Using 'Print Preview' before Printing in IE 8

[Summer1]

Hello.

I am using Win XP Prof and IE 8.

I have a hotmail message that is actually a 'chain' of emails back and forth
so it is obviously more than one page but when I go into 'File, Print
Preview,' it only shows 'one page' with a footer on the bottom with the rest
of the emails 'cut off.' I only want to print one part of the email.

Why doesn't print preview show the 'entire' email with the correct number of
pages that I can 'page up' and 'page down' on.

I would like to be able to 'page down' to the page I want to print and print
that way rather than highlighting' the part that I want to print, clicking
'file, print, selection, and 'okay.'

I was pretty sure that I used to be able to go 'page yp and down' in an
email message/webpage and only 'print' that specific page.

 

[Summer1]

Follow-up to my initial post.

It took me 30 mins to figure this out but this is what I wanted to do:

The 'print preview' under 'File, Print Preview' in IE 8 only shows the first
page of an email but if I click on the 'printer icon' within hotmail, it
opens a 'printer friendly' page. I can right-click on the page, click on
'print preview,' and scroll up and down to the page I want to print and print
only that page.

 

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[VanguardLH]

Hello.

I am using Win XP Prof and IE 8.

I have a hotmail message that is actually a 'chain' of emails back and forth
so it is obviously more than one page but when I go into 'File, Print
Preview,' it only shows 'one page' with a footer on the bottom with the rest
of the emails 'cut off.' I only want to print one part of the email.

Why doesn't print preview show the 'entire' email with the correct number of
pages that I can 'page up' and 'page down' on.

I would like to be able to 'page down' to the page I want to print and print
that way rather than highlighting' the part that I want to print, clicking
'file, print, selection, and 'okay.'

I was pretty sure that I used to be able to go 'page yp and down' in an
email message/webpage and only 'print' that specific page.

There are no pages in HTML documents. Each HTML "page" is just one long
document.

 

[VanguardLH]

Follow-up to my initial post.

It took me 30 mins to figure this out but this is what I wanted to do:

The 'print preview' under 'File, Print Preview' in IE 8 only shows the first
page of an email but if I click on the 'printer icon' within hotmail, it
opens a 'printer friendly' page. I can right-click on the page, click on
'print preview,' and scroll up and down to the page I want to print and print
only that page.

Now you understand that printing a web page is not the same as printing
an HTML document [partially] shown on that web page. When you selected
File -> Print, you were printing what was currently displayed in the web
browser's window. When you elected to view the entire HTML document
then the web page also showed all of that document.

Printing a web page is not the same as printing a document shown in
scrollable or pageable window on that web page. You printed what you
saw in your web browser, and you didn't see all the HTML document in the
web browser's window using your first method.