NFN Smith wrote on 22-03-18 20:30:
Ray_Net wrote:
Mort Linder wrote on 18-03-18 17:54:
Hi,
I have a recurring problem. type up an e-mail with neat vertical
columns, and the recipient (and my SENT box) gets scrambled results,
making it difficult or impossible to properly read the e-mail.
How can I send out e-mails that retain my columnar structure?
When I need a perfect structure, I create an Excel sheet - then
PrintScreen - then paste into paint - then select what I need and
Copy/Paste into the mail.
Or you can copy just the cells that you need, and paste directly into
an HTML message. That pastes everything into the message as a table.
I do that regularly with a summary report. The source application is
that its UI is annoying, where the default handling of reports is to
output to screen (and in only small fragments). To get the full
report (and more control over output, including columns that can be
resized and/or re-sorted), the easiest way of handling is to output to
a spreadsheet, do the editing that I need, and then copy/paste into an
email that I send to several recipients. It's a kludgy way to do
things, but that's what works in the context of what we have available
from the provider, and what fits into our specific work flows.
For what it's worth, I've been playing with LibreOffice, and with the
new V6 release, Calc does this task a little better than Excel does.
In particular, if I want outlines of individual cells, with Excel, I
have to manually add outlining in the email message. With Calc V6,
those are already there, even if they weren't in V5. I don't know if
that's a more generic thing, but it's certainly the case with this
particular task.
The advantage of this approach over doing a PrintScreen is that the
output is still text (which can be copied/pasted, zoomed and otherwise
edited) over a raw graphic image.
Yes, but depending of the mail-options of the receiver (per example,
accepting only pure text) in such a way that he loose the structure.
With a graphic image, the result is correct.
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