using word as e-mail editor, setting margins?

[Guest]

microsoft word is my e-mail editor. i have turned on the formatting bar.
however for items like 'page setup', which i normally select from the 'file'
menu in word, does not appear in outlooks file menu (which is active when i
am writing an e-mail) how then can i set margins, (or the outher page setup
options from within outlook?), while creating an e-mail?

the goal is to only use 1/2 of the page. if i simply use line returns, the
format in which the recipient receives the message is unpredictable. (doesn't
appear the way it did on my computer when i wrote it)

thanks for your assistance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No. Email, even HTML, does not support the same features as a word document
which is typically printed. You could try using tables in HTML.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, are you then saying that if i want that level of formatting, without
learning HTML, i should create the document in word, output the contents in
HTML, then cut and paste into the outlook e-mail?

What i am looking for is actually one feature,

rathhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ther than have the full page width, i would like to wrap the document as if
it were written as a memo,1111111111111
22222222222222222222222222222
33333333333333333333333333333

A smaller pagewidth, with the formattting remaining intact. I have received
e-mails of this type, but are not sure how they were produced. (as you know
ending a line with a carraige return, as appossed to typing to the end will
produce different results depending on the program that reads and dislays the
message.)

As microsoft now accepts 'underlining', 'fonts', etc, and suspect then
translates them into HTML, does not the underlying capability already exist
in word? Therefore isn't it a feature that you could 'expose' when word runs
as an embedded application under outlook?

Do you know if this has/will change with word/outlook 2007?

Thanks again.

 

[Guest]

Hi Diane,

What i am experiencing is a problem reported often over the years in
Outlook, the margins that are appropriate in a word document are too large
for typical e-mail message. I believe that one solution has been to change
the 'word wraparound' number for rtf formatted messages.

I think there may be a better solution, given that outlook can display any
HTML message as you suggested. Word should be capable of formatting a HTML
message, where the defaults have been set using word's 'page setup' options.
The output should be able to be stored as the default outlook e-mail
stationary.

Does that make sense?

Will let you know the outcome.

Thanks for your assistance.