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by qballrail 1 view

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When a user of mine prints out email, the document is printed outside the margins unless the message is in plain text.

Stationary has been disabled, margins adjusted in print setup but it still spreads off either side. Short of removing and reinstalling Outlook, what other options do I have?

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by roger

I had the same problem with a few users awhile back.
try:
Open Internet explorer
File
Page Setup
and set the left and right margins to at least .5 they will probably be at .256 or some similar number. For some reason Outlook has IE handle printing for Outlook (yes outlook)If you using IE 7 then Page Setup is under the printer icon on the upper right hand side of IE.

by p_piluk

This works. It fixed this issue I had with a user...its bugs like this that make my job so fun!!! I love computers!

by chris.reynolds.336

My user was always losing the left-hand side of printed from Outlook. I altered Page Setup in IE, gave it a tad more margin, and her printouts are spot on. A really helpful answer thanks.

by thefoneman33

My boss just came out of her office ready to kill someone. Her emails are spread all over the page. Sure enough her margins were .25 in IE. set them to .50 and that was that. I am the hero for a day!!

thanks
Bags,

by qballrail

Well, maybe a little.

Removed the old printer drivers and reinstalled with same results, but perhaps a little bit of a shift to the right. Tried printing to another printer and had the same results.

Remove and reinstall or can someone provide some insight not so drastic?

Thanks for the suggestions so far, by the way!

by w2ktechman

in Word, and if you can, do a Print Preview to see what it should look like according o your system
If it looks fine, but still does not print properly, it may be in the settings. Turn off Word as the email editor? did this help?

by qballrail

I've done all those steps. In fact, even in my original posting, I stated that I've checked the margins, even adjusted them. Turning off Word only exacerbated the issue, so I turned it back on.

Settings checked, printer driver removed and reinstalled and even printed to a different writer with same results. Am I down to removing Outlook all together and reinstalling?

by relay12

qballrail - did you ever solve this issue like you I have been searching for a long time to find why IE page setup option refuses to save the margin changes you enter. I think people dismiss this but I have a lot of frustrated users. Did you ever investigate permissions on the registry key ?

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