[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[AEF]

On Nov 11, 3:20 pm, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 10:11 am, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 11, 9:23 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
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> > Koehler) wrote:
> > > In article <iben6n$qr... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
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> > > > 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.
>
> Thanks for that! :-)  It's buried so deep that even if I'd
> thought to look for it, I doubt I'd ever have found it. :-(

Yeah, those settings pages are a nightmare to navigate. Even on a
single page it's a cluttered, disorganized, hodge-podge mess!

> > >    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.
>
> Ah ha!  Another annoyance for which I didn't suspect
> there was any solution.  Very puzzling and frustrating...

I really struggled for years with this extra blank line problem,
discovered the trick (how, I don't recall), and then months later when
I needed it again, forgot it! I had to discover it all over again.
Then I started writing things list this down.

Hey, if you discover under what circumstances this extra-line problem
crops up, please let me know.

> [...]
>
> > >    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:
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> > Try from the Main Outlook Window: Tools > Options > Preferences >
> > Email Options > Uncheck "Remove extra line breaks in plain text
> > messages".
>
> Wow, you're 3 for 3 today!  I've used Windows day in and day
> out at work for the past 9 years, and suffered through these
> Outlook stupidities the whole time.  I never knew...
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks again!  -Ken

You're very welcome!

If I ever get my website going, I'll have a page for computer secrets
like these. One thing I've found was a bunch of secret keyboard
shortcuts for Mac OS X and a few obscure ones for Windows.
Contributions are welcome.

AEF