On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:51:48 +0100 Came this utterance formulated by Harold Fuchs to my mailbox:
> > > I think there are a few reasons why people, particularly Windows > people, want integrated mail: > > * Windows computers often come with Outlook (or Outlook Express) > mail and MS Office pre-installed so people think they belong > together. > * Many versions of MS Office come with Outlook or Outlook Express > so people think ... Outlook Express comes with Windows, but not with all versions of windows. Outlook comes with Office. > * Users of Outlook (but not of Outlook Express) have (used to > have???) an option to configure Word as their "mail editor". If > you choose this option then, when you either create a new > message or reply to an existing one Outlook invokes some sort of > inbuilt version of Word (it probably uses the Word API). You > type your message with all (most?) of Word's editing > capabilities, including things like tables, but then you just > hit Send. No separate document is saved. The Word window is > within an Outlook window so things like your address book, Send > button, space for Subject etc. are just there. Your mail > "signature" , if defined, is automatically added. IMHO this is one of the worst uses possible. This formatted mail exports as an HTML mail. Word is notorious for bad HTML which it seems to have aquired from the equally notorious Frontpage. Non-standard, custom tags galore, bloated HTML mails - grrr. And i am increasingly seeing no quoting of quoted text - whats up with that? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/ > * Spell checking is integrated between Outlook (or Outlook > Express) and Word. And if you uninstall Word, Outlook Express spell checking breaks! > I think it's a shame that OOo's spell checker can't integrate with, > say, Thunderbird's. You used to be able to copy TB's dictionary into > an OOo directory somewhere (or OOo's dictionary into a TB directory) > but even that is no longer possible since the advent of OOo 3.x with > its new scheme for handling dictionaries as extensions. Ho hum. > I like the option to choose my email program seperately from my Office software, it allows mix and match. Thunderbird/lightning integration with OO.o is pretty good. Sun has/had programmers on that. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
