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How to print outgoing email before sending?
What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for review
before sending? Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to dumb it down. The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her skills. 1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit Select All, then click Edit Copy. (Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might be too confusing .) 2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window, click Edit Paste. 3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in the Subject field, and send this message. 4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the Inbox. Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it. |
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How to print outgoing email before sending?
Dumb it down as you see fit.
After composing the message, either Ctrl + S or X-ing out will save it to Drafts. The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). The message can then be double clicked on to open it and can be sent from there. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for review before sending? Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to dumb it down. The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her skills. 1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit Select All, then click Edit Copy. (Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might be too confusing .) 2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window, click Edit Paste. 3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in the Subject field, and send this message. 4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the Inbox. Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it. |
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How to print outgoing email before sending?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote:
The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). Thanks. Well, perhaps we created our own hell. I neglected to mention that the Preview Pane is deselected normally for security reasons. (Avoiding opening suspicious incoming email automatically.) Is there an easy way to toggle the Preview Pane on and off? The only way I know is: click View Layout and select or deselect Show Preview Pane. But there seems to be a problem.... The procedure I want to follow is: save the message (click Edit Save), click on the Draft folder (newly saved message is highlighted in gray), toggle the Preview Pane on, click the Print button, toggle the Preview Pane off, and return to the "create message" window. But when I am in the Draft folder with Preview Pane deselected and I select Show Preview Pane, no message is shown. It seems that I must first enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. Hmm.... The behavior seems inconsistent. At least one time, I did see the draft message in the preview pane immediately. A few times, that happened a few seconds later. Most of the time, it never seems to happen until I enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. What do I need to do to make the behavior consistent? I have tried both overtly and not overtly selecting the interesting message in the Draft folder, both before and after selecting Show Preview Pane. By "overtly", I mean clicking the message title once (avoid opening the draft message), which highlights it in blue. By "not overtly", I mean not clicking on the message; it is highlighted in gray. (Aside: What is the terminology to described those two states: blue v. gray highlighted?) ----- original message ----- "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Dumb it down as you see fit. After composing the message, either Ctrl + S or X-ing out will save it to Drafts. The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). The message can then be double clicked on to open it and can be sent from there. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for review before sending? Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to dumb it down. The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her skills. 1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit Select All, then click Edit Copy. (Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might be too confusing .) 2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window, click Edit Paste. 3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in the Subject field, and send this message. 4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the Inbox. Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it. |
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How to print outgoing email before sending?
That would be File | Save, not Edit | Save, and it is the same as Ctrl + S.
(It even shows that when you go to File | Save). While in Drafts: View | Layout | Customize Toolbar and Add the Preview button to toggle the Preview Pane on and off. After you save the message to Drafts, left click on it once and it will be highlighted in blue and the message visible in the Preview Pane. If you double-click the message header, that will open it in its own window which you don't want to do until you are ready to send it. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote: The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). Thanks. Well, perhaps we created our own hell. I neglected to mention that the Preview Pane is deselected normally for security reasons. (Avoiding opening suspicious incoming email automatically.) Is there an easy way to toggle the Preview Pane on and off? The only way I know is: click View Layout and select or deselect Show Preview Pane. But there seems to be a problem.... The procedure I want to follow is: save the message (click Edit Save), click on the Draft folder (newly saved message is highlighted in gray), toggle the Preview Pane on, click the Print button, toggle the Preview Pane off, and return to the "create message" window. But when I am in the Draft folder with Preview Pane deselected and I select Show Preview Pane, no message is shown. It seems that I must first enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. Hmm.... The behavior seems inconsistent. At least one time, I did see the draft message in the preview pane immediately. A few times, that happened a few seconds later. Most of the time, it never seems to happen until I enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. What do I need to do to make the behavior consistent? I have tried both overtly and not overtly selecting the interesting message in the Draft folder, both before and after selecting Show Preview Pane. By "overtly", I mean clicking the message title once (avoid opening the draft message), which highlights it in blue. By "not overtly", I mean not clicking on the message; it is highlighted in gray. (Aside: What is the terminology to described those two states: blue v. gray highlighted?) ----- original message ----- "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Dumb it down as you see fit. After composing the message, either Ctrl + S or X-ing out will save it to Drafts. The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). The message can then be double clicked on to open it and can be sent from there. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for review before sending? Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to dumb it down. The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her skills. 1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit Select All, then click Edit Copy. (Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might be too confusing .) 2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window, click Edit Paste. 3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in the Subject field, and send this message. 4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the Inbox. Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it. |
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How to print outgoing email before sending?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote:
While in Drafts: View | Layout | Customize Toolbar and Add the Preview button to toggle the Preview Pane on and off. Great! Thanks. It will be a "pane" to walk my mother through the set-up. (I am 400 miles away.) But once set up, this will be so-o much easier to use. After you save the message to Drafts, left click on it once and it will be highlighted in blue and the message visible in the Preview Pane. Yes, the toggling the Preview button seems to work consistently (so far). Don't know why the View Layout Show Preview Pane did not work consistently. But it's a dont-care now. Thanks again. ----- original message ----- "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... That would be File | Save, not Edit | Save, and it is the same as Ctrl + S. (It even shows that when you go to File | Save). While in Drafts: View | Layout | Customize Toolbar and Add the Preview button to toggle the Preview Pane on and off. After you save the message to Drafts, left click on it once and it will be highlighted in blue and the message visible in the Preview Pane. If you double-click the message header, that will open it in its own window which you don't want to do until you are ready to send it. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote: The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). Thanks. Well, perhaps we created our own hell. I neglected to mention that the Preview Pane is deselected normally for security reasons. (Avoiding opening suspicious incoming email automatically.) Is there an easy way to toggle the Preview Pane on and off? The only way I know is: click View Layout and select or deselect Show Preview Pane. But there seems to be a problem.... The procedure I want to follow is: save the message (click Edit Save), click on the Draft folder (newly saved message is highlighted in gray), toggle the Preview Pane on, click the Print button, toggle the Preview Pane off, and return to the "create message" window. But when I am in the Draft folder with Preview Pane deselected and I select Show Preview Pane, no message is shown. It seems that I must first enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. Hmm.... The behavior seems inconsistent. At least one time, I did see the draft message in the preview pane immediately. A few times, that happened a few seconds later. Most of the time, it never seems to happen until I enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. What do I need to do to make the behavior consistent? I have tried both overtly and not overtly selecting the interesting message in the Draft folder, both before and after selecting Show Preview Pane. By "overtly", I mean clicking the message title once (avoid opening the draft message), which highlights it in blue. By "not overtly", I mean not clicking on the message; it is highlighted in gray. (Aside: What is the terminology to described those two states: blue v. gray highlighted?) ----- original message ----- "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Dumb it down as you see fit. After composing the message, either Ctrl + S or X-ing out will save it to Drafts. The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). The message can then be double clicked on to open it and can be sent from there. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for review before sending? Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to dumb it down. The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her skills. 1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit Select All, then click Edit Copy. (Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might be too confusing .) 2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window, click Edit Paste. 3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in the Subject field, and send this message. 4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the Inbox. Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it. |
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How to print outgoing email before sending?
You're welcome. Good luck with the "relay".
-- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote: While in Drafts: View | Layout | Customize Toolbar and Add the Preview button to toggle the Preview Pane on and off. Great! Thanks. It will be a "pane" to walk my mother through the set-up. (I am 400 miles away.) But once set up, this will be so-o much easier to use. After you save the message to Drafts, left click on it once and it will be highlighted in blue and the message visible in the Preview Pane. Yes, the toggling the Preview button seems to work consistently (so far). Don't know why the View Layout Show Preview Pane did not work consistently. But it's a dont-care now. Thanks again. ----- original message ----- "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... That would be File | Save, not Edit | Save, and it is the same as Ctrl + S. (It even shows that when you go to File | Save). While in Drafts: View | Layout | Customize Toolbar and Add the Preview button to toggle the Preview Pane on and off. After you save the message to Drafts, left click on it once and it will be highlighted in blue and the message visible in the Preview Pane. If you double-click the message header, that will open it in its own window which you don't want to do until you are ready to send it. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... "Bruce Hagen" wrote: The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). Thanks. Well, perhaps we created our own hell. I neglected to mention that the Preview Pane is deselected normally for security reasons. (Avoiding opening suspicious incoming email automatically.) Is there an easy way to toggle the Preview Pane on and off? The only way I know is: click View Layout and select or deselect Show Preview Pane. But there seems to be a problem.... The procedure I want to follow is: save the message (click Edit Save), click on the Draft folder (newly saved message is highlighted in gray), toggle the Preview Pane on, click the Print button, toggle the Preview Pane off, and return to the "create message" window. But when I am in the Draft folder with Preview Pane deselected and I select Show Preview Pane, no message is shown. It seems that I must first enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. Hmm.... The behavior seems inconsistent. At least one time, I did see the draft message in the preview pane immediately. A few times, that happened a few seconds later. Most of the time, it never seems to happen until I enter another folder, then return to the Draft folder. What do I need to do to make the behavior consistent? I have tried both overtly and not overtly selecting the interesting message in the Draft folder, both before and after selecting Show Preview Pane. By "overtly", I mean clicking the message title once (avoid opening the draft message), which highlights it in blue. By "not overtly", I mean not clicking on the message; it is highlighted in gray. (Aside: What is the terminology to described those two states: blue v. gray highlighted?) ----- original message ----- "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message ... Dumb it down as you see fit. After composing the message, either Ctrl + S or X-ing out will save it to Drafts. The Print button is active when viewing a message in the Preview Pane, (not open in its own window). The message can then be double clicked on to open it and can be sent from there. -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP [Mail] Imperial Beach, CA "WhatsUp31415" wrote in message ... What's the best way to print outgoing email (i.e. "create mail") for review before sending? Ideally, I need a procedure that an 84-year-old mostly computer-illiterate person can follow. But if you give me a difficult procedure, I can try to dumb it down. The best I've come up with so far might be too complicated. Note: I purposely avoid keyboard shortcuts like right-click; it's beyond her skills. 1. With the cursor in the text of the outgoing email, click Edit Select All, then click Edit Copy. (Note: I might add some steps to minimize this window or to put it into the Draft folder to avoid confusion. But the added steps themselves might be too confusing .) 2. Click Create Mail. With the cursor in the text part of the new window, click Edit Paste. 3. Put your own address in the To field, put something like "print it" in the Subject field, and send this message. 4. After a minute or so, the "print it" message should appear in the Inbox. Open and print it like any new incoming message. Then delete it. |
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