Collapsible sections in mail messages

[Thomas W. Brown]

Our company just migrated from Lotus Notes to Outlook 2007. I'm much happier
with Outlook but there is one feature from Notes that I really miss.

Notes allowed you to highlight a section of a mail message being composed
and place it in an expandable/collapsible section. This was really
convenient for things like long-ish source code snippets or the like.

Is there any way to get this functionality (in any way, e.g. collapsible
outlining, or collapsible tables) while composing an Outlook mail message?

Regards,
-- TB

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No.

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[VanguardLH]

Thomas W. Brown wrote:

That would require composing an HTML-formatted e-mail and using scripts
to collapse/expand those blocks of content. Secure e-mail clients don't
permit execution of scripts since the recipient won't know what the
script will do.

[Thomas W. Brown]

Bummer, but thanks!

-- TB

[Thomas W. Brown]

Or an "Outlook-only" format that doesn't rely on scripting and would only
work when sending from and to an Outlook client. The custom Outlook "markup"
would be stripped when sending via any of the other formats.

But, it's not a big deal, it was a convenient feature in Notes and we were
wondering whether it was available somehow in Outlook.

Thanks,
-- TB

[VanguardLH]

Thomas W. Brown wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>
>> Thomas W. Brown wrote:
>>
>>> Our company just migrated from Lotus Notes to Outlook 2007. I'm
>>> much happier with Outlook but there is one feature from Notes that
>>> I really miss.
>>>
>>> Notes allowed you to highlight a section of a mail message being
>>> composed and place it in an expandable/collapsible section. This
>>> was really convenient for things like long-ish source code snippets
>>> or the like.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to get this functionality (in any way, e.g.
>>> collapsible outlining, or collapsible tables) while composing an
>>> Outlook mail message?
>>
>> That would require composing an HTML-formatted e-mail and using
>> scripts to collapse/expand those blocks of content. Secure e-mail
>> clients don't permit execution of scripts since the recipient won't
>> know what the script will do.
>

> Or an "Outlook-only" format that doesn't rely on scripting and would
> only work when sending from and to an Outlook client. The custom
> Outlook "markup" would be stripped when sending via any of the other
> formats.

So there would be more *bloat* to Outlook-generated e-mails. Many
users of Outlook configure it to use Word as their e-mail editor (they
don't get a choice in Outlook 2007 which always uses Word 2007). Word
already adds its own bloat to e-mails in the form of HTML tags that are
directives that only Word will understand. Now you want to add more
bloat to HTML-formatted e-mails.

I'm not a Word guru (and there are other groups that discuss Word).
Does Word let you create collapsible sections within a document? If
so, you could see if they work when sending that Word doc as an e-mail
message (i.e., send the Word doc as the e-mail itself, not as an
attachment although that might be you best solution).