Comments on: Microsoft Word and Outlook 2007 – Bad Mix for Email http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/ MailChimp, email marketing, and monkeys! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shashankhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-609 Shashank Thu, 22 May 2008 22:25:31 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-609 Why in the world does one need Microsoft Word to compose a frickin email? At least in Outlook 2003, M$ gave us users an option to not use Word. The new version appears to not have one.Also, how do I strip away all the crap that surrounds my email composition window? I am going blind looking at all those hard to read options on the 'ribbon'. Why in the world does one need Microsoft Word to compose a frickin email? At least in Outlook 2003, M$ gave us users an option to not use Word. The new version appears to not have one.

Also, how do I strip away all the crap that surrounds my email composition window? I am going blind looking at all those hard to read options on the ‘ribbon’.

]]> By: glennhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-526 glenn Wed, 07 May 2008 23:24:21 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-526 got another one that Mac users may find very helpful.I have a widget called "word counter" that counts all the words I paste into it. The beauty is, it strips the gob, and is a multi-line widget so Ben's idea of the search box now works with whole paragraphs!Here is a link: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/wordcounterwidget.html got another one that Mac users may find very helpful.

I have a widget called “word counter” that counts all the words I paste into it. The beauty is, it strips the gob, and is a multi-line widget so Ben’s idea of the search box now works with whole paragraphs!

Here is a link: http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/calculate_convert/wordcounterwidget.html

]]> By: Samihttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-510 Sami Fri, 02 May 2008 16:35:57 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-510 Ben, great tip about the Google search box! Sometimes it's just a line or two I need to strip from Word, and it's a pain to open Notepad for that.I get content from a customer for a newsletter in Word, then have to re-do all the formatting in GoLive. I NEVER copy directly from Word. What a nightmare. Ben, great tip about the Google search box! Sometimes it’s just a line or two I need to strip from Word, and it’s a pain to open Notepad for that.

I get content from a customer for a newsletter in Word, then have to re-do all the formatting in GoLive. I NEVER copy directly from Word. What a nightmare.

]]> By: Debhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-486 Deb Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:25:01 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-486 And if that wasn't enuff.... now we are finding that Outlook 2007 is messing with our title line spacing if we have more than one line. My copywriter is getting tired of me asking him to "be brief". Nice of Microsoft to add an ice maker to that fridge you are baking your cake in, eh Dan? And if that wasn’t enuff…. now we are finding that Outlook 2007 is messing with our title line spacing if we have more than one line. My copywriter is getting tired of me asking him to “be brief”. Nice of Microsoft to add an ice maker to that fridge you are baking your cake in, eh Dan?

]]> By: Jonhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-467 Jon Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:43:42 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-467 god, I remember when I first started playing around with html newsletters, using the MS office suite (publisher messes with code as well!) - what a nightmare! I absolutely thought it was something I was doing~ GoLive / Dreamweaver were like a blessing from above when I finally rolled up my sleves and began learning them! haven't looked back! god, I remember when I first started playing around with html newsletters, using the MS office suite (publisher messes with code as well!) – what a nightmare! I absolutely thought it was something I was doing~ GoLive / Dreamweaver were like a blessing from above when I finally rolled up my sleves and began learning them! haven’t looked back!

]]> By: Mikehttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-432 Mike Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:40:48 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-432 Something you might also want to mention is that if you're creating your HTML email in a program like Dreamweaver and then pasting the source code into mailchimp, some of the attributes we took for granted like the background-image property no longer work in Outlook 2007 and depending on why you used the attribute, your email could wind up looking a whole lot different than what you had originally intended. (Missing images, bad line spacing, gaps between cells in tables, etc) Something you might also want to mention is that if you’re creating your HTML email in a program like Dreamweaver and then pasting the source code into mailchimp, some of the attributes we took for granted like the background-image property no longer work in Outlook 2007 and depending on why you used the attribute, your email could wind up looking a whole lot different than what you had originally intended. (Missing images, bad line spacing, gaps between cells in tables, etc)

]]> By: Danhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-426 Dan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:30:21 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-426 As if Outlook using Internet Explorer to render HTML wasn't bad enough, now it uses a clunky word processor.Excuse me while I go bake a cake with this fridge... As if Outlook using Internet Explorer to render HTML wasn’t bad enough, now it uses a clunky word processor.

Excuse me while I go bake a cake with this fridge…

]]> By: Benhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-424 Ben Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:44:55 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-424 Thanks Melanie and Corey. I do the same thing if I'm pasting from Word. Basically go through Notepad.Here's another trick I've learned: If I'm pasting something from a web page (like the title of one my blog posts) into any WYSIWYG (MailChimp, Wordpress, etc), I've found that gets all gobbledy-gooked with formatting and hyperlinks as well. And I really don't want to open up NotePad just to strip formatting from one little title.So what I do is I copy the blog title, then I go up to the built-in Google search box in my browser (Mozilla Firefox or Safari) and paste it there. It actually strips the gobbledy-gook for you. Then I copy that, and paste into the WYSIWYG.It's cheap, it's lazy, but it works. So long as you don't have line breaks, you can actually paste a lot of content into that search box! Thanks Melanie and Corey. I do the same thing if I’m pasting from Word. Basically go through Notepad.

Here’s another trick I’ve learned:
If I’m pasting something from a web page (like the title of one my blog posts) into any WYSIWYG (MailChimp, WordPress, etc), I’ve found that gets all gobbledy-gooked with formatting and hyperlinks as well. And I really don’t want to open up NotePad just to strip formatting from one little title.

So what I do is I copy the blog title, then I go up to the built-in Google search box in my browser (Mozilla Firefox or Safari) and paste it there. It actually strips the gobbledy-gook for you. Then I copy that, and paste into the WYSIWYG.

It’s cheap, it’s lazy, but it works. So long as you don’t have line breaks, you can actually paste a lot of content into that search box!

]]> By: Coreyhttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-423 Corey Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:38:00 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-423 When I was first learning to use Mail Chimp, I did the exact same thing but I clicked on the source code and noticed all of the crazy gobbly gook that Microsoft Word added when cutting and pasting.My trick now is to compose in word, copy and paste to Notepad, then copy and past into the Mail Chimp HTML Editor. Notepad deletes all the gobbly gook.Then I go through and format using the Mail Chimp controls. Works for me and allows me to create content without having to send unneccessary test mails.Thanks MailChimp!!! When I was first learning to use Mail Chimp, I did the exact same thing but I clicked on the source code and noticed all of the crazy gobbly gook that Microsoft Word added when cutting and pasting.

My trick now is to compose in word, copy and paste to Notepad, then copy and past into the Mail Chimp HTML Editor. Notepad deletes all the gobbly gook.

Then I go through and format using the Mail Chimp controls. Works for me and allows me to create content without having to send unneccessary test mails.

Thanks MailChimp!!!

]]> By: Melaniehttp://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-414 Melanie Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:55:42 +0000 http://blog.mailchimp.com/microsoft-word-and-outlook-2007-bad-mix-for-email/#comment-414 Since we do generate the newsletter in Word, we've found that saving it into a notepad type program as a text file seems to clear out the unnecessary Microsoft-infused code. Though the differences in how the emails appear between programs and platforms remains a bit of a mystery. Since we do generate the newsletter in Word, we’ve found that saving it into a notepad type program as a text file seems to clear out the unnecessary Microsoft-infused code. Though the differences in how the emails appear between programs and platforms remains a bit of a mystery.

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