Print an email message from Windows Mail

Any email message you receive inside Windows Mail can be saved simply by printing it, a nice to alternative to ever-growing storage needs, or simply because you need a printed copy of it. In this tutorial, we will show you how to print an email from Windows Mail. Since there are no less than five different ways in which you can print the email from Windows Mail, we will show you all of them, and let you pick which your favorite: they all perform the same task, and provide the same end result of an email message printed on a sheet of paper.

Printing emails from Windows Mail

Follow these steps to print an email message from Windows Mail:

• If needed, start by opening Windows Mail
• The once inside Windows Mail, go to the folder where the email is, and select the message in question. There are now several ways you can use to print the email - all of them are equivalent, and just a matter of preference.
• The first possibility is to right-click on the chosen email and choose "Print" from the context menu that appears.
• Windows Mail will open the Windows Print dialog, from where you can select the printer you want to use, customize page setup and other printing options.
• The second way you can print a selected email in Windows Mail is to click on the print button in the toolbar — this will also bring up the print dialog seen above.
• The third way to print the selected email message is to go to File menu > Print; you can alternatively use the universal keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+P.
• Finally, if you have opened an email message in a new window (by double clicking on it), you can click on the print icon in the email window's toolbar (or hit Ctrl+P).

This is all it takes to print email messages in Windows Mail: unlike more sophisticated email programs like Microsoft Outlook (which, unlike Windows Mail, is not free), there are no "memo layouts" to customize and save, or advanced printing options. All you do is pick your favorite printing command, and call it on the selected email!

Tip: unfortunately, unlike other email clients, Windows Mail does not let you print multiple email messages at the same time (e.g., by selecting several at once and using a print command).