How to shrink and fit to pages when printing in Outlook?
In Excel, you can easily use the "Fit All Columns/Rows on One Page" feature to save printing paper. However, shrinking email message content to fit on printable pages in Outlook can be quite challenging. Here, we’ll introduce a clever trick to help you shrink overflowing message content and ensure it fits perfectly on your pages when printing from Microsoft Outlook.
- Shrink and fit to pages when printing in Outlook by using browser
- Shrink and fit to pages when printing in Outlook with Kutools for Outlook
Shrink and fit to pages when printing in Outlook by using browser
To shrink message content and make it fit to pages when printing, please do in Microsoft Outlook as following steps:
1. Open a mail folder in the Navigation Pane, and open the email message that you will print later with double-clicking.
2. Click the Actions (or Other Actions in Outlook 2007) > View in Browser.
If the email message is plain text or rich text, you need to convert it to the HTML format before carrying out the Step. You can convert the email message to the HTML format:
A. In Outlook 2010 or later versions, click the Message > Actions > Edit Message, then click the Format Text > HTML;
B. In Outlook 2007, click the Message > Other Actions > Edit Message, and then click the Options > HTML.
Note: It’s optional to save the changes and then close the message.
3. Then a warning dialog box comes out. Please click the OK button in it.
4. Then the content of this email message displays in the Browser. In our example, it shows in the IE browser. Please click the File > Print Preview.
5. Then you will see the Shrink To Fit in the Print Preview dialog box.
If you want to shrink the message content, please click the Shrink To Fit, and select a suitable percentage from the drop down list.
6. Click the Print button 
at the top to print this email message.
Shrink and fit to pages when printing in Outlook with Kutools for Outlook
If you have Kutools for Outlook installed, you can apply its Advanced Print feature to quickly shrink an email and print it with fitting to pages in Outlook.
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1. Open the mail folder containing the specified email you will print, select this email, and click Kutools Plus > Print > Advanced Print. See screenshot:
2. In the opening Advanced Print dialog box, please click the Preview button. See screenshot:
Note: This Advanced Print feature supports to print an email without its message header. If need, please uncheck the Item header option in above Advanced Print dialog box. Click for full features 60-day free download of this tool.
3. In the opening Print Preview dialog box, please select Shrink To Fit from the far right drop down list, and press the Print button 
. See screenshot:
4. In the opening Print dialog box, please specify a printer, and click the Print button.
So far, the selected email has been shrinked and printed with fitting to pages.
Demo: shrink and fit to pages when printing in Outlook
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