How to print outgoing email before sending?

External Since: May 25, 2009 Posts: 9

What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for review
before sending?

Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate
person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to
dumb it down.

The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I
purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her skills.

1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit > Select
All, then click Edit > Copy.

(Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into
the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might
be too confusing Sad

.)

2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window,
click Edit > Paste.

3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in
the Subject field, and send this message.

4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the Inbox.
Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it.

External Since: Apr 17, 2004 Posts: 15176

Dumb it down as you see fit.

After composing the message, either Ctrl + S or X-ing out will save it to
Drafts. The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview
Pane, (not open in its own window). The message can then be double clicked
on to open it and can be sent from there.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

"WhatsUp31415" <whatsup31415.RemoveThis@live.com> wrote in message
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> What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for
> review before sending?
>
> Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate
> person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to
> dumb it down.
>
> The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I
> purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her
> skills.
>
> 1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit > Select
> All, then click Edit > Copy.
>
> (Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into
> the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might
> be too confusing Sad

.)
>
> 2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window,
> click Edit > Paste.
>
> 3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in
> the Subject field, and send this message.
>
> 4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the
> Inbox. Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it.