![]() Outlook's rules determine which fields are printed-typically, all those in which you've entered data. This technique doesn't produce a neat listing that looks like the Address Cards view, but the Print dialog box displays a "Start each item on a new page" option that you can leave unselected to conserve a little paper. The solution built into Outlook is to use the Memo print style to print individual contacts. Folder views never show the full text of the Notes or Message field, only a maximum of about 250 characters, so you can't use a folder view to print those notes in their entirety. The problem is that printing from any folder view is strictly a matter of what you see is what you get. ![]() When people who have amassed many lines of notes in individual Contact items try to print multiple contacts from the Address Cards view, they find that Outlook truncates those notes. Outlook printing dilemmas aren't limited to custom forms. The best custom form-printing solution I've found is to program an Outlook form to push its data into the fields in a Microsoft Word template. For example, printouts of custom forms don't look anything like what you see on the screen: Fields appear in a predetermined order that you can't change, and any custom fields are listed at the end in alphabetical order. ![]() Outlook presents a number of printing problems that users can find difficult to resolve. You'd do a mail merge into MS Word from Outlook. ![]()
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