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.

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.

"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.

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.

"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.

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.