Why does text pasted into (or from) an email often look all broken?

You know what I mean, the lines break where they're not supposed to.

I've noticed it when I paste perfectly formatted text that I created in
Word into Yahoo or other webmail.

I've also noticed that, even if the text doesn't seem all broken up, if
I try to copy and paste it from the email back into a Word document, it
gets all broken up, with paragraph breaks all over the place.

I think this has something to do with the magnification you view it at
in your browser too. But even at normal 100% magnification, I'm getting
this problem when I paste it into Word and try to make the font bigger.

Is there a solution? Thanks.

Re: Why does text pasted into (or from) an email often look all broken?

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Marcel writes:

> I've also noticed that, even if the text doesn't seem all broken up, if
> I try to copy and paste it from the email back into a Word document, it
> gets all broken up, with paragraph breaks all over the place.

Plain text messages have each line of text terminated by a newline
character. Lines of text in an E-mail message are usually between 75-78
character max length. When you type stuff into word you do not press Enter
at the end of each line. You use Enter only to delimit paragraph breaks.

You would get the exact same results if instead of cutting and pasting you
manually typed exactly what the E-mail message says, and pressed Enter at
the end of each line.

> I think this has something to do with the magnification you view it at
> in your browser too. But even at normal 100% magnification, I'm getting
> this problem when I paste it into Word and try to make the font bigger.

Magnification has nothing to do with anything, here.


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Re: Why does text pasted into (or from) an email often look all broken?

Thanks, Sam. So I guess there's nothing you can do about it except send
an attachment? I mean if the person you're sending to needs to format
the email text for other purposes.

Re: Why does text pasted into (or from) an email often look all broken?

On 31 Mar 2005 12:01:37 -0800, marcel7@gmail.com wrote:

>Thanks, Sam. So I guess there's nothing you can do about it except send
>an attachment?

That would seem to be the simple way. If you have a Word doc, and they
want a Word doc, send the Word doc.


>I mean if the person you're sending to needs to format
>the email text for other purposes.

They can reformat it, but that is extra work.

bob