Plain text freindly..

[George Woodard]

Please make this product (v10.6515.6626) easier to use for
those of us who have standardized on plain text messages.
Specifically:

* Have ONE setting to configure the mailer to send and
receive in plain text.
* The reply option does not reliably start in plain text
mode
* Make the spell checker smarter to avoid checking quoted
plain text.
* Keep the inbox from making hits onto the internet (which
is all spam anyway and therefore a privacy breech)
* When replying, only quote *selected* text to keep
messages short.
* Make a "paste as quotation" option so that text may be
inserted in quotes.

This stuff is so obvious I cannot believe this product is
having trouble with it.

George Woodard
Seattle,Wa

 

[Roady [MVP]]

1) What do you mean by this? There is one location to change the default
value in Tools-> Options-> tab Mail Format and one option to change it in
the message to make exceptions

2) Give examples. Note that when you reply you always reply in the same
format as the original message

3) Known issue. It gives you a warning about it as well.

4) Done in Outlook 2003

5 + 6) you can make the suggestion here;
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/suggestions.aspx

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Roady [MVP]
www.howto-outlook.com

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[Brian Tillman]

Please make this product (v10.6515.6626) easier to use for
those of us who have standardized on plain text messages.
Specifically:

* Have ONE setting to configure the mailer to send and
receive in plain text.

That setting is already available. Search MS's Knowledgebase for
"ReadAsPlain". (Hint: ID=307594)

* The reply option does not reliably start in plain text
mode

The above along with specifying Plain Text as your default sending format
should work.


Also, using Outlook-Quotefix can help a great deal. Google for it.