*123* changes to 123 with botd fonts

[Bheem]

We are in the process of migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007 and
outlook 2007 with OfficeXP.

We have migrated 300 users lastweek. After migration couple of users have
strange problems with Calendar Meeting Invitation.

I organise meeting through conference call and send the participation code
as below.
-----------------------------------
Calling number *123456*
Participation code *45678*
----------------------------------
Many users (not all) received as below

-----------------------------------
Calling number 123456
Participation code 45678
-----------------------------------
The numbers 123456 and 45678 are in Bold font.

But same When we did testing at our (support group) end we did not have this
problem.

If we send the mail to those users, then they receive *123456* & *045678*
not as bold font.

We have checked the users default font settings with ours and found no change.

Need to address this issue before we to confinue with other users.


Thank you in advance.

 

[DL]

I believe its to do with Word 2007, if used as the email editor Word
'autocorrect'? changes *1234* to 1234 bold font
Similar to if you type a URL its formatted to Blue underlined

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Wrapping text in asterisks is a shortcut for applying bold format. It should
convert at the time the senders types it in, not at a later point. Was it
received directly in Exchange/Outlook or imported from Notes?

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[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

We are in the process of migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007 and
outlook 2007 with OfficeXP.

We have migrated 300 users lastweek. After migration couple of users have
strange problems with Calendar Meeting Invitation.

I organise meeting through conference call and send the participation code
as below.

Word 2007's AutoCorrection feature turns strings surrounded by asterisks into
that string in a bold font. Likewise, if the string is suppounded with
underscores (i.e., _xxxx_), the string is displayed in italics. The
delimiters get removed when the font changes.

However, when composing a new mail message, even though you're using the same
basic Word engine, the asterisks or underscores don't get removed. I'm in the
process of brining this up with Microsoft.

 

[VanguardLH]

Word 2007's AutoCorrection feature turns strings surrounded by asterisks into
that string in a bold font. Likewise, if the string is suppounded with
underscores (i.e., _xxxx_), the string is displayed in italics. The
delimiters get removed when the font changes.

However, when composing a new mail message, even though you're using the same
basic Word engine, the asterisks or underscores don't get removed. I'm in the
process of brining this up with Microsoft.

I don't have Word 2007. In Word 2002, the trick (other than disable the
auto-format option) is to hit the backspace key right after entering the
asterisked string. You don't end up actually backspacing (to delete
characters) but it just removes the auto-formatting. That is, after
auto-format has converted the asterisked string to a bolded string,
hitting the backspace (immediately after the asterisked string) unbolds
that string and returns the asterisks.

I'm still using Word 2002. It has the auto-format setting for bolding
of asterisked strings; however, it is off in my install of Word 2002.
Could be I disabled it or could be it was disabled by default at install
time. Personally I never saw the advantage of having to hit Shift+8 (to
get an asterisk) versus Ctrl+B (to start and end bolding). It's the
same number of keystrokes so nothing is saved in keystroke count.

By the way, when I'm in Word 2002 and the bold auto-format option is
enable, the asterisk does get removed. When I save the document (with
asterisked-bolded strings that got auto-formatted to Word-bolded
strings) as a web page, there are no asterisks, just the <B></B> tag
pair. When saved as an .rtf file and use a hex editor, there are no
asterisks. When saved as a .txt file, there are no asterisks (and
obviously no bolding, either). Must be a bug in Word 2007.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Word 2007's AutoCorrection feature turns strings surrounded by asterisks
into that string in a bold font. Likewise, if the string is suppounded with
underscores (i.e., _xxxx_), the string is displayed in italics. The
delimiters get removed when the font changes.

However, when composing a new mail message, even though you're using the
same basic Word engine, the asterisks or underscores don't get removed. I'm
in the process of brining this up with Microsoft.

The rsponse I received from Microsoft is that this is "by design" so that the
semantics of the text are preserved even if the message is changed to plain
text. I'll check Outlook 2010 to see if the behavior is the same there.