When you try to print multiple copies of an e-mail message in Outlook 2003, all the copies of the e-mail message are stapled together

Consider the following scenario. In the printing preferences for a printer, you select the staple type to be applied on the printer. In Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, you try to print multiple copies of an e-mail message by using the printer. Each copy of the e-mail message is more than one page. In this scenario, all the copies of the e-mail message are stapled together. You expect each copy of the e-mail message to be stapled individually.

Note This issue does not occur for e-mail messages that are formatted as HTML.

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To resolve this problem, apply hotfix package 959628, and then configure the HonorCopying registry entry to enable the hotfix package. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Apply hotfix package 959628. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
   959628  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959628/ ) Description of the Outlook 2003 hotfix package (Outlook.msp): December 16, 2008
2. Configure the HonorCopying registry entry. To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
   2. • If you do not use policies, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Printing
      • If you use policies, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Printing
   3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
   4. Type HonorCopying, and then press ENTER.
   5. Right-click HonorCopying, and then click Modify.
   6. In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK.
   7. Exit Registry Editor.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.