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 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
