{"id":245,"date":"2017-12-17T14:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:23:40","slug":"how-to-switch-thunderbird-message-format-from-html-to-plain-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/how-to-switch-thunderbird-message-format-from-html-to-plain-text\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Switch Thunderbird Message Format from HTML to Plain Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using Thunderbird for years on my Windows and Linux computers. It is a fantastic email client. As of today I am using version 57.0.2.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that has puzzled me for a long time about Thunderbird is why\u00a0 there was not an easy way to switch from HTML to plain text when writing a message. It does not happen often for me, but sometimes I just want to write a simple plain text message. There is no prompt in the Thunderbird menu system to do this. Right-clicking in the message area does not provide a way. I cannot find an icon for this in a toolbar. This has been frustrating to say the least.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well it turns out there is a very simple way to switch from HTML to plain text on a per message basis. <strong>Just press and hold the \u201cShift\u201d key when clicking on \u201cWrite\u201d in the menu bar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I knew it had to be easy, but it took me a number of Google searches to find this solution. Maybe posting this in my blog will help get the word out to all my fellow Thunderbird fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using Thunderbird for years on my Windows and Linux computers. It is a fantastic email client. As of today I am using version 57.0.2. One thing that has puzzled me for a long time about Thunderbird is why\u00a0 there was not an easy way to switch from HTML to plain text when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[52,50,51,49],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials-that-may-be-helpful","tag-email","tag-html","tag-plaintext","tag-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beausanders.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}