Gold, I went into Hotmail (I don't actually use Hotmail -- just joined to learn behavior to assist others) and found that the only time those icons show up are in a "New" e-mail being written or composed. In my Hotmail, the printer icon never shows up in an e-mail that is being composed.. I guess Hotmail thinks that one would never want to print an e-mail in draft mode -- just an e-mail sent or received. HOWEVER, if you print the whole web page from the FILE > PRINT, then it will print everything on the web page including e-mail undergoing composition along with all of its little formatting icons. So, I guess if you want print off a Hotmail e-mail still in draft mode, you're out of luck. Or are you? I don't understand, as you say your formatting icons print on the left. Anyway, a sent or received e-mail should should show the printer icon or equivalent, depending on how Hotmail has reconfigured their e-mail page appearance (again). Woody the confused ============================== , silver9876@hotmail.com writes: Thank you Woody but I don't have a little printer icon. I have icons for cutting copy r paste font style font size B I U text left text center text right number list bullet list insert hyperlink insert a line text color text highlite color smiley face Any idea how I can get the printer icon? Gold > From: WoodyWoodworth@aol.com > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:04:41 -0400 > To: senior-newbie@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] HOT MAIL PRINTING QUESTION > > > There are two places to print an e-mail on a Hotmail page. > Wrong one: Go to file>Print (Prints the entire web page along with > the e-mail) > Right one: Click on the little printer icon in the middle near the top > of the page (prints only the e-mail) > > Same principle applies to other web based e-mail, such as Yahoo. > > Woody > ====================== > silver9876@hotmail.com writes: > > > Hi > Can anyone please tell me how to print out a hot mail > email without all my boxes printing on the left. > TIA > Gold