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Matt Sicking
I believe I've encountered a bug in Outlook 2003
regarding the use of Equation objects. But I don;t know
how to report it to Microsoft. These are the details:
In a Word doc I'd had an old equation object. I recently
updated the equation to a more general for (specifically,
if you care, a "5" was replaced with "2^s+1"
In Word I selected the equation oject and copied it to
the clipboard.
In Outlook I created a new message and pasted the
equation object into the message. It looked fine.
However, when I sent the message, the *old* equation (the
one with the "5" in it) was received instead.
After some experimentation, I learned:
1. Just saving the message into the Drafts folder will
cause the equation to revert to the old version
2. Using Word as my message editor in Outlook will avoid
this problem.
3. Using Outlook XP with or without Word as my email
editor also avoids this problem.
Pretty esoteric, I know, but it's really embarrassing to
email an equation to someone, discuss it in the email,
and have them be looking at a completely different
equation.
If anyone is interested I could send two emails - one
using Word as editor, one not - and you can see the
difference.
regarding the use of Equation objects. But I don;t know
how to report it to Microsoft. These are the details:
In a Word doc I'd had an old equation object. I recently
updated the equation to a more general for (specifically,
if you care, a "5" was replaced with "2^s+1"
In Word I selected the equation oject and copied it to
the clipboard.
In Outlook I created a new message and pasted the
equation object into the message. It looked fine.
However, when I sent the message, the *old* equation (the
one with the "5" in it) was received instead.
After some experimentation, I learned:
1. Just saving the message into the Drafts folder will
cause the equation to revert to the old version
2. Using Word as my message editor in Outlook will avoid
this problem.
3. Using Outlook XP with or without Word as my email
editor also avoids this problem.
Pretty esoteric, I know, but it's really embarrassing to
email an equation to someone, discuss it in the email,
and have them be looking at a completely different
equation.
If anyone is interested I could send two emails - one
using Word as editor, one not - and you can see the
difference.