[Gretsch6120]

Hi,

I often print emails from Outlook Express. If the email I print just contains text its OK but if it has pictures attached it prints them as well regardless to if you want it to or not. Sometimes if an email has been forwarded lots of times there are lots of addresses and other unwanted information on it which gets printed out so an email which should only be half a page long can sometimes work out to be about 5 pages long.

Is there any little program about which allows you to preview and edit your email before printing them?

Thanks for viewing!

Regards,
David

[RickJ]

I hunted Google for "print preview in outlook express" and found hundreds of people wishing for the same thing.

I couldn't find anything that achieves it directly.

The most reasonable workarounds, I think, would be

1. forward and edit out the parts you don't want to print. Save it as a draft or send it to yourself then print it, or
2. Copy and paste to Word, Notepad, etc...

[ScottGem]

Hi,

I often print emails from Outlook Express. If the email I print just contains text its ok but if it has pictures attached it prints them aswell regardless to if you want it to or not. Somtimes if an email has been forwarded lots of times there are lots of addresses and other unwanted information on it which gets printed out so an email which should only be half a page long can sometimes work out to be about 5 pages long.

Is there any little program about which allows you to preview and edit your email before printing them??

Thanks for viewing!!

Regards,
David

Try the following:
A) highlight the text you want to print. Then Select File>Print from the menu. On the Print dialog, check off the Print Selection box. This should only print what you have selected.

B) again, highlight just what you want to print. Then copy and paste the selected text into Notepad or your word processor and print from there.

[fredg]

Hi,
Since ScottGem has already given you the answers I would have given, I will "second" his answers!
Both my wife and I have used Outlook Express for years, and believe me, the best way to print from it is using one of the two methods given by ScottGem.
Clicking on the Print icon within OE is for the birds! It doesn't do what you want it to, over half the time.
I do wish you the best of luck.

[Gretsch6120]

Thanks for your help guys! I've taken both idea's on board. I never thought about the forwarding method and then editing it.

I have an email with 12 images on. I tried the method of copying and pasting the whole email but it would not copy the pictures into Microsoft Word. I basically wanted to print out the email with a few selected pictures on. The text copied across no problem but it just put a load of frames and lines on the page where the pictures should be.

I guess I could save all the images to a folder first and then insert them manually into Word but this would be very time consuming for a process that could be made so simple if Microsoft had just incorporated the Print Preview command in Outlook Express.

Does anyone know if any other email software supports what I am trying to achieve? Does anyone use Incredimail? Does that have a Print Preview command?

Thanks again for the tips.

Regards,
David

[ScottGem]

Try saving the E-mail as an HTML file, then opening that in Word.