Re: line wraps don't work correctly after editing

From: PA Bear (PABear_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/19/04


Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:09:39 -0500

No. Are you?

Ron Sommer wrote:
> PA Bear,
> Are you saying that switching to HTML, then switching back to Plain text
> won't do the same thing as saving to Drafts?
>
> "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%23b%23H2%23IDEHA.1228@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> You can only judge wrapping before sending by saving the message to
>> Drafts and then opening it again from there. WYSIWYG. I very much
>> doubt your IE problems are related.
>> --
>> HTH - Please Reply to This Thread
>>
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP
>>
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>> Euclid wrote:
>>> [running Windows XP Home (SP1) with most of the latest updates]
>>>
>>> After composing a message in OE6 then editing it, the line wraps don't
>>> display correctly. They are generally transmitted OK when sending the
>>> email (or news message) but they don't appear correctly in the OE
>>> composition window. Some lines are very short even though they aren't
>>> terminated with a carriage return - they're just wrapped incorrectly in
>>> the display. It is difficult to determine where the true carriage
>>> returns are in the message, so it's awkward to edit.
>>>
>>> I'm talking about plain text messages, not html.
>>>
>>> I have assumed for a long time that this a probably a problem (bug)
>>> built into OE6, but I'm not sure. Does everyone else have the same
>>> problem, or is something wrong with my computer?
>>>
>>> I'd like to clarify this because I'm also seeing a line wrap problem in
>>> some IE6 text composition windows in webforms. It might relate to the
>>> OE6 line wrap problem mentioned above, or it might not. I don't know.
>>> In any case IE6/OE6 don't seem to be very good about handling virtual
>>> line wraps correctly, at least on my computer.
>>> -E



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