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[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

You can send to more than 1 recipient by seperating each one with a comma.

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Thank you very much, MikeLee, and thanks for the experimental multiple-recipient PM ;-D

So...there wouldn't happen to be some hidden feature to save unfinished PMs? 

[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

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Moby_Duck wrote:

You can send to more than 1 recipient by seperating each one with a comma.

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Thank you very much, MikeLee, and thanks for the experimental multiple-recipient PM ;-D

So...there wouldn't happen to be some hidden feature to save unfinished PMs? 

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Any news on a "saving-unfinished-PM" feature? ;-))

[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

I think it may be best to declare the unsolved nature of this thread as the solution.

[Allen_K]

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Yaso_Kuuhl wrote:

You can send to more than 1 recipient by seperating each one with a comma.

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Thank you very much, MikeLee, and thanks for the experimental multiple-recipient PM ;-D

So...there wouldn't happen to be some hidden feature to save unfinished PMs? 

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I wouldn't really call it a hidden feature... I would more likely call it a 'work around'.   

But if I was writing a long PM that I wanted to save for period of time what I would do is send it to myself.  Just change the "To:" to my own name.   Then when ready to work on the message again, I would just open it, select all the text and copy it to my clipboard and paste it into a new message.

Hope that helps!

[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

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Allen_K wrote:

I wouldn't really call it a hidden feature... I would more likely call it a 'work around'.   

But if I was writing a long PM that I wanted to save for period of time what I would do is send it to myself.  Just change the "To:" to my own name.   Then when ready to work on the message again, I would just open it, select all the text and copy it to my clipboard and paste it into a new message.

Hope that helps!

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Thanks for the tip, Allen! ;-) 

[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

Tried the copy-pasting process while writing a marathon PM - the format gets all garbled, paragraphs and line breaks appear where they shouldn't ;-( It would really be nice to have a separate drafts folder to temporarily save messages in process.

Message Edited by Yaso_Kuuhl on 08-06-2009 02:50 PM

[Phil_D Norton Fighter · Accepted solution]

Hi Yaso_Kuuhl,

To prevent the garbled formatting when copying and pasting, this is what I do when composing a lengthy post:

1) After some text, images, links have been entered that you want to save, click the Edit As HTML button. When the reply box changes to HTML format, place your cursor at the very beginning (uppermost left corner of reply box). Hit Crtl A > Crtl C and then paste the HTML into notepad.

You can save this txt file for later. As you continue adding to the "marathon post" repeat the above procedure, replacing the content in the txt file that you have saved.

2) To recover from a "lost" response, just reopen a new Reply window, then start by clicking Edit As HTML. Copy the HTML contents from the txt file you previously saved and paste into the HTML editing window.

3) Now switch back to Graphical Editor and you will see that all formatting from your saved response has been preserved including text format, images, links, fonts, emotions, etc.

It may sound complicated but it is really quite easy once you have done it a few times.

[edit: added content]

Message Edited by Phil_D on 08-06-2009 09:46 AM

[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

Thanks a lot, I'll try that out ;-)))

Message Edited by Yaso_Kuuhl on 08-06-2009 04:40 PM

[Yaso_Kuuhl Norton Fighter]

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Phil_D wrote:

Hi Yaso_Kuuhl,

To prevent the garbled formatting when copying and pasting, this is what I do when composing a lengthy post:

1) After some text, images, links have been entered that you want to save, click the Edit As HTML button. When the reply box changes to HTML format, place your cursor at the very beginning (uppermost left corner of reply box). Hit Crtl A > Crtl C and then paste the HTML into notepad.

You can save this txt file for later. As you continue adding to the "marathon post" repeat the above procedure, replacing the content in the txt file that you have saved.

2) To recover from a "lost" response, just reopen a new Reply window, then start by clicking Edit As HTML. Copy the HTML contents from the txt file you previously saved and paste into the HTML editing window.

3) Now switch back to Graphical Editor and you will see that all formatting from your saved response has been preserved including text format, images, links, fonts, emotions, etc.

It may sound complicated but it is really quite easy once you have done it a few times.

[edit: added content]

Message Edited by Phil_D on 08-06-2009 09:46 AM

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Yays!!! Thanks, Phil_D! It worked ;-D

[Phil_D Norton Fighter]

I'm glad you found it helpful.

Best Wishes!