You ought to be able to add whatever you want - in Word - after pasting from Excel, before Sending. You cannot add anything in Entourage itself, since that would entirely defeat the purpose of using Word's HTML editor and would revert to Entourage's losing the table and some other formatting.
If you mean that you're having trouble doing this in Word, tell us exactly what you would like to do and what your steps are, and we should be able to fix that for you. (Or at the very least direct you to the Word newsgroup where someone can.) -- Paul Berkowitz From: "Samuel D. Bays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:27:25 -0400 To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Conversation: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body Subject: Re: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body Thank you, Matt and Paul 533 MHz PowerPC G4 OS X 10.4.8 Office 2004 v 11.3.3 To some extent the technique you describe offers a superior result, insofar as the "Excel to Word + Send To" enables one to retain Excel formatting in the appearance. But from other aspects, it is more awkward. It seems that you cannot insert text before and/or after the pasted table, as you might wish to do if you were, say, discuss the information in the pasted table. For example, I tried inserting paragraph marks in Word before and after the pasted Excel before invoking "Send To" data to provide "space" for a discussion, but this does not work. Unless I am missing something, it appears that I would have to compose my entire message discussion, pasted material and further discussion -- to achieve the result I seek. That's not all bad. Since the paste from Excel places you in Word, you might as well finish the exercise before invoking "Send To." -- Sam Bays From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:08:46 -0400 To: Entourage Mac Talk <[email protected]> Conversation: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body Subject: Re: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body Entourage's own HTML editor does not make tables, which is what keeps columns neatly in place. By using Word, as you correctly suggest, Word's HTML editor is used instead. There isn't any way of doing that directly from Entourage, but at least Word 2004 has the ability to "call" Entourage to do the sending. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - 2004, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. From: Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:43:11 +1100 To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Conversation: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body Subject: Re: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body The Outlook message window is actually Microsoft Word. You can do similar on the Mac but you have to open Word to an empty document. You can paste what you want. You then go to the File menu, select Send To, the Mail Recipient (as HTML). What¹s missing in Entourage is a simple way of invoking this. -- Matthew Smith From: "Samuel D. Bays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:36:13 -0400 To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Conversation: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body Subject: MS Excel Data Appeared in Neat Columns in Message Body One of my correspondents sent me a message containing in its body seven columns of numerical data, not perfectly but serviceably organized beneath a header. I have been trying to accomplish this in Entourage for years to little avail. The best I can do is use a combination of tabs, spaces and backspaces to line up the data at least on my composition screen -- and pray that the recipient finds my data intelligible. So I had to ask the sender how he accomplished this. He replied that he simply copied the data from an Excel spreadsheet and pasted it into his Outlook message screen. I don't believe that method works satisfactorily for Entourage users yet, without the data splaying all over the place. When I clicked on the reply button, even his nicely organized data collapsed into columns. Is an enhancement for Entourage users in the offing?
