Select pages to print

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

> ARB <ARB DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
> > This is a work around to a certain extent, although it seems to loose
> > the header info which often times I want for the time/date stamp.
> > And it is a work around to be sure. I sure hope there is a way for
> > Microsoft to create a patch to fix this soon.
>
> It's working as they intend. I can't imagine they'll "fix" something they
> don't consider broken.

Not being able to choose what pages to print if desired is bad (dumb)
software design. I admit that is just my opinion however. If myself and the
OP are the only two people thinking it should work differently I understand
it won't be fixed.

I honestly do not remember how Outlook 2003 handled this issue. I would be
interested to see if I could choose what pages to print with the prior
version or if this was changed with 2007. It's not such a big deal I'd
switch to a different program or go through the additional steps of a
workaround, but it is a pet peeve whenever I want to just print page 1 of a
multiple page email.

I'll have to find out how I can drop this one into the Microsoft Suggestion
Box.

ARB <ARB.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Not being able to choose what pages to print if desired is bad (dumb)
> software design. I admit that is just my opinion however. If myself
> and the OP are the only two people thinking it should work
> differently I understand it won't be fixed.

Oh, I agree that one should be able to print a portion of a message. I
don't think it will happen, however.

> I honestly do not remember how Outlook 2003 handled this issue.

Actually, it is similar. IE can print portions of an HTML message. In OL
2003, IE was the HTML rendering engine instead of Word, so all you had to do
was change the format of the message to HTML and then it would render with
IE and IE allows printing portions. WIth OL 2007, you first have to send it
to IE before IE can print a portion.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

> > Not being able to choose what pages to print if desired is bad (dumb)
> > software design.  I admit that is just my opinion however.  If myself
> > and the OP are the only two people thinking it should work
> > differently I understand it won't be fixed.

You're not the only two. This is a really bad ommission by Microsoft.

> Oh, I agree that one should be able to print a portion of a message.  I
> don't think it will happen, however.

Yup, charge more for less. That's the direction these days. I'm
certain Microsoft could enable this feature, as it existed fully in
Outlook Express (the lighter version of Outlook - Go Figure!) and it
at least partially existed in Outlook 2002 (and maybe 2003). The
difference in 2002 was you could only print by page if the format was
HTML or Rich Text, which was easily changed by a simple pull down from
the default menus. Now you have to open the email (not just in
preview) and fish down a couple menu levels to open in browser (and
wait.........) for IE6 or God forbid IE7 to open, then print 1 page of
your lengthy email.

Thanks for making my life simple Microsoft! Where can I go today? Not
far as I'm tied to my email all day to print a page or two, while
trying not to waste paper, in my "paper-less" office!!!

If a poll was taken, I'll guess most people spend more time in Outlook
than in most office applications. And yet Oulook is the least
expensive of all the Office Applications (hmmm, might be a marketing
angle here). The marketing behind MS Office has always been to
integrate, simplify, and make the menus and actions as similar as
possible. So why stop with the application that I believe most people
spend the bulk of their day with???

> > I honestly do not remember how Outlook 2003 handled this issue.
>
> Actually, it is similar.  IE can print portions of an HTML message.  In OL
> 2003, IE was the HTML rendering engine instead of Word, so all you had to do
> was change the format of the message to HTML and then it would render with
> IE and IE allows printing portions.  WIth OL 2007, you first have to send it
> to IE before IE can print a portion.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

poidogent RemoveThis @comcast.net <poidogent RemoveThis @comcast.net> wrote:

> Yup, charge more for less. That's the direction these days. I'm
> certain Microsoft could enable this feature, as it existed fully in
> Outlook Express (the lighter version of Outlook - Go Figure!)

This is untrue. Outlook Express has never been a "lighter version" of
Outlook.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

It’s troublesome to say the lease when a functionality of an application
regresses in a new version. Microsoft needs to fix this lose of functionality
that existed in the prier version of the application. Thought: If Outlook
2007 can parse the email into even and odd pages, one would think it could
print selected pages.