Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Spencer. I found it! This one should be in plain text. I hope I can remember to check that every time I send something to the LUG. If you find a way to make it default, please let me know. Right now it looks like it might stay plain text until I click on Rich Formatting. Tina On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote: > Hi Tina, > > If you are using Gmail through the web interface, it's a bit clunky. There > is nothing in the setting which will set the right default from what I can > tell. Here is what you have to do. > > When you create a new message via your browser, GMail puts you into a > compose window. Just below the text box for the subject, you will see a > line of formatting options icons. Toward the end of this line of icons, > you will see "<< Plain Text". Click on that to force your message to be in > plain text mode. > > I haven't found any setting to make this the default... > > Relevant documentation is here > <http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8260> > > [This is a really poor design choice made by the designers of GMail. > Anyone from Google on this list? How do I file a bug report against Gmail? > Contact me offline please. ] > > Regards, > Spencer > > On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:24, Tina Manley wrote: > >> Sorry, I meant GMail, not Google Chrome. >> >> Tina >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> in email client, >>> not browser >>> >>> ric >>> >>> >>> On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Tina Manley wrote: >>> >>>> No, I haven't figured it out yet! ?I'm still delving into Google >>>> Chrome's >>>> settings but haven't found anything to turn off HTML yet. ?Still >>>> looking. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com