Re: HTML text and AOL 6.0

[Meg <mch710@USA.NET>]

I'm just a lurker here (considering going back to school for my MLS and just
reading the posts to get a better sense of what's out there professionally).
However, I thought I'm pipe up on this issue:

From all I've read AOL has been very unhelpful with solving the HTML
annoyance.  However, a lot of people have solved it themselves doing the
following:

How to send plain text from AOL V6.0:
=====================================

1. Make sure your font is set to Arial 10, the AOL default.

2. Create a message using only default Arial 10 type. Any
   quoted text pasted in from another message must also be
   in Arial 10 type (no bold, other sizes or colors). Note:
   if you paste a message that was received in HTML format,
   it will probably cause you to send in HTML.

3. Hit Control-A to highlight the entire message.

4. Right click anywhere in the message itself: A 'popup menu'
   will appear. Move the cursor to "text" and another menu
   will appear. Move the cursor to "normal" and click on it.

5. Send the message.

======================================

It's been tested an does appear to work.

-Meg, a lurker

"Mary Ann Shaffer" <ShafferMAS@AOL.COM> wrote:


> I apologize again for the way my HIT was delivered - but I have learned of
a
> way around it for the future! I sent a small sample of my post with all
it's
> HTML trimmings to AOL.  Their tech person wrote back and said I should be
> sure to use their default font settings - which I had done - but also
> suggested using AOL Anywhere.  This is annoying, but at least in the
future
> those of us using AOL can avoid HTML tags by clicking on AOL then going
out
> to www.aol.com and sending mail from there.  And yes, I did write back to
> them and reminded them that with all their expertise they should be able
to
> provide a check box so we can send e-mail from our regular mail without
the
> HTML tags.

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