[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[AEF]

On Nov 11, 9:23 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
> In article <iben6n$qr... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
>
> > OK, you have absolutely no idea what you are
> > talking about, right ? What exactly characterize
> > "emails typed on WEENDOZE" that makes them stand out ?
>
>    Outhouse does not like it when you enter a carriage return in the
>    middle of a sentence.  Either you just keep typing until it decides
>    to wrap, or it decides to capiltalize a word in the middle of your
>    sentence.

You can turn this off: From the main Outlook Window: Tools > Options >
Spelling > AutoCorrect options > Uncheck "Capitalize first letter of
sentences". Check out the other setting while you're there.

>    Outhouse insists that using the "Enter" button on your PC keyboard
>    must mean you are starting a new paragraph.

Do you mean an extra blank line? If so, try his ultra-secret trick:
Use BS to delete the extra "blank line", then press Shift-Enter
instead of just Enter. This is also useful if the extra "blank lines"
are already there from before.

Unfortunately you have to do this for each line. But there's yet
another secret to save the day! To fix this for an entire block of
text, copy it to Word and back.

>    When you receive properly formatted plain text in Outhouse, it claims
>    to remove "extra paragraph separators".

Never saw "paragraph separators", but perhaps this is what you mean
and how to turn it off:

Try from the Main Outlook Window: Tools > Options > Preferences >
Email Options > Uncheck "Remove extra line breaks in plain text
messages".

Many other nuisances (depending on your tastes, of course) can be
taken care of in Tools > Options > . . . . It's sometimes hard to find
the right setting, and whether there is one! But dig and ye might
find.

Outlook has many cool features, but some show up by default and you
have to struggle to figure out how to configure it, and some are just
crappy (the fixed-size tools dialog box comes to mind).

Of course, Outlook's biggest downside is its instability!

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