One of the first things many people do, when they find that Outlook will let them use different fonts and stationery in their emails, is to start experimenting.
While personal friends may think these are cute, we quickly realize that many others don’t want to all the glitz and glitter — they read emails and mailing lists for information. In some cases, the email programs display all the formatting codes in addition to the text we wrote, so the message effectively becomes unreadable. By he way, these emails are formatted using HTML (the language of web browsers like Internet Explorer) by default.
Fortunately, Outlook allows us to easily…
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