I've never used Outlook, Outlook Express, or whatever MS/IE uses. If for
no other reason, they are one of the major paths for virus
contamination. In any mail program where you can choose the font you
compose in, there should be one or more fonts, the most common being
Courier, which assigns the same screen width to each character.
When you make a table with a variable width font, such as Times or
Arial, the different characters have different widths and the space
character, in particular, is quite narrow. When you then send the
message to the list with HTML off, as you should to keep the digest
readers happy, it ends up on the list in a fixed width font and the
columns are unaligned and really difficult to read. You can see how the
original table Giles posted is impossible to read, whereas the table in
my reply is properly lined up.
Moose
Titoy wrote:
Hi Moose
what do you mean by "Fixed Width Font? How is this done? Is this done on
Outlook Express?
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