Quoting in Outlook 2003

[Howard Brazee]

I am using Office 2003 but am having trouble with quoting messages. I
like the old way I had with a bar on the left showing quoted messages,
which did not go through the spell checker. But since my last
upgrade, I can't quite get rid of all of the bar to enter my own text.

If I do a ctl-a to delete the whole message and start again, I don't
get rid of the whole message - only the text, a vertical bar still
exists, and I am typing in the quote area.

I can't tab over the way I used to to get my cursor off the quote bar.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Howard Brazee]

I am using Office 2003 but am having trouble with quoting messages. I
like the old way I had with a bar on the left showing quoted messages,
which did not go through the spell checker. But since my last
upgrade, I can't quite get rid of all of the bar to enter my own text.


I reply to their message, depending on how they wrote it, I might have
a vertical blue bar on the left. I erase most of their message, and
try to reply beneath their questions, but cannot get rid of the quote
bar. Sometimes hit backspace, the bar doesn't delete, but then my
first letter typed disappears.


If I do a ctrl-a to delete the whole message and start again, I don't
get rid of the whole message - only the text, a vertical bar still
exists, and I am typing in the quote area.

I can't tab over the way I used to to get my cursor off the quote bar.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Bob I]

How about hit the enter key to start a new line?

 

[Howard Brazee]

How about hit the enter key to start a new line?

It's easy to start a new line - but the quote bar is still there with
the new line.

 

[Bob I]

Humm, have you tried changing the "quote" indicator?

 

[Howard Brazee]

Humm, have you tried changing the "quote" indicator?

I'm not sure. I have my set-up currently to prefix quotes with >,
but that depends on what format the original message was in. Sometimes
I get > and other times I get the vertical bar on the left.

It's when I get the vertical bar that the behavior is different from
my old Word on my old computer. I no longer have the ability to
bottom or middle-quote without having my new message within that quote
bar.

I used to be able to hit return a couple of times, or press the
"decrease indent" button to remove that bar. Now, if I press the
"decrease indent" button, my cursor goes under the bar, and my first
character typed is hidden under the bar.