On 12/30/07 7:44 PM, "Lorin Roche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> around 12/30/07 5:59 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote: > >> Of course he could accomplish this by just using plain text. > > Paul, do you personally prefer plain text for most emails? I send most ordinary messages plain text by default to avoid annoying people who don't like HTML and let it fit into their own preferences. Sometimes, however, I want to include formatting (bold, italics, etc. occasionally colored text) to make a point, or even less occasionally insert a photo in the text. These will be for more formal presentations. On these occasions, I'll naturally use HTML. For some reason, not entirely rational, I continue to use a very plain monotype font for plain text. Thus, I actually find most HTML fonts in messages I receive more pleasing! (There's nothing, stopping me, I realize, from switching my plain text font to one of these more attractive fonts.) Unlike some people here, I do not usually mind receiving "simple" (formatted) HTML messages most of the time: I do have some correspondents at work who send HTML all the time. The exceptions are when someone sends messages that look miniscule on my computer's screen resolution, or very occasionally gigantic. That's quite infrequent, and even then all it takes is one or two clicks or cmd-+ to change the size - no big deal. I don't like getting unsolicited advertising complex HTML extravaganzas, but I wouldn't like them any better as plain text messages. Basically, I think that some people have obsessive "control" issues over receiving HTML email. I can't stop people sending me formatted letters in regular snail mail - why should I mind that they, rather than I, choose the formatting for email? In the cases when it is done tastefully, I actually prefer it, and appreciate the clarity that headings in bold and color bring to well-organized text, just as I do in onscreen or printed Word documents. In cases when it is tasteless or garish, yes, I'd rather have had plain text, but so what? I don't find it a big deal most of the time. But it's simpler just to stick to dull plain text to avoid riling up HTML-haters and Luddites, so that's what I do most of the time, like here. -- 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. -- 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/>
