Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

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Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by mkmel » Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:37 pm

I have received an important email on my one plus 6 phone. However the wording on the email is all in a single vertical line of text which is making it extremely difficult to read.

I don't have a tablet or a laptop so any ideas how I can see or read this email on my phone in a horizontal line of text?

Thanks

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by Rileybobs » Mon Mar 24, 2025 4:42 pm

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by Rileybobs » Mon Mar 24, 2025 4:43 pm

Have you tried forwarding the email to yourself, it may reformat it? Or perhaps forward to a different email address.

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by Claret Till I Die » Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:36 pm

mkmel wrote:
Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:37 pm
I have received an important email on my one plus 6 phone. However the wording on the email is all in a single vertical line of text which is making it extremely difficult to read.

I don't have a tablet or a laptop so any ideas how I can see or read this email on my phone in a horizontal line of text?

Thanks
Do you use Outlook?

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by Croydon Claret » Mon Mar 24, 2025 5:48 pm

You can do it online using various text replacement websites. Ultimately you just need to delete the "new line" characters at the end of each line

The challenge is that you need to preserve the spaces between each word which, in your vertical mail, will probably be represented by 2 consecutive new line characters.

I just tested this but you need to do it in 2 stages

1) Go to this website - https://www.browserling.com/tools/regex-replace

2) Paste all your text into the blue box

3)
a) Preserve the spaces between the words by entering this into the the "Regular exp:" box /[^\w]{2}/g (Suggest to copy everything in bold to avoid errors)
b) Enter a single space in the "Replacement" box
c) Press the "Replace Regexp!"" button

4)
a) Now remove all the remaining new line characters by entering this into the "Regular exp:" box /[^\w ]/g (Suggest to copy everything in bold to avoid errors)
b) Ensure that the "Replacement" box contains nothing (The space you added in the step 3 will still be there, but now needs removing)
c) Press the "Replace Regexp!"" button

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by mkmel » Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:48 pm

Sorry guys but it sounds too complicated for me.

Thanks anyway

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by Leon_C » Tue Mar 25, 2025 7:41 am

I’d try to paste the text info ChatGPT and ask it “can you tell me what this says”

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by Claretnick » Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:27 am

Probably my dumb way of resolving this would be to get a pen and paper and write down each word from the email :oops:

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by Sonic » Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:22 pm

Turning the phone on its side usually fixes vertical text for me. YMMV.

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Re: Vertical line of text in an email on my phone?

Post by bfcmatt » Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:42 pm

mkmel wrote:
Mon Mar 24, 2025 6:48 pm
Sorry guys but it sounds too complicated for me.

Thanks anyway
I think the oneplus 6 is now not being supported with updates from oneplus, Could be possible that the email has been sent from a platform that your phone can now no longer support correctly.

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