended then none of that is accessible as it's essentially a seperate "list." I'm stuck on this issue as I also have a client asking for a print out which "doesn't look like it's from SharePoint."

Answer 6

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