Closed Bug 402860 Opened 17 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Enhancement request for text formatting when composing a new mail

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 417157

People

(Reporter: walter.i, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9 Build Identifier: Version 2.0.0.6 (20070728) Hello, I have recently migrated to Thunderbird from Outlook. I'm quite pleased so far: I love the flexibility of Firefox and I see much of it in Thunderbird as well. There are a couple of things that I miss from Outlook though and I thought I'd share them. Perhaps others have the same feeling. This is mostly with respect to text formatting while composing emails. 1) I miss the paintbrush for copy/paste the formatting. There are several situations where I find this very helpful. In a email "conversation" it's useful to distinguish .. who is 'talking' by using different fonts type. The brush is a simple tool to ensure consistent formatting throughout the email. The extension "Quote Colors" helps but not always 2) Some emails need to be composed by copying different sections from different emails. Some emails may contain different encoding (emails from Asia, typically) which results in very ... odd formatting. The brush would help in this case too. 3) Sometime to make the font/format uniform I miss a drop-down menu that allows me to pick the exact font size that I want. This would be in addition to the size up/down buttons that are very practical Finally, all of the above can be also done with a copy/paste command (much like ctrl-C ctrl-V) but that instead of copying the text it copies only the formatting. This is something that Microsoft does not have (at least not to my knowledge) and my feeling is that it would be even more practical of the paintbrush. The reason is that with the paintbrush you can copy the format only once. If you have multiple, separate sections that need to be formatted, then you'll have to copy first and then paste, as many times as there are sections. With the ctrl-? you could copy once and paste many. I hope this makes sense. I'm open to discuss this further if needed. Otherwise ... I'll look forward to feedback from the programmers: can it be done? and if so, when can we expect to see something like this? Thanks much: regardless of these features, TB is a great email tool and I'm loving it. Very best regards, Yankee Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. This is a request for enhancement. 2. 3. Actual Results: This is a request for enhancement. Expected Results: This is a request for enhancement.
(In reply to comment #0) > 1) I miss the paintbrush for copy/paste the formatting. Duplicate of 417157. > 3) Sometime to make the font/format uniform I miss a drop-down menu that > allows me to pick the exact font size that I want. This would be in addition > to the size up/down buttons that are very practical Duplicate of bug 308437 and/or Core bug 98763. > Finally, all of the above can be also done with a copy/paste command (much > like ctrl-C ctrl-V) but that instead of copying the text it copies only the > formatting. Duplicate of bug 333458 -> Suite bug 90665?
YankeeDDL, thanks for your RFE. As detailed in comment 1, all aspects of your request are on record in other enhancement requests, so I'll close yours as a duplicate of one of those.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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