How can I print one message in a Gmail message thread?

I like Google Mail, but the threading feature drives me nuts. I don't want my mail threaded and I don't think of conversations that way. The worst is that every time I print, I print the entire thread, rather than just a single email message in the thread. Darn Gmail! Is there a way to print just one message?

Dave's Answer:

Sure enough, there is a way that you can extract an individual message from the Gmail threading "feature" (if you read my discussion on how to turn off threading in Gmail, you'll see that there's a large population of folk who are quite passionately against threading and have left Gmail entirely because of its inability to let you just have all your mail in a more traditional organization!)

That's not what you're asking me, however!

When you do have a message thread in Google's Gmail and want to just print a single message in the thread, there is indeed a way to do that, though it's a bit hidden.

The problem is, when you look to print, you'll see on the top right the following:

That's not what you want. Instead, look through the thread until you find the individual message that you want to print, then click on the triangle next to the "Reply" button:

Ahh, yes, a menu pops up with all sorts of individual message options. The one you seek is "Print", but do check out the options while you're there.

Hope that helps you out!

Categorized: Computer and Internet Basics (Article 9135, Written by Dave Taylor)
Tagged: email threading, gmail, google mail, yahoo mail
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