Excel table lines are no longer preserved, along with other formatting.
The former AOL Desktop products maintained Excel table lines and other formatting. Email is not tweeting, with short blurbs of mere text. Excel is a standard format around the world so I don't appreciate Gold not maintaining the former standard of AOL Desktop. This is very crude and compares to some very early browser from the 1980's in not being able to preserve the formatting from an Excel table.
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FRED BENTON commented
With the previous AOL Desktop Vers. 9.8.2, we could past a rectangular range of Excel data directly into email and the lines would be preserved, but in Gold ver. 11.0.1892, the table is converted to text, and no lines appear. That's a regression in quality--no good for anybody who needs to communicate about limited data quickly where it's inappropriate to ask the recipient to download and open an Excel file--they many not know how. Mail.AOL.com allows such ranges and does preserve the row and column separation lines that make the tables readable, so I'm using either version depending on what I need to do. I like the interface for AOL Gold--it's much better than that for the Mail.AOL.com, but that failure to handle Excel tabular matter is a huge deterrent. I also don't like not being able to work off-line with AOL Gold. Access to my email records is extremely important and anything that creates a lock-out is killing my trust in AOL. Mail.AOL.com has no "undo" on email; it cannot sort emails by subject, access to "favorites" is buggy. So both mail.AOL.com and AOL Gold have their positives and negatives. The word for AOL is "competition"--you won't keep our business if this situation is not adequately addressed. Things like this get reported and reviewed and the thinkers will read up and avoid the inferior products. In my case it would involve a great deal of inconvenience, and my displeasure would therefore be far greater than some newbie. Telling us to uninstall and reinstall has worn out as a diversion from the fact that these products are not being upgraded. We are not in a proprietary cage. Get ready, were losing patience with this. Respectfully submitted.