The point would be that I want the NEW part of my message to be rich text,
not plain text.

And btw for those that say just click the format button (hi tillman), that's
not really quite accurate. That will let you start using html/rich text. But
what's on-screen is already formatted nice and ugly for you. For example, my
sig and the selected font for typing the new email. So to really more like...
click options, format, select your text, change the font... re-format your
sig... and VOILA! That's all you have to do.

So anyway, it's not that I want to _convert_ the original plain text
message, but rather, I want to create a NEW email (in rich text) that
contains plain text from another email that I want to forward.

And while I understand I can do all of this with multiple
pointy-clicky-cutty-pastey motions, I think the point of most in this thread
is that seems a bit ridiculous. Outlook shouldn't make assumptions on my
behalf... I'm perfectly capable of messing things up on my own.

"Gordon" wrote:


"Jonesy" wrote in message
...

I get emails from my unix servers, they're in plain text. I'd like to
forward one of them to a colleague and all of the sudden, my forward has
to
be plain text. I don't like that. And don't see why Microsoft should
assume
that I would.

And as the original is in Plain text, what is the point in converting it to
any other format? There are no graphics or anything in plain text so I have
no idea why you would want to do that. There's just no point to it.

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