Word 2007 Automatic formatting not recognized in email

[TFields]

I have a 300 page manuscript that I'm copying chapters and pasting into
emails to various people. When I paste the text, the paragraphs that were
"automatically indented," lose the indent formatting. Right now, I'm having
to go back to every paragraph (and line of dialogue) and delete the automatic
indent and click the tab key so that the formatting will be recognized when
copied into G-mail or Outlook.

Is there a way to replace all of the automatic indents with tabs (or
something else) that would be recognized in an email? When I turn on the
"show all formatting" nothing shows up with the indent. When I click on tab I
can actually see the arrow sign.

Sorry for the length of this... would much appreciate any help!

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

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I have a 300 page manuscript that I'm copying chapters and pasting
into emails to various people. When I paste the text, the paragraphs
that were "automatically indented," lose the indent formatting. Right
now, I'm having to go back to every paragraph (and line of dialogue)
and delete the automatic indent and click the tab key so that the
formatting will be recognized when copied into G-mail or Outlook.

Is there a way to replace all of the automatic indents with tabs (or
something else) that would be recognized in an email? When I turn on
the "show all formatting" nothing shows up with the indent. When I
click on tab I can actually see the arrow sign.

Sorry for the length of this... would much appreciate any help!

What do you mean by "automatically indented"?
What Word version?

 

[TFields]

It's Word 2007 from the Office suite. After several paragraphs Word
recognizes that each time I hit the ENTER key that I also tab to indent a new
paragraph. It starts automatically doing the indent for me. Which is great. I
no longer have to tab. The problem is, there is no formatting mark when that
happens. So, when I copy text and paste into an email, there isn't anything
at the beginning of each paragraph to signal I need an indent. Does that make
sense? Thanks for your time.
Tricia

 

[CyberTaz]

Generally speaking, most email clients do not support Tabs & Indents -- and
even if they do there's no guarantee that the recipient's email client will
respect them. It sounds like you're attempting to control appearance at the
recipient's end, which is just about impossible with copy/paste - especially
in the body of an email message.

If the recipient needs to be able to edit the text paste it into a ne Word
document & send it as an attachment. If they just need to see the content do
the same, but send it as a PDF attachment rather than as a Word document.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac