How do I print only the first page of multipage email?

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N. Miller

My coworkers and I can't answer this question in Outlook.

I don't know the controls in Outlook, but in Outlook Express, the printer
icon pulls up a print configuration menu, from which I can select the number
of pages I want to print. Also from the "File|Print" menu. The print menu
has a "Page Range" section in the lower left corner, and a radio button
labeled, "Pages:". Changing from the "All" setting to the "Pages:" setting,
and entering a numeral, '1', should work.

Also, you really didn't ask a proper question. The "Subject:" line should
only be used as a "teaser", to get people's attention. A more detailed
description of the problem should go in the body of the article. Often I
just skip over problems where the author is too lazy to ask the proper
question in the body of the article.
 
V

VanguardLH

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My coworkers and I can't answer this question in Outlook.

Depends on what type of document you want to print which you never
mentioned, nor did you bother to mention WHICH version of Outlook that
you and your coworkers are using.

Text and HTML documents don't have pages. They are just one document.
Page size is defined either in the application or by your printer
software. When printing text documents, Outlook doesn't know about page
size (in memo mode since table mode won't print out the message but
instead a list of mails). When printing HTML mails, Outlook uses the
print dialog from Internet Explorer.

Printing (in memo mode to print the content of a mail) uses whatever is
the default printer. If you set the default printer to a file printer
(one that sends the print output to a file) then you could use a
different application to open that file that has its own page size or
printer config setup. For example, if you install and set PDFCreator
(sends print output to a .pdf file), you could print from Outlook into a
..pdf file and open Adobe Reader to see the contents to then use its
Print function to print whatever page(s) you want. Basically you use
the limited printing in Outlook to a file printer and then open that
file in a different app to do the actual printing.

Another trick is to NOT use the File -> Print menu in Outlook's main
screen. Instead open the e-mail (double-click on it) in its own window.
If it is a text file, use the Edit -> Edit Message menu and then the
Format menu to convert the document from text to HTML format, then .
You don't need to bother with that step if it is already an HTML
document. When you use the File -> Print menu on an HTML document (in
this separately opened window), the print dialog from Internet Explorer
gets used. That dialog lets you pick which page(s) to print. This 2nd
method requires no other software be installed but requires you to
remember to convert text messages into HTML format (because you want to
get at IE's print dialog for HTML printing).
 
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