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Printing from Outlook: odd or even?

Imagine the scenario…

BOSS: Worker, I sent you a very important email. We need to discuss part – but not all – of this email in our 12 pm meeting.
WORKER: Understood. I will print every other page of the email and bring it to our meeting.

…which led to this feature:

Outlook’s odd-even print options

I like this dialog box a lot. By focusing on the scenario of use, Outlook’s design team was able to eliminate unnecessary controls like “Print range.”

Because, after all, no one wants to print only a single page of a 10 mile long email chain.

Comments 4

  1. Noor wrote:

    I just checked my Outlook 2007 and it is still there!

    Posted 21 Feb 2008 at 3:30 pm
  2. Matt wrote:

    It’s crazy! Maybe I’m missing something really obvious but I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d need to print only the odd pages (and even if I did want to print odd pages, how would I know that the content I want printed is going to be on p. 3 and not p. 2?)

    Posted 21 Feb 2008 at 3:50 pm
  3. Iain wrote:

    Is it possible this dialog box is due to the printer driver, not the application? Just a thought…

    Posted 22 Feb 2008 at 2:30 pm
  4. scott wrote:

    you can use the feature to do doublesided printing, i guess.

    Posted 27 Feb 2008 at 7:31 pm

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