Putting a table in email - AKA, stuff I could do easily in

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Nariman

Here is my Problem #1: I would like to copy a Excel table (4 columns and 6
rows) into an email and send it (plus I need to attach another Excel file to
this email as well). However I paste the Excel table it turns into plain
text with lots of lines and no table format. (even when HTML is selected in
Format menu)
The only way I got it to kind of work was to write my email in Word, paste
my Excel table in there and then use Send To (As HTML). Problem is that this
way I can not attach any more files to this email (attach is disabled).

Anyone know how to solve my problem #1?

Thanks

Norman
 
M

Michel Bintener

I'm afraid there isn't a simple way of doing this. You've already discovered
how to use Word as an email editor, and you've also discovered one of its
major shortcomings, which is Entourage's inability to deal with attachments
you'd like to insert into an HTML message coming from Word.

What you could do, I guess, is save the Word document as an HTML document
and then run Paul Berkowitz' free AppleScript "Send Complex HTML", which you
can find here:

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/sendcomplexhtmlx2.1.html>

This method, though quite usable, is of course nowhere near as convenient as
being able to directly insert a table into an email message.


Here is my Problem #1: I would like to copy a Excel table (4 columns and 6
rows) into an email and send it (plus I need to attach another Excel file to
this email as well). However I paste the Excel table it turns into plain
text with lots of lines and no table format. (even when HTML is selected in
Format menu)
The only way I got it to kind of work was to write my email in Word, paste
my Excel table in there and then use Send To (As HTML). Problem is that this
way I can not attach any more files to this email (attach is disabled).

Anyone know how to solve my problem #1?

Thanks

Norman
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D

Diane

Here is my Problem #1: I would like to copy a Excel table (4 columns and 6
rows) into an email and send it (plus I need to attach another Excel file to
this email as well). However I paste the Excel table it turns into plain
text with lots of lines and no table format. (even when HTML is selected in
Format menu)
The only way I got it to kind of work was to write my email in Word, paste
my Excel table in there and then use Send To (As HTML). Problem is that this
way I can not attach any more files to this email (attach is disabled).

Anyone know how to solve my problem #1?
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Copy in Excel and then use "Paste Special:paste as Picture" in Entourage.
 
A

Adam Bailey

why have Microsoft not included this basic functionality?
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Because they know what you did last summer.

....or because not enough people have requested this functionality to make it
a priority. At least you did, right?
 
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