From: R. Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 12:36:48 MST
Nanochix0r
I go into Ouchook in Format, and select html, then RE-SELECT plain text
werks fine =]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gina Miller" <nanogirl@halcyon.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Question about Outlook Express 6?
> > This may help or may not, I cant be sure if this is the same issue as
you
> > describe. I frequently copy articles from web pages and paste them into
> > plain text emails, then save them as simple text documents before
sending
> > them. When you paste the copied text into notepad, is there a large
> margin
> > on the leading side of the text? ("my spacing and rows are changed"
>
> When I copy into notepad, everything looks fine. It is only when I copy
> something into my email from notepad or the web, that gives me
> the problem. I don't want to, or usually copy from notepad, but have
> been to avoid the html that is showing up in my email, when I copy and
> paste from the web (which is my problem). That works, to copy and
> paste from the web into notepad, as far as the html problem is concerned,
> but that creates and middle man, (from the web, to notepad, to my email)
> and whatever great alignment I've done in notepad (like you see in my
> nanogirl news email) appears as super long sentences, and double spaced,
> the second it is pasted into my email. So I end up having to fix the text
> twice.
>
> > If so, then I would guess you are using Netscape as your browser. When
I
> copy
> > text from a web page opened in netscape here and paste it into a plain
> text
> > format it adds spaces when pasted. If you copy from IE however, it does
> > not. (using IE 5.5)
>
> No I don't use Netscape. I use IE6.
>
> Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
> Nanotechnology Industries
> http://www.nanoindustries.com
> Personal: http://www.nanogirl.com
> Foresight Senior Associate
> nanogirl@halcyon.com
> "Nanotechnology: Solutions for the future."
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