Strike through and Table Issues

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iThomasM

I've received two email messages from Outlook users in the past week
and Entourage 2008 has some odd behaviors.

First: When an Outlook 2003 user sent me a message, she used the
strike through to cross out some text. However, Entourage 2008
doesn't show the text crossed out. It just looks normal. Why is
this? Is it a feature or bug?

Second: An Outlook 2008 user copied some cells out of an Excel
document and put it into their email and I got a nicely formatted
table in my email. When I hit reply, Entourage removes all the table
formatting and I'm left with a list of text. Where did it go? Why
did it disappear?

It seems that Entourage isn't playing well with formatting from
Outlook. Are these bugs or features?

Thanks
 
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William Smith

iThomasM said:
I've received two email messages from Outlook users in the past week
and Entourage 2008 has some odd behaviors.

First: When an Outlook 2003 user sent me a message, she used the
strike through to cross out some text. However, Entourage 2008
doesn't show the text crossed out. It just looks normal. Why is
this? Is it a feature or bug?

Second: An Outlook 2008 user copied some cells out of an Excel
document and put it into their email and I got a nicely formatted
table in my email. When I hit reply, Entourage removes all the table
formatting and I'm left with a list of text. Where did it go? Why
did it disappear?

It seems that Entourage isn't playing well with formatting from
Outlook. Are these bugs or features?
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Neither bugs nor features. Entourage is simply working as it was
designed to work.

Its HTML capabilities are limited. Strike-through is not one of its
supported text styles.

Also, Entourage can *display* complex HTML such as tables but it can not
*compose* messages with HTML. That's why when you reply the formatted is
gone.

Send feedback to Microsoft using Help --> Send Feedback in any Office
application to let them know you want to see HTML composition
capabilities in Entourage.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
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iThomasM

Neither bugs nor features. Entourage is simply working as it was
designed to work.

Its HTML capabilities are limited. Strike-through is not one of its
supported text styles.

Also, Entourage can *display* complex HTML such as tables but it can not
*compose* messages with HTML. That's why when you reply the formatted is
gone.

Send feedback to Microsoft using Help --> Send Feedback in any Office
application to let them know you want to see HTML composition
capabilities in Entourage.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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Thanks

This information helps confirm my move away from Entourage 2008. It
seemed like a nice application, but is lacking features that I need to
do my job.

Thomas
 
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