Email responses

[Eagleman]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I sent an email to a friend of mine asking a series of questions. He responded by answering the questions within the body of the email [e.g "interleaving" his response after each question] rather than a separate reply

Can you do that in Entourage?

 

[Ed Kimball]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I sent an email to a friend of mine asking a series of questions. He responded
by answering the questions within the body of the email [e.g "interleaving"
his response after each question] rather than a separate reply

I assume you mean something like this.

Can you do that in Entourage?

Sure. Just put the cursor where you want the new text to go (even in the
middle of a line if you want to for some reason) and start typing.

 

[Diane Ross]

Sure. Just put the cursor where you want the new text to go (even in the
middle of a line if you want to for some reason) and start typing.

HTML makes it a bit harder to do. In that case, just toggle off html in your
reply.

 

[Ed Kimball]

HTML makes it a bit harder to do. In that case, just toggle off html in your
reply.

How does HTML make it harder (unless you have text in images)? Don't you
still put the cursor where you want to insert text and start typing? It may
not be so obvious where you've put new text (I usually use colors), but it's
not hard to enter it. Am I missing something?

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

How does HTML make it harder (unless you have text in images)? Don't you
still put the cursor where you want to insert text and start typing? It may
not be so obvious where you've put new text (I usually use colors), but it's
not hard to enter it. Am I missing something?

I'll agree with Diane on this one with regard to quoting and numbering.

Different mail applications display quoted text differently. Some
applications indent, some applications change text color or font and
some folks change the quoting characters. This makes me have to respond
using their preferences and not mine.

Some people set their preferences to always reply in HTML even though
I've sent my original message in plain text. Using HTML to mimic plain
text garbles my messages when I convert them back to plain text. (Yes,
I'm evil like that. ;-) )

If I want to respond inline to a series of automatically numbered or
bulleted items then I really have a doozie of a time. I often cannot
insert my comments without creating a new numbered item or bullet, which
I don't want to do.

I prefer not to have anything that takes away my ability to view
messages as I want to see them nor takes away my ability to compose my
responses to make sense.

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[Diane Ross]

It may
not be so obvious where you've put new text (I usually use colors), but it's
not hard to enter it. Am I missing something?

If your answer is not obvious, then communication is not clear. As Bill
pointed out, it's not a one size fits all answer with HTML.

Nothing that they can do with HTML is ever going to change replying to
messages in complex HTML. If the basic purpose of email is to communicate,
then why mess it up so it looks pretty?

The debate over HTML vs Plain text is much like beta vs VHS. The best
platform doesn't always win.

 

[Ed Kimball]

If your answer is not obvious, then communication is not clear. As Bill
pointed out, it's not a one size fits all answer with HTML.

Nothing that they can do with HTML is ever going to change replying to
messages in complex HTML. If the basic purpose of email is to communicate,
then why mess it up so it looks pretty?

The debate over HTML vs Plain text is much like beta vs VHS. The best
platform doesn't always win.

Diane,

I agree with all that, but that wasn't the point of the OP's question. He
just asked whether you can do it, and that's what I tried to answer.