Microsoft Outlook 2003 printing issue "Fix" after IE7 upgrade

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Look Out – Outlook!
IE7’s on the war path

Monday, May 07, 2007

Having the opportunity to work with two, more than great tech guys “Corey & Cory”; I have the advantage of consuming a wealth of knowledge in a short period of time. Life has become a “Living” stereo podcast, and that’s so cool! Unfortunately; with such a grand ingesting of all things tech, I have found myself void() of the ability to share these treasureous wonders. Moreover, I can hardly contain myself having to incase all my learning in such a tiny space (my brain); therefore, leakage is inevitable. So, before I lose track of what I wanted to say…

A few weeks ago our company rolled out the latest version of Internet Explorer (IE) v.7. Since then we have noticed complaints as to HTML features within Office 2003’s Outlook; particularly with printing. This set the team on a headhunt for the reason, or at least a fix. You see; many of our users need to print vital e-mail for hard copy record keeping. After upgrading to the newest version of IE, it seems either the Headers are gone or Font type is illegible on some of the documents. So much for the ability of keeping track of messages. Ah… before we lose hope.

Cory; while troubleshooting the Font issue found a solution to both problems all with only one checkbox. This is from an e-mail he sent:

This is specifically what "John Doe" was experiencing-when printing, the font prints out microscopic, like font size 2 or 4 or something. There is a “fix” as described below. Go to tools, options. On the preferences tab, click email options, and then check the box that reads “read all standard mail in plain text”:



I found this to also fix the “Memo Style” Header printing issue.