On 1/9/02 9:55 AM, "Domenico Bettinelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If I'm pasting from Word X to Entourage X into an email, Entourage adds
> extra carriage returns and spaces between paragraphs that didn't exist in
> the Word document. Try it and see what I mean. This happens with either
> standard or HTML email windows.
> 
> Is this a known bug? Am I doing something wrong?

I think it's a known feature, not a known bug. I believe it's intentional
since email can't maintain the style characteristics of Word documents. It
may even happen automatically from hidden end-of-paragraph characters in
Word. These end-of-paragraph characters in Word contain tons of info about
style features - for Word - but to Entourage they probably just look like an
extra carriage return.

It is a bit odd that it should happen in HTML, I agree. You'd think HTML
could maintain most of the style features, but probably the coding is so
different it can't do it. You can't really expect Entourage to have a
converter from Word. On the other hand, a colleague of mine on Windows can
drag formatted text, including columns and tables to Eudora Windows HTML and
I get it properly formatted when I receive it. maybe Entourage could learn
to do it too. But that would be a big feature addition, not a simple bug
fix. 

I'm sure I'll be corrected by someone from MS here if I'm wrong. (The surest
way to get that, of course,  would be for me _not_ to include this last
comment, but I'm getting a bit tired of playing that trick. Dan, maybe you
can comment here?)

-- 
Paul Berkowitz


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