Web Page in EMail

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Lawrence

I am a long standing Windows user who has switched to Mac. In Outlook, I can copy a web page from IE or Netscape by just pasting it onto an email message. It's just "control A," paste and you're done

I have tried to do this in Mail and Entourage 2004, and I can't get it to work. The text appears, but nothing else.

I have tried everything I can think of-- I have set my preferences to send complex html

It just seems to me that Macs are useless if someone can't send a simple web page with all the html links through email. That is about the most basic function a computer user needs

Help-- I would love to make this work
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I am a long standing Windows user who has switched to Mac. In Outlook, I can
copy a web page from IE or Netscape by just pasting it onto an email message.
It's just "control A," paste and you're done.

I have tried to do this in Mail and Entourage 2004, and I can't get it to
work. The text appears, but nothing else.

I have tried everything I can think of-- I have set my preferences to send
complex html.
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There is no preference to send complex HTML - only to receive it via
"Download Pictures" or having the sender in the Address Book. Entourage
cannot make complex HTML, although it can insert graphics by dragging a
graphic or using Message/Insert/Picture. Entourage cannot embed graphics via
HTML code and a URL, nor can it do tables.

In 2004, you can prepare a page to send as HTML in Word. I do not know if
copying and pasting a web browser page directly into a open Word doc will
work as you wish. Try it. Do any further editing you need in Word. Then
File/Send To/Mail Recipient (as HTML) will send it out from Entourage with
no further editing. Naturally you cannot start out by clicking "Reply" in
Entourage, but you could copy and paste form a received Entourage message
into a new Word doc. (I might come up with a script that would do this
automatically for you, perhaps even adding the usual attribution and so on.)
Then paste the web page, if that works. Then edit, and send.

Alternatively, look into my script Send Complex HTML X which can send an
HTML document or a page displayed in Internet Explorer (yes, requires IE).
It just seems to me that Macs are useless if someone can't send a simple web
page with all the html links through email. That is about the most basic
function a computer user needs.
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Macs are useless - I see. You're asking people who have decided that they
prefer and are committed to Macs for hundreds of compelling reasons, but you
insult their intelligence as you do it by telling them that their
preferences and decisions are for a useless piece of junk because it won't
do this frivolous bit of fluff you call the "most basic function a computer
user needs". Did you ever try just copying and pasting the URL from the web
page into the email so people and just click on it and go there themselves
with one click? Now that seems pretty basic to me. There's even a script by
Barry Wainwright at the same site that will insert the URL of the front
window of Safari into your message without even having to copy, paste or go
there. That seems a lot better than basic to me.
Help-- I would love to make this work.
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And then having insulted us all, you then ask us for help. Hmmm. You even
get help. If you prefer Windows, it's easy to go back.


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
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Dave Cortright

It just seems to me that Macs are useless if someone can't send a simple web
page with all the html links through email. That is about the most basic
function a computer user needs.
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In that case, maybe it'd best ditch your Mac and get a PC. It's definitely a
lot easier to do it on the PC than on the Mac. In Mac Office 2004 you can do
it by:
1. Saving the web page from Safari to an HTML file
2. Opening that HTML file in Word 2004
3. Choosing File:Send To:Mail as HTML

See attached message as an example.

FWIW, I think you should really consider just sending a link to the web
page, rather than the entire page itself. That way the recipients can decide
for themselves whether or not they want to view it, and it saves a ton of
bandwidth.
 
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Lawrence

I did not intend to insult Mac users (in fact, since I now own one, I would be insulting myself). I bought the Mac for stability, ease of use and to handle media (video, pics) through imovie and adobe. So far, I have had mixed success with my g5, more negative than positive-- particulary with the ability to burn DVDs. But, the apple display is the best there is

I agree that sending a URL link is the most sensible way to handling this issue, but some of the users to whom I send mail download email while travelling and don't always have a live internet connection. So, it would be nice to simply send the HTML page

Thanks for your help.
 
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Barry Wainwright

In that case, maybe it'd best ditch your Mac and get a PC. It's definitely a
lot easier to do it on the PC than on the Mac. In Mac Office 2004 you can do
it by:
1. Saving the web page from Safari to an HTML file
2. Opening that HTML file in Word 2004
3. Choosing File:Send To:Mail as HTML
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It¹s even easier than that...

Just choose Œopen web page¹ from the web toolbar, then Œsend to mail
recipient (as HTML)¹
 
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