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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 4 Apr 2001.
Re: OE trick to overcome blue highlighting when viewing asci

Re: OE trick to overcome blue highlighting when viewing ascii-art

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Heeeeee-hawwww........
it works for me.
Thanks a lot
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"Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen" <new...@CeeJay.cjb.nOt> wrote in message
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> I just discovered something !
> Some thing that might please fellow OE users.
>
> You know when Outlook Express decides that a certain combination of
letters is
> a URL and highlights it ?
> Annoying isn't it ?
> The blue text makes some part of the picture stand out.
>
> First .. lots of the highlighting and File:// annoyences can be removed by
> upgrading to version 5.5 (and probably above .. I haven't tried the 6.00
> preview)
>
> Also I as mentioned about a year back or so you can hold down the left
mouse
> button when you click a post because rewriting and colouring will only
occur
> after you let go of the button.
> Ofcourse you can't scroll a message like this , but it works for short
> messages.
>
> But the new part i just found out is that when you ROT13
scramble/unscamble
> (choose Unscramble from the message menu) you remove all highlighting ( I
> don't know about the file:// rewrite .. I use version 5.5 ).
> Ofcourse now the text will be scrambled but when you unscramble again the
> original message is displayed once more .. and also without highlighting!
>
> To make this even easier customize your toolbar to include the Unscramble
> button.
> Every time you have troubles with blue URL highlighting just press
Unscramble
> twice.
>
> Kind Regards
> Ceejay
>
>

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Subject: Re: OE trick to overcome blue highlighting when viewing ascii-art
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