How can I use Google Maps to make a map that I can copy and insert into a word processing document to print?

Print it through Google Maps then scan it?

Do a screen grab and affix the grabbed image into your document.

Use image editing software to combine the separate PNG files into a single PNG file. There are plenty of free ones out there.

press “print screen” on the top right of your key board, go into ms pain, press cntrl+v (or paste), and then save. go into word and insert the image : )

Wow, I don’t mean to sounds harsh or ungrateful, but these four are not good answers! In particular, anything involving a screen grab is not of the quality appropriate for a printed document. And combining multiple PNGs is way too tedious – there are a lot of them.

But I thank you all for your good intentions.

Buy a map !

Here are a couple of articles:

http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/10/tutorial-how-to-capture-google-maps-for.html

This is a link to the use permissions from google:

http://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines.html