default "plain text" message format when sending files. How to change default?

[Wim Eising]

In Windows Explorer, when I send a file (Send To>Mail Recipient) the
default message format is PLAIN TEXT (with the standard text "The
message is ready to be sent with the following file or link
attachments:...." on the first line). How could I set it to the HTML
default message format? Note that my default message format in Outlook
is HTML (Outlook>New Message).
Wim

 

[Wim Eising]

hey, no responses????

 

[Brian Tillman]

In Windows Explorer, when I send a file (Send To>Mail Recipient) the
default message format is PLAIN TEXT (with the standard text "The
message is ready to be sent with the following file or link
attachments:...." on the first line). How could I set it to the HTML
default message format?

You can't.

 

[Wim Eising]

Isn't that a typical MS weird thing again....

And please explain to me why there are 2 different HTML email formats
in Outlook 2003. When I create a new message in Outlook ("New Message")
I get a typical Word document format (With Word Styles etc), while when
in Windows Explorer I right-click on a file and select Send To>Mail
Recipient, and change the format of the resulting message to HTML, I
get a HTML message with typical Web Page styles like Normal, Formatted,
Paragraph etc...

Wim

 

[Brian Tillman]

Isn't that a typical MS weird thing again....

And please explain to me why there are 2 different HTML email formats
in Outlook 2003. When I create a new message in Outlook ("New
Message") I get a typical Word document format (With Word Styles
etc), while when in Windows Explorer I right-click on a file and
select Send To>Mail Recipient, and change the format of the resulting
message to HTML, I get a HTML message with typical Web Page styles
like Normal, Formatted, Paragraph etc...

When you create a new message from within Outlook, you have it set to launch
Word as your mail editor. The Send To>Mail Recipient path, however, starts
the Outlook editor, not Word. That's wht you see two different compose
windows.

 

[Wim Eising]

thanks. Clear. Though strange that one cannot set the Word HTML as the
standard for ALL emails, incl Send To>Mail..... Another example of the
(lack of) consistency in the MS Office Suite.