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OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?



 
 
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Old January 8th 18, 11:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?

Hello All,

I'm (still) running OE6 for my newsgroup reading, and have set it to
text-only (for both reading and replying).

But somehow the editor in which I compose a reply still accepts font
settings and other thingamabling, which happens most every time when I
copy-and-paste text from other sources - it makes a mess of my replies
formatting.

tl;dr:
Is there a setting in OE6 somewhere which tells the editor to behave as if
it can only handle flat text ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Old January 9th 18, 01:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
MikeS[_3_]
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Default OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?

"R.Wieser" wrote in message
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Hello All,

I'm (still) running OE6 for my newsgroup reading, and have set it to
text-only (for both reading and replying).

But somehow the editor in which I compose a reply still accepts font
settings and other thingamabling, which happens most every time when I
copy-and-paste text from other sources - it makes a mess of my replies
formatting.

tl;dr:
Is there a setting in OE6 somewhere which tells the editor to behave as if
it can only handle flat text ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


Look at the Send tab of Options.
You can choose plain text separately for messages or news under Mail Sending
Format or News Sending Format.



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Old January 9th 18, 01:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?

Mike,

You can choose plain text separately for messages or news under Mail
Sending Format or News Sending Format.


As mentioned in my question (first line), I already did that. Its the
composing phase of a message which I have problems with. Regardless of
those settings, OE6 still seems to accept a "rich text format" paste/drop.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Old January 9th 18, 08:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co
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Default OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?

R.Wieser wrote:
Mike,

You can choose plain text separately for messages or news under Mail
Sending Format or News Sending Format.


As mentioned in my question (first line), I already did that. Its the
composing phase of a message which I have problems with. Regardless of
those settings, OE6 still seems to accept a "rich text format" paste/drop.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


I don't know if this addresses your problem, but it might, and I've done it
for some other similar situations to remove the rich text formatting. Just
copy and paste FIRST into Notepad (which removes that rich text formatting
stuff), and then copy and paste what is in Notepad into OE.


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Old January 10th 18, 08:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?

Bill,

Just copy and paste FIRST into Notepad (which removes that rich text
formatting stuff), and then copy and paste what is in Notepad into OE.


:-) Yup, thats exactly what I'm currently doing. But I would like to get
rid of it.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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Old January 10th 18, 09:31 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?

R.Wieser wrote:
Bill,

Just copy and paste FIRST into Notepad (which removes that rich text
formatting stuff), and then copy and paste what is in Notepad into OE.


:-) Yup, thats exactly what I'm currently doing. But I would like to get
rid of it.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser



https://superuser.com/questions/2382...rich-text-copy

http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/

The dates on the web page, suggest he's still working on it.

Paul
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Old January 10th 18, 10:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R.Wieser
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Default OE6 and message composing - set editor to flat text only ?

Paul,

The dates on the web page, suggest he's still working on it.


Thanks for that. But to be honest, if throwing software at it is the only
way to go than I will probably try to write my own solution first. Maybe
even some DLL interception ....

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


 




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