Thanks David. Maybe a ruler makes him feel better? :-) I'll take your
comments on board and have another chat with him. I can maybe show him
a couple of sample outputs and demo no difference.
Cheers, Steven
On 11/10/2009, at 1:50 PM, David Moyle wrote:
Afternoon,
Don't want to sound like I'm harping on but I pose the question why
the user requires a ruler if there is no function/point? If the user
is using it to help layout an email unfortunately it won't make a
difference to the end user.
Maybe some education on email standards and that users won't see
things the same things may help alleivate the issue?
Cheers, David
On 11/10/2009, at 17:35, Steven Knowles <emai...@knowles.net.au>
wrote:
I haven't asked that question of him John. I've never had call to
user a ruler in email myself, but each to their own I guess.
However if Outlook has a ruler feature, there are presumably
reasons for it. I've looked in Entourage and can't see a ruler
feature. So back to the original question of whether there is Mac-
compatible mail client which has a similar feature, or if not a
plug-in which adds this functionality to Mail (and I'm guessing no
to the latter).
Cheers, Steven
On 11/10/2009, at 1:09 PM, John Daniels wrote:
Hi Steven
Why does your friend compose his stuff in an email program?
The normal way i would have thought was to compose in a word
processing program using all the formatting available there and
then add it to the email as an attachment.
Cheers
John
On 11/10/2009, at 5:29 AM, David Moyle wrote:
Morning!
That will be great if the bullet point issue is fixes!
I'd be interested to hear why he does need a ruler, I'm sure
there is one!
Cheers, David
On 11/10/2009, at 0:41, Steven Knowles <emai...@knowles.net.au>
wrote:
Good questions!
The bullet point issue might be solved. When this friend of mine
highlighted a list of points, and then followed Format > Lists >
Insert Bulleted Lists, a bullet point list wasn't created. I'd
always found bullet points in Mail to be not friendly to work
with, so that didn't surprise me.
However, I've just tried it myself and it worked fine. A bit of
searching, and I see that Snow Leopard has tweaked something
with Mail bullet points, and this friend of mine hasn't yet
upgraded to SL. I have. I think that'll solve the problem.
I've no idea why he needs a ruler. Probably something he's used
to. He tells me Outlook has a ruler, and from a little searching
it seems that Outlook does. If correct, then I guess there must
be some uses for it?
Cheers, Steven
On 10/10/2009, at 7:28 PM, David Moyle wrote:
Evening. :)
Could you clarify what the bullet point issue is?
Ignore maybe my ignorance, but why do you require a ruler to
create an e-mail message? Since it is a dynamic layout system
it will 90% of the time look different on other computers anyway?
Cheers,
David Moyle
Systems Technician
Apple, Windows, Cisco
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Western Australia
Mb: 0427 888 257
On 10/10/2009, at 11:15 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:
I'm trying to convince a friend of mine to stay with Apple's
Mail as a mail client, however there are two problems with
Mail in his eyes.
One is bullet points which don't seem to appear as bullet
points at the recipient end (I've experienced that as well).
The other is the absence of a ruler when composing messages,
which, as an ex Windows user, he got used to in Outlook.
Does anyone know of any plugins which enhance Mail in this
regard? Or is there an alternative mail application which
brings both of these features more in line with Outlook on
Windows. There's Entourage of course, and he does have
Entourage installed and will have a look at it, but I'd like
to let him know of any other options.
Cheers, Steven
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