On 7/2/03 10:08 AM, "Mickey Stevens"  wrote:

> On 7/2/03 3:18 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 

>> Although it may be mostly styled text, there must be something in the
>> message that can't be rendered by Entourage itself and is being passed to
>> the Internet Explorer HTML engine as for all "complex HTML". It could be a
>> logo in the signature, or it could be that Lotus includes a table in all
>> emails even if you don't see one. Complex HTML messages rendered by IE don't
>> contain just the selection when replying - that is, even when you manage to
>> select something. Try it with an obvious complex HTML message and you'll
>> see. Then check the Source of one of these Lotus messages and I bet you'll
>> see it has a part with HTML tags. One of them will be <TABLE> or else there
>> will be <a href> tags to URLs.
> 
> Paul is completely correct.  This does not always happen with new messages
> sent from Lotus to Entourage, but it does happen if the message is a reply
> sent to you with quoted text.  This is because the attribution in Lotus is
> all encased in a table to ensure it renders correctly.  You could ask the
> sender to send to you in plain text or to reply without quoted text (the
> attribution, in particular) to avoid this problem.
> 
> You also could just disable the option to "Display complex HTML in messages"
> under the "Read" tab of Mail & News Preferences to take care of this, but
> you'd need to remember to toggle it on and off, otherwise other messages
> (like e-newsletters) might look strange.

Thank you both. You're obviously right, because when I tried turning off
"Display complex HTML in messages" I could select and reply and just the
selected text showed up in the reply. I don't know whether the cure is worse
than the disease or not :-). Anyway, I'm glad it wasn't something I was
doing and I'll either live without complex HTML or I'll do replies to these
people without being able to select bits of the text.

-- 
Jan Martel in Davis, CA
iBook 500; System 10.2.6, 9.2.2

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