Is there a fix for the print e-mail message in Plain Text format

[George Hester]

I only want to print say one page. But if the e-mail message is in Plain Text format I don't have that option. I can only
print the entire e-mail message and Plain Text e-mail that has had HTML format changed to Plain Text can be
excessivley long with a lot of useless text. Thanks.

Outlook 2000 SP1 Windows 2000 SP2

 

[Guest]

Don't convert HTML to plain text, then. Convert plain text to HTML, print the
portion you want, close message without saving changes.

 

[George Hester]

I am not. The user who replied to my e-mail changed the format. In any case any suggestion how to fix this print problem besides not dealing with people who use only Plain Text format?

 

[Guest]

Use plain text yourself. Matter of fact, I think I'm going to change my own
settings to "read all standard mail in plain text, just so I can see where
possibly bogus links "really" point to. So I will be one of those people with
whom you do not wish to deal.

 

[George Hester]

That sounds like the ticket. In any case do you or anyone else have any suggestion on how to fix this issue with
printing plain text e-mail in Outlook? By the way the style is Memo. Maybe we could use a different style? If so how?

 

[Guest]

Well, I did answer that. It takes but two clicks, four if you prefer not to
click and hold on menus, to convert a plain text e-mail to HTML. If someone
has another answer, I'd be curious, but two additional clicks does not seem
like a big deal to me.

 

[George Hester]

I don't know what you are saying. The e-mail comes as plain text. Now how am I going to change that to HTML? I
am trying to print an e-mail that I receive from somebody who sent it to me. I have no way of changing that to HTML.
Are you saying make a new message in HTML format copy the received email in there and print that? But then it
doesn't have the info from the received e-mail the Subject and so forth. What you are suggesting is a lot of work.
Maybe there is a way to fix this issue of printing plain text e-mail so that we have control over the number of pages
which are printed out? Maybe not but that's my question.

 

[Guest]

Open the message. From the menubar in that window:
Edit> Edit Message
then
Format> HTML
Select the portion of the message you wish to print
File> Print> General - Selection> Print.
After printing, close the message without saving.

 

[George Hester]

OK I tried that. Nothing happened when I clicked Edit Message. Thanks though. Warning Warning ... nothing happened yes but then when I went back to the that location it was unavailable. Then I did what you said with format. Cool thanks IanRoy.

 

[Guest]

Hi, George Hester;

You are welcome. Sorry I went off half-cocked. I thought you were ignoring
this portion of my first post in this thread: "Convert plain text to HTML,
print the portion you want, close message without saving changes."

The purpose of using Edit> Edit Message is to enable the Format> HTML menu
option. When I first discovered that there was a difference in the printing
options available depending on the message format, I went looking for a way
to CHANGE the message format. Format> HTML was grayed out, so I looked in the
Edit menu, found Edit Message, clicked that, and went back to Format, which
had become available.

Regards,
Ian.

 

[George Hester]

You know something Ian your solution has a lot of functionality besides what I asked about. You really found a good thing there. Let me explain.

I received an e-mail today that I wanted to respond to. It was a Yahoo e-mail had the "Do you want to yahoo..." at the bottom. Anyway it had an embedded image in it. It came from this domain:

ymail.flamingtext.com

I don't have the exact link anymore and if you read on you'll see why.

Anyway it was HTML and so I wanted to reply. I could not. Word 2000 hung. I had to Task Manager it to wake everything up. It was nasty. I tried a few things to see what was happening and the best I could get was a DDE Server Window error. Well this is some kind of issue with Outlook 2000 but really wasn't my specific issue.

So what's a person to do?

Ian to the rescue. I opened the e-mail and did the same thing you said. Edit | Edit message I then selected the broken src image and DELETE. Then saved the message. All fixed.

So don't give it another thought Ian. All's well that ends well.