Re: Word 2004 - Sending As Attachment in Entourage Makes Body Plain Text

From: Paul Berkowitz (berkowit_at_spoof_silcom.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:43:36 -0700

John, it's got nothing to do with how the attachment is going to be encoded.
(That's also an Entourage Preference, and is set by default to Apple Double
which is best since it works sending to both Mac and Windows, but is neither
here nor there.) This may be more an Entourage question than a Word
question. "The Terminator" is correct: "Send To (as Attachment)" creates an
empty plain text message window, even if your Entourage Compose/Format
preference is for new messages to be HTML, with the Word file attached. The
message body doesn't really "become" plain text just yet, since there isn't
any message body yet. You simply have to click the "abab" (HTML) button in
the HTML toolbar before you start typing a message, and start typing, and it
will be in HTML. It is curious that the link from Word which tells Entourage
to create a new message ignores the Format preference, but it's easily dealt
with. And in Word 2004 you have another option - "Send To (as HTML)" which
converts the document itself into an HTML message ready to be sent from
Entourage. But you can't edit it there - you have to do so in Word before
sending on.

John's well-meant puritanical homily on HTML should certainly be taken under
advisement if you don't know your recipient., Probably 1/100% or so (0.0001)
are like him and don't accept HTML mail. And another 10% or so (guessing)
don't like HTML mail but accept it. 

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From: John McGhie <john@mcghie.name>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:50:06 +1000
Subject: Re: Word 2004 - Sending As Attachment in Entourage Makes Body Plain
Text
I believe it is supposed to happen that way.  HTML canıt support
³attachments².  You must send in MIME or UUEncode to send an attachment, and
as far as I can remember, there ³should² (by convention) be a plain text
part to such a message.
Think of it as a ³feature²  :-)  My mail server routinely dumps everything
sent in HTML anyway, unless itıs from a known sender.  Everything in HTML
these days is spam :-)  I bet I am not the only one: so just think of this
as a way to make your email more likely to get through :-)
cheers
On 27/5/04 11:23 AM, in article BCDA9105.1876%daterminator@mac.com, "The
Terminator" <daterminator@mac.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that if you ³Send To (as attachment)² from Word, the
> body of the message becomes plain text, even if your preferences are set to
> always have HTML. Is this a known issue, or is it supposed to happen that way?
> 
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