As a programmer at a big corporation, I frequently send Outlook emails that contain code samples.
I’ll actually type code directly into an email. This inevitably causes problems, as Outlook really likes to format text in pleasing but unhelpful ways. My code needs to be copyable out of the email and directly into code, so I don’t want Outlook to mess with it by adding special characters or whatnot.
So I always need to tweak options like:
- Don’t capitalize first letter of every sentence (else all my functions be Public instead of public)
- Disable smart quotes (fancy quotes don’t copy+paste out of emails well)
- Never use spell checker (because it just gets annoying)
I also like my code to be in a monospaced font, black, indented, and smaller than other text. I’ve tried to make a Style for this, but for some reason the Style never saves. 🙁 [edit: turns out I wasn’t telling it to work on “new documents based on this template”]
Is there some way to put code in <pre> blocks or something that tells Outlook to ignore all these rules and format code the way I want it to? If not, what ways have you found to send code snippets in Outlook emails without it getting super annoying?
