Outlook Quoting problem.

H

Howard Brazee

I still haven't solved a problem that came up since I upgraded to
Office 2003.

I reply to an e-mail and Word quotes with a bar on the left - the way
I want. I'm OK if my only additions to this quote are top postings,
but if I want mid postings or bottom postings, what I type is added in
as part of the quote. I cannot move my text to the left, outside of
the quote bar.

This is bad enough that I often cut and paste the "to" fields and
start a new message without the ability to select fonts, just to be
able to add my 2 cents worth without it looking like the original
quote.

Before the upgrade, all I needed to do was put cursor to the right of
previous line and press enter to insert line for your "inline" reply.
That was easy, intuitive, and the way every other e-mail program
worked.

My set up is very broken, but I don't know how to fix it.
 
G

Gary Smith

THe HTML editing function sucks pretty badly, but if you really want to
use it, you can get rid of the quote bars for your inserted text by
pressing Enter where you want to insert a line and then clicking the
Decrease Indent button on the formatting bar.


Howard Brazee said:
I still haven't solved a problem that came up since I upgraded to
Office 2003.
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I reply to an e-mail and Word quotes with a bar on the left - the way
I want. I'm OK if my only additions to this quote are top postings,
but if I want mid postings or bottom postings, what I type is added in
as part of the quote. I cannot move my text to the left, outside of
the quote bar.
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This is bad enough that I often cut and paste the "to" fields and
start a new message without the ability to select fonts, just to be
able to add my 2 cents worth without it looking like the original
quote.
Click to expand...
 
H

Howard Brazee

THe HTML editing function sucks pretty badly, but if you really want to
use it, you can get rid of the quote bars for your inserted text by
pressing Enter where you want to insert a line and then clicking the
Decrease Indent button on the formatting bar.
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I used to be able to do that before I upgraded. I must have some
setting that is stopping this from working. And it's very, very
irritating.
 
G

Gary Smith

I used to be able to do that before I upgraded. I must have some
setting that is stopping this from working. And it's very, very
irritating.
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It works for me using Office 2003, but I've just noticed that you
mentioned Word in your original post. I've never used Word as my email
editor and would never consider doing so. That may be the difference.
 
H

Howard Brazee

It works for me using Office 2003, but I've just noticed that you
mentioned Word in your original post. I've never used Word as my email
editor and would never consider doing so. That may be the difference.
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I've tried all sorts of settings. Just now I changed from Plain Text
to Rich Text, and turned off Word in both spots, and hit Reply to a
message. I went down a paragraph and hit enter to hopefully start a
new line without the quote bar. It failed, the quote bar was still
there.
 
G

Gary Smith

I've tried all sorts of settings. Just now I changed from Plain Text
to Rich Text, and turned off Word in both spots, and hit Reply to a
message. I went down a paragraph and hit enter to hopefully start a
new line without the quote bar. It failed, the quote bar was still
there.
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Okay, this is beyond my experience. I've never seen anything like that
using plain text or richt text, I only get the quote bar with HTML
format, and only if I've enabled the "Prefix each line" option. Do you
have Track Changes enabled in Word? Could that be supplying the vertical
bar?
 
H

Howard Brazee

Okay, this is beyond my experience. I've never seen anything like that
using plain text or richt text, I only get the quote bar with HTML
format, and only if I've enabled the "Prefix each line" option. Do you
have Track Changes enabled in Word? Could that be supplying the vertical
bar?
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No I don't. It's the standard quote bar that I used to get - only
now I can't press Enter to get out of the quote.

I'll keep posting here once a month in between curses beneath my
breath, hoping that somebody has a solution.
 
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