Horizontal line

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Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail had a button that
when pressed would draw a single horizonal line across an email being
composed.

I used the thing every day in some business email to seperate
subjects. This is done at the request of the client.

I can't locate this nifty little tool in Outlook.

Have I just missed it or is it not available.
 
When you are composing an HTML message, you'll find the Horizontal Line command on the Insert tab of the ribbon (Outlook 2010).

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail had a button that
when pressed would draw a single horizonal line across an email being
composed.

I used the thing every day in some business email to seperate
subjects. This is done at the request of the client.

I can't locate this nifty little tool in Outlook.

Have I just missed it or is it not available.
 
Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail had a button that
when pressed would draw a single horizonal line across an email being
composed.

I used the thing every day in some business email to seperate
subjects. This is done at the request of the client.

I can't locate this nifty little tool in Outlook.

Have I just missed it or is it not available.
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The horizontal line is an HTML tag: <hl>. You must be composing in HTML
mode to use HTML tags.

Also, if you are composing in HTML, you need to have the toolbar
displayed for formatting controls. If the pre-defined toolbar is not
there, you'll have to add it to the view. If it is there but disabled
(grayed out) then you aren't composing in HTML mode.

The above applies to Outlook 2003. You never mentioned WHICH version of
Outlook that you are using.
 
Actually, in HTML markup, the horizontal line is <hr> ("horizontal rule").

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



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"VanguardLH" wrote in message
Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail had a button that
when pressed would draw a single horizonal line across an email being
composed.

I used the thing every day in some business email to seperate
subjects. This is done at the request of the client.

I can't locate this nifty little tool in Outlook.

Have I just missed it or is it not available.
Click to expand...

The horizontal line is an HTML tag: <hl>. You must be composing in HTML
mode to use HTML tags.

Also, if you are composing in HTML, you need to have the toolbar
displayed for formatting controls. If the pre-defined toolbar is not
there, you'll have to add it to the view. If it is there but disabled
(grayed out) then you aren't composing in HTML mode.

The above applies to Outlook 2003. You never mentioned WHICH version of
Outlook that you are using.
 
Stefan said:
VanguardLH wrote ...

The horizontal line is an HTML tag: <hl>. You must be composing in HTML
mode to use HTML tags.
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Oops, you're right. In fact, I shouldn't be <hl> ("aitch" "ell") but
<h1> ("aitch" "one").

<h1> to <h6> = Largest to smallest heading line.
<hr> = Horizontal rule.
 
Diane said:
You can get a straight line by typing at least 3 -, =, or _ in a row
when Word is your editor.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/tips/tip-689-automatic-underlines/

Diane Porem...
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<snipped the rest that should've been in a *signature* and at the *end*>

True. I completely forgot about the auto-formatting feature of Word
(because I've yet to get stuck using Word as the new-message editor
since I'm still back on OL2003). Thanks for the reminder.

The OP never mentioned which version of Outlook they are using. Was
integration with Word even available back in Outlook 97/98? It might've
been an option in Outlook 2000 since that's when Microsoft began
bundling Outlook in the Office suite. In Outlook XP(2002)/2003, you
could configure Outlook to use Word or its own inbuilt editor (I use the
latter but I also configure Outlook to default to text format instead of
HTML). In Outlook 2007+, you're stuck using Word whether you made a
standalone install of Outlook (a stub of Word is included) or as part of
the Office suite. There is no other choice for a new-mail editor in
Outlook 2007 and up.

Maybe if and when the OP reappears we can find out which version of
Outlook he/she is using and if the suggestions helped him/her. After
near a week of absence, I don't think we're going to see the OP again.
 
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