How do you control the margins on e-mail messages sent

[BowSum]

I would like to type and send an e-mail that has margins on the right and
left that would allow the text to appear as it would on an 8.5x11 paper in
Portrait mode - thus having perhaps a 1" margin on the left and the text then
running right 6.5" (not conintinuing to the far right side of the screen as
it does now).

I tried to search for the answer but had not luck. Where should I have
looked?

Thank you very much for your assistance.

BowSum

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I would like to type and send an e-mail that has margins on the right and
left that would allow the text to appear as it would on an 8.5x11 paper in
Portrait mode - thus having perhaps a 1" margin on the left and the text
then
running right 6.5" (not conintinuing to the far right side of the screen
as
it does now).

Since you have no real way of controlling what the recipients mail client
will do with your mail, I don't think you're going to have a solution to
this. Window sizes vary, screen resolutions vary, and mail clients vary
all far too much to guarantee that what you see on your screen is going to
be what the recipient sees on their screen. E-mail is not desktop
publishing, nor should it be considered as such.

 

[BowSum]

Thanks f.h. for your input. I do receive at times e-mails that do not take
up the whole horizontal screen, and if I'm not mistaken, I believe most, if
not all of these have some type of banner or header. Is it possible that a
banner of some type will allow you to have margins in an e-mail??

Thanks again.

BowSum

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Thanks f.h. for your input. I do receive at times e-mails that do not
take
up the whole horizontal screen, and if I'm not mistaken, I believe most,
if
not all of these have some type of banner or header. Is it possible that
a
banner of some type will allow you to have margins in an e-mail??

A banner is indicative of an HTML message. Some mail clients will parse
the html correctly, some won't.

Outlook itself doesn't, as far as I'm aware, let you edit the html code of
the message. It's a rich text editor that converts text formatting to html
for you.

If you have an html editor that allows you to create a web page and send
that web page as an email, that should theoretically do it, but again, not
all mail clients will parse that correctly.