how do I print an email WITHOUT printing the whole email history?

[Helena]

Hello, I want to be able to print an email without printing the whole email
history underneath it - is this possible with Outlook 2007?

Help!

 

[Uncle Vinnie]

Try highlighting what you want to print in the email..

Then- File, Print- in the print dialog click 'selection'....

Works in outlook 2000... s/b the same....

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hello, I want to be able to print an email without printing the whole
email history underneath it - is this possible with Outlook 2007?

The "history", as you call it, is just data in the message body. Outlook
neither knows nor cares that that data may have been included in prior
messages. Mail simply doesn't have "history".

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

not really/not easily. if html format, you can use other actions, view in
browser and print using the (better) print capabilities of IE. otherwise,
try outlookprinter.com or blueprint http://www.savvisoft.com/ or print to a
digital format (such as pdf) and print that.

 

[Beege]

Hello, I want to be able to print an email without printing the whole email
history underneath it - is this possible with Outlook 2007?

Help!

Helena,

By history, do you mean that you see/print where the email originated,
how its encoded, message ID number, etc? That would be the "header". I
use Thunderbird as an email client, and when I have View/Headers/All
selected, I print all that useless information. If I have
View/Headers/Normal, it doesn't print. All I get is the sender, sendee,
subject and body of the email. If this is what you mean, then someone
should be able to give you a simple solution.

Beege

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Hello, I want to be able to print an email without printing the
whole email
history underneath it - is this possible with Outlook 2007?

There is no history. The e-mail is whatever the sender gave you. If
they quoted prior e-mails then their NEW e-mail contains whatever
content that they chose to include. It is not a history. It is
whatever the sender chose to include, and may not even be from prior
e-mails for the same discussion. Outlook cannot distinguish between
what you call "history" and whatever the sender put in the e-mail.

I suppose you could send yourself a copy of the e-mail but after you
edit out the "history" that you do not want included, and then print
that new e-mail. Or you could open the e-mail (double-click to open
in its own window) and use the Edit Message menu to remove whatever
you don't want in the e-mail - but then when you save the changes you
lose everything else that the sender originally included. Of course,
nothing prevents you from copying and pasting (into another app) to
then print just what you pasted.

 

[Brian Tillman]

There is no history. The e-mail is whatever the sender gave you. If
they quoted prior e-mails then their NEW e-mail contains whatever
content that they chose to include. It is not a history. It is
whatever the sender chose to include, and may not even be from prior
e-mails for the same discussion. Outlook cannot distinguish between
what you call "history" and whatever the sender put in the e-mail.

What you (and I before you) say is true, but Outlook 2007 DOES make an
effort at it. It seems able to detect included messages if Outlook's
top-posting conventions are followed. Nonetheless, it's still not
"history".

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

All email clients mark (aka "quote") prior content in some manner so you can
tell the new content from the old. To many people, "old" is "history"...
apparently not to either of you.

 

[Hayden Saveal]

The upcoming version of Blueprint for Outlook will allow you to print the latest response in a message 'history'.

As already stated, there is no real history in the message (just message body content). Blueprint will attempt to automatically detect the latest response in the same way Outlook 2007 does.

This version has not been released yet, but a Beta version is available on request by emailing Blueprint Support - mailto:[email protected].

If you would like more information, please visit http://www.savvisoft.com.

Kind Regards

Hayden Saveal
Savvisoft Ltd.

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

The upcoming version of Blueprint for Outlook will allow you to
print the latest response in a message 'history'.

As already stated, there is no real history in the message (just
message body content). Blueprint will attempt to automatically
detect the latest response in the same way Outlook 2007 does.

This version has not been released yet, but a Beta version is
available on request by emailing Blueprint Support -
mailto:[email protected].

If you would like more information, please visit
http://www.savvisoft.com.

With prices ranging from $15 to $45.

 

[VanguardLH]

All email clients mark (aka "quote") prior content in some manner so
you can tell the new content from the old. To many people, "old" is
"history"... apparently not to either of you.

Since /inline/ forwarding always contains an *edited* copy of the
original, how can it be considered history? The headers are stripped
when forwarding inline. Users edit the inline copy all the time and
the recipient won't know. Users also often insert their own comments
within the quoted material, like addressing a point at a time with a
rebuttal or reply. While possible to attach an edited version,
e-mails sent as attachments are far more likely to be the unedited
version of the original e-mail.

Also, users can often chose whether to indent or not, which quoting
character to use, whether whitespace characters get removed between
multiple quote characters (at different quoting levels), using HTML to
format the indentation or delineation rather than quote characters,
and other schemes that they personally like but are definitely not the
de facto standard. I'm surprised, as Brian states, that OL2007 even
tries to separate the quoted material from the "new" material
(although the entire e-mail is new if inline forwarding was used).

If Outlook or an add-in is attempting decipher what part of an e-mail
is the quoted "history" then, as typical with Microsoft, they are
attempting to do something that the RFC was not designed to provide
for e-mails. The quoted material was never intended to be
uncorruptible.