How Do You Enter HTML CODE into an e-mail?

G

Guest

Seems like a simple question with a simple answer, but for whatever reason, I
can't seem to figure this out at the moment...and I've been using Outlook for
years! :-(

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Andy
 
G

Guest

I should also mention that I currently have WORD as my e-mail editor.
Essentially, I'm trying ot figure out how to enter HTML SOURCE code into an
e-mail, and then, subsequently, how to view the e-mail as it would be
presented - if this is even possible within Outlook.

Thanks.
 
B

Ben M. Schorr - MVP

Well, I guess you could just type it in. But if you have your message
format set to HTML and you're using the Word editor it should automatically
do the formatting codes for you. Is that not what you're seeing? What kind
of HTML are you trying to insert?


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Aloha,

-Ben-
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Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
 
G

Guest

Well, what I'm trying to do is this...

I have a little audio program that will create small MP3 files that would
allow me to embed audio. Now, for web pages, this would be easy using
something like Frontpage. The program creates a few lines of HTML code;
converted, the "display" would show audio buttons (NOT the source code). I
simply want to embed this HTML course code within the (WORD editor) email. A
copy-n-paste leaves the literal HTML code.

Make sense?

Thanks...

Andy
 
B

Ben M. Schorr - MVP

Ah. I think the problem, and I'm not HTML expert, is that those buttons are
scripted (Java? VBScript?) and I don't think Outlook supports those,
natively, in an e-mail message.

What if you create your e-mail in FrontPage and then e-mail the page?


--
Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm

**I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for assistance.
Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
 
G

Guest

Hi, Ben...

Yeah, I think I'm going to try that. The funny thing is that this CAN be
done easily with Outlook Express - since they have the source/preview
tabs...but for some reason, NOT so with Outlook itself. Doesn't make sense.
And I don't want to use OE.

Thanks for the help!

Andy
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

OE is a part of Windows and shares some of the same code for HTML and other
items. Outlook is not so it does not have the same abilities as OE.

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After furious head scratching, Infoman asked:

| Hi, Ben...
|
| Yeah, I think I'm going to try that. The funny thing is that this
| CAN be done easily with Outlook Express - since they have the
| source/preview tabs...but for some reason, NOT so with Outlook
| itself. Doesn't make sense. And I don't want to use OE.
|
| Thanks for the help!
|
| Andy
|
|
|
| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|
|| Ah. I think the problem, and I'm not HTML expert, is that those
|| buttons are scripted (Java? VBScript?) and I don't think Outlook
|| supports those, natively, in an e-mail message.
||
|| What if you create your e-mail in FrontPage and then e-mail the page?
||
||
|| --
|| Aloha,
||
|| -Ben-
|| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|| Roland Schorr & Tower
|| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|| Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm
||
|| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|| assistance. Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup.
|| Mahalo!
||
|| ||| Well, what I'm trying to do is this...
|||
||| I have a little audio program that will create small MP3 files that
||| would allow me to embed audio. Now, for web pages, this would be
||| easy using something like Frontpage. The program creates a few
||| lines of HTML code; converted, the "display" would show audio
||| buttons (NOT the source code). I
||| simply want to embed this HTML course code within the (WORD editor)
||| email. A
||| copy-n-paste leaves the literal HTML code.
|||
||| Make sense?
|||
||| Thanks...
|||
||| Andy
|||
||| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|||
|||| Well, I guess you could just type it in. But if you have your
|||| message format set to HTML and you're using the Word editor it
|||| should automatically
|||| do the formatting codes for you. Is that not what you're seeing?
|||| What kind
|||| of HTML are you trying to insert?
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Aloha,
||||
|||| -Ben-
|||| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|||| Roland Schorr & Tower
|||| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|||| Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm
||||
|||| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|||| assistance.
|||| Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
||||
|||| ||||| Whoops! Sorry, Ben...it's Outlook 2003. (Office 2003 PRO)
|||||
||||| "Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:
|||||
|||||| What version of Outlook?
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Aloha,
||||||
|||||| -Ben-
|||||| Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
|||||| Roland Schorr & Tower
|||||| http://www.rolandschorr.com
|||||| Microsoft OneNote FAQ: http://www.factplace.com/onenotefaq.htm
||||||
|||||| **I apologize but I am unable to respond to direct requests for
|||||| assistance.
|||||| Please post questions and replies here in the newsgroup. Mahalo!
||||||
|||||| ||||||| Seems like a simple question with a simple answer, but for
||||||| whatever reason, I
||||||| can't seem to figure this out at the moment...and I've been
||||||| using Outlook
||||||| for
||||||| years! :-(
|||||||
||||||| Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
|||||||
||||||| Andy
 

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