Unfortunately, when it comes to EDMs (Electronic Direct Mail), Outlook is your worst enemy. Some versions don’t respect padding when a cell’s content dictates the cell dimensions. The approach that’ll give you the most consistent result across mail clients is to use empty table cells as padding (I know, the horror), but remember to fill … Read more
I’ve just been fighting with this today. Let’s call the behavior of removing the extra line breaks “continuation.” A little experimenting finds the following behavior: Every message starts with continuation off. Lines less than 40 characters long do not trigger continuation, but if continuation is on, they will have their line breaks removed. Lines 40 … Read more
import win32com.client as win32 outlook = win32.Dispatch(‘outlook.application’) mail = outlook.CreateItem(0) mail.To = ‘To address’ mail.Subject=”Message subject” mail.Body = ‘Message body’ mail.HTMLBody = ‘<h2>HTML Message body</h2>’ #this field is optional # To attach a file to the email (optional): attachment = “Path to the attachment” mail.Attachments.Add(attachment) mail.Send() Will use your local outlook account to send. Note … Read more
Put the width and height in separate attributes, with no unit: <img style=”margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; display: block;” src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20989897/images/img.jpg” width=”120″ height=”150″> Another Option: <!–[if gte mso 9]> <style type=”text/css”> img.header { width: 600px; } /* or something like that */ </style> <![endif]–>
You can add reference of Microsoft.Office.Core from COM components tab in the add reference window by adding reference of Microsoft Office 12.0 Object Library. The screen shot will shows what component you need.
You can also insert a tab character at the end of the line (just before the CR LF). This extra white space will be at the end of the line and hence not visible to user. You might prefer this to having to insert spaces on the left. Note that a single space is not … Read more
You can use URL encoding to encode the newline as %0A. mailto:email@address.com?subject=test&body=type%20your%0Amessage%20here While the above appears to work in many cases, user olibre points out that the RFC governing the mailto URI scheme specifies that %0D%0A (carriage return + line feed) should be used instead of %0A (line feed). See also: Newline Representations.
Years later I have a response. 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. In Word 2010, go to insert->object->openDocument Text. Steps 2-3 are documented at How do … Read more