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Name: Katrinka
Date: December 14, 2008 at 13:30:51 Pacific
OS: xp home sp 3
CPU/Ram: 768 MB
Product: Hewlett-packard / CELERON
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I receive several emails a day and to save on ink and paper, I copy the body of the text of the email and paste into a Word document and then print out a big document every week or two. However, the right margin will not reformat when I copy and paste and i end up still wasting quite a bit of paper. Other than going thru and manually changing the right margin on each line, I cannot get the text to reformat. Doesn't have to be Word, I can use any program that will work, but have tried Word, Works, Publisher, Power Point, even a Notepad. Word has a little tag at the bottom when I cut and paste and it asks me if I want to keep original formatting or destination formatting, and if I click 'destination formatting' it will change color, font, etc., but not margin. The closest I have been able to come to a solution is to divide paper into 2 columns and minimize margins, changing font size to as close as I can get to put text within columns, but it will still throw off text every 3 or 4 lines. Seems there ought to be a way to do this. Any suggestions? Thank you for your help. Katrinka

Katrinka



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: December 14, 2008 at 13:59:18 Pacific
Reply:

What email client are you using?

"So won’t you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown


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Response Number 2
Name: Katrinka
Date: December 14, 2008 at 14:37:52 Pacific
Reply:

Oops Jennifer SUMN, sorry, I should have mentioned . . . it is OE.

Katrinka


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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: December 16, 2008 at 07:28:23 Pacific
Reply:

Personally, I would just print out the emails that I needed in hard-page format, but that's just me.

I tried what you're doing, copying and pasting into notepad and saving as a txt file. It worked fine for me.

Not sure what you mean by "Right margin won't format."

"So won’t you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We’re not all the same
What a shame" - Shinedown


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Response Number 4
Name: Katrinka
Date: December 16, 2008 at 09:03:48 Pacific
Reply:

I get bunches of emails off of a yahoo letters group. The right hand margin of the emails is very large - takes up about 1/3 of the page, so the actual text is only printing on about the left 2/3 of the page. When I copy and paste into a Word or some other type of document, the right hand margin of the email will not rearrange so as to print over the whole sheet of paper. The right margin is fixed and can only be made smaller (i.e., more text printed per line) by manually rearranging each line. Changing the margins via page set up does not change this arrangement. So if I want to print off 30 or 40 emails, it will take 30 pieces of paper instead of 15 or 20. Hope this clarifies my problem . . .

Katrinka


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