How OE Rich Text formatting and Word formatting interact

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Larry

Here's an interesting thing that happened.

I had sent an e-mail to someone in which I had italicized some of the
words. Then I copied the e-mail text into Word and fixed it up to post
at a web discussion. I wanted to de-italicize one of the italicized
words, so I placed the cursor on it and pressed Ctrl+I. The word became
regular instead of italic font. Then I posted this text at a web
discussion. After posting it, I saw that the word I thought I had
de-italicized, was still in italic. How could this be? I looked back
at the Word document where I had re-formatted the text. When I put the
cursor on the mystery de-italicized word, I saw that it was not in
Normal style but in Emphasis style.

So, trying to figure out what happened, when I had initially italicized
the word in the OE message, OE had not just italized it, it had assigned
the Emphasis style to it. When I de-italicized the word in Word, it
lost its italic formatting, but still had the Emphasis style. Then when
I posted it at the web page, the browser picked up the Emphasis style
and displayed the word as italicized.

BTW, the same thing happens if I de-italize the word and then copy it
back into an OE message. The word which was de-italicized in Word, is
italicized after I pasted it into OE.

Larry
 
Word and Outlook Express use different HTML editors so what you see in Word
does not always translate to what Outlook Express will produce. This has
been a problem for quite some time since Word uses such bloated code in all
of its HTML.
 
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