How should I use Outlook to send code snippets?

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Years later I have a response.

  1. Use an online code highlighter like http://tohtml.com/ to highlight your code so you can paste marked up code from your IDE into Word. Depending on your IDE you may be able to skip this step.

  2. In Word 2010, go to insert->object->openDocument Text. Steps 2-3 are documented at How do you display code snippets in MS Word preserving format and syntax highlighting?.

  3. Paste your highlighted code into the object.

  4. Copy the whole object.

  5. Right-click-> paste special the object into Outlook.

This gives you a highlighted, contained box of code for use in emails in Outlook 2010.

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