Office outlook 2003 - Formatting lost when copying stylesheets to

[Narayana mandali]

Hi All,

We have found an incompatability with Microsoft Outlook 2003 when copying &
pasting HTML content which uses stylesheets (or more generally, content which
is generated in HTML 4.0 or higher format). When the content is pasted into
an HTML compose window in office Outlook 2003 sp 3, some important
formatting is lost, and this has caused problems for some of our users. it
appears that the stylesheet information does not paste correctly to the
compose window -- although it does paste correctly in other Office 2003
applications, so this is not a generic problem

The exact same (i.e. visually identical) HTML generated in HTML 3.2 or
lower, does not lose any formatting when pasting into a compose window.
We need to understand what HTML level is supported by offcie Outlook 2003
We'd also like to know if there are any additional service packs for Office
2003 which might address this issue.

Thanks
Mandali

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Copying and pasting the content is not the way to do this.
Use Insert-> File-> select the htm-file that you have created and click the
little dropdown arrow on the Insert button to choose Insert as Text.

Which CSS components are supported depends on whether you are using Word or
Outlook as the email editor and what level off filtering you have enabled.

 

[Narayana mandali]

Thanks Roady

Copying and pasting the content is not the way to do this.
Use Insert-> File-> select the htm-file that you have created and click the
little dropdown arrow on the Insert button to choose Insert as Text.

Which CSS components are supported depends on whether you are using Word or
Outlook as the email editor and what level off filtering you have enabled.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!

Thanks Roady