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[Theresa C.]

Hi, I use FrontPage 2003 to create a weekly newsletter that I send to Outlook
2007 via the File-Send command. When I'm in FP in Split view, I add line
breaks <br> after my <li></li> tags appropriately to get the desired spacing
to show in the lower window/view. This is usually <br><br> to skip a single
line (i.e., leave one blank line). But when I send it to Outlook and view it
there, it looks like it triples or quadruples the blank line spacing! Even
if I change this to <br> is still triples or quadruples the line spacing. If
I remove the <br> all together, I get no blank line at all. Is there a way
to get just a single blank line in Outlook?

Here's the sample source code:

<LI>
Trenching and work may still be going on in the back.
</LI>
<br><br>

If I leave 1 or 2 <br>'s, Outlook treats it as multiple blank lines (more
than 2); if I remove both <br>'s, I get no blank line at all.

I'm hardly a FP pro - I use it only for this simple newsletter. Am I doing
something obviously wrong?

Thanks!
Theresa C.

 

[Murray]

I'm hardly a FP pro - I use it only for this simple newsletter. Am I

doing
something obviously wrong?

Honestly, yes. You are a) assuming that everyone is using Outlook as an
email client, and b) perhaps also assuming that if it looks OK in Outlook,
it'll look OK in everything.

In fact, if I were you, I'd leave the <br> tags out. There is a default
top/bottom margin for the <li> tags, and that should be all you need.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

What you are doing is invalid html
- only li tags are allowed in a list
You should be coding as
<LI>Trenching and work may still be going on in the back.<br><br></LI>

And I agree w/ Murray's response that use of a inline style to add top/bottom margin to the LI tags would be better


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| Hi, I use FrontPage 2003 to create a weekly newsletter that I send to Outlook
| 2007 via the File-Send command. When I'm in FP in Split view, I add line
| breaks <br> after my <li></li> tags appropriately to get the desired spacing
| to show in the lower window/view. This is usually <br><br> to skip a single
| line (i.e., leave one blank line). But when I send it to Outlook and view it
| there, it looks like it triples or quadruples the blank line spacing! Even
| if I change this to <br> is still triples or quadruples the line spacing. If
| I remove the <br> all together, I get no blank line at all. Is there a way
| to get just a single blank line in Outlook?
|
| Here's the sample source code:
|
| <LI>
| Trenching and work may still be going on in the back.
| </LI>
| <br><br>
|
| If I leave 1 or 2 <br>'s, Outlook treats it as multiple blank lines (more
| than 2); if I remove both <br>'s, I get no blank line at all.
|
| I'm hardly a FP pro - I use it only for this simple newsletter. Am I doing
| something obviously wrong?
|
| Thanks!
| Theresa C.

 

[Wayne-I-M]

Hi

Just an idea. If you use FP to make your newsletter I assume it as you can
add links, etc.

You can use adobe9pro to do this and send it out as a PDF and still have all
the links in

Just a thought

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

Not to mention that Outlook 2007 uses Word to parse html, which doesn't
support all elements...sooo results may be not what you expect.

..pdf .pdf .pdf

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx


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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Theresa C.]

Thanks, Stefan, this does seem to work. I appreciate you taking the time to
respond. cheers, - theresa

 

[Theresa C.]

Murray, thanks much for taking the time to respond, but I'm afraid it does
not work. This is a newsletter that is sent out to only our employees and
they all should be (even if not) using Outlook - it is installed on all
computers here and we are slowly migrating everyone to Outlook for the
calendaring tool, so will be requiring folks to use that. Leaving out the
<br> removed the blank in Outlook, even though I did see the blank in FP. It
turns out that adding 2 <br>'s before the </LI>, as Stefan recommended, is
actually working.

I agree with you that I should not assume all possible clients are using the
same email tool! But in this case, they at least are supposed to be!

Thanks again!

cheers,
- theresa

 

[Theresa C.]

Hi Wayne,

Actually, if I save the FP file as html and attach it to an email for folks
to open, it works fine, but the powers that be didn't want folks to have to
open an attachment, they want the message imbedded in the email. Thanks so
much for taking time to respond! Much appreciated!

cheers,
- theresa

 

[Theresa C.]

Gosh, I just want to say thank you again! I am so thrilled to have this
finally working now!

cheers,
- theresa