Indenting of original text in e-mail reply?

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Ben

Hi folks


I've had Outlook for almost a year now, it came pre-
installed as part of the Office suite with XP on my
laptop. I have been tearing my hair out for months now
trying to get it to '>' indent the text from the original
e-mail when I send a reply. I'm sure you know what I mean
but for clarity... all e-mail software I've ever used
does this:
original e-mail text starts with a greatr-than symbol.
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Your response does not.

I have tried every option I can find and can't get
Outlook to do it and it's starting to drive me insane. I
always reply in plain text, not rich text or html.

If anyone can tell me where the option to make Outlook do
this is hidden I would be very grateful!

Tried using on-line help but for whatever reason all the
support pages just come up as 'page cannot be displayed'.


Thanks


Ben
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Tools->options->email options.

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Ben asked:

| Hi folks
|
|
| I've had Outlook for almost a year now, it came pre-
| installed as part of the Office suite with XP on my
| laptop. I have been tearing my hair out for months now
| trying to get it to '>' indent the text from the original
| e-mail when I send a reply. I'm sure you know what I mean
| but for clarity... all e-mail software I've ever used
| does this:
|
|| original e-mail text starts with a greatr-than symbol.
|
| Your response does not.
|
| I have tried every option I can find and can't get
| Outlook to do it and it's starting to drive me insane. I
| always reply in plain text, not rich text or html.
|
| If anyone can tell me where the option to make Outlook do
| this is hidden I would be very grateful!
|
| Tried using on-line help but for whatever reason all the
| support pages just come up as 'page cannot be displayed'.
|
|
| Thanks
|
|
| Ben
 
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Guest

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In addition to what Milly said, check out Outlook- Quotefix at
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
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Thanks both for assistance, I have got that working
now... only issue seems to be that it (of course) only
works with plain text messages and if you respond to a
message in html the reply is always in html too, and as
such it doesn't include the '>'s.

Is there a way of setting it to ALWAYS reply in plain
text irrelevant of the incoming message format?


Thanks again


Ben
 
B

Brian Tillman

only issue seems to be that it (of course) only
works with plain text messages and if you respond to a
message in html the reply is always in html too, and as
such it doesn't include the '>'s.
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Naturally. Outlook always responds using the sender's format.
Is there a way of setting it to ALWAYS reply in plain
text irrelevant of the incoming message format?
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With Outlook 2002 and 2003, yes. For the former, it's a registry setting
(search support.microsoft.com for "ReadAsPlain"). for 2003, it's a checkbox
on an options page (but it uses the same registry setting, so what works for
2002 will work for 2003). You can also get a third-party add-in called
"Attachment Options" (from one of the MVPs in this group) that, among other
things, implements a checkbox for it even in 2002.
 
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