Fixed Margins in Outlook

[mobiledynamics]

I've been messing around with this and cannot seem to find any settings in Outlooks to do a fixed margin.

We send in HTML and have checked both using Outlook as the email editor or Word as the email editor.

Standard left justification, I just want the physical margin to be let's say be cut at 4 inches per line.

Am I missing something just short of doing my own line breaks.

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Not too difficult, if I understand what you need.

Select Rich Text in Message Format.

File > Page setup and set your margins

View > Print Layout.

VOLA!

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

 

[mobiledynamics]

Not in printing. In writing/composing email.

Funny thing is when I try also plain text, I can set it for 35 character line carriage return. However, it does NOT do that and allows me to type more than 35 characters.

The goal is to do the same in HTML format...but either define a right margin OR characters per line, in which neither appears to be available.

You can set margins in print-page setup, but that only applies to the print aspect of things.

 

[SkipVought]

The only thing that margins are for is printing. That's why you also select VIEW > PRINT LAYOUT.

I don't see what the problem is.

What's the point of 4" lines?

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

 

[Lilliabeth]

Yep, margins are for printing.

Perhaps this will get you what you seek:
Launch the Paragraph dialog box
ON the Indents and Spacing tab
Under the heading Indentation, put a 6 (or so) in the box labeled Right.



Lilliabeth
-Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?-

 

[Lilliabeth]

sorry, you probably don't want to see the indentation change as the window is resized.

Lilliabeth
-Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?-

 

[mobiledynamics]

It's a request by mgmt and I can't conjure up a answer.

Bottom line - just short of line breaks, they want it to be consistent and *shorter* per line for every email.

 

[SkipVought]

Dilbert!!!

Skip,

_{Just traded in my old subtlety...
for a NUANCE!}

 

[tf1]

Unless you create a true HTML web page and send it - something like a typical SPAM Advert that you didn't want - there is no way to specify this. How an email is received is really dictated by the recipient. THere are still many that insist on plain text only, so you are probably wasting your time even contemplating this.

One way to do what you want is to insert a borderless, single-cell table into the email set using Exact Column Width and type your text into the table cell. However, if the recipient has chosen to view gridlines (the recipients perogative), they will see the table border.

But I still think this is the the bad idea.

Regards: tf1