How to fix printing massage problem in Outlook

 

 

 

       When printing a message, the right hand side of the message is being cut off. This usually only happen to the first page of the message and all other pages print out just fine.
How can you get the first page to print correctly ?
 

This usually only happens when you are using Outlook 2003 or previous on a system that is running Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 and the message is in HTML format.

 

Outlook uses Internet Explorer to print.Outlook 2003 and previous use Internet Explorer to print HTML formatted messages. Therefore, you should first check your printing margin settings in Internet Explorer and verify that the option “Shrink-to-Fit” is enabled.
 

You can do this in Internet Explorer

•   Click on File in Menu bar
•   Then you need to click on Page Setup      
•   Check your paper size and margins accordingly
•   Then check the box for "enable Shrink-to-Fit."

Note: If the File menu is not visible, press the ALT button on your keyboard to make it  visible.

 

 

These steps can be followed on Windows XP and Windows 7.