How OE Rich Text formatting and Word formatting interact

[Larry]

Here's an interesting thing that happened.

I had sent an e-mail to someone in which I had italicized some of the
words. Then I copied the e-mail text into Word and fixed it up to post
at a web discussion. I wanted to de-italicize one of the italicized
words, so I placed the cursor on it and pressed Ctrl+I. The word became
regular instead of italic font. Then I posted this text at a web
discussion. After posting it, I saw that the word I thought I had
de-italicized, was still in italic. How could this be? I looked back
at the Word document where I had re-formatted the text. When I put the
cursor on the mystery de-italicized word, I saw that it was not in
Normal style but in Emphasis style.

So, trying to figure out what happened, when I had initially italicized
the word in the OE message, OE had not just italized it, it had assigned
the Emphasis style to it. When I de-italicized the word in Word, it
lost its italic formatting, but still had the Emphasis style. Then when
I posted it at the web page, the browser picked up the Emphasis style
and displayed the word as italicized.

BTW, the same thing happens if I de-italize the word and then copy it
back into an OE message. The word which was de-italicized in Word, is
italicized after I pasted it into OE.

Larry

 

[Jim Pickering]

Word and Outlook Express use different HTML editors so what you see in Word
does not always translate to what Outlook Express will produce. This has
been a problem for quite some time since Word uses such bloated code in all
of its HTML.