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10-28-2014, 03:55 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
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Avoid unwanted „reformatting“ of text within Outlook tasks?
Hello,
could anyone please help me with a problem, I have during my daily work with Outlook 2010 task management?
I am making intensive use of the task module of Outlook in order to keep track of my daily activities at work. Here I also use the possibility of syncing my ToDos with my mobile phone.
This synchronization is done by use of the Exchange server of the company I’m working for. The smartphone is a Samsung Galaxy S4 and it uses the Nitrodesk „TouchDown“ application for managing synchronized items (ToDos, calendar, contacts, mail, notes).
Anyway, in my opinion, my question is basically about the PC-/desktop-part, so about MS Outlook 2010.
Normally, my tasks are going along with quite simple text based notes, mainly containing numbers, dates, phone numbers, text and/or bullet points.
Now, during my daily work, it often happens that complete notes of my Outlook ToDos will be unwillingly “reformatted”. The contained text will be displayed in a completely different layout, there may be sentences reformatted to headers in bold or colored style, line spacing will be changed and even mail addresses and/or phone numbers might appear reformatted to headers or even hyperlinks etc.
Here is a simple example of such unintended „reformatting“ – sorry, the text is in German language, but, anyway, you should be able to see what I mean.
Task with the original text/note
Task with „reformatted“ text/note
The only way to restore the original format of my text (well, at least almost) is to delete the "automatically" applied style sheet. But with the big number of tasks that I manage with Outlook, this is really a painful and annoying work.
And even after having deleted the unwanted style sheet, in most cases, the text will not be restored to its original format, but to a plain text without any formatting.
Deletion of the applied style sheet in order to restore the former format
In the meantime, I already tried to delete all the existing style sheets (formatting templates) in the Outlook catalog of style sheets, except the „standard“ one. But this had no positive effect.
Style sheets before deletion
Remaining style sheets after deletion
To me, it is completely uncomprehensible how Outlook comes to this „life of its own“ and how I could avoid it in future. Perhaps, it might even be related to any synchronizing activities, but, honestly, I think that this is not too likely as „TouchDown“ not even works with any style sheets and, furthermore, there are also examples for Outlook tasks that never get „reformatted“ during synchronization (I don’t know why). What is more, the unwanted reformatting mostly matches one of the formerly existing style sheets of the Outlook catalog of style sheets.
Does anyone of you have a good idea how I could avoid the above mentioned effects in order to keep my ToDo-notes in their original format?
Thanks a lot in advance for helping!
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