Outlook 2007 dropped print range - WTF?

One of my co-workers asked us (the IT department) how she could print a certain page number or range of pages using Microsoft Outlook 2007.

Since I was the only one in IT to have Outlook 2007 we looked at things on my system.

Honestly, I don't know if I had tried that before so I wasn't entirely sure where you would set those options.

My first guess would have been in the print options, where else?

Well, after fumbling around for a few minutes we realized that there didn't seem to be anywhere to actually set these options.

Shortly after my other IT co-worker found this Microsoft support article offering up workarounds since they decided to remove this feature.

Why the heck? "Gee, this is a really useful feature, let's take it out and make them use workarounds." "Good idea, this should hinder productivity!"