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)
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
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.
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!"
where is email paintbrush formatter?
