Vista - Edit HTML code in forwarded messages

I've been able to edit or "cleanup" all the blue lines that accumulate with
forwarded messages in Outlook Express by deleting the BLOCKQUOTE entries. Is
there an equivalent capability in Live Mail? Otherwise things get very messy
after several forwardings.

Or failing that, will I be able to use good old Outlook Express in the future?
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TOF

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.


As long as you keep Windows XP (or earlier) you can continue to use OE
indefinitely with POP3 and IMAP accounts. HTTP support in OE for
Hotmail will eventually stop working. But Hotmail now offers POP3 so
you will still be able to use OE with Hotmail that way.

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



"TOF" <TOF@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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TOF


"Michael Santovec" wrote:
Thanks for the help and sorry for the delayed appreciation. Been otherwise
occupied. :-)

Michael I may have a workaround for the "edit" problem with WLM. Your way
does work but this approach (four successful trials) may be simpler. Let me
preface this by noting that my trials were in Windows XP and Win7 RC versions
of WLM.

Open the received message which may have the "line(s)" down the side and
elect to Forward it. But Don't do that. Highlight the parts you want to
eventually send but not beyond the bottom of the "line" and copy it (control
- C) . Close the "forward" message.

Open a New blank message and paste the previously copied text/pictures, etc.

Address and subject and send it.

This has worked for me each time I've tried it. And it's probably not as
much work as editing the BLOCKQUOTE sections with Outlook Express
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TOF


"Michael Santovec" wrote: