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Inserting tables and formatting in Outlook for web
Please could anyone help with the problem of inserting tables into an e-mail message in the web version of Outlook?
The previous workaround of converting the message to HTML has been removed by Microsoft.
Now the insert table is permanently greyed out (along with other formatting buttons) There does not seem to be any way of converting the message from plain text to HTML.
This is proving to be really frustrating, so any help from the community would be very much appreciated.
Working on a laptop running Windows 11.
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Is this for Outlook on the web of an Exchange Online, Exchange On-premises, or an Outlook.com account?
Anyway, the command to switch between message formats is on the Options tab and looks like a bit "T".
Depending on the current format of the message, it either states "Switch to HTML" or "Switch to plain text".
Also, make sure that your active cursor is within the message body before trying to insert a table.
Hello Robert - thank you for replying. I'm using Outlook on the web of an Exchange online.
My version doesn't have the same features that your example shows. There is no switch to HTML which is really annoying. It was possible to access this feature using the three dots button, but Microsoft removed it. Really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thanks again, Damian
Can you include a screenshot of the commands that you are seeing on the Options tab?
If no one picks up this question here, you might be better served by posting this question in the Outlook Q&A Forum:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/778/office-outlook
This presents your question to a much larger audience and gets you access to the Outlook Subject Matter Support Specialist who monitor that forum.
Thank you Hornblower. Have put the question up with the Q&A Forum.
