Printing out gmails

[Paul Slattery]

Forgive me.  It is late and I am tired.  How do I print out gmail correspondence content by itself ? 

If I print 'portait,' I get the left column menu, lots of wasted space, plus a center column text that is truncated (last words of each line cut off).   If I print 'landscape,' I get the menu, message text, and all the ads.   I just want the message text... which I can get if I copy and paste into Word.  But there is an easier way, right?

Thanks,

Beekeeper

[Kenneth Ayers]

While viewing the email you want to print, click on the drop-down arrow in the upper-right corner of the email.  Select print. That should generate a nicely formatted copy of your email in a separate window or tab which can then be routed to a printer.  No extra columns on the sides, just the email on a page of its own.

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[Andy]

In addition to Kenneth's description which prints a single message, Gmail also has a way to print an entire email conversation (or thread).  Look in the upper right of the first message, above the drop-down arrow.  In my Gmail view there are three small icons.  The middle icon is a printer, and when you hover the mouse pointer over it, it says "Print all".

Andy

[John Blake]

Hi Paul
There should be a print icon on the right that you use.
Sorry not at my pc at the moment.
Yes, if you use the usual right click print option you get the side menus etc.
Have a look at the right hand side of the Gmail menu area.

Cheers
John
VK6JB

[Paul Slattery]

Thank you, Kenneth and Andy. 

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

In addition to Kenneth's description which prints a single message, Gmail also has a way to print an entire email conversation (or thread).  Look in the upper right of the first message, above the drop-down arrow.  In my Gmail view there are three small icons.  The middle icon is a printer, and when you hover the mouse pointer over it, it says "Print all".

Andy

[Paul Slattery]

Thanks, John.  Oddly, that menu seems more related to graphics and doesn't appear to have much to do with printing text.  Nice to know it is there.

[Andy]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Paul Slattery <pdsla...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, John.  Oddly, that menu seems more related to graphics and doesn't appear to have much to do with printing text.  Nice to know it is there.

It's not really about printing graphics versus text.  Your web browser's Print function (which is I think what you first tried using) is intended to print a snapshot of the browser's screen, and that is essentially what you got, except that much of the content you wanted to see was too far off the right edge of the printed page.  But what you wanted was to print only the message or messages, not the screen.

There are some websites that trap the web browser's attempt to print the screen, and turn it into a modified print of only a portion of the screen.  Gmail doesn't do that.  Instead, it has those two special functions (a pop-up menu item and an icon) for printing a message or a thread of messages.

Andy