ohbytheway
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I am dissatisfied that Outlook on my Surface Pro 4 displays messages as if on a mobile phone and want to change it.
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@ohbytheway ,
Welcome to the forum.
It would be helpful if you send yourself a message and post a screenshot of it ("More Options" link below) so we can understand what you mean.
We can probably help.
Welcome to the forum.
It would be helpful if you send yourself a message and post a screenshot of it ("More Options" link below) so we can understand what you mean.
We can probably help.
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ohbytheway
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Sorry, did not realise I was in a specific windows forum. Surface Pro 4 comes with Win 10 pre-installed
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@ohbytheway
I believe the issue you are having is due to the format that Prospect Magazine uses to broadcast their email newsletter.
This email appears to use HTML extended coding, including an externally-linked CSS, meaning fonts and margins and colors are extremely managed. This rather poor, non-standard, and outdated protocol is an attempt to force all email browsers and clients on all devices, big or small to look the same. Usually this is to cement advertising and other links onto the content, rather than have the local client strip them away.
Externally-linked CSS is also a favorite tool of virus creators, advertising trackers, and key-loggers.
Outlook is working as it should. If this email displays as what you would consider "correct" on other machines, such as desktops, it is likely because the email is being displayed as "plain text", not HTML-enabled, with CSS stripped away.
To view email such as this in plain text mode, go here:
How To Change Outlook Message Format To HTML or Plain Text
Hope this helps.
I believe the issue you are having is due to the format that Prospect Magazine uses to broadcast their email newsletter.
This email appears to use HTML extended coding, including an externally-linked CSS, meaning fonts and margins and colors are extremely managed. This rather poor, non-standard, and outdated protocol is an attempt to force all email browsers and clients on all devices, big or small to look the same. Usually this is to cement advertising and other links onto the content, rather than have the local client strip them away.
Externally-linked CSS is also a favorite tool of virus creators, advertising trackers, and key-loggers.
Outlook is working as it should. If this email displays as what you would consider "correct" on other machines, such as desktops, it is likely because the email is being displayed as "plain text", not HTML-enabled, with CSS stripped away.
To view email such as this in plain text mode, go here:
How To Change Outlook Message Format To HTML or Plain Text
Hope this helps.
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The text version of your reply sent to my email has displayed as normal
@ohbytheway ,
1) Are you using Outlook Extensions for Chrome?
2) Have you tried switching the Amazon example you showed as Plain Text?
1) Are you using Outlook Extensions for Chrome?
2) Have you tried switching the Amazon example you showed as Plain Text?
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ohbytheway
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Using Chrome as default browser
I agree Outlook thinks it's on a phone which is why I started this trail, and if I switch to Plain Text there is a load of unreadable text.
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