Re: Thunderbird question

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

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Tom Metro wrote: 
| Jerry Feldman wrote: 
|> One question is composing. 90% of my email is sent in plain text, but 
|> there are times when I would like to compose in html. ... What I 
|> would like to be able to do is while in the compose window, select 
|> html if I want to. 
| 
| I happen to have looked into this just recently. I don't know of a way 
| to switch dynamically from the plain text editor to the HTML editor (I 
| seem to recall that a long time ago this was possible from a menu 
| option), but if you have TB set to use plain text by default, if you 
| hold down the shift key while clicking Write or Reply, you'll get the 
| HTML editor. 
| 
| Also, if you set TB to use the HTML editor by default, it will 
| supposedly only send HTML formatted messages if you make use of HTML 
| formatting. (I'd use this option, but 1. I don't particularly like the 
| behaviors of the HTML editor, especially the way it handles quoted text, 
| and 2. I so rarely need the HTML features.) 

Thanks. I didn't know you could do this. 


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