Microsoft KB Archive/296540

= E-mail Messages for Alerts Are Poorly Formatted and Need a Fixed-Width Font =

Article ID: 296540

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q296540



SYMPTOMS
When you view alert-response e-mail messages that contain columns, the text formatting may appear skewed and the columns may not line up accurately.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because the text formatting for both the e-mail client and the Operations Manager modules uses proportionally-spaced fonts by default.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, change the font that is used for alerts from a proportionally-spaced font to a fixed-width font. To make this change, select the text of the message, and then choose the Courier Fixed Width font instead of the default font. Alternatively, you can set the default font option for plain text messages in your Microsoft Exchange client to a fixed-width font.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Keywords: kbbug kbnetwork kbpending KB296540

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