Outlook 2007 reply formatting

[spof22]

Greetings,

I also encounter this problem with Outlook 2003 but it's a little
easier to work around. I'm sure I'm making this much more difficult
than necessary but I can't find the way out:

I receive an email in HTML format. I hit R)eply. The editor displays
the quoted message with a quote bar up and down the left margin. If I
try to add my reply to the bottom of the message or respond "inline",
any carriage returns I add pick up the quote bar.

How do I get a non-quote paragraph in which to enter my reply text?
The only way I've found to do it is to conver the message to Text
format, add a couple of CRs, and then optionally convert it back to
HTML Neither Clear Formatting nor Decrease Indent works for this
purpose.

Simply to quoting at the top, a practice with which I'm generally
comfortable but one that many of those I communicate with, and who
outrank me, disapprove of, isn't good enough. Plus, that wouldn't help
with inline quoting and responding, which is sometimes necessary.

Thanks,
Tim Spofford

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The only option is to not use a quote prefix or keep doing what you are
doing.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

You can't get rid of the reply bar at the right of an HTML message in
2007 as you could in 2003. In 2003, you could hit the left indent
button, and it would disappear. That doesn't work in 2007 and won't be
changed (I complained a lot, but they didn't listen....).
All 2007 does is write your inline replies in a different color. You'll
have to get used to that..


Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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