Outlook for Windows has long had an option to view HTML pages in a browser. When you click the InfoBar message “If there are problems with how this message is displayed, click here to view it in a web browser.” or open the message using the View in Browser command, Outlook saves the messages as an MHT file, which saves the HTML and images in a single file.
Unfortunately, only Internet Explorer supports properly rendering these MHT files as HTML files. Now that Microsoft removed Internet Explorer from Windows 10, how do you view messages in a browser?
Easy: enable the option in Edge to “Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode”. It’s in Edge Settings, under Default browser section.
If you aren’t using Edge as your default browser, you DO NOT need to change your default browser to Edge, only enable the option to allow sites to load in IE mode. Outlook will use Edge to view the MHT file.
To enable Internet Explorer mode, open Edge’s Settings and select Default Browser on the left. Under “Allow sites to be reloaded in Internet Explorer mode”, set it to Allow. Once you make this change, choosing “view it in a web browser” in Outlook will open the message in Edge.
If Internet Explorer is installed on your Windows 10 computer and the View in Browser command opens Internet Explorer, change the default program for MHT files to Edge in Default programs.
Thnx for this tip. Works like a charm. Was looking for a solution since Windows 11 came out.
We would not need to 'View it in a web browser' using something proprietary like MHTML if Outlook would render HTML e-mail properly. E-mail newsletters typically use (nested) tables. A newsletter that looks great in any modern e-mail client can become a mess in Outlook because it doesn't respect image sizes, font types etc. as soon they are contained in a table cell. It never worked great, but used to be OK until Office 2007 or 2010.
Prior to Outlook 2007, Outlook defaulted to its own e4ditor (with word as an option) - 2007 switched to word as the email editor.
Thanks, Diane Poremsky! And Happy Newyear ;-)
LOL - took me long enough to see your comment. :) Sorry about that.