On 2/17/01 12:43 PM, "Jim Colgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't seen this specific issue on the list (or at least did not
> recognize it), so I thought I would pass on what I learned this week.
>
> If you have received the pretty e-mails from Intuit or E-Trade or such that
> have all the pictures and extensive formatting with boarders, panes, etc.,
> that is what I mean by complex HTML.
>
> This week I received an e-Newsletter from one of the companies I deal with
> in this complex HTML format and wanted to pass it on to a fellow worker.
> When I forwarded it, everything but the text size formatting was lost. The
> whole effect of the newsletter was gone.
>
> The workaround I found was to drag the message to the desktop. Create a new
> message to the fellow worker and then drag the message back from the desktop
> into the attachment pane. It then went out as an attachment and all the
> complex HTML formatting was preserved. I suspect that I could just drag the
> message from the list directly into the attachment pane of the new draft
> message saving the transfer to desktop and back steps, but did not try that.
>
> I wonder if redirect would also preserve the formatting????
>
> It would be nice if Entourage was symmetrical so that if it can display a
> format, that it could also send it.
That would require reducing what we could display, which I think would be a
bad thing. When forwarding it, we have to reduce it to what is editable,
and our message composition does not allow "complex HTML".
Dan
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