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Using Word 03 as an editor for Outlook
I've been on a quest to see if I can get Outlook to do what I
want. I'm using Word 03 as a Rich Text editor for Outlook. First of all, I'm appalled that Word forces the user to top post. I set the quoteback to be prefixed with " "; fine. But then navigating to the bottom of the page, there was no way to escape the quoteback delimiter. Everything I wrote was treated as quote. Amazing. Next, the amount of bloat is unacceptable. I see that details of all the paragraph styles in my normal.dot are included in each mail Word sends out; other unnecessary head data is sent as well. I'd also like to get rid of the From:, Sent:, To:, Subject: header info that's included at the top of the quoteback. These problems exist whether I choose Rich Text or HTML. Can any of these be addressed? Frankly, I'm not too hopeful. Thanks much, p. |
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You want to bottom post *and* use html? Why?
There are as many arguments for or against top posting, but as someone who uses NNTP forums as much as me, I can assure you that bottom posting is not only irritating, but frankly I rarely bother to dig to find out what the question is. Top posting puts the relevant stuff at the top where it should be. As a large percentage of potential recipients will have their mail readers set to display only plain text, message formats other than plain text tend to be merely self indulgent wastes of bandwidth. As for the problem in hand, if you switch off the automatic insertion of your signature and create a macro (the macro recorder will do this) to take the cursor to the end of the message, insert the signature then move the cursor to the space between quoted message and cursor, running that macro should fulfil most of your ambitions. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Paul B wrote: I've been on a quest to see if I can get Outlook to do what I want. I'm using Word 03 as a Rich Text editor for Outlook. First of all, I'm appalled that Word forces the user to top post. I set the quoteback to be prefixed with " "; fine. But then navigating to the bottom of the page, there was no way to escape the quoteback delimiter. Everything I wrote was treated as quote. Amazing. Next, the amount of bloat is unacceptable. I see that details of all the paragraph styles in my normal.dot are included in each mail Word sends out; other unnecessary head data is sent as well. I'd also like to get rid of the From:, Sent:, To:, Subject: header info that's included at the top of the quoteback. These problems exist whether I choose Rich Text or HTML. Can any of these be addressed? Frankly, I'm not too hopeful. Thanks much, p. |
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Using Word 03 as an editor for Outlook
G'Day Paul,
In addition to what Graham has said, be aware that, for e-mail in general, what goes out over the Internet is Plain Text or HTML. Rich Text Format is a Microsoft proprietary format and, in e-mail, survives only when passing through Exchange Server to a recipient in the SAME organisation. If it leaves the organisation, it is sent as HTML. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Paul B" wrote in message ... I've been on a quest to see if I can get Outlook to do what I want. I'm using Word 03 as a Rich Text editor for Outlook. First of all, I'm appalled that Word forces the user to top post. I set the quoteback to be prefixed with " "; fine. But then navigating to the bottom of the page, there was no way to escape the quoteback delimiter. Everything I wrote was treated as quote. Amazing. Next, the amount of bloat is unacceptable. I see that details of all the paragraph styles in my normal.dot are included in each mail Word sends out; other unnecessary head data is sent as well. I'd also like to get rid of the From:, Sent:, To:, Subject: header info that's included at the top of the quoteback. These problems exist whether I choose Rich Text or HTML. Can any of these be addressed? Frankly, I'm not too hopeful. Thanks much, p. |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:22:11 +0300, Graham Mayor wrote:
You want to bottom post *and* use html? Why? There are as many arguments for or against top posting, but as someone who uses NNTP forums as much as me, I can assure you that bottom posting is not only irritating, but frankly I rarely bother to dig to find out what the question is. Top posting puts the relevant stuff at the top where it should be. I generally detest top posting, but I'm not going to get into the argument here; it's been done and overdone already. As a large percentage of potential recipients will have their mail readers set to display only plain text, message formats other than plain text tend to be merely self indulgent wastes of bandwidth. Perhaps. But the expressiveness of html is a real boon at times. As for the problem in hand, if you switch off the automatic insertion of your signature and create a macro (the macro recorder will do this) to take the cursor to the end of the message, insert the signature then move the cursor to the space between quoted message and cursor, running that macro should fulfil most of your ambitions. In doing so, can the macro break the quote span (I think it is)? Even if I Ctrl-End, I can't add unquoted text. Therein lies my problem. New linefeeds are treated as quotes. My original text was truncated because it fell beneath your sig delimiter, but my other objection was the html bloat that Word spews into each document. I doubt that there's a correction for that. I would hope to be wrong on that, but I think for now I'm going to abandon the Outlook-Word idea, and simply use Word independently with Thunderbird when I need an advanced editor. I think copying/pasting over won't take all the bloat. Thanks, p. |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:19:57 +1000, Pat Garard wrote:
G'Day Paul, In addition to what Graham has said, be aware that, for e-mail in general, what goes out over the Internet is Plain Text or HTML. Rich Text Format is a Microsoft proprietary format and, in e-mail, survives only when passing through Exchange Server to a recipient in the SAME organisation. If it leaves the organisation, it is sent as HTML. Thanks, Pat. Very good point. Duly noted. p. |
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