"View in Browser" takes me to MS Word, NOT a browser
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I can see no sign of that option in Outlook 2010
Martin,
I think it does not apply to every email but I do not know what makes the difference.
- I cannot View in browser my TenForums notification emails from Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2021.
- Some emails include a View in browser control within them. I think Amazon replies from sellers do so.
Check File associations first - Fritz's post #18.
I also experimented with Edge, ..., Settings, Default browser, IE mode [Allow / Don't allow] but it made no difference to being able to View in browser.
For Outlook 2007:-
1 Open the email
2 In the Ribbon, Message tab, Actions section - click on Other actions
3 Click on View in browser
4 Click OK when warned about security settings
5 It ought to show the email in IE [as an mht file].
For Outlook 2021 [and I'd expect this to be closer to what you need to do in Outlook 2010]:-
1 Open the email
2 ... {on the right-hand end, More commands}
3 Actions
4 View in browser
5 Click OK when warned about security settings
6 It ought to show the email in IE [as an mht file].
All the best,
Denis
Last edited by Try3; 22 Aug 2023 at 11:46.
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I think it does not apply to every email but I do not know what makes the difference.
Well, that was fun: it seems it only applies to HTML emails, not plain text, and I had only looked for it when viewing plain text emails. So what did it do on an HTML email? It opened Firefox, which had a go, but said it couldn't do it. I tried to change the program associated with .htm files, but IE was not in the list (I removed it some time ago, I think, as MS finally announced it was no more). I wanted to be safe!
So I changed the associated program to Edge - it also failed - just showed the email as plain text.
Tried Word: that worked (well, it opened). So I tried to print part of the message - turns out that Word 2010 can offer to print only the current selection, but does not show what that is in the print preview, so one has to take it on trust - but it worked.
So then I tried to change the default back to FF, but that wasn't available as an option:
... and I don't want to search the Store, thank you very much. Decided to leave it as word until it matters.
So I can now print only part of an email - and if I ever need to, that might be handy! Martin
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I think it does not apply to every email but I do not know what makes the difference.
I think it does not apply to every email [even with Outlook set to compose in html] but I do not know what makes the difference.
All the best,
Denis
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Well, I can see no sign of that option in Outlook 2010 - where might it be? Or what extra feature do I have to install/allow to see it?
Hi, the first question I have to ask is, were you IN a received message. I.e. was it "open" when you clicked "File" "Option" "Customize Ribbon".
Sorry to ask such seemingly basic question, but in Outlook it is important to be IN the particular type of message; meaning is it a message, such as draft, received, new, sent, send-again, re-send, in order to get the proper Ribbon editor options. I don't know if there are more of these types of messages, but for Outlook they are all different, and all get different Ribbons.
Let us know how it goes.
All the Best,
Fritz
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Hi, the first question I have to ask is, were you IN a received message. I.e. was it "open" when you clicked "File" "Option" "Customize Ribbon".
Now solved, but you were right. Who would think that 'All commands' would not necessarily show them all? What a bizarre setup! The MS programmers must have had to jump through hoops to make it this way. I may have noticed this before, but forgot. Thanks, Martin
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