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How to print modern pages?
Hi, does anyone have a clue on how to print modern SharePoint pages? I've tried IE and Chrome, and both just want to print a page clip of the current view. Am I missing something, is this curre...
Are there any news on this feature?
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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!
- BTW - unlike Chrome which can now print modern pages pretty much perfectly. I really do despair sometimes with Microsoft and Edge.
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... :-(