[dinasour]

I will monitor this thread and try to answer any questions that I can.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

Go back to DU, CLYMER!

[Carolina]

And, of course, there is no spelling cheecker.

ROTFL! You're cheeky.

[kcpopps]

I often use the method you describe, even though I know HTML pretty well. It's just so much faster. Sometimes I save messages that I know I may want to use again later.

I use the same version of Outlook Express as you mentioned too. I once installed the full Outlook program,but as far as I could tell, it did not have the source button available where I could edit the message HTML.

For that reason only, I uninstalled it and stayed with Express. (perhaps I just missed it - can anyone tell me?)

[timpad]

Go Back to DU, Clymer!

 

Cool! Thanks!

[chnsmok]

here

 

 

cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[supercat]

I'm still waiting for JR to implement a style-property filter so I can do more precise formatting--especially with tables--than is possible without the style tag. One of my favorite tricks used to be to use tables to overlay graphics on images; without the style tag, such formatting gets altered based upon a user's "font size" selection.

[gcruse]

For those with Netscape Communicator, the Composer function is an HTML editor that allows you to compose, change fonts, add pics, etc, until you like what you see. Then do view
source and paste as with Outlook. It is much faster than trying to type in HTML codes while making your message.

[GretchenEE]

way cool

I have Outlook but never about the VIEW > SOURCE EDIT while in COMPOSE MAIL.

neato burrito

Thx chnsmok for the tip.

BTW, the spell checker works only if you have Word or a similar word processing software on your PC.

[DryFly]

Bold

Underline

Red

Blue

Big

Little

Cool!!

[MattinNJ]

Thanks and bumped for future reference.

[ppaul]

BTTT

[ManMountain]

Holy Cats!

 

 

It really works!!   Thanks a ton for the great hint on outlook!

 

 

[ekwd]

 

I tried it but cannot get a pic to display.

[Michel Merlin]

Color-coding disappeared from HTML Source Editing in Outlook Express

 

I have used Outlook Express daily and extensively for years to write mail and web pages in HTML (this [present message is written in OE as well), under W98, W98SE, W2K, WXP, with OE4, 5, 6.

 

Unfortunately on 3 of the PCs involved in recent years, in the "Source" tab of the New Message being composed:

"OE > Ctrl+N > Format > Rich Text (HTML)", then "View > Source Edit", then click the "Source" tab at bottom of the New Message

the HTML source has lost its color-coding. This loss significantly lessens the efficiency and reliability of the code-editing.

 

I tried all sorts of "fixes" proposed on various places, for instance:

• Microsoft Newsgroup "Outlook Express General" ( news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general ), Message "HTML color-coding disappeared (Omega 5.4, 5.6)" ( news://msnews.microsoft.com/O55gGWggFHA.3936@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl ) posted Wed 6 Jul 2005 10:34:25 +0200 (unfortunately archived now);
• HTML color-coding disappeared (Omega 5.4)
• Source Code Highlighting in Outlook Express's Mail Source Editor

from which the most frequent advice was to add a key in Registry:

• Go to: RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\­Identities\{identity string}\­Software\­Microsoft\­Outlook Express\5.0,
• and there, create a "Show Source Edit Color" DWord key, set it to "1"

which didn't work.

 

On one of those PCs (W2K, Radeon 8500 64 BBA), in 2003 or 2004, I accidently found a workaround: disabling/renabling ATI Hydravision immediately renabled/disabled the color-coding in OE New Message HTML source, so I disabled Hydravision (and even uninstalled it). But now in 2005 I am unable to redo that workaround on my current main PC (W2KSP4, Gigabyte Radeon 7500 Pro), with last drivers tried being ATI Catalyst 5.12, then Catalyst 5.12-based Omega 2.6.87 (Omega > Radeon > W2K/XP).

 

Anyone here can help? TIA,

 

Paris, Fri 23 Dec 2005  09:50:30 +0100

[BykrBayb]

When I use the spell checker, it corrupts my tagline.

[AZ .44 MAG]

 

 

1. No Good
2. No Good
3. Pretty Good
4. Pretty darn good
5. Pretty darn small
6. Pretty darn big

[AZ .44 MAG]

Great tip about Outlook Express.

Thanks!

[TBP]

I have tried to add a picture to a thread on here and cannot seem to get it to display. How do I do it?

[SuperLuminal]

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