Entourage 2008 and Complex HTML

Why is it that Outlook can forward an e-mail with complex HTML without
turning it into unreadable garbage and Entourage 2008 still can't?
Something as simple as forwarding an airline confirmation to my admin
still can't be done in Entourage 2008. I see that there are a couple
scripts that have been developed by power users to use complex HTML
from a saved file, but I really am baffled as to why a user can't
forward a message using it.

Has anyone figured out a workaround to this annoying problem?

BocaBoy

William
Sat Mar 29 09:45:58 CDT 2008

Bocaboy wrote:

> Why is it that Outlook can forward an e-mail with complex HTML without
> turning it into unreadable garbage and Entourage 2008 still can't?
> Something as simple as forwarding an airline confirmation to my admin
> still can't be done in Entourage 2008. I see that there are a couple
> scripts that have been developed by power users to use complex HTML
> from a saved file, but I really am baffled as to why a user can't
> forward a message using it.

Because Entourage has no HTML composing engine. When you simply Forward
you are creating a *new* message and copying the contents of the
original message. Entourage can't compose a new message with complex
HTML content.

Use Message --> Forward as Attachment instead to preserve the message.

Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see complex HTML
composition in future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback
mechanism in any Office application.

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

Bocaboy
Sat Mar 29 12:02:53 CDT 2008

Many thanks for the explanation. I will do what you suggest, although
if they didn't get to it in 4 years, I doubt that my sole request will
get anyone's attention at MS.

William
Sat Mar 29 12:42:05 CDT 2008

Bocaboy wrote:

> Many thanks for the explanation. I will do what you suggest, although
> if they didn't get to it in 4 years, I doubt that my sole request will
> get anyone's attention at MS.

Methinks yours is not the only request Microsoft will receive. ;-)

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>