Trying to cut and paste a document (WORD), when it pastes to the open email, the spacing changes, for example, in WORD, the address has “no spacing” but when it shows up in the email, there is one space between each line. If I try to eliminate the space, line two moves to the end of line 1.
I am not a MAC person, trying to help someone in the office, anyone had this happen?
I only know the difference between a text file on Mac and a text file on Windows PC. But I do not know the difference in Word document. I have never investigated how a word document stores the end-if-line in MS Word document format in details.
I vaguely remember that in some desktop publishing software (MS Word is cheap man’s desk publishing software), there could be concept of “line spacing”. and also “spacing between the end one paragraph and the beginning of the next paragraph.” Both Word and emailer application could have these concepts/spec. their “line or paragraph spacing” specs by default happen to be defined differently (in a fraction of inch or “number of dots pn the screen.”)
Can the person paste the characters into another (??) editor on Mac and then cut and paste from that editor to his/her emailer? (Not sure whether this would help though.) Can he try another emailer (even web-based one like gmail)?
Can the person send the word document as an attachment in the email? Will this help?
He emailed me the document, I cut and pasted it just fine & emailed back to him & he could cut and paste that jut fine.
The document attaches and that has been his work around, it just seems so silly not to know how to make it work the cut & paste way.
I’ve had the same cut and paste problem with email using a PC. I don’t think it is a MAC thing at all. I think it is an email issue.
Check your setting for Rich Text (HTML) / Plain Text in your email program.
I heard of Rich Text occasionally but never bother to understand it.
In general, I do not like to use any modern day computer application. Too many seemingly hidden features that they think we do not need (or are too dumb) to know but without knowing it, sooner or later, we will be burned by it. The GUI features of an application really does not help much because many features are just hidden elsewhere so that the dumb users could not find them – then if a user needs to find them, it takes forever to locate them and the terminologies used on that panel are mostly so terse and ambiguous that it could mean anything.
Maybe this is the sign of me being aged. Or, there are just too many applications that are not designed for us dumb users? I think the phenomenon is that, as an analogy, the application developers expect that a typical preschooler to know how algebra or even calculus works. (Yeah…I exaggerate it here, but I remember of a case at my previous work place quite a long time ago: One of our managers said that it seems to him that most of our efforts is to make all these applications (that will almost not work with each other) work with each other. The ouput from application A really does not fit what Application B expects to take as its input. What should we do? Let’s find a secret, hidden, undocumented features in A or B or A and B, and try it out. Or, go to the Internet to see if any one ran into this problem before – the search for the bandaides could take days, weeks if not months. Most of these people were trained to do this – but when the problem is: the professors may forget to tell them at school that how messy the industrial software products could be. Many could be forced to use an application of beta quality at best. /rant off
I do not understand why only the software companies are allowed to produce so many low quality products (that show up everywhere on the Internet too that prevents many of us from finding the good ones we want to use.) If our appliances or cars are designed and tested like this before the products are put into the market, they will get into a big trouble – they do not have the luxury of having one release after another.
Human beings should not develop things (at least not try to sell them yet) that they do not know how to do well enough!
i think the issue is more that Word - notably older versions - translates poorly into HTML. An old workaround is to paste into TextEdit and then copy it out of TextEdit and paste it into an email. TextEdit renders Word and then makes better HTML for an email.
^ The old “cut-and-paste” trick into/out of a plain vanilla editor suggested by you seems to be similar to what I wrote, except that I can not remember what the plain vanilla editor on Mac is called:
I was told that the standard of sending out texts in the modern days is migrated to the so-called UNICODE (then, there are several kinds of UNICODE – The UTF-8 variant of it is likely the most common one. The days when we in the English world used ASCII code exclusively have been long gone. On the video/audio or even image(picture) standard fronts, it is even much messier.
One explanation - and I have no idea if it’s true - is that it’s the difference between a PC paragraph mark and a Unix line-ender. Or in better words, the paragraph mark contains a bunch of formatting which ends up generating ^p^p instead of just one of those. But hard lines within a wrapped paragraph with no hard ending has been an issue since maybe Word 5.x and I simply don’t remember why.
The Plain Text setting gets rid of all formatting. Extra spaces between lines can then be deleted.