CompuServe Messages

Michael, . <<just had a look at the message you are referring to. It does look dense, <<but I swear it had 3 or 4 paragraphs when I uploaded it. Your another victim of AP's loss of the "force formatting" feature. Using older versions of AP (1.7 comes to mind) "force formatting" was done for you by AP placing a [.] dot (or space) as the first character on each line of type. . This makes CIS leave that line alone (as a default,it tries to format for you) so it displays as you originally laid it out. New versions of AP had that 'fixed' feature removed with no way to "TOGGLE" it back ON so we, the users are now FORCED to manually start typing in the dot [.] or a leading blank space [ ] again or suffer the bizarre (sometimes) effects of the loss of our message formatting! This inturns sometimes invokes slight flames from other members about dense long paragraphs. It would be nice to have some choice here and selectively choose to either [SAVE] or [SAVE UNFORMATTED (by CIS editor )] (by cis ) rather than typing all those D!*@ DOTS. An extra menu option (keyboard shortcut) and/or a gadget would be all we need. Definitely plenty of space for another gadget in the AP editor. Christopher