Strange difference V2007 vs. V2003

[Sondra]

I create and send out HTML Newsletters for my company. My office PC has
Outlook 2003 and my home PC has Outlook 2007.

When I view the newsletter I have created in 2003 the HTML formattting looks
fine. But when I view the same newsletter in 2007 my HTML tables are
gettingall messed up?

If you look at it via some web mail program (hotmail) the formatting seems
to be fine too.

Has anyone heard of this, and what might be the cause?

Thanks much,
Sondra

 

[Brian Tillman]

I create and send out HTML Newsletters for my company. My office PC
has Outlook 2003 and my home PC has Outlook 2007.

When I view the newsletter I have created in 2003 the HTML
formattting looks fine. But when I view the same newsletter in 2007
my HTML tables are gettingall messed up?

If you look at it via some web mail program (hotmail) the formatting
seems to be fine too.

Has anyone heard of this, and what might be the cause?

Outlook 2003 uses Internet Explorer routines to perform the HTML rendering.
Outlook 2007 uses Word as the rendering engine and Word is not as capable as
IE in rendering HTML (in my opinion). Many things that looked good in OL
2003 simply won't work in OL 2007. See these for more information:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102109301033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338200.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0b764c08-0f86-431e-8bd5-ef0e9ce26a3a

 

[Sondra]

Thanks, great info. How bad does this suck! Yikes, leave well enough alone!!

-Sondra

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Most likely you can get your messages to display properly via this macro;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/openinbrowser.htm

 

[Sondra]

Thanks. I am not worried about me though. It is all the people getting our
E-Newsletter that have OL2007. I will have to be careful when creating my
HTML code to make sure it s compatable. BIG UGH!!

 

[TBatFF]

We started noticing this exact same problem with Enewsletter we send, about
September of 2007. Folks started writing saying the text on our emails are
way down on the page and then the bottom part of the article is cut off.

Why on earth would MS do such a thing when the rest of the world uses simple
HTML coding??? Probably some sort of security reasons.

Are they planning on creating a fix for this so people can choose to install
the fix if people choose to install it?

This is HORRIBLE!