Outlook 2007 - print page range option missing?

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Mike - 14 Oct 2006 22:42 GMT

Although I pretty much never print email, my mother does and Outlook 2007
does not appear to have any method for defining a specific page range when
printing (it's all or nothing). This is rather a huge oversight and I'm
hoping there's a work around. Thanks in advance for any help.

This (and numerous other bugs) also indicates the need for further testing
with Office 2007. I like it overall but it is still clearly a beta, despite
Microsoft's decision to stop beta testing and not even release a RC. Yikes.

Mike

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Mike - 15 Oct 2006 05:19 GMT

The best option I've found so far - and it's pretty much horrible - is to
save email as an HTML file, then use the normal Windows print feature -
which , surprisingly , works as it's supposed to and allows for printing a
page range - from this. What sense does it make that Outlook intentionally
blocked this OS print feature? And without a RC to test, how do we know
what other problems the GA will have?

I will personally probably upgrade, but I cringe about the numerous problems
we'll have with the ~1,000 users in the firm I work at if Office 2007
doesn't improve in terms of user customization.

Mike

> Although I pretty much never print email, my mother does and Outlook 2007
> does not appear to have any method for defining a specific page range when
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> Mike

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Brian Tillman - 15 Oct 2006 19:49 GMT

> Although I pretty much never print email, my mother does and Outlook
> 2007 does not appear to have any method for defining a specific page
> range when printing (it's all or nothing). This is rather a huge
> oversight and I'm hoping there's a work around. Thanks in advance
> for any help.

Unless the mail is in HTML format, you sdo not use a print widget that
allows ranges. If you open the message and click Edit>Edit Message, then
Format>HTML, you should be able to print a page range. This is true in
earlier versions of Outlook as well. It's not new in OL 2007.

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Mike - 15 Oct 2006 20:11 GMT

I tried this - it doesn't work. I tried this with existing emails that were
already HTML and with text messages, neither work. This also fails to
provide an explanation as to why such a simple feature - printing - remains
so broken in Outlook.

Mike

>> Although I pretty much never print email, my mother does and Outlook
>> 2007 does not appear to have any method for defining a specific page
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> Format>HTML, you should be able to print a page range. This is true in
> earlier versions of Outlook as well. It's not new in OL 2007.

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Brian Tillman - 16 Oct 2006 15:34 GMT

> I tried this - it doesn't work. I tried this with existing emails
> that were already HTML and with text messages, neither work. This
> also fails to provide an explanation as to why such a simple feature
> - printing - remains so broken in Outlook.

I don't have Outlook 2007, but it certainly works in Outlook 2003 and
earlier.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP] - 30 Oct 2006 13:32 GMT

Outlook 2007 prints all messages using it's own print handler.

The easiest way to print part of a message is to hit reply or forward and
delete what you don't want to include in the print out. You can also buy a
3rd party utility that handles it better.

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>> I tried this - it doesn't work. I tried this with existing emails
>> that were already HTML and with text messages, neither work. This
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> I don't have Outlook 2007, but it certainly works in Outlook 2003 and
> earlier.

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