Use of Tab button when composing e-mail

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brettfeinstein

One of the big differences I am trying to get used to in Entourage is
that, unlike Outlook, it does not use Word to compose e-mail
messages--or if it does, I do not know how to configure my system to do
it.

One of the downsides of this is that using the tab button to create
consistent spacing...say if I am trying to create a rudimentary table
in the text of my e-mail. Is there any way to get the Entourage e-mail
editor to consistently space tabs?
 
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Michel Bintener

You can actually use Word to compose your HTML e-mails, and you can create
real tables, even formatted ones; however, you will need to have Office 2004
to do this, and Entourage has to be set up as your default e-mail client.
Open Word 2004, compose your e-mail with all the tools available in Word,
and when you're done, click on File>Send To>Mail Recipient (as HTML), and
Word will send your current document to Entourage. The one big drawback to
this method is that you cannot attach files to it later on, and you cannot
modify the text any longer, so if you need to make additional changes, you
will have to open the Word document again and repeat the "Send to" procedure
after you're done.


One of the big differences I am trying to get used to in Entourage is
that, unlike Outlook, it does not use Word to compose e-mail
messages--or if it does, I do not know how to configure my system to do
it.

One of the downsides of this is that using the tab button to create
consistent spacing...say if I am trying to create a rudimentary table
in the text of my e-mail. Is there any way to get the Entourage e-mail
editor to consistently space tabs?
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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