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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
Are you just always in a bad mood?
"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: "Mike from Mars" wrote in message ... Might help if I reply at the top not the bottom!! I found your prior reply just fine, but it would have helped if you had used cut judiciously instead of retaining so much unrelated text from the prior messages. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
I think a lot of people in this thread are making assumptions that aren't
necessarily true. The biggest reason I'd like to have everything go out (or at least start out) as html and/or rich text is for cases like forwarding an email. 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. "Gordon" wrote: "Brainball" wrote in message news I agree with everyone that wants to send, reply, receive, and/or foward a message in the format of choice. I get text but I want to send html, rich-text or whatever. This would be a great help. Do you not think it's a touch arrogant to reply in a different format to the mail you have received? . |
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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
"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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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
"Jonesy" wrote in message
... Are you just always in a bad mood? I'm never in a bad mood. I stated my opinion in a straightforward way. You are reading into it emotions not expressed. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
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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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
"Jonesy" wrote in message ... The point would be that I want the NEW part of my message to be rich text, not plain text. Then don't forward - copy and paste into a new RTF email... |
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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
Yeah, I said that already. That is a given. I think we're all clear that we
could copy/paste and do what we want. The point is that if I do a FORWARD, then Outlook shouldn't make any assumptions because it doesn't know who I'm forwarding it to, so the whole logic about "well it was already plain text" is moot. I know I can do what I want with a lot of pointy-clicky. The point of this thread is that seems pretty awkward and an option to let you set how you prefer to handle such things would be better. "Gordon" wrote: "Jonesy" wrote in message ... The point would be that I want the NEW part of my message to be rich text, not plain text. Then don't forward - copy and paste into a new RTF email... . |
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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
"Jonesy" wrote in message
... And btw for those that say just click the format button (hi tillman), Hi. 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. You can't change the underlying formatting of a message part way through. It's either all Plain Text, all HTML, or all Rich Text. You're asking for a cat to become a dog halfway between the snout and tail. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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how do I change the default mail format for message replies?
"Ronnie" wrote in message ... Has there been a solution to this? I have a plain text message that I'm forwarding to my work group and I for business reasons I NEED this to be changed to HTML for editing purposes. What do I do? Click on Forward and then change the message format? If it's in PLAIN TEXT then changing to HTML won't do anything to the message anyway. |
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