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From: Philipp Post on 8 Feb 2010 08:06 Good day, we receive reports from our database system in landscape plain text format which are then saved to disk and further processed with systems such as MS Excel or Access. Problem is, that since Outlook 2007 these e-mails get re-formatted by Outlook (adding line breaks according to the display on the screen) causing all Excel / Access routines to break. In Outlook 2003 this did not happen. Is there a way to prevent this and save the .txt e-mail as it comes from the server? Thanks n brgds Philipp Post
From: Philipp Post on 9 Feb 2010 05:53 Robert, > Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages < Thanks for your message, but that is not exactly the point as Outlook does not remove line breaks, but it adds new ones when saving a plain text message to disk. It inserts line breaks after exactly 80 chars, no matter of the display. This means information what was previously in one line is now in two lines, what is causing problems. Thanks n brgds Philipp Post
From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on 10 Feb 2010 15:15 Mine goes to at least 108 - this was from a plain text message. Removing line breaks doesn't have an effect - its 108 either way. An HTML message saved as text has 100 characters per line. My break lines at setting is 76 - so its not using that when it figures the beaks. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: mailto:dailytips-subscribe-request(a)lists.outlooktips.net EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST(a)PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602 "Philipp Post" <post.philipp(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:2c96ee15-da0e-4dba-af7c-de30fba928f3(a)l26g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > Robert, > >> Remove extra line breaks in plain text messages < > > Thanks for your message, but that is not exactly the point as Outlook > does not remove line breaks, but it adds new ones when saving a plain > text message to disk. It inserts line breaks after exactly 80 chars, > no matter of the display. This means information what was previously > in one line is now in two lines, what is causing problems. > > Thanks n brgds > > Philipp Post
From: Philipp Post on 11 Feb 2010 08:33 Diane, > Mine goes to at least 108 - this was from a plain text message. < It is good to hear that your settings differ from mine as this could mean that the value is not hard coded and should reside in some settings file / registry entry or the like. I have no issues with altering such parameters by hand if someone could point me to the location of it. Thanks n brgds Philipp Post
From: Diane Poremsky [MVP] on 11 Feb 2010 09:30
I'm not convinced its something set in my outlook - it could be the sender or a mail server doing it. I know Exchange allows me to set the line wrap on the server for mail we send - just as outlook has a break setting in options, mail format. The same message sent from my gmail account to outlook (ex2007 account) - one plain text, one html - the plain text can do up to 108 characters, html up to 100 (when saved as a txt file). That's the same result I had yesterday with mail from 2 different sources. That leads me to believe outlook is doing it, or my sample was way too small. <g> -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: mailto:dailytips-subscribe-request(a)lists.outlooktips.net EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST(a)PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=36602 "Philipp Post" <post.philipp(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:87b50700-e28e-4cda-bd50-3753925ee016(a)g27g2000yqh.googlegroups.com... > Diane, > >> Mine goes to at least 108 - this was from a plain text message. < > > It is good to hear that your settings differ from mine as this could > mean that the value is not hard coded and should reside in some > settings file / registry entry or the like. I have no issues with > altering such parameters by hand if someone could point me to the > location of it. > > Thanks n brgds > > Philipp Post |