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Windows Live Hotmail changed the way they display messages, and in doing so apparently changed the steps you need to take to print a message.
Since Hotmail's recent change of format, we are unable to print emails from our inboxs. The right hand side of the page is cut off and only the first page prints.
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I had a suspicion that I knew what Hotmail had done, and sure enough, I went to check and said to myself "they didn't!"
They did.
The answer is not to use the print button, but to use the print button instead.
Now in case that's not clear 
, let me
explain.
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One change that this latest version of Windows Live Hotmail apparently made is that they don't actually display an entire message as a single browser page. Rather, they've created a smaller window within the page in which they display only a portion of the message. The window has a scroll bar so you can move around within the message to read it. You can tell that it's not the browser's own scroll bar, because it doesn't take up the entire right hand side, and when you scroll the Hotmail header and UI don't scroll off the top.
When you click your browser's print button , it prints what the browser sees as the displayed page. In the past this was likely your entire message. In the current version it's all the Hotmail UI to the left and top of your message, and the window that's displaying only a portion of your message.
Not at all what you intended.
In fact, it looks to me that they rendered the browser's print button useless for printing Hotmail.
However...
If you look closely at the Hotmail UI on the page, you'll see another print button:
If you click on this button to print your message, then Hotmail will open your message in a new window, with the entire message displayed. The good news is that the Hotmail headers, advertisements and other stuff is not included; it's just the message, and all of the message that you can then print.
It is an extra step, and it's not immediately obvious, but it does produce a reasonable result.
It's just unfortunate that the actual browser print button that so many relied upon is no longer the right thing to use to print.
If you still have a problem with the right hand portion of the message being cut off, I'll direct you to this article: Why is only the left hand part of my page printed?
Article C3568 - November 20, 2008 « »
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July 15, 2012 8:04 AM
Send your message in 'bold' - it will then print without any problems
September 23, 2012 6:56 PM
there is no print button on hotmail
March 20, 2013 8:40 PM
Hotmail has changed to Outlook. My email printed with all the info down the left side. Came here for help saw the button shown here went back & guess what. Print button's not on the Outlook version of Hotmail. Next to "Move to" are dots like this ... click on those you get a drop down menu with options- one is "print. This command doesn't have a down arrow like the others. Do we really deserve have stuff be this annoying? Glad to have " Ask Leo". Very helpful!!
March 21, 2013 2:37 PM
Yes Jewelyn..
In-laws have same situation. Only prints header of email of their hotmail now outlook. DID NOT see any print icon or anything helpful. What is going on?
April 2, 2013 11:55 AM
jelwelyn wrote this .."Hotmail has changed to Outlook. My email printed with all the info down the left side. Came here for help saw the button shown here went back & guess what. Print button's not on the Outlook version of Hotmail. Next to "Move to" are dots like this ... click on those you get a drop down menu with options- one is "print. This command doesn't have a down arrow like the others. Do we really deserve have stuff be this annoying? Glad to have " Ask Leo". Very helpful!!'"
I had this same problem and did what jewleyn says to do.
IT WORKS!
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