I don't consider it necessarily "rude" to change the format. Sometimes it's
needed. My issue is that sometimes I have a text email with active
hyperlinks that I need to forward. When I try to forward it, the links
become inactive. If I could set all my forwards to be HTML or Rich Text,
those links would remain active. Which is what I need. This is also the
case in some replies, where a previous link needs to be active.

Is there a way to set up that all replies/forwards are a specific format?

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

Manually, on each message as you reply. Outlook does not support changing it
via an option because it's rude to change the format on replies - if the
sender uses a specific format, it's very likely they have a reason, such as
they don't like the larger message sizes of HTML (if they pay by the minute,
such as when using a cell phone modem) or they use a client that can't
handle HTML.



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"Chris" wrote in message
...
I know how to change the format of individual replies. How can I change
the
default mail format to HTML for all replies?