Font icon bar in new mail plain text is grayed out, so I cannot
underline, italic etc. Switching the red/blue ab icon to use HTML
enables the font icons to work. Is HTML the correct setting for
everyday e-mailing?
That's going to get you some opinionated responses.
My opinion is "no", HTML should be used sparingly for several reasons.
HTML messages are larger than plain text messages, which means they take
up more space on servers and computers.
HTML messages don't always appear on the recipient's end like you've
formatted them on your end.
HTML messages do not allow the recipient to specify his or her own
settings for viewing messages. Vision impaired folks may prefer to use a
larger font for display but HTML will force them to use the font size
*you* set.
And I personally feel that if you can't get your point across in plain
text then bolding, italicizing, underlining and everything else you do
to call attention to your words won't help much.
By the way, you can enable HTML as your default format in Entourage -->
Prefernces... --> Mail & News Preferences --> Compose.
Hope this helps!
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