Today I learned that if you try to send an attachment in Outlook when you're set to Rich Text mode, it will include it inline, whereas if you send it when you're set to Plain Text, it will attach it differently, as a separate, traditional "attached" file.WHY DOES IT DO THIS AER#&489OGSU)9359*Y!!!
And if the person you are sending the attachment to does not realize this, there will be many communications along the lines of "I'm not seeing/getting this. Are you sure you're sending it properly? Maybe you should just put a copy up on the server."
I can see a certain logic to this; letting you have it both ways. Since M$'s market is mainly business, I suspect that large corporations IT people set a standard way of handling attachments that suit their particular needs.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the inline method is probably could for short one or two page documents, while the attached file approach might be better for larger documents, or non-text files.
Of course, it might also be an argument for a Microsoft-free zone.
On the other hand, I just played around with Apple's Mail program a bit, and it seems to arbitrarily either include a file inline or attach it, even when it's the same file type.
So, I've got no idea WTF is going on.
I'm going to go with "because it's Microsoft".
ReplyDeleteThunderbird lets you specify one way or the other, and then override it if you want on a case-by-case basis.