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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
My mail message format default is RTF, which is what I need. But every once
in a while, I like to write a msg in HTML to friends and family because I'll send embedded graphics. I'm tired of having clicking new message, then on the option to change to text format and then to change to html. Is there a more direct route to pull up an html new msg without going, say, the blank stationery msg route? That's all that occurs to me to do, but it's a drag as I'd have to remember to carry around a blank html msg to each new contract and dump it in the stationery fldr on top of all the other stuff I carry around g. Thanks much. D |
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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
Actions | New Mail Message Using | HTML (no stationery)
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "StargateFanFromWork" wrote in message ... My mail message format default is RTF, which is what I need. But every once in a while, I like to write a msg in HTML to friends and family because I'll send embedded graphics. I'm tired of having clicking new message, then on the option to change to text format and then to change to html. Is there a more direct route to pull up an html new msg without going, say, the blank stationery msg route? That's all that occurs to me to do, but it's a drag as I'd have to remember to carry around a blank html msg to each new contract and dump it in the stationery fldr on top of all the other stuff I carry around g. Thanks much. D |
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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
StargateFanFromWork wrote:
My mail message format default is RTF, which is what I need. But every once in a while, I like to write a msg in HTML to friends and family because I'll send embedded graphics. I'm tired of having clicking new message, then on the option to change to text format and then to change to html. Is there a more direct route to pull up an html new msg without going, say, the blank stationery msg route? That's all that occurs to me to do, but it's a drag as I'd have to remember to carry around a blank html msg to each new contract and dump it in the stationery fldr on top of all the other stuff I carry around g. Does clicking ToolsOptionsMail FormatInternet Format and changing the "Outlook Rich Text Format" drop-down to "Convert to HTML format" help? -- Brian Tillman |
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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
... StargateFanFromWork wrote: My mail message format default is RTF, which is what I need. But every once in a while, I like to write a msg in HTML to friends and family because I'll send embedded graphics. I'm tired of having clicking new message, then on the option to change to text format and then to change to html. Is there a more direct route to pull up an html new msg without going, say, the blank stationery msg route? That's all that occurs to me to do, but it's a drag as I'd have to remember to carry around a blank html msg to each new contract and dump it in the stationery fldr on top of all the other stuff I carry around g. Does clicking ToolsOptionsMail FormatInternet Format and changing the "Outlook Rich Text Format" drop-down to "Convert to HTML format" help? I'm sorry. I wasn't clear at all. I don't want to change the default to html. I just want to create a button so that's it's as easy as clicking on the NEW button to create a message but that it would be in HTML rather than my needed default RTF format. I have no problem converting, just would like something easy, even easier than going to stationery and clicking on the "blank" one there. A one-button solution. Perhaps there isn't anything (I looked under the available items for a toolbar solution but didn't find anything). Perhaps I should have posted this in the Outlook vba ng, though was hoping there was something already available natively to Outlook without going the vb way. |
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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
... Actions | New Mail Message Using | HTML (no stationery) Hey, I never saw that before g. This is much better. It's a 2-button click solution rather than a single button one, but that is much, much better than before. Thanks. p.s., I've never asked before but why is it that some toolbar buttons greyed out when we try to change the icon or how to display? This is a case in point, this button is 4 words long ("New Mail Message Using") and I had a tough time re-arranging my buttons so that this would fit without making icons disappear into the "excess" toolbar icons space that we have to click an extra time to get to g. I was able to add this one in because I ended up putting some buttons onto the pulldown menu toolbar above. My preference is to give toolbar buttons an icon if they don't have one and to reduce it down to just the image (i.e., little to no text). Is there a way around this "limitation" when we're faced with buttons that have these options greyed out, I wonder? I'm guessing not but I've never actually asked. Cheers. D -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "StargateFanFromWork" wrote in message ... My mail message format default is RTF, which is what I need. But every once in a while, I like to write a msg in HTML to friends and family because I'll send embedded graphics. I'm tired of having clicking new message, then on the option to change to text format and then to change to html. Is there a more direct route to pull up an html new msg without going, say, the blank stationery msg route? That's all that occurs to me to do, but it's a drag as I'd have to remember to carry around a blank html msg to each new contract and dump it in the stationery fldr on top of all the other stuff I carry around g. Thanks much. D |
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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
"StargateFanFromWork" wrote in message
... "Brian Tillman" wrote in message ... StargateFanFromWork wrote: My mail message format default is RTF, which is what I need. But every once in a while, I like to write a msg in HTML to friends and family because I'll send embedded graphics. I'm tired of having clicking new message, then on the option to change to text format and then to change to html. Is there a more direct route to pull up an html new msg without going, say, the blank stationery msg route? That's all that occurs to me to do, but it's a drag as I'd have to remember to carry around a blank html msg to each new contract and dump it in the stationery fldr on top of all the other stuff I carry around g. Does clicking ToolsOptionsMail FormatInternet Format and changing the "Outlook Rich Text Format" drop-down to "Convert to HTML format" help? I'm sorry. I wasn't clear at all. I don't want to change the default to html. I just want to create a button so that's it's as easy as clicking on the NEW button to create a message but that it would be in HTML rather than my needed default RTF format. I have no problem converting, just would like something easy, even easier than going to stationery and clicking on the "blank" one there. A one-button solution. Perhaps there isn't anything (I looked under the available items for a toolbar solution but didn't find anything). Perhaps I should have posted this in the Outlook vba ng, though was hoping there was something already available natively to Outlook without going the vb way. Sue actually provided me with close to perfect solution, there is an option under Actions I'd never seen that allows us to create a mail message in any format despite whatever the default message is set to. In my defense, I've always sent RTF so never had a need to look for a quicker way to do this until now, I guess ... g Thanks. D |
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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
StargateFanFromWork wrote:
Sue actually provided me with close to perfect solution, there is an option under Actions I'd never seen that allows us to create a mail message in any format despite whatever the default message is set to. In my defense, I've always sent RTF so never had a need to look for a quicker way to do this until now, I guess ... g You should be able to use the Customize wizard to add that menu choice to the standard toolbar. Right-click the Toolbar area, choose Customize, select the Commands tab, select the Actions menu in the left hand pane, click and hold on "HTML (No Stationery)" in the right-hand pane, and drag it to the Standard toolbar, placing it, perhaps, just to the left of the Reply button (or anywhere else you find convenient). -- Brian Tillman |
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RTF my default; button to create HTML message directly?
To customize the toolbars, use View | Toolbars | Customize and then right-click on the button you want to change. With Customize on, you can also drag or, better, Ctrl+drag commands from the menu to a toolbar.
-- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx "StargateFanFromWork" wrote in message ... "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message ... Actions | New Mail Message Using | HTML (no stationery) Hey, I never saw that before g. This is much better. It's a 2-button click solution rather than a single button one, but that is much, much better than before. Thanks. p.s., I've never asked before but why is it that some toolbar buttons greyed out when we try to change the icon or how to display? This is a case in point, this button is 4 words long ("New Mail Message Using") and I had a tough time re-arranging my buttons so that this would fit without making icons disappear into the "excess" toolbar icons space that we have to click an extra time to get to g. I was able to add this one in because I ended up putting some buttons onto the pulldown menu toolbar above. My preference is to give toolbar buttons an icon if they don't have one and to reduce it down to just the image (i.e., little to no text). Is there a way around this "limitation" when we're faced with buttons that have these options greyed out, I wonder? I'm guessing not but I've never actually asked. "StargateFanFromWork" wrote in message ... My mail message format default is RTF, which is what I need. But every once in a while, I like to write a msg in HTML to friends and family because I'll send embedded graphics. I'm tired of having clicking new message, then on the option to change to text format and then to change to html. Is there a more direct route to pull up an html new msg without going, say, the blank stationery msg route? That's all that occurs to me to do, but it's a drag as I'd have to remember to carry around a blank html msg to each new contract and dump it in the stationery fldr on top of all the other stuff I carry around g. Thanks much. D |
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