Wish: View in HTML as an option for individual messges when globaltext-mode is on

[H Gohel]

Outlook 2003. I've turned on the Tools > Options > Preferences > Email
Options... > "Read all standard mail in plain text"

This allows me to avoid downloading tagged images (not withstanding
OL2003's built-in features). It also allows me to reply to Yahoo Group
messages without including the ads.

However, some emails such as HTML newsletters don't look so good in text
mode. Is it possible to have a button on the tool bar, or in the View
menu to view a particular message in it's original format?

That would be very useful. Perhaps a macro might do the job?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That button is already there; it's a line under the saying; This message was
converted to Plain Text. Press on it to convert it to HTML

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[H Gohel]

Outlook 2003. I've turned on the Tools > Options > Preferences >
Email Options... > "Read all standard mail in plain text"

Is it possible to have a button on the tool bar, or in the
View menu to view a particular message in it's original format?

That button is already there; it's a line under the saying; This message was
converted to Plain Text. Press on it to convert it to HTML

Thank you! It completely slipped my mind to click that line which
looked like a status message. In another case, that line actually tells
you to click there (specifically I'm referring to "Extra line breaks
were removed, click here to restore").

Anyway, so now the question is, once I convert it to HTML view, I wish I
could convert it back to text! The workaround for this is to click on
another message, and then click back on the message, which again
presents it as text.

The reason for this request is for replying to messages posted to Yahoo
Groups (for example). They include a graphical ad which I don't want to
include in my reply - I would like to reply in plain text only,
including the text of the original message. If I reply to the HTML
message, I find it difficult to select and delete the ad portion of the
email...I have no idea why! I can delete certain text portions but not
all parts of the message. But maybe that's a topic for another post.

Thanks.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Outlook always replys to the message in the format the original was received
(unless you forced it to be converted of course). Once you've pressed the
reply button you can change the format again either by the Format menu
(Outlook as e-mail editor) or directly from the Toolbar (Word as e-mail
editor)

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www.howto-outlook.com

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[H Gohel]

Outlook always replys to the message in the format the original was received
(unless you forced it to be converted of course). Once you've pressed the
reply button you can change the format again either by the Format menu
(Outlook as e-mail editor) or directly from the Toolbar (Word as e-mail
editor)

Agreed. That is not the problem. I've changed the subject of the post
now to try and figure out this problem:

Incoming mail message is from yahoo groups. it includes a graphical ad
at the bottom which doesn't get displayed either because (1) I have set
"read all standard messages in plain text", or (2) Outlook doesn't
download images automatically unless I set the source to trusted. Great!

Now I want to reply to this message. My reply preference is set to
"indent and prefix" each line with a ">" character.

If I am reading a message in plain text, there's no problem. Reply is
also plain text, and the graphical ad is never included.

If however, I'm in HTML view mode and I click reply, Outlook will first
warn me that the image must be downloaded which I do (I wish I could say
"no don't download the images, but please continue with the reply").

Now I want to remove the ad from my reply, so I select that block and I
can't delete it! After some experimentation I found that there's a
table in the HTML, which contains the words "Yahoo! Groups Sponsor".
Apparently when that table is in an HTML message, I cannot delete it by
selecting and hitting the delete key. I can select the text and delete
text without problems.

Is that bug? Is there a special way to delete a table from an HTML reply?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Works for me; I place the cursor after the last letter of the original
e-mail and then hold SHIFT and press Page Down twice, let go of my buttons
and press DEL

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[H Gohel]

OK, thanks for that work around Roady, it will help me.

However, there is still a problem with deleting HTML portions of the
message. Same procedure as before. However, start your selection
near/in the table - For example, where it says "Yahoo! Groups Sponsor"
and select the portion till, or after the graphical add.

Hit delete. Won't do it. Modify your selection a little bit. Won't
delete.

It seems that delete works only when the start of the selection is in
then non-HTML portions (which is the way you asked me to select for
delete also).

Can you confirm that? Thanks.

Himanshu

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Note that the whole message is in HTML not just the picture part.

Deleting some portions indeed needs some fiddling with the cursor but that
is because of the format it got inserted (tables and stuff like that). You
can't do anything about that. When I set my cursor at the end of the message
and press Backspace the whole add thing gets deleted right away.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Backup and Restore
-Create an Office XP CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 3

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