Trouble reading posts

[Diana]

Is there an option - somewhere - to instruct these posted
messages to wrap within the viewable window. Some of them
travel to the ends of the earth. It's like reading
notepad contents without wordwrap enabled.
Thanks.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Is there an option - somewhere - to instruct these posted
messages to wrap within the viewable window. Some of them
travel to the ends of the earth. It's like reading
notepad contents without wordwrap enabled.
Thanks.

It depends on what your news reader software happens to be.


Mike Williams - Office MVP
http://www.mvps.org/

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include details of your application and Windows versions, and whether
or not you have included any service pack updates.

 

[TF]

Mike

Diana is using the CDO interface so she must be using a web browser - most
probably IE as everything else is rarer than an honest politician. I don't
use (won't use) the CDO interface so I am not sure of a correct answer. My
guess would be that View, Text Size and selecting a smaller font would bring
the text all back onto screen. Much depends on monitor size, display
resolution used as well as Text size. Just a guess.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Is there an option - somewhere - to instruct these posted
messages to wrap within the viewable window. Some of them
travel to the ends of the earth. It's like reading
notepad contents without wordwrap enabled.
Thanks.

It depends on what your news reader software happens to be.


Mike Williams - Office MVP
http://www.mvps.org/

Please respond in the same thread on this newsgroup. Make sure you
include details of your application and Windows versions, and whether
or not you have included any service pack updates.

 

[Diana]

Terry, you are absolutely right. It's at work that I'm using the post ...
and it's for works use, but I'm not about to set my email up to read the
posts. So, I use the web browser in that environment. There, I'm using a
19" dueled with a 15" monitor (wierd combo, I know) with a fairly high
resolution, but I still can't read the posts with any ease. One post
actually took three screens to read ... no wrapping at all. I don't have
that problem with Outlook Express (at home, where I will read any follow
ups. For all other email at home, I use Outlook.

It sounds like there's not really a fix if my current setup isn't reading
them any better than what's happening. .
Diana

Mike

Diana is using the CDO interface so she must be using a web browser - most
probably IE as everything else is rarer than an honest politician. I don't
use (won't use) the CDO interface so I am not sure of a correct answer. My
guess would be that View, Text Size and selecting a smaller font would bring
the text all back onto screen. Much depends on monitor size, display
resolution used as well as Text size. Just a guess.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Is there an option - somewhere - to instruct these posted
messages to wrap within the viewable window. Some of them
travel to the ends of the earth. It's like reading
notepad contents without wordwrap enabled.
Thanks.

It depends on what your news reader software happens to be.


Mike Williams - Office MVP
http://www.mvps.org/

Please respond in the same thread on this newsgroup. Make sure you
include details of your application and Windows versions, and whether
or not you have included any service pack updates.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I think it's the dual (or dueling) monitors that are causing the problem
because AFAIK the text in the Web interface wraps otherwise.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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[TF]

Diana

We did have a posting from another user with dual monitors a couple of weeks
ago and came to the conclusion that it was some inadequacy with the graphics
driver. Some business users are having this problem because they have to use
the Browser because their IT Support has blocked Newsgroup access at the
firewall.

Terry

Terry, you are absolutely right. It's at work that I'm using the post ...
and it's for works use, but I'm not about to set my email up to read the
posts. So, I use the web browser in that environment. There, I'm using a
19" dueled with a 15" monitor (wierd combo, I know) with a fairly high
resolution, but I still can't read the posts with any ease. One post
actually took three screens to read ... no wrapping at all. I don't have
that problem with Outlook Express (at home, where I will read any follow
ups. For all other email at home, I use Outlook.

It sounds like there's not really a fix if my current setup isn't reading
them any better than what's happening. .
Diana

Mike

Diana is using the CDO interface so she must be using a web browser - most
probably IE as everything else is rarer than an honest politician. I don't
use (won't use) the CDO interface so I am not sure of a correct answer. My
guess would be that View, Text Size and selecting a smaller font would bring
the text all back onto screen. Much depends on monitor size, display
resolution used as well as Text size. Just a guess.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Is there an option - somewhere - to instruct these posted
messages to wrap within the viewable window. Some of them
travel to the ends of the earth. It's like reading
notepad contents without wordwrap enabled.
Thanks.

It depends on what your news reader software happens to be.


Mike Williams - Office MVP
http://www.mvps.org/

Please respond in the same thread on this newsgroup. Make sure you
include details of your application and Windows versions, and whether
or not you have included any service pack updates.

 

[Diana]

You two might be right. Terry, you're pretty close on the restriction area.
I don't want to even ask about newsgroup access. At least I can access it
through the browser. My questions are related to work troubleshooting, so,
at least I'm not guilt-tripping on myself for accessing the newsgroups.

On the wrapping ... it's interesting that it seems to only be a problem with
some posts and just fine with other. Thanks for your thoughts. Diana

Diana

We did have a posting from another user with dual monitors a couple of weeks
ago and came to the conclusion that it was some inadequacy with the graphics
driver. Some business users are having this problem because they have to use
the Browser because their IT Support has blocked Newsgroup access at the
firewall.

Terry

Terry, you are absolutely right. It's at work that I'm using the post ...
and it's for works use, but I'm not about to set my email up to read the
posts. So, I use the web browser in that environment. There, I'm using a
19" dueled with a 15" monitor (wierd combo, I know) with a fairly high
resolution, but I still can't read the posts with any ease. One post
actually took three screens to read ... no wrapping at all. I don't have
that problem with Outlook Express (at home, where I will read any follow
ups. For all other email at home, I use Outlook.

It sounds like there's not really a fix if my current setup isn't reading
them any better than what's happening. .
Diana

Mike

Diana is using the CDO interface so she must be using a web browser - most
probably IE as everything else is rarer than an honest politician. I don't
use (won't use) the CDO interface so I am not sure of a correct answer. My
guess would be that View, Text Size and selecting a smaller font would bring
the text all back onto screen. Much depends on monitor size, display
resolution used as well as Text size. Just a guess.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/

Is there an option - somewhere - to instruct these posted
messages to wrap within the viewable window. Some of them
travel to the ends of the earth. It's like reading
notepad contents without wordwrap enabled.
Thanks.

It depends on what your news reader software happens to be.


Mike Williams - Office MVP
http://www.mvps.org/

Please respond in the same thread on this newsgroup. Make sure you
include details of your application and Windows versions, and whether
or not you have included any service pack updates.

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

You two might be right. Terry, you're pretty close on the
restriction area. I don't want to even ask about newsgroup access.
At least I can access it through the browser. My questions are
related to work troubleshooting, so, at least I'm not guilt-tripping
on myself for accessing the newsgroups.

On the wrapping ... it's interesting that it seems to only be a
problem with some posts and just fine with other. Thanks for your
thoughts. Diana

Diana

We did have a posting from another user with dual monitors a couple
of weeks ago and came to the conclusion that it was some inadequacy
with the graphics driver. Some business users are having this problem
because they have to use the Browser because their IT Support has
blocked Newsgroup access at the firewall.

Terry

Terry, you are absolutely right. It's at work that I'm using the
post ... and it's for works use, but I'm not about to set my email up
to read the posts. So, I use the web browser in that environment.
There, I'm using a 19" dueled with a 15" monitor (wierd combo, I
know) with a fairly high resolution, but I still can't read the posts
with any ease. One post actually took three screens to read ... no
wrapping at all. I don't have that problem with Outlook Express (at
home, where I will read any follow ups. For all other email at home,
I use Outlook.

It sounds like there's not really a fix if my current setup isn't
reading them any better than what's happening. .
Diana

Mike

Diana is using the CDO interface so she must be using a web browser -
most probably IE as everything else is rarer than an honest
politician. I don't use (won't use) the CDO interface so I am not
sure of a correct answer. My guess would be that View, Text Size and
selecting a smaller font would bring the text all back onto screen.
Much depends on monitor size, display resolution used as well as Text
size. Just a guess.




It depends on what your news reader software happens to be.


Mike Williams - Office MVP
http://www.mvps.org/

Please respond in the same thread on this newsgroup. Make sure you
include details of your application and Windows versions, and whether
or not you have included any service pack updates.

if it's work-related, then get your IT dept to give you access to Newsgroups
through the firewall. (I forget which port it is....)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It could be that you don't have trouble with posts sent in plain text and
wrapped at a certain number of characters (the default in OE is 78) or from
the Communities portal, which wraps even shorter, but do have trouble with
HTML or Quoted Printable posts, which wrap to the "window."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.