How do I turn off formatting indicators in new messages?

[John T. Scott]

I somehow turned on formatting indicators (for new paragraph, spaces, etc)
when I am composing a new message, and can not seem to turn that off. Please
help!

 

[OL 2003]

If Word is your editor, try CTRL+*

 

[OL 2003]

Or see http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011752771033.aspx

 

[John T. Scott]

What if I am NOT using Word as my email editor? Also, I am using OL 2007.
Somehow in the middle of editing a new message, this got turned on, but I cn
find no way to turn it off.
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Active Directory Forest Administrator
Enterprise DNS & DHCP Administrator

 

[Michal [Outlook MVP]]

What if I am NOT using Word as my email editor? Also, I am using OL 2007.
Somehow in the middle of editing a new message, this got turned on, but I cn
find no way to turn it off.

Just press Ctrl+Shift+8, as suggested previously. It works also in Outlook 2007.

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Best regards,
Michal Bednarz [Outlook MVP]

http://www.codetwo.com
Share Outlook on the net without Exchange!

 

[VanguardLH]

What if I am NOT using Word as my email editor? Also, I am using OL 2007.

Since you are using OL2007, you are also stuck using Word as the
new-mail editor.

 

[John T. Scott]

Thank you! That worked (the previous suggestion was to use " CTRL+* " - which
I tried to no avail). Thanks again!
--
______________________________________________________________
John T. Scott - MCSE, MCDBA, CCA
Active Directory Forest Administrator
Enterprise DNS & DHCP Administrator

What if I am NOT using Word as my email editor? Also, I am using OL 2007.
Somehow in the middle of editing a new message, this got turned on, but I cn
find no way to turn it off.

Just press Ctrl+Shift+8, as suggested previously. It works also in Outlook 2007.

--
Best regards,
Michal Bednarz [Outlook MVP]

http://www.codetwo.com
Share Outlook on the net without Exchange!

 

[tedmi]

Since you are using OL2007, you are also stuck using Word as the
new-mail editor.

Not so! Although very Word-like, the OL-07 editor is NOT Word, but a
separate application. Its Word-like features are avaible even if Outlook is
installed stand-alone, with no Word on the machine. And Word macros do not
run in Outlook.

 

[VanguardLH]

Not so! Although very Word-like, the OL-07 editor is NOT Word, but a
separate application. Its Word-like features are avaible even if Outlook is
installed stand-alone, with no Word on the machine. And Word macros do not
run in Outlook.

The e-mail editor with OL2007 is a stub of Word to render HTML-formatted
e-mails (instead of Internet Explorer's libraries). Microsoft didn't go
write up a whole separate Work-like editor. Since only the Word
"engine" is made available, you don't get all the features of a full
install of Word. Word has not and still does not generate good HTML
code. I also suspect that Microsoft still has it still inserting code
that only Word can decipher (i.e., it isn't HTML at all).

You do get some of Word when you get Outlook 2007. You just don't get
all of Word unless you acquire the Word component/product itself.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179031.aspx

"If you choose to install Office Outlook 2007 separately from Office
Word 2007, you can still create and read e-mail messages but some
functionality is reduced."

In that article, do YOU see mention that the ability to show/hide
formatting characters is lost? Does it look to YOU that some non-Word
engine or libraries are supplied with Outlook 2007?

The editor in MS Works is also Word but may not be the full-blown
version of Word - but it is *still* Microsoft's Word. Microsoft can
disable or remove any features of Word that they choose in whatever
distribution in which Word is included. For economy and consistency,
Microsoft reuses Word. They don't go writing up new word processors
when they already have one that they can include.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I somehow turned on formatting indicators (for new paragraph, spaces,
etc) when I am composing a new message, and can not seem to turn that
off. Please help!

Ctrl-Shift-8

 

[Brian Tillman]

What if I am NOT using Word as my email editor? Also, I am using OL
2007.

If you're using Outlook 2007, you ARE using Word. You have no choice.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thank you! That worked (the previous suggestion was to use " CTRL+* "
- which I tried to no avail). Thanks again!

What is an asterisk? It's "shift-8". So Ctrl-Shift-8 and Ctrl-* are
exactly the same thing.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Not so! Although very Word-like, the OL-07 editor is NOT Word, but a
separate application. Its Word-like features are avaible even if
Outlook is installed stand-alone, with no Word on the machine. And
Word macros do not run in Outlook.

It is Word. Not full-blown Word, but Word nonetheless.