where is the mac email paintbrush formatter feature (icon would be good) like in outlook? for a company that markets itself at the leading edge of technology in it's industry, I am at a loss why this feature is missing.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
it took me 8 steps to do
I'm not sure what you did, then, since Paste and Match Style is one menu choice or keypress away (Edit -> Paste and Match Style, or option-shift-command-V). Maybe two steps if you have to switch the new message from plain text to rich text. How you get the formatted text into the clipboard - whether by copying from TextEdit or another message or wherever - is not really relevant.
Microsoft outlook with the brush icon takes 3 steps.
Yeah, but Outlook is in significant ways incompatible with every other e-mail system on the planet. For example, consider its inability to correctly render HTML e-mails. But hey, at least you have the "paintbrush formatter!"
it took me 8 steps to do
I'm not sure what you did, then, since Paste and Match Style is one menu choice or keypress away (Edit -> Paste and Match Style, or option-shift-command-V). Maybe two steps if you have to switch the new message from plain text to rich text. How you get the formatted text into the clipboard - whether by copying from TextEdit or another message or wherever - is not really relevant.
Microsoft outlook with the brush icon takes 3 steps.
Yeah, but Outlook is in significant ways incompatible with every other e-mail system on the planet. For example, consider its inability to correctly render HTML e-mails. But hey, at least you have the "paintbrush formatter!"
Hello Fish25,
Not sure what you mean with "paintbrush formatter", but allow me to make a guess.
If you mean the capability to copy formats from one part of a message to another you can find this in the Format menu, Styles option where you'll find options to Copy and Paste Style. Unfortunately I don't think these can be added to the standard toolbar in Mail. On the other hand, the shortcuts for copy and paste of styles (Option-Cmd-C and Option-Cmd-V) are the same across all Apple applications.
You can provide your feedback on Mail to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html
Eric
If you write up the email in a rich text editor such as textedit, then copy paste that into mail, it should preserve the formating. Recieving the formatting is dependent on the recipient's email client.
Eric...thanks for the help.
it does work as you described.
it took me 8 steps to do, if you've already cut & pasted to match existing style.
Microsoft outlook with the brush icon takes 3 steps.
I will look forward to apple implementing this as an upgrade....hopefully
LG
where is email paintbrush formatter?
