KC Lemson  By KC Lemson [MS]   Remove extraneous HTML cruft when
using Word as your editor    • Comments 9   • Likes  For the
last few versions of Outlook, the setting to enable Word as the
e-mail editor has been enabled by default. While some people
like using Word as an email editor due to the advanced features
available, others dislike it because of Word's tendency to
generate a lot of HTML markup for even simple HTML mails. If you
do want to use Word, you can minimize the amount of markup it
adds as follows:  1. Open up Word 2. Tools | Options 3. On the
General tab, select Email Options 4. Switch to the General tab
You'll see four main settings:  1. None 2. Medium 3. High 4.
Rely on CSS  I did some very unscientific tests using this text
as a sample:  this has fancy formatting    • I   • Love   • HTML
and here are my results (this counts total message size, not
just size of the HTML bodypart):  Not using CSS: None=11KB,
Medium=8KB, High=6KB Using CSS: None=9KB, Medium=7KB, High=5KB
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