Thanks for the rundown. I have been aware of the webnews features but also
that they are (mostly) broken, so it just keeps seeming like LM is a
solution to a problem I don't have. I don't use proofing tools in OE, anyway
(though I guess I could, since I still have Office 2003 installed, and
occasionally I realize I should!), and I just resist most change unless I
see an overwhelming reason for it (haven't installed Silverlight, either).
Also, I have a confession: when I went to Tools | Options | Send to change
my mail sending settings temporarily so I could forward an HTML message, I
realized that yesterday when I told you our settings were identical, I was
looking at the mail settings, not news. In fact, for reasons I no longer
recall, I had news set to Uuencode; I've now changed it to MIME, and we'll
see what happens (and if it's something bad, it will be your fault g).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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For starters it has its own proofing tools. That was a big plus in my
book. I was copy/pasting to Word when necessary. I held out on installing
third-party proofing tools until Microsoft provided an alternative for
Windows XP users. Part of it, of course, was sheer stubbornness but it
also kept the issue fresh in my mind so I could mention it every chance I
got. ;-)
It also has many of the webnews features, such as the ratings, voting, etc
so you can log on and see them if you want. I was using them until it kept
eating my posts. Very frustrating to discover several days worth of posts
missing!
The Reading Pane can be displayed on the right like Outlook. I scroll a
lot less now, especially for the bottom postings. There's a few other new
features but I don't use any of them for the newsgroups.
And, of course, it appears it quotes replies property.
The one thing I don't like is my munged Reply To email address isn't used
on posts, as it is in OE, but I resolved that by using a munged email
address instead.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs
Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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What does it have that OE doesn't have?
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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Then maybe it's time to make the switch to Windows Live Mail. g,d &r
Seriously though, you can install it on Windows XP and provided you
don't use the WebNews options (mainly due to the issue of posts getting
eaten) it's almost identical to OE.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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My settings are identical to yours. Note below that there are the same
number of in grammatim's reply to my post and my reply to him.
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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It quotes correctly for me if I reply to grammatim. I'm using Windows
Live Mail but it shouldn't be different from Outlook Express. What do
you have set for your News Sending Options under Tools/Options/Send? I
have: Plain Text and for Plain Text Settings: MIME, Encode using
"None", wrap at 76, and the Indent Original text with "" option
selected.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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No, I use Outlook Express, and all other replies are quoted
correctly; yours (and perhaps others from Google Groups) are the
exception.
"grammatim" wrote in message
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That must be something going on at your end, because I get the 's
(the correct number of them) whenever I do Reply. Have you tried
google groups?
On Feb 18, 12:33 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:
Worse still, when I reply to one of your messages, the quoted text
isn't
indicated by , so it's not practical to reply "inline."