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Print emails from Hotmail

Print from Hotmail Whenever you are checking your Hotmail emails, you can use your browser's Print command to print the current page: there is a better way to print your Hotmail emails, however: this tutorial will show you Windows Live Hotmail's built-in command to print your emails in a printer-friendly format. Printing an email using the web browser's Print command will print the entire page, not just the selected email; on the other hand, Hotmail's print command will only print the current email, and reformat it as needed for a better print output (or PDF, if you are printing the email to Acrobat's PDF print driver).

This tutorial explains how to print Hotmail emails while you are logged into Hotmail, inside a web browser like Internet Explorer - to print emails from your Hotmail account from an email program, like Windows Live Mail, you can simply use the application's built-in Print command (usually located under File > Print).

Print the selected email from the Hotmail toolbar

The easiest way to print the currently selected email in Hotmail is to use the toolbar displayed at the top of the page: this is the same toolbar we discussed in previous tutorials, which contains the most common commands like Reply, Forward, etc. Notice the printer icon at the end of the toolbar: unlike the other commands, fully spelled-out in text, Hotmail only displays a print icon for this command, making it easy to overlook:

Email printing command in the Hotmail toolbar
As shown in the screenshot above, moving your mouse over the Print button displays a tooltip that reads "Print (Ctrl+Shift+P)" - the keystroke is the keys you need to hold simultaneously to print a Hotmail email without using the mouse (learn more about Hotmail keyboard shortcuts).

Printer-friendly emails (the "Windows Live Hotmail Print Message" window)

Once you click on the Print button, Hotmail will open a new window to display the printer-friendly version of the selected email: it will also automatically show Windows' Print dialog (the window that opens whenever you are trying to print an email or document in any version of Windows - on a Mac, printing an email from Hotmail will show the OS X print dialog). If the Print dialog does not automatically open, you can click on the Print link displayed in the top left corner of the printer-friendly email window:

Printer-friendly Hotmail email

If you plan on printing this Hotmail email with the default printer on your computer, you can just hit Enter when the print dialog pops up: this has the same effect as clicking the Print button. (You can only use this shortcut if you want to print to the default printer, because hitting Enter will use the printer currently selected - which, by default, is the default printer!)

If the "Windows Live Hotmail Print Message" window that opened does not automatically close after you have printed your email, simply click the Close link displayed in the top right corner to return to Hotmail's main window and emails.

How to print an email from Hotmail without opening it first

Another way to print emails in Hotmail To print one of your Hotmail emails while another email is currently opened, simply right-click on the email you want to print: this will open the email's "context menu", which contains common commands.

Locate and click on the Print menu item near the bottom to launch the Hotmail printer-friendly email window we just covered.

In the next section of this tutorial, we will now cover the absent multiple-email-printing feature in Hotmail, and explain how to work around it to quickly print multiple emails.

Printing multiple emails at once in Hotmail

It is very natural to expect the ability to print several emails at the same time in Hotmail: unfortunately, that particular feature has not yet been implemented by the Windows Live team (the group at Microsoft that maintains and updates the Hotmail webmail service).

Notice that if you select multiple emails using their respective checkbox, and then right-click on the selected emails, the Print command is no longer showing in the context menu: this is not a bug or problem with your browser - it simply means that Hotmail does not allow at this time to queue and print multiple emails simultaneously.

Printing multiple emails from Hotmail

So, to print multiple Hotmail emails, you will need to print one at a time: the fastest way to do that is to use the right-click-to-print method: not only are you saving time by not having to wait for the email to open before you can print it, but it also requires less cursor-moving around the screen (the Print command is always a few pixels below your right-click spot).

The fastest way to print the selected email will be to use Windows Live Hotmail's email printing keyboard shortcut, which is Ctrl+Shift+P.

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