I sometimes include a programming code snippet in an Outlook email and it's a very distracting and frustrating experience, because Outlook has an assumption that everything in an email message is natural language (e.g. English). So it tries to flag "spelling errors", attach links and other such non-helpfulness. How can I get Outlook to not do that please? Is there some kind of "leave this text alone" (or "leave this message alone") option, kind of like the <pre> tag in HTML?
Outlook – How to send programming code snippets in Outlook
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Related Solutions
You can delay delivery of your emails by setting up a rule in Outlook just like in Gmail. In this way, you'll have a chance to stop the delivery. Read the following How-To Geek article:
Use Outlook Rules to Prevent "Oh No!" After Sending Emails
I googled a little bit for a vba (Visual Basic for Applications) solution and found that one:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=574491
This solution is made for Outlook 2003 but it may also work on newer versions of Outlook.
Edit:
Here's the vba code that has to be put in Outlook.
Public Sub CheckSendTime()
Dim obj As Object
Dim Mail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim WkDay As String
Dim MinNow As Integer
Dim SendHour As Integer
Dim SendDate As Date
Dim SendNow As String
'Set Variables
SendDate = Now()
SendHour = Hour(Now)
MinNow = Minute(Now)
WkDay = Weekday(Now)
SendNow = Y
'Check if Before 8am
If SendHour < 8 Then
SendHour = 8 - SendHour
SendDate = DateAdd("h", SendHour, SendDate)
SendDate = DateAdd("n", -MinNow, SendDate)
SendNow = N
End If
'Check if after 7PM
If SendHour > 19 Then 'After 7 PM
SendHour = 32 - SendHour 'Send a 8 am next day
SendDate = DateAdd("h", SendHour, SendDate)
SendDate = DateAdd("n", -MinNow, SendDate)
SendNow = N
End If
'Check if Sunday
If WkDay = 1 Then
SendDate = DateAdd("d", 1, SendDate)
SendNow = N
End If
'Check if Saturday
'If WkDay = 7 Then
' SendDate = DateAdd("d", 2, SendDate)
' SendNow = N
'End If
'Send the Email
Set obj = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
If TypeOf obj Is Outlook.MailItem Then
Set Mail = obj
'Check if we need to delay delivery
If SendNow = N Then
Mail.DeferredDeliveryTime = SendDate
End If
Mail.Send
End If
End Sub
Maybe you have to adjust the time.
Best Answer
I've had similar frustration when sending configuration output from a router or switch in an email, and I fixed it by creating a new style, and "stealing" the HTML of code snippits on Stack Exchange.
For example:
Steal a Sample and Create a New Style
I liked how the above looked so much that I simply copied the text above, and pasted it in a new email in outlook. Then, select it, click styles, then "Create a New Style":
Name it, and Modify it
Then I gave it a name and clicked "Modify" to look at the more advanced options:
You want to disable Spell Check, for example. Go to "Format" then "Language" then check "Do not check spelling or grammar":
Save It
Anyway, from there you opt check the option for "New documents based on this template". Click "OK".
IMPORTANT
This will NOT SAVE for future emails unless you save it as a "Style Set"
Go to "Format Text" on the ribbon, then within "Styles", click "Change Styles" > "Style Set" > "Save as a New Style Set". After naming and saving it, you'll have a style set you can return to. If you want this as your default style set (you probably do), click the "Change Styles" button again, and click "Set as Default".