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Old 05-17-2008   #1 (permalink)
swallown


 
 

How to edit messages in html code like Outlook Espress?

How to obtain the tabs or activate the possibility for editing html code in
messages like Outlook Express?

Thank you


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Old 05-17-2008   #2 (permalink)
...winston


 
 

Re: How to edit messages in html code like Outlook Espress?

Unlike Outlook Espresso<g>...Those tabs(View Source, Preview, etc are not available) in WLM

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...winston
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"swallown" <tomiberjoyo@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:C40B6E5C-4EE9-4E00-9FD5-1AE010FF9150@xxxxxx
Quote:

> How to obtain the tabs or activate the possibility for editing html code in messages like Outlook Express?
>
> Thank you

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 05-17-2008   #3 (permalink)
Michael Santovec


 
 

Re: How to edit messages in html code like Outlook Espress?

Windows Live Mail (WLM) lacks the ability that Outlook Express (OE) has
to view/edit the HTML source in a message that you are composing. There
is a workaround, but it is nowhere as convenient as in OE.

1 - Start composing the message as normal.

2 - When you get to the point when you want to edit the HTML, do a File,
Save As to an EML file. Close the message (X in the upper right hand
corner).

3 - Open the saved EML file in Notepad.

4 - At this point you can edit the HTML code. If you edit the text in
the HTML portion of the message, WLM will automatically update the plain
text portion when you send the message.

5 - Save the EML file from Notepad, then double click to open in WLM.
You can then send the message.

6 - The saved EML file can be deleted.

Note: If after opening the saved EML file you make some changes via WLM
and decide that you need to do make further source changes, you will
need to save to a different EML file, as the current one is locked by
WLM and won't let the Save As update it.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"swallown" <tomiberjoyo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C40B6E5C-4EE9-4E00-9FD5-1AE010FF9150@xxxxxx
Quote:

> How to obtain the tabs or activate the possibility for editing html
> code in messages like Outlook Express?
>
> Thank you

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 05-18-2008   #4 (permalink)
Ildhund


 
 

Re: How to edit messages in html code like Outlook Espress?

There are some pretty odd quirks in the way WLMail generates and/or
reads HTML. For example, try setting up a fixed-formatted
(space-delimited) set of columns, making sure you use a fixed-width
font. If the transfer-encoding is set to None or QP, the HTML will
be QP encoded. Then, when generating the HTML, WLMail (mshtml.dll?)
counts characters per line and inserts a '=' at the end of each,
depending on the user setting. But each of the delimiting spaces has
been converted to &nbsp; - six columns instead of one. The '=' is
bound to occur in the middle of some of the &nbsp; characters (the
engine doesn't seem to regard ';' as a potential line-break
character), so instead of a nicely formatted table you get rows like
January &nb sp; 31
February &nbsp ; 28

You can easily observe this by saving the message you're composing
and then viewing the draft. The workaround is to encode as base64.
As a matter of interest, I have 18 different versions of mshtml.dll
on my XPSP3/IE7 system - none of them the one that WLMail claims to
be using.
--
Noel

"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

> Windows Live Mail (WLM) lacks the ability that Outlook Express
> (OE) has to view/edit the HTML source in a message that you are
> composing. There is a workaround, but it is nowhere as convenient
> as in OE.
>
> 1 - Start composing the message as normal.
>
> 2 - When you get to the point when you want to edit the HTML, do a
> File, Save As to an EML file. Close the message (X in the upper
> right hand corner).
>
> 3 - Open the saved EML file in Notepad.
>
> 4 - At this point you can edit the HTML code. If you edit the
> text in the HTML portion of the message, WLM will automatically
> update the plain text portion when you send the message.
>
> 5 - Save the EML file from Notepad, then double click to open in
> WLM. You can then send the message.
>
> 6 - The saved EML file can be deleted.
>
> Note: If after opening the saved EML file you make some changes
> via WLM and decide that you need to do make further source
> changes, you will need to save to a different EML file, as the
> current one is locked by WLM and won't let the Save As update it.
>
> --
>
> Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
>
>
>
> "swallown" <tomiberjoyo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C40B6E5C-4EE9-4E00-9FD5-1AE010FF9150@xxxxxx
Quote:

>> How to obtain the tabs or activate the possibility for editing
>> html code in messages like Outlook Express?
>>
>> Thank you
>
>
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