Outlook Print Margins Cut Off

Posted By Chris Stinson in Windows on January 25, 2008

Many people have reported left (or other) margins being cut-off when printing HTML messages from Outlook XP / 2003.

Changing the page setup in Outlook proves useless because HTML messages are not printed by Outlook itself – it uses IE’s print settings to print.

So if your margins are off you must change them within Internet Explorer to fix the problem.

1. Open Internet Explorer
2. Go to “File” in the menu bar
3. Choose “Page Setup”
4. Under “margins” all margins should be set to 0.75 inches

For Plain Text and Rich Text emails within Outlook, go to File and Page Setup from within Outlook and set the margins to 0.5 or 0.75 inches.

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17 Responses to “Outlook Print Margins Cut Off”

1. 

   Lana

   July 2, 2008 at 10:06 am

   Thanks! This solved the problem!

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2. 

   cedric

   September 16, 2008 at 11:40 am

   Chris, this is an excellent answer…you are a live saver,,,many thanks to you

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   Tanya

   May 14, 2009 at 1:42 am

   Out of the blue my e-mails suddenly printed with letters from the front of the line being either at the end thereof or somewhere in the body of the text. I searched for the cause, and a solution, for weeks. Today I found your answer on the net and my problem is solved. Thank you so much!!!

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4. 

   Trilochan Sapkota

   May 19, 2009 at 11:13 pm

   This is an excellent solution. Thank you very much for the solution.

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5. 

   bob

   June 26, 2009 at 2:22 am

   my print margins are still cut off on the right hand side of the page. I’ve got IE8, and Outlook 2003. Is that an issue?

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     Chad Troyer

     July 22, 2011 at 8:09 am

     Bob,

     Did you ever get a solution to your printing problem where it cuts off the right side?
     Thanks,

     Chad

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6. 

   Jeroen

   December 28, 2009 at 3:45 am

   Bob, I’ve the same problem. Tried a lot of settings but nothing works for me.

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7. 

   Stev

   February 15, 2010 at 8:41 pm

   Thanks alot man. Been pulling my hair and stress due to this annoying issue. Your advise solved the problem.

   Regards

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8. 

   Kevin

   February 18, 2010 at 8:18 am

   Remove IE8 and retry.

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9. 

   Joanne

   March 16, 2010 at 1:14 pm

   This worked fantastically! Got me extra points with my boss for “figuring it out.”

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10. 

    Chris Stinson

    March 16, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    @ Joanne – that’s great. If only extra points = raise!

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11. 

    David

    June 29, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    Worked like a charm so were my customers, thank you!!!

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12. 

    Glo

    October 27, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    Yeah, thank you so much. This was a big help!

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13. 

    Dan Frederick

    April 7, 2011 at 5:35 am

    Thanks so much for the help. This solved my issues!

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14. 

    Monica

    June 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    It didn’t work for me. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks!

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15. 

    Louise

    August 24, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    We have Outlook 2010 and whenever a HTML newsletter is included on the email (no attachment) part of the right is always cut off – my only solution so far is to copy and paste into Word then print.

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    jenny

    November 18, 2011 at 1:59 am

    hello
    i have done this but the margins are re-setting to there original settings each time. Help!!! I am trying to print out emails from outlook express and they are off the page.

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