How do I print only a selected portion of text

[Guest]

I sometimes like to print only selected text from e-mail or web sites. I was
able to do that in Outlook Express by highlight the portion of text, clicking
'Print', (under File) selecting 'Print Selection' and clicking 'Print'. I
can't figure out how to print only selected text in Outlook.

 

[Guest]

You can use the same method with HTML messages, but plain text prints memo
style and prints the whole thing whether you want it to or not. You can edit
the message to HTML and then print a portion if you want the hassle. Why are
you using Outlook for web sites? Use your browser instead for web pages. and
you can print selections.

 

[Guest]

Mary, thanks....I don't actually use Outlook for Web Sites but do sometimes
get links within mail that I go to and my problem seemed to go with me to the
linked site. Is there a setting that dictates receiving plain text or HTML?

 

[Guest]

Mary

It is OUTRAGEOUS that a programme ever released without the ability to
select an area of text or whatever, to print.
Has anything changed or an add-on programme become available to your
knowledge, since your answer, that allows any and every (plain text, rich
text, html et alia) email to be printed selectively?

We will have to Abandon Outlook if this is the case - we simply do not have
the Time To Waste to wait while pages of emails print, the money to throw
away (literally in this case) on wasted pages of paper or on wasted printer
INK.

I can not believe that there is not someone who has reworked Outlook to make
it Work!
This is almost as stupid as selling a car with one full but sealed tanl fo
petrol which, when it runs out, means the car is useless -- it would perhaps
be a misguide attempt to sell more cars...?!

Many thanks in advance to you and no accoloades for an abysmally obvious
(only othe rexplanation is I am sorry to say a little sinister) omission on
the part of the famously customer-unfriendly Microsoft.

Best regards
Inpraiseoflogic

 

[Guest]

Please, please, please fix this flaw... I should be able to print an area of
text in an email without jumping thru hoops - why wasn't this functionality
carried over from Outlook 2003?

 

[Guest]

You are absolutely correct - WHERE are the USABILITY EXPERTS at Microsoft?

If you need help (Microsoft) you may contact me. This Flaw in Outlook is the
tip of the iceberg. However whether you contact me or not , please fix this
so that QUITE SIMPLY ir becomes possible to:

- Select part of an email message and "Print Selection"

Simple as that. It needs to be possible, it should be created/enabled and
for goodness sakes even if you did it only to bow to the questionable
environmental aspect (the waste of ink and paper the lack of this creates) or
the drop in productivity (waiting for extra unwanted pages to complete
prinitng) - it just make sense.

Thanks in advance (I am at heart an optimistic realist).

 

[Guest]

Hi, I was having the same problem since I moved to Outlook 2003, and was
searching "MICROSOFT HELP Groups" but no luck, now I have found 1 solution
for this problem so here it is.....
1: Reply to the email that you want to print only a part of,
2: In reply window make your selection and go to print then you see your old
"SELECTION" option in the print window.
This is the easiest way that I found todate.

hope it will take you there ....
enjoy, Shan.

 

[Guest]

Hello Mary

I too am very concerned about this faultl If I print off the whole of the
message in some cases it is 20 pages!! I would be quite happy if I could just
print off page 1 or page 10 or something.

I have just got Outlook2007 and I am afraid I only get the memo style
printing option whether the message is HTML or plain text; also as someone
else suggested, replying and printing the reply does not work either.

There has to be a work around.

MS have changed so many things, most of which I would never use in a million
years, I cannot believe they have omitted something so BASIC

 

[Rupert]

Hello,
I have been onto MS support about this item, yes it is incredible that they
have removed such basic and essential function, but they have.
The best solution is to open the email then in the actions box in the vista
task bar click 'other options' then 'view in browser' you can then select
text, right click on it, select 'print' and you get the old print menu where,
in the page range box you can check 'selection'
Save paper save the planet!

 

[Hayden Saveal]

You can fix this issue if you use a third party addin:

Savvisoft have released Blueprint for Outlook Basic edition, a great value addin for Outlook which has been designed to simply enable you to reduce paper usage. As part of this, Blueprint enables you to select part of a message and print it whilst still retaining all the usual header information.

For more information and a free evaluation download, please visit: http://www.savvisoft.com

Kind Regards

Hayden Saveal
Savvisoft Ltd.

 

[rwl_jr]

That is a truly weak answer. This should be an intrinsic part of Microsoft's
products. Third party soultions add another layer of potential failure. It
should be fixed not worked around. It is this blatant show of poor decision
making on Microsoft's part that makes their customers Irate at them. First
Rule: If it's not broke, don't fix it. This was a useful and "not broke"
feature. Why remove it? In my mind it looks like it was "because they
could."

The open with Browser answer may work, but why should we have to go through
extra steps to do something that was\should still be a basic function of the
program? Still weak.

This kind of thing is why our company has started to look into becoming
Microsoft free. It's a dream, probably, but at this point it's worth looking
at.

 

[Sue]

I'm searching all the threads looking for an answer to printing a single page
or a selection of an email message and found all this -- am I dissapointed!
I agree with everyone -- WHY would MS remove such an important function of
Outlook? I posted a message and was told to View in Browser but guess what?
View in Browser must be a VISTA function cuz it doesn't exist in the Actions
menu on XP! I can't believe MS hasn't put a fix out for this very basic,
much needed aspect of email. The whole world prints email and now we're
wasting paper and frustrated as can be. Come on MS -- get real!!!!!!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It was never a function of any version of Outlook.

Open a message, click on Other Actions button to expand the menu - View is
browser is there.

Actually - not everyone prints email. I print maybe 10 pages a year. There
are many more like me. If you do print a lot of email, Outlook's printing
engine is not very robust. See http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/print.asp for
utilities that offer more printing options.

--
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[Victor Delta]

I'm searching all the threads looking for an answer to printing a single
page
or a selection of an email message and found all this -- am I
dissapointed!
I agree with everyone -- WHY would MS remove such an important function of
Outlook? I posted a message and was told to View in Browser but guess
what?
View in Browser must be a VISTA function cuz it doesn't exist in the
Actions
menu on XP! I can't believe MS hasn't put a fix out for this very basic,
much needed aspect of email. The whole world prints email and now we're
wasting paper and frustrated as can be. Come on MS -- get real!!!!!!

I agree - a major omission. I use the following work around - click on
forward, edit the resultant email to show what I want to print, and then
print. Not perfect but it's simple and it works.

V

 

[Sue]

V:

Thanks for the reply -- I have downloaded the Blueprint add-on and gee, it
puts all the print selection, single multiple page print choices right back
like it used to be. Imagine that! I highly recommend the software -- it's
$20 bucks and worth it! I'm sorry MS is insisting this was never a
possibility in previous versions -- I guess I'm imagining the thousands of
emails we've printed over the last umpteen years of using Outlook! Yes,
companies do print emails and file them -- maybe it's "old fashioned" but
we're a global firm with 35 offices in 21 countries and haven't been able to
trust Outlook to archive enough data without crashing. So it's print the
files or spend untold hours scanning for a document management system.
Sorry, we're not big enough for that -- we just want to print the pertinent
pages and it's pathetic that we have to buy an add-on to accomplish this!
C'mon MS, make a fix for this!

 

[Sue]

Thank you Diane but I beg to differ! I and all the people in my office have
been printing emails with full print selection or page selection capability
for years! If a message was plain text we'd get stuck with memo print but
only had to change the message to HTML format and voila! -- we could print
what we want. Outlook 2007 has made that impossible or very difficult. Your
fix of More Actions and View in Browser only works if the message is HTML --
I figured that one out myself -- so if I receive a plain text mail I have to
edit the message, change it to HTML then More Actions, View in Browser etc.
That's nuts and not productive at all. I've downloaded the Blueprint add-on
and it's great -- but as a longtime stockholder of MS, I'm disappointed! The
"improved" version of Outlook is driving customers like me and many others to
pay money to another company to improve the useability of the software. Not
a good way to do business at all!

It was never a function of any version of Outlook.

Open a message, click on Other Actions button to expand the menu - View is
browser is there.

Actually - not everyone prints email. I print maybe 10 pages a year. There
are many more like me. If you do print a lot of email, Outlook's printing
engine is not very robust. See http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/print.asp for
utilities that offer more printing options.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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I'm searching all the threads looking for an answer to printing a single
page
or a selection of an email message and found all this -- am I
dissapointed!
I agree with everyone -- WHY would MS remove such an important function of
Outlook? I posted a message and was told to View in Browser but guess
what?
View in Browser must be a VISTA function cuz it doesn't exist in the
Actions
menu on XP! I can't believe MS hasn't put a fix out for this very basic,
much needed aspect of email. The whole world prints email and now we're
wasting paper and frustrated as can be. Come on MS -- get real!!!!!!

 

[mike]

This option to print text from an email is in the ECDL course for outlook
2007. I asked the tutor about it having spent an hour or so thinking I was in
error. He was completely baffled too.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The option has been reintroduced in Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 (actually
a bit before that in a separate download as well).