The third tab on the main MaxBulk Mailer screen allows you to preview what your message will look like once the personalized data has been merged into the document and the signature added. You can also make sure headers and contents match all previous introduced data. You check each individual record by using the left and right arrows on the top left.
Built-in Preview only displays the Plain Text version of your message if available. If your message contains styles or an HTML part, use the Preview in Browser popup (eye icon) to select a browser from the list (Default Browser, Safari, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera, Mozilla or iCab).
The thin grey line running down the screen is called the "Philips Bar" and shows where the 72nd column is located. This has historical reasons dating back to days when all e-mail was plain text and expected to fit on a 80 column by 24 (or 25) line screen. To make e-mail that had been forwarded easy to read when the quoting character, usually a <, was added to each line, it was customary to limit the length of each line to 72 characters to allow for this. Today, some e-mail clients still expect this, and not everyone uses a Graphic User Interface, so to be 100% compatible, it often recommended that you still conform to this standard when writing plain text messages. Use the Line Length Checking option to reproduce hard wrap effects.
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