Following on on the heels of yesterdays post about email printing, here is another great little and simple tip you can implement to reduce the amount of email printing in your office.

I bugs me when people print every email they have, especially when the email is a chain of emails all about the same subject, and at the end of the chain the original email is printed on a paper file 10 times as every following reply is printed. WHY!!!?? It makes your paper file look horrible too!

So a simple tip is to disable your “Reply History” settings in Outlook. Simply goto Tools > Options. Click on Email Options. Under the settings “When replying to a message”, set the drop down to “Do not include original message”.

If you encourage your colleagues to do the same, this simple change could save your company and the ones you deal with hundreds of pieces of paper per year.