How get Outlook to Forward in HTML?

[Steve Adams]

When I forward a message that has a link, the new message is in "text only"
format.

How can I get it to "forward" in HTML?

Thanks,

Steve (XP Pro SP2, Office 2007)

 

[Diane Poremsky]

what version of outlook and which folder are you in? does it happen with all
messages or just certain ones?

 

[Brian Tillman]

When I forward a message that has a link, the new message is in "text
only" format.

How can I get it to "forward" in HTML?

If the original message was in Plain Text, Outlook will always format a
reply or forward in Plain Text. It uses the format of the original message.

 

[Steve Adams]

Thanks Diane and Brian.

No it does not happen with every email forwarded, but if I recieve an email
with a working hyperlinklink (colored and underlined) and try to forward it,
the link turns into regular text (de-activated). I am in "Inbox", in a
personal folder.

Is this an Outlook security setting, or do you have any ideas?

I use Outlook 2007 (part of Office 2007)

 

[Steve Adams]

Thanks Vanguard.

in message



The underlining and coloring are simply your e-mail client parsing out
what it *thinks* are URLs and then makes them clickable within that e-mail
client. They never did have those special attributes. That is how the
e-mail client SHOWED them to you.

The e-mail you got was all plain text. There was no underlining or
coloring in the actual message. Plain-text messages don't have that extra
encoding for special formatting. They are, well, just plain text. It
doesn't matter that they don't show underlined and colored in a forward or
a reply or even when you compose a new e-mail. Whether or not those
strings that represent URLs show up as underlined and colored as viewed by
the recipient will depend entirely on what e-mail client the recipient
uses.

Not all e-mail clients go parsing through an e-mail looking for what looks
like URLs to then make them underlined, colored, and clickable. Those are
not attributes within the content of the e-mail. That is how the e-mail
*client* decided to present them visually.