Printing Tasks and Task Notes More than one task per page

[Cole]

I would like to be able to print memo style selected tasks. I know it will
print per page that task and its notes which is nice but it wastes an awful
lot of paper.

I can't imagine such a capability is not available either already or via a
script or plugin.

If not is there some sort of report writer tool you can get that will read
outlook data files and let you create your own custom reports

Is there not a way to print a group of selected tasks in memo style but have
them so that they all print as one print job with each task and its details
all paged accordingly.

Example
Page 1:
Task 1
Notes line 1
Notes line 2
Notes line 3

A seperator line -----------------------------------
Task 2
Notes line 1
Notes line 2
Notes line 3
Notes line 4

A seperator line --------------------------------------
Task 3
Notes Line 1
Notes Line 2
Notes Line 3

A PAGE BREAK

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I would like to be able to print memo style selected tasks. I know it
will print per page that task and its notes which is nice but it
wastes an awful lot of paper.

I can't imagine such a capability is not available either already or
via a script or plugin.

I just created a number of tasks.
I select a number of tasks.
I go to File - Print.
I select Memo style and there's a checkbox that says 'Start each item on a
new page' that isn't checked.

Print Preview shows that there won't be a page break between each task.
This is what you want, correct?

What version of Outlook are you running if you don't have this option?
OL2k3 is what I'm running here.

 

[Cole]

First off, what I want is to be able to print as many Tasks and their
Associated Notes as is possible on any one page. Naturally that will vary
depending upon the amount of Task Information.

I provided an example in graphic shorthand style in my original post.

I did follow you suggestion but when you choose the Memo style then the
option which you mentioned " Start each item on a new page" is not
available. It shows but one is not able to check or uncheck it in any way.

At any rate I don't want to start each Task Item on a new page. I want to
have one continuous report with page breaks occuring only because the detail
to be printed would not fit fully or completely on the current page.

In other words I want to conserve paper since often times a Task may only
have a few lines of additional notes.

Thank you for your comments.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

First off, what I want is to be able to print as many Tasks and their
Associated Notes as is possible on any one page. Naturally that will
vary depending upon the amount of Task Information.

I provided an example in graphic shorthand style in my original post.

I did follow you suggestion but when you choose the Memo style then
the option which you mentioned " Start each item on a new page" is
not available. It shows but one is not able to check or uncheck it
in any way.

Ok, so it is there, just greyed out. Ok. So, here's the issue. And likely
there's a bug here too, but.. The feature isn't available when you select
html formatted messages. But that isn't to say any of the tasks are HTML
formatted. In fact, I'd be they aren't. I'm not even sure that message
format has anything to do with tasks. The print dialog seems to check to
see if the default format of messages is HTML and, if it is, disable the
box.

So, ok, short answer:
Tools - Options - Mail Format, change from HTML to either Plain Text or Rich
Text, and then go print and make sure the box isn't checked. When you're
done, go put it back to HTML.

At any rate I don't want to start each Task Item on a new page. I
want to have one continuous report with page breaks occuring only
because the detail to be printed would not fit fully or completely on
the current page.

In other words I want to conserve paper since often times a Task may
only have a few lines of additional notes.

Well, right, that's why you'd want to make sure the 'Start each item on new
page' is not checked so that, well, when you print, there won't be page
breaks between the items.

 

[Cole]

Thank you. I think this solved the problem.
Have a great day.