Outlook is driving me crazy!!! 2

[deevaetodin]

I have received an email using Outlook 2000. My print style is "memo style". Attached to the email are 15 files.

When I print a copy of the email I would like a visual represenation of the files attached in the print out.

This is not happening, why?

Could it be the way the files are attached. I have checked my settings and have been able to do this in the past. Nothing has changed since then.

Any help would be great.

D.

 

[Dreamboat]

Printing attachments along with a message? It's a known issue that its behavior is erratic. Microsoft's workaround is to detach the files first and print them separately.....doh!

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[deevaetodin]

Tell me about it.

However, what's preventing me from just printing a copy of the email and within that copy a listing of the attachments.

I do not want to open and print every attachment, I just want a list of the names and their icons to print along with the content of the email.

The workaround is to save all attachments to a folder, resend a new email and re-attach the files. This leads me to believe that perhaps it was the application used to compose the original email that is preventing me from doing this, or due to the fact that the email was forwarded to me with attachments.

None the less very frustrating.

Any info on this???

 

[Dreamboat]

Hmmm. Curious. If you DON'T open the message, but just have it selected (highlighted) from your inbox and hit File-Print preview, you do not see the attachment icons? I do.

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[deevaetodin]

In the print preview it is fine.

For some reason I am not getting the icons to the printer. I do not believe it is the printer. I have tried on several and ruled out any possible postscript/HPL problems.

Funny thing is, I am fine when within the email the attachments are actually part of the content of the email. However these attachments are in a separate frame of the email, below the content.

The print preview, not printing this is weird. I have tried evertyhing switching so areas are defaulted to print at the same time (some setting of HTML setup I belive).

I do not understand what the problem is, I have tried to reproduce file attachments as such and cannot. When I attach they are part of the body of the email and not in a separate frame below.

D.

 

[Dreamboat]

A line in an MS Technet article describing EXACT same problem for Outlook 98 reads:

>This printing behavior is changed in Outlook 2000, the attachment icon never prints in an HTML-formatted e-mail message.

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[deevaetodin]

Hmmm.....

Thanks.

 

[Dreamboat]

So much for html code...

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[cdogg]

Yes, in "plain-text" or "HTML" formatted emails, the attachments will be listed at the bottom of the email below the separator. These icons will not print with the rest of the email. It has to be in "Outlook Rich Text" format.