How To Send HTML Messages that Other Email Clients Can Understand

[PMH]

I'm having trouble sending bulleted lists from Outlook that end up as
bulleted lists in other email clients (Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo).

(They end up as only pseudo bulleted lists - ie, w/ things that look like
bullets, but not as real html bulleted lists.)
(This screws up using (Outlook) email for multi-person collaboration.)

I've checked all the relevant settings that I've been able to find - to no
avail.

And no one in my rather large company's help desk has been able to figure it
out either.

PLEASE!


Thanks,

-- M.

 

[John Blessing]

I'm having trouble sending bulleted lists from Outlook that end up as
bulleted lists in other email clients (Thunderbird, Gmail, Yahoo).

(They end up as only pseudo bulleted lists - ie, w/ things that look
like bullets, but not as real html bulleted lists.)
(This screws up using (Outlook) email for multi-person collaboration.)

I've checked all the relevant settings that I've been able to find -
to no avail.

And no one in my rather large company's help desk has been able to
figure it out either.

PLEASE!


Thanks,

-- M.

You can't control how other people read their emails. Many choose to read
all in plain-text. The only option is sending it as a pdf attachment.

--
John Blessing

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[PMH]

Perhaps I should have been more clear.
:
What I was asking was how do I do that so that *it is possible to* receive
it in any other email client as a bulleted list.

IOW, (How) Can one get Outlook to send html emails that anyone other than
Outlook can read?


Thanks,

-- M.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Perhaps I should have been more clear.
:
What I was asking was how do I do that so that *it is possible to* receive
it in any other email client as a bulleted list.

IOW, (How) Can one get Outlook to send html emails that anyone other than
Outlook can read?

What version of Outlook and what mail editor are you using?

 

[PMH]

sorry; forgot: 2007

....but I don't understand what you mean by "mail editor"

If it's what other email clients am I talking about, see my initial post
If it's w/in Outlook, I don't know what that means; is there a choice?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

sorry; forgot: 2007

...but I don't understand what you mean by "mail editor"

Since you're using Outlook 2007, then you editor is Word. In prior versions
there was two editors, Word and a built-in editor.

Word produces odd HTML, in my opinion. You want to make sure you use the
subset of HTML that word allows. See this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933793 . It can help you write messages that
have the best chance of looking similar on differing platforms. Keep in mind,
however, that HTML is not WYSIWYG. The rendering on the client is free to
render based on local configurations.

 

[PMH]

interesting...

2 things:

1. To be clear, I'm not composing my own complex html; all I'm doing is
making bulleted lists. (It happens that I understand that things like that -
nowadays - are (or should be - and in this case, are) expressed in html.)
All I care about here is that the way that Outlook expresses this is such
that applications outside of Outlook can tell what I meant originally (and I
haven't been able to make that happen).

2. Wonder if I need to (somehow) tell Outlook to tell Word how to do its
html right???


Thanks,

-- M.