Stop Printing Auto Headers and Footers in Email

[lattelassy-scribe]

I'm using Outlook 2003. Created doc in Word 2003 & sent test email to
myself. Looked fine onscreen, but when I printed it, Outlook (or Word)
inserted HEADER & FOOTER which messed up my pages (this is sample chapter of
a novel going to literary agents.)

The HEADER: first part of the document's name as saved in Word 2003
The FOOTER: the date I printed it.
NEITHER OF THESE print when I print from Word.

Any wise ones out there who know how to stop Outlook from printing these
things?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

why are you sending a novel in the body of an email? send it as an
attachment - a PDF will give you perfect control over the layout.

The reason for the footer is its HTML formatted message and uses IE to
handle the printing. IE adds a footer by default. You can't remove it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[lattelassy-scribe]

Thanks for replying, Diane, but this doesn't help me. I'm not sending an
entire novel -- but I have good reasons for not making my submissions as
attachments-- that is not an option in this case. I also am using Firefox,
not IE, as default browser on my computer.
- lattelassy-scribe

why are you sending a novel in the body of an email? send it as an
attachment - a PDF will give you perfect control over the layout.

The reason for the footer is its HTML formatted message and uses IE to
handle the printing. IE adds a footer by default. You can't remove it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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I'm using Outlook 2003. Created doc in Word 2003 & sent test email to
myself. Looked fine onscreen, but when I printed it, Outlook (or Word)
inserted HEADER & FOOTER which messed up my pages (this is sample chapter
of
a novel going to literary agents.)

The HEADER: first part of the document's name as saved in Word 2003
The FOOTER: the date I printed it.
NEITHER OF THESE print when I print from Word.

Any wise ones out there who know how to stop Outlook from printing these
things?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Doesn't matter what your default browser is - outlook uses IE's printer
engine.

What email system do the agents use? Just because it prints one way for you
doesn't mean it prints the same way for the recipient. (They may get it as
plain text because that's all their mail system uses.)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Thanks for replying, Diane, but this doesn't help me. I'm not sending an
entire novel -- but I have good reasons for not making my submissions as
attachments-- that is not an option in this case. I also am using
Firefox,
not IE, as default browser on my computer.
- lattelassy-scribe

why are you sending a novel in the body of an email? send it as an
attachment - a PDF will give you perfect control over the layout.

The reason for the footer is its HTML formatted message and uses IE to
handle the printing. IE adds a footer by default. You can't remove it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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I'm using Outlook 2003. Created doc in Word 2003 & sent test email to
myself. Looked fine onscreen, but when I printed it, Outlook (or Word)
inserted HEADER & FOOTER which messed up my pages (this is sample
chapter
of
a novel going to literary agents.)

The HEADER: first part of the document's name as saved in Word 2003
The FOOTER: the date I printed it.
NEITHER OF THESE print when I print from Word.

Any wise ones out there who know how to stop Outlook from printing
these
things?

 

[lattelassy-scribe]

There's no way for me to find out what email software the agents are using --
I'm hoping they use Outlook (as its the main business email s/w), or
something that's compatible--BUT since the Header/Footer issue is only adding
4 lines of text to each email page (HDR text + blank line, FTR text + blank
line), & I was on a deadline, I simply repaged my orig doc in Word to allow
for these xtra lines. Also, in my cover letter & Email "Subject" line, I
explicitly said that this email's contents were "in HTML".

After following Microsoft's own online tutorial guidelines -- see Help
articles for MS Office online-- on how to format "professional emails" in
Word for Outlook, (putting the text inside a single table for ea. page so it
wraps text at 88 charac/line, etc.), it came out looking pretty darn good.
Then another novelist friend of mine who's published (see her book "Lottery")
told me not to sweat it too much -- that her agent is used to dealing with
emails that print an extra page or two, or not formatted "perfectly".

Until some clever programmer comes up with user friendly software to make
the Outlook email 's composer have TOTAL control over how emails appear to
ANY receiver, regardless of which software the receiver uses, this is best
one can do, I guess. Thanks for your comments. Hope this info helps you.

Doesn't matter what your default browser is - outlook uses IE's printer
engine.

What email system do the agents use? Just because it prints one way for you
doesn't mean it prints the same way for the recipient. (They may get it as
plain text because that's all their mail system uses.)

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
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EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

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Thanks for replying, Diane, but this doesn't help me. I'm not sending an
entire novel -- but I have good reasons for not making my submissions as
attachments-- that is not an option in this case. I also am using
Firefox,
not IE, as default browser on my computer.
- lattelassy-scribe

why are you sending a novel in the body of an email? send it as an
attachment - a PDF will give you perfect control over the layout.

The reason for the footer is its HTML formatted message and uses IE to
handle the printing. IE adds a footer by default. You can't remove it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
(e-mail address removed)

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point
your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


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message I'm using Outlook 2003. Created doc in Word 2003 & sent test email to
myself. Looked fine onscreen, but when I printed it, Outlook (or Word)
inserted HEADER & FOOTER which messed up my pages (this is sample
chapter
of
a novel going to literary agents.)

The HEADER: first part of the document's name as saved in Word 2003
The FOOTER: the date I printed it.
NEITHER OF THESE print when I print from Word.

Any wise ones out there who know how to stop Outlook from printing
these
things?