Dear Kay, @6-Feb-2004, 14:31 -0600 (06-Feb 20:31 UK time) Mary R Bull [MB] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
MB> 1.Select and copy a message or a part thereof, and paste in my MB> word processor, MS Word. Mark a block (or select all text with Ctrl-A), right click, Choose 'Copy', switch to Word, Paste. MB> 2. Copy an email address from this list and paste it in a new MB> message. Ooooh - so many ways! Right click on any marked text to copy it. Press Ctrl-C on any marked text to copy it. Right click on any destination point and choose paste. Click to any destination point and press Ctrl-V to paste. Click on any underlined address in a message body to start a new message to that address. Right click on any address in a message heading block or message body and choose one of the "New message to this address" or "Reply to this address" or even "Add this address to the address book". Of course - all of these options apply to *real* email messages. HTML pages masquerading as email are a very grey area. Some of these options may not work in so called "HTML mail". MB> 3. When I receive a picture in email, when I forward that email MB> why doesn't the picture(s) show up in my forwarded message? Hmm - that's one that needs a bit of sorting out. It's about the difference between the way TB sends HTML messages and how it shows them. Since there is no real standard for doing this, you should really be separating out the picture and composing the message again using TB's HTML message formatting editor and pasting the picture(s) back in there. I do think RITlabs need to look into this though. MB> 4. This day I tried to print a message and never could get it MB> printed. Again, this may be about HTML messages. Text message printing has always been a fundamental go-go thang. I did thing HTML printing worked too. But, hey, I don't deal in HTML mail and people who write to me *know* that! :-). MB> 5. I do not understand when I get a message without an MB> attachment, there is a tab for "html" and a tab for "text", is MB> there a way to stop that from happening. Yes. Tell people not to write bandwidth-hogging HTML versions of a plain text message when they mail you! Seriously, the email standard is plain text ASCII messages. Microsoft and a couple of others thought it would be cute to let people put their email into an HTML page and send that as an attachment and signal a custom "type" in the message header to pick it up at the receiving end and display it as (hey presto!) fake "formatted" mail. TB has added support for this but allows real mail users to retain the foothold of true ASCII email for genuine communication. Microsoft has always been fond of keeping things hidden. That doesn't mean they're not there. TB fails to pull the wool over your eyes on this one. I'm personally thankful for that. MB> I am not a happy camper, I get too much mail to have to spend MB> most of my day "trying" to do what needs doing. Forgive me if this sounds disparaging in any way - it's not meant to be. It seems to me that your dependency on HTML mail may prevent you making full use of the realm of safety and automation features that are suddenly in your reach as a TB user. Indeed, "too much mail" is a good clue that TB has actually got some huge benefits to offer, but it's not going to be able to match MS offerings when it comes to HTML messaging and hiding things it doesn't want you to know about. -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v2.03 Beta/53 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 '
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