baglyos said:
I usually edit received (and sent) messages to remove old info (email
'history') to limit the growth of the .pst file. This always worked great in
OL2003. Now I use OL2007 and the edited file size gets BIGGER instead of
smaller! (Or very slightly smaller when I edit out 90% of the contents.)
Does OL2007 keep deleted text hidden in the background? Can I change this
behaviour?
Will work when editing plain-text e-mails. When editing HTML-formatted
e-mails, do you know what HTML you are actually editing? Are you
editing both the text and HTML MIME parts within the e-mail?
OL2007 forces you to use Word as your e-mail editor. Word is not known
for generating small-sized e-mails. It is well-known for inserting tons
of Word-specific directives that no HTML interpreter will recognize and
only Word will recognize. Word is known to bloat e-mails. That you
stuck using Word as Outlook 2007's editor is probably why it doesn't
work anymore how you want. Word 2007 is always used for Outlook 2007.
Even if you don't install Word 2007, Outlook's install will include a
reduced version of Word 2007 to use as its editor. Oh joy. Tis one of
the reasons why I never had any inclination to move to OL2007.
You'll probably do better to strip off attachments that are no longer
needed in e-mails, like for files that you already saved or no longer
need. There are even add-ons that will automatically strip off the
attachments and replace them with pointers to where the files got saved
on your hard disk, like:
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/Attachment-Save.asp
http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/
