Microsoft KB Archive/195418

= OL2000: How to Print a Selection of a Message =

Article ID: 195418

Article Last Modified on 11/6/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q195418





SUMMARY
This document describes how to print a selection of an item using Microsoft Word 2000 as your e-mail editor.



MORE INFORMATION
There may be times when you want to print a section of an e-mail message. Outlook does not provide the facility to do this directly. You can, however, set Microsoft Word as your default e-mail editor.

Set Word as Your Default E-mail Editor

 * 1) On the Tools menu, click Options.
 * 2) Under Message format on the Mail Format tab, click to select "Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages."

Note: If the "Send in this message format:" is set to plain text with Word is set as the e-mail editor, you will not see the Word Print dialog box and you will not have the option to print the Selection. The "Send in this message format:" must be set to Microsoft Outlook Rich Text for these steps to work.
 * 1) Click OK.

NOTE: This only applies to Microsoft Word 2000.

Print a Selection

 * 1) Open an e-mail message and click to select the section of text. NOTE: The first time you open an e-mail message, a prompt will appear stating "Starting Word as your e-mail editor.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Print.
 * 3) In the Page Range box, click Selection.
 * 4) Click OK to print.

Additional query words: 2000

Keywords: kbinfo kbprint KB195418

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