Outlook 2007 - Plain Text message improper alignment

[Guest]

We have a script running in UNIX which generates the mail in plain text to
the customers. Customers are able to receive and view the mail in proper
format (in outlook 2003). A few customers have migrated to Outlook 2007 and
they are receiving the mail in which the alignment of the content is not
proper.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

not proper
Care to elaborate on that? If it is hard to explain in text you might want
to use screenshots.

 

[Guest]

Please find below a crisp of the email content which looks in outlook 2007
(alignment not proper)
Curr Assets 378,869,000 425,058,000 484,361,000
Curr Liabs 302,165,000 344,180,000 390,617,000
Current Ratio 1.25 1.23 1.24
Working Capital 76,704,000 80,878,000 93,744,000
Other Assets 51,433,000 66,307,000 81,786,000
Worth 124,232,000 143,309,000 162,549,000
Long Term Liab 3,905,000 3,876,000 12,981,000

Also find below the same content in outlook 2003 recipient inbox
Curr Assets 50,751,000 49,314,482
Curr Liabs 19,646,000 17,583,003
Current Ratio 2.58 2.8
Working Capital 31,105,000 31,731,479 35,391,468
Other Assets 35,663,000 38,081,883 43,352,728
I hope this helps. Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Roady, I also tried out the following things in outlook 2007,
Tools->options->Mail Format->Stationeries and Fonts->Fonts
I changed the existing Font for 'composing and reading plain text' to 10pt
Courier New as it was the default settings in outlook 2003. But I couldn't
find any effect in the mail cotent(present in inbox) by this change. I
Forwarded the same mail( by changing the font as courier New for the entire
content) from outlook 2007 to my ID and opened the mail in outlook 2007. This
time the report content looks perfect.

 

[Guest]

Could any one please help this sorting out this alignment problem?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Hard to tell . Can you generate a screenshot. Is it set to Unicode ??

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Please find below a crisp of the email content which looks in outlook 2007
(alignment not proper)
Curr Assets 378,869,000 425,058,000 484,361,000
Curr Liabs 302,165,000 344,180,000 390,617,000
Current Ratio 1.25 1.23 1.24
Working Capital 76,704,000 80,878,000 93,744,000
Other Assets 51,433,000 66,307,000 81,786,000
Worth 124,232,000 143,309,000 162,549,000
Long Term Liab 3,905,000 3,876,000 12,981,000

Also find below the same content in outlook 2003 recipient inbox
Curr Assets 50,751,000 49,314,482
Curr Liabs 19,646,000 17,583,003
Current Ratio 2.58 2.8
Working Capital 31,105,000 31,731,479 35,391,468
Other Assets 35,663,000 38,081,883 43,352,728
I hope this helps. Thanks in advance.

not proper

Care to elaborate on that? If it is hard to explain in text you might want
to use screenshots.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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We have a script running in UNIX which generates the mail in plain text to
the customers. Customers are able to receive and view the mail in proper
format (in outlook 2003). A few customers have migrated to Outlook 2007
and
they are receiving the mail in which the alignment of the content is not
proper.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Which help do you still need at this point? You've obviously found the
issue. You can never assume that the receiver uses a fixed-width font to
display Plain Text. In that sense you should also never build your
formatting on that assumption. You can use HTML formatted messages if
formatting is important for displaying your message.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

did you close and reopen the message? I think you need to, to see the
change.