Undocumented Outlook Express feature

Hi folks,

I've recently learned of an undocumented outlook express
feature.  Most people know that you can press CTRL+F3 to
view the full message source including headers.  But not
a lot of people know that you can press CTRL+F2 to show
the HTML markup of the current message.

This could be useful if taking pictures from newsgroup
postings and want to display them on a website.

Simply press CTRL+F2 while viewing the message, to get
full HTML code for the current message.

It even works for messages you're still writing!  I just
tried it!

Andrew 

"Andrew Z Carpenter" wrote in message ...
|
| I've recently learned of an undocumented outlook express
| feature.  Most people know that you can press CTRL+F3 to
| view the full message source including headers.  But not
| a lot of people know that you can press CTRL+F2 to show
| the HTML markup of the current message.
|
| This could be useful if taking pictures from newsgroup
| postings and want to display them on a website.
|
| Simply press CTRL+F2 while viewing the message, to get
| full HTML code for the current message.
|
| It even works for messages you're still writing!  I just
| tried it!

Fantastic!  I've only been using OE for four or five years, and I've never
come across that before.

Cheers, but as sad as it might seem, you've made my day!

STM

ObAscii - Me juggling with 5 balls (I haven't released the fifth one yet!)

::o+<

"Semach.the.monkey" <no....@all.ever> wrote in message
news:UnfSb.13474$YV1...@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net...
> "Andrew Z Carpenter" wrote in message ...
> |
> | I've recently learned of an undocumented outlook express
> | feature.  Most people know that you can press CTRL+F3 to
> | view the full message source including headers.  But not
> | a lot of people know that you can press CTRL+F2 to show
> | the HTML markup of the current message.
> |
> | This could be useful if taking pictures from newsgroup
> | postings and want to display them on a website.
> |
> | Simply press CTRL+F2 while viewing the message, to get
> | full HTML code for the current message.
> |
> | It even works for messages you're still writing!  I just
> | tried it!
>
> Fantastic!  I've only been using OE for four or five years, and I've never
> come across that before.
>
> Cheers, but as sad as it might seem, you've made my day!
>
> STM
Don't feel too bad, it pretty much made my day as well :)


>
> ObAscii - Me juggling with 5 balls (I haven't released the fifth one yet!)
>
> ::o+<
>

ObAscii - Me juggling with 5 balls (after having released the fifth one!)

 .. >+o ..  .


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Andrew Z Carpenter wrote in message
<news:bv8jcm$p89ko$1...@ID-200455.news.uni-berlin.de> :

> Hi folks,
> 
> I've recently learned of an undocumented outlook express
> feature.  Most people know that you can press CTRL+F3 to
> view the full message source including headers.  But not
> a lot of people know that you can press CTRL+F2 to show
> the HTML markup of the current message.
> 
> This could be useful if taking pictures from newsgroup
> postings and want to display them on a website.
> 
> Simply press CTRL+F2 while viewing the message, to get
> full HTML code for the current message.
> 
> It even works for messages you're still writing!  I just
> tried it!
> 
> Andrew

OLEXP: How to View the HTML Source for Outlook Express Messages
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp&NoWebContent=1
-- 
Marco

"Marco Maier Said" <ful...@yahoo.it> skrev i meddelandet
 news:1u19xbc0dv92y$.mm...@MRC.MIR.SID.75
> Andrew Z Carpenter wrote in message
> <news:bv8jcm$p89ko$1...@ID-200455.news.uni-berlin.de> :
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've recently learned of an undocumented outlook express
> > feature.
(snip)

> OLEXP: How to View the HTML Source for Outlook Express Messages
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp&NoWebContent=1

Well of course now they -had- to add it to the documentation, now that
the feature is out in the open.

Microsoft said:
> Last Reviewed: 10/3/2002 (1.0)

Oh how revisionistic.

Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp


obascii:

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   /__    \ |    |
  /__.'/   \| __ |
 (    /\    ||  ||
  `--'  \    `--'
         |
,-.      |
\  `.___/
 \   )
  `._____

The beginnings of a hand...

-- 
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

> > "Marco Maier Said" <ful...@yahoo.it> skrev i
> > meddelandet news:1u19xbc0dv92y$.mm...@MRC.MIR.SID.75
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp&NoWebContent=1
>
>
> "Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote in message news:bvc9de$qs72t$1...@ID-102694.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp


Mine's shorter than yours.  Oh.. wait.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=165531


-- 
AZC

Andrew Z Carpenter wrote in message <news:bve0pi$cdk$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>
:

>> Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp
> 
> Mine's shorter than yours.  Oh.. wait.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=165531

Mine's shorter than yours:

url:207.46.248.244/?id=165531
-- 
Marco

> Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp

Why?

"Marco Maier Said" <ful...@yahoo.it> skrev i meddelandet news:86s...@MRC.MIR.SID.75
>
> > Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp
>
> Why?

In case it wraps and becomes unclickable (and a pain to copy to
your browser). Also, there's the secret URL police ('SUP, man).

-- 
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

Marco Maier Said wrote:
>>Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp
> 
> 
> Why?

(Long answer)

That URL is ok because it is only 62 characters but...

Put simply, long URLs have a nasty habit of wrapping, rendering them 
useless in usenet discussion groups.

Surprisingly, some people still use text based usenet readers that are 
viewed on a 80x40 text-only screen.  This is why most readers, 
(graphical and text,) are configured to wrap at 72 columns.

72 character columns---------------------------------------------------
                                                                        |
                                                                        V
          1         2         3         4         5         6         7
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012

For long URLs that can't be shortened, two services have been created to 
shorten the URLs for you:

http://makeashorterlink.com
http://tinyurl.com

Wrapping can also be a problem with wide ASCII arts,
if the artist does not configure their usenet client
properly, their wide ASCII drawings will look really
bad, because everything will have been force-wrapped
before it reaches the rest of the group, even if the
usenet software on the other end can show wide text.

ObASCII: the start button

.---------.
| ~ Start |  <-- Click here to begin
'---------'

Rusty wrote:
> 
> Marco Maier Said wrote:
> >>Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
> >>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp
> >
> >
> > Why?
> 
> (Long answer)
> 
> That URL is ok because it is only 62 characters but...
> 
> Put simply, long URLs have a nasty habit of wrapping, rendering them
> useless in usenet discussion groups.

> ObASCII: the start button
> 
> .---------.
> | ~ Start |  <-- Click here to begin
> '---------'

From what I've seen, only a post by Outlook Express breaks the links. 
This started with IE/OE versions 5 and they still haven't corrected it.

-- 

Joe   =o)
___
\o `
 &    
/ \  
 � 							cluck

Too often my inbox is often *full* of the fruits of
[un]documented outlook express features...

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Joaquim Gândara wrote:
>
> obascii:
>
>       ___     __
>     .'   \  ,'  `.
>    /__    \ |    |
>   /__.'/   \| __ |
>  (    /\    ||  ||
>   `--'  \    `--'
>          |
> ,-.      |
> \  `.___/
>  \   )
>   `._____
>
> The beginnings of a hand...

Or a portrait of the Governer of California!



 /^\
|   | _3CH_
|   | (o,o)     "Goin' out west out on the coast
|   |\/\~/\   Were the Califonia girls are really the most
|   |\/| |/   Were they walk that walk, and they talk that talk"
| | |  |^|
 \|/   b d

"Andrew Z Carpenter" <and...@gloRucEesMteOrsVhiEre.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>> > "Marco Maier Said" <ful...@yahoo.it> skrev i
>>
>> Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp

>Mine's shorter than yours.  Oh.. wait.

>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=165531

Snerk.  Are you kidding?  That's a long freaking ... 

http://shorterlink.com/?3MMGSP

Cheers,
Kaye

In alt.ascii-art, Katherine Merle Mason says...

>"Andrew Z Carpenter" <and...@gloRucEesMteOrsVhiEre.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>
>>> > "Marco Maier Said" <ful...@yahoo.it> skrev i
>>>
>>> Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp
>
>>Mine's shorter than yours.  Oh.. wait.
>
>>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=165531
>
>Snerk.  Are you kidding?  That's a long freaking ... 
>
>http://shorterlink.com/?3MMGSP


Ha!  I can beat yours...

http://tinyurl.com/2wa7h

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:55:36 GMT, Marco Maier Said <ful...@yahoo.it>
wrote:

> Andrew Z Carpenter wrote in message <news:bve0pi$cdk$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>
> :
> 
> >> Please post shorter URLs, by the way:
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q165/5/31.asp
> > 
> > Mine's shorter than yours.  Oh.. wait.
> > 
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=165531
> 
> Mine's shorter than yours:
> 
> url:207.46.248.244/?id=165531

Mine's even shorter: http://xrl.us/begr

but that's cheating.

Cheers,
Philip
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.