Seinding a message from Outlook (using Word as editor) to a person who uses Outlook Express.

[Bob Carlson]

I scanned an article from the newpaper and ran OCR, converted it to a
Word document, and them pasted the article in my message in Outlook.
Because I wanted it to appear to look like a newspaper article, I
shrunk the margins of just the text of the article to "kind of" appear
like a newspaper article.

However, the recipient who received it, said the article margin was
shrunk a lot narrower than I set it. It wrapped to a new line nearly
after every word. They received it in Outlook Express.

I had the opportunity to see it first hand from their PC and indeed,
this was true.

So, I experimented and sent it to myself, and received it in Outlook,
and also to a Hotmail account I occasionally use, but access with
Outlook Express. It was fine in Outlook, but not in Outlook Express.
The margin was shrunk exactly like the originally receipient.

This leads me to question. Do different mail tools view things
differently than I send it. Can I format future Email messages in a
manner that what I send to the receipient looks more or less how I
type and edit it in Outlook with Word as my editor. Obviously, if I
sent it plain text, that would work, but I don't think this is the
solution I want.

Suggestions.

Bob

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

How did you shrink the margins?

it should work ok if you use HTML and a table to control the width - but a
lot depends on the width of the email window.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
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