How to draw a nifty text box in your email message

In order to help set off content in email messages, for example, to demarcate a code snippet, I will often put it in a box.

… but consider the following class:

class Muffin
{
public:
  void Bake();
};

One of my colleagues apparently was fascinated by this technique and couldn’t figure out how it was done. “Okay, I give up. How do you get the nifty text boxes in your emails?”

You’re going to hate yourself when I tell you the secret.

Just use this one weird trick.

Tell your email program to insert a 1×1 table. Paste your text into the table.

It’s that simple!