How to print modern pages?

Helios Comms
Iron Contributor
Apr 18, 2018
Ohh if this wasn't so sad, you would laugh. Some progress *has* been made here! Much to my surprise. The layout of our modern pages has changed recently (hadn't noticed) but the content is now in a scrolling box in the middle with "Like, Comment, Views" on the fixed area at the bottom.

So with bated breath I tried to print a small modern page and thought it had been fixed in that the first page looked fine... horary I thought *except* when I printed the document (or previewed) on screen, the 2nd page was blank.

And now to the really, really laughable bit - it works in Chrome... well at least you get two pages with all the content except the colour is a bit washed out. I'll print to PDF so I can upload here.
- Helios Comms
  Iron Contributor
  May 07, 2018
  With bated breath I installed the latest April update which has lots of updates for Edge. Nope, still can't print modern web pages in Microsoft's own Office 365 product. Bordering on pathetic now guys :-( So we continue to roll out Chrome... talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
  - Helios Comms
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 28, 2018
    Okay internal ticket was snoozed for 4 months and nope, still can't print modern pages. So if there is a checklist type page that you want to print and tick off - nope!
- Helios Comms
  Iron Contributor
  Apr 18, 2018
  Edge print out: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x86iik5gth8gpk5/Modern%20page%20-%20Edge%20print.pdf?dl=0
  Chrome print out: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zylurcctn1wpr67/Modern%20page%20-%20Chrome%20print.pdf?dl=0
  
  As you can see, the Edge printout is more legible but the Chrome print out has all the graphics.
  
  So Microsoft has acknowledged that this is a bug and is trying to fix it. I try to like Microsoft stuff but recently they have been testing my patience with Edge:
  
  Unable to print modern SharePoint pages
  Ctrl-C often doesn't work when copying text off a web page
  Still unable to share a page link to Outlook without copy & paste
  The status message bottom left often interferes with the user interface/buttons
  You can't synchronise favourites if you happened to be joined to Azure AD and only have the basic Azure subscription (we're not upgrading just to sync Edge - we'll use Chrome thanks)
  Therefore my favourites don't/can't appear on my tablet or phone (and no, using Edge on Android doesn't work either because of 5)
  It's a real memory hog/doesn't release memory when other programs need it. Often have to close Edge down to get a VMware VM to start
  It causes my HP laptop to overheat - seriously - since adding an SSD, Edge runs the CPU so hot that is thermally overloads (half of this is crap cooling on HP/AMD CPU running hot anyway)
  Despite what Microsoft says, Edge is noticeably slower than Chrome in real life examples
  You still can't "Open in File Explorer" from SharePoint in Edge (have to use IE)
  Anyway I digress. Microsoft can pat themselves on the back here for giving my clients another solid reason why they use Chrome... :-(

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