On 8/2/13 11:54 AM, hawker wrote: > On 8/2/2013 2:39 PM, BIll Spikowski wrote: >> hawker wrote: >>> On 8/2/2013 1:44 PM, BIll Spikowski wrote: >>>> hawker wrote: >>>>> I keep getting complaints from those who use Outlook that when I cut and >>>>> paste from MS Word all they get is Greek letters and/or gibberish with >>>>> MS font inserts and such. I'm only cutting and pasting standard text. >>>>> >>>>> It looks fine for all other mail clients. Any ideas what causes this or >>>>> if there is something I can do about it? Dumping on Outlook is not an >>>>> answer. Folks are going to use it, no matter what we think. If it looks >>>>> fine in SM it should look fine in Outlook. >>>> >>>> In Word, you're NEVER cutting and pasting just standard text! >>>> >>>> Have you tried stripping out the MSjunk by first pasting your text >>>> into Wordpad or Notepad, then copying it again from there? >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Yep that "fixes" it but then I loose all formatting. >>> Interesting that when I copy/past into Seamonkey it looks fine in >>> Seamonkey, G-Mail, My Android phone, and others but does not look >>> correct in Outlook. >> >> >> Perhaps an Outlook support group could provide a solid workaround for >> this problem? >> >> > > Are we going to play the pass the blame game now? > I don't have outlook, I don't use outlook, but I recognize the majority > of the business world does - right or wrong it is the reality. We can't > pawn this off as "outlook is broken" it is what folks use. Seamonkey > should play nicely with it, weather we think it is broken, compliant or > not. It is similar to the way folks get their hackles up on the "this > website looks fine in everything but Mozilla X" - Mozilla X group "the > website is broken tell them to fix it, I'm not taking responsibility" - > OP "But it works fine in everything else" >
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