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Comment from J Wright on 2011-07-08

2011-07-08T16:45:18Z

Is there a way to unscramble those illegible emails? The sender, who emails lots of articles, says I am the only one who has a problem reading his emails. At least, nobody else has complained. His personal emails are perfect. It's those that he forwards from other sources that are garbled. This has begun recently. What to do?

It depends on what email program you use, and exactly how the message is garbled. It's supposed to just work, but as you can see that isn't always the case.

08-Jul-2011

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Comment from Beverly Carbonara on 2011-03-25

2011-03-25T20:12:37Z

I appreciate the thoroughness of your explanation of the difference between HTML and plain text. When I googled your page came up. Nice Job! By the way I opted out when the window popped up to sign up for emails of other helpful tips but if you could include me I would be grateful.

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Comment from Timothy Takemoto on 2010-10-22

2010-10-23T02:36:40Z

In html email however the quoted text is placed on lines formatted such that they begin with a horizontal bar.

Sorry that should be a "verticle bar" like this:
| html quoted text looks kind of like this.

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Comment from Timothy Takemoto on 2010-10-22

2010-10-23T02:34:56Z

I agree with your preference for plain text, though for different reasons. I would not mind pretty email. But I find that the quoting system in htlm email does not always work.

In text email
> the quoted text is on a line with an greater than sign at the beginning.
(In some email programs, forget the name, one can have the senders name before the greater than sign)
Tim> This is a line written by time.

Either of these designations of what texts is quote is very useful, if not essential.

In html email however the quoted text is placed on lines formatted such that they begin with a horizontal bar.

I find that this formatting often does not work, in that either the quoted text lacks a bar, or the following line of my text (my response) is given a bar. I find myself attempting to format that bar, and see the bar coming into places that
I do not want it, or attempting to remove the bar
and seeing it also removed from places that I do.
It is very annoying. If only it worked, html
email would be okay.

There is one other problem. When email is sent
out as text I beileve that line feeds are automatically added ever x characters (settable up
to about 70 or 80 characters). In HTML email there
is no such setting, and many people seem to
just keep typing. I have a wide screen compputer
so I must reduce the size of the email window to
avoid having to read 20 inch (?) lines of text.
In non space delimited languages (Japanese) when
one reduces the size of the email window the
carriage feeds occur independly of the meaningful
breaks in the text such that breaks occur the mi
ddle of words. Perhaps these breaks would also
occur in the middle of words in text email too,
but I think that it encorages us to put our own
line feeds into the text and not just to keep typing on and on adinfinitum.

This reponses is too long but while html email
sounds like a good idea and I am in favour of
non-verbal communiation, in practice it has
important flaws.

Tim

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Comment from Jim Ford on 2009-05-06

2009-05-06T12:26:13Z

I am using MS Office and wife is using Outlook Express. Both emails are now receiving HTML emails but not converting to plain text unless we do so prior to forwarding; and then pics are deleted. Is there a setting that has been changed that I cannot find.

Thank you for your help.

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Comment from LK on 2009-04-07

2009-04-08T00:46:03Z

Hi Leo,
I'm trying to set up a computer for someone who is having vision problems and needs larger fonts for both sent and received email. It seems like a simple thing to do for email that is being composed and sent, but I can't seem to manage it as a default for email that has been received. I've tried in Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. No luck. Would you have any advice?
thanks,

If you're setting up a computer for someone who needs things bigger, I wouldn't focus on just one or two applications, but rather the entire system by changing the DPI setting: How can I make the text on my screen larger?

- Leo
08-Apr-2009

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Comment from Tom on 2009-02-22

2009-02-23T01:38:39Z

My problem is a bit different. All my incoming mail is in plain text (Arial 12 font). It has never been like that. Only clue: I recently used an HTML file to establish my Signature for my email messages. Can you help me get things back to receiving email the way the sender meant to send it? Thank you. Tom

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Comment from David on 2009-01-27

2009-01-27T17:45:12Z

To change the current format of a message click on the Format menu, and then make sure that the format you want, Rich Text (HTML) or Plain Text is selected:" Unfortunately, my register must be off because those choices, "Rich Text (HTML), or Plain Text, are grayed out.I don't have the option to change. I did before but now I cannot open any hyperlinks sent to me in Outlook Express.
Thank you

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Comment from Mario9 Vidal on 2008-12-20

2008-12-21T06:15:33Z

All your explanation are good. My problem is to change Plain Text to HTML Format in Yahoo with Windows Vista Home Premium. Can you help me? Thanks in advance: Mario Vidal

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Comment from brandolph on 2008-10-05

2008-10-06T05:32:12Z

hey mine may not be a comment but a question
how can i set my yahoo or gmail to be receiving emails on plain text only?
am using a phone just like outlook express but when i receive emails they are truncated coz they are too long

please help

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Comment from MAGGIE on 2006-06-02

2006-06-03T01:21:19Z

I FOUND A GENIAL WAY ON HOW TO GET RID OF THE FAMOUS HOTBAR". I RESTORED MY COMPUTER UP TO ONE DAY BEFORE I ACCIDENTLY DOWNLOADED HOTBAR. WENT INTO START,HELP AND SUPPORT,CHOSE AN ACTIN, CLICKED ON RESTORING THE SYSTEM, CLICKED IN RESTORING THE COMPUTER AT A CERTAIN HOUR, PRESSED ON NEXT, CLICKED ONA DATE, CONFIRMED THE SELECTION, PRESSED ON NEXT. THHIS SHUTS DOWN THE COMPUTER AND OPENS IT ALL BY ITSELF. I TRIED TO WRITE TO YOU, BUT MY MESSAGE WOUDN'T GO OUT TO YOU.

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Comment from Leo on 2006-06-02

2006-06-03T01:14:40Z

No way for me to know without at lest the exact error message.

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Comment from maggie on 2006-06-02

2006-06-03T01:12:41Z

i'm trying to write to you, but when i try to post my comment, it tells me it didn't work. what happened ?

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