Our default e-mail server at work is Microsoft Outlook.
I’m going through my e-mails, and they’re mostly done in black, with the occasional blue response, and a red highlight scattered here and there. I get to the end, and someone typed an e-mail using size 14 bold lime green font. (The color is in the font color menu here, but I will spare you all the shock. Some smartass will be along soon enough to compose a response using that color, I’m sure.)
Jeez, I think I sprained pupil. I might need an eyepatch or two .
I’m not so much pitting the color, as I am its use in a work environment.
You mean like this?!!! Actually I feel for you, my business partner types messages like this to get my attention. He doesn’t sem to realize that some e-mails don’t require a response, doesn’t mean I haven’t read them. :rolleyes:
I was all set to say “The important word in that post is ‘default’” but for once outlook isn’t your problem. I agree HTML email is generally useless and shouldn’t be allowed, but the real problem is the people who chose to use it.
It’s understandable if (1) you have an email you really really need people to notice and (2) they all have to be using a mail client which supports html anyway. But otherwise, NO!
I despise emails that are sent in anything but plain text.
There is so little to be gained from fancy formatting, and so much gleeful abuse of same that I think communication would be vastly improved if we all reverted to ASCII-only email.
And don’t get me started on imbedded images. For every imbedded image that is useful and helpful, there are about three thousand that are stupid and annoying. Abolish them, I say!
I’m a programmer, and I find formatting (html or otherwise) very useful in adding to the readability of some technical emails. For example, when discussing code, it’s helpful to include code fragments and make them a different color and a non-proportional font, like COURIER NEW.
Obviously, this is unrelated to the stuff described in the OP, which I agree is useless.
when involved in long email arguements about approaches to take, etc, my coworkers and I found it immensly useful for each of us to pick a different color. Then, no matter how intersperced our comments were, we’d each know who wrote what.
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