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Old May 25th, 2010, 04:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
pmokover
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Default Email Replies - Line Prefix

I’m an Outlook newbie.

When replying to an email message in Outlook 2007 I have it set to prefix
each line of the original message with “” but it does not do that. Instead
it prefixes each line of the original message with a vertical line | in the
left margin.

I’ve seen that vertical line occasionally when I receive replies from other
Outlook users but I don’t want the line at all, I want “” How do I make
that happen?

Thanks
Peter

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Old May 25th, 2010, 05:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Roady [MVP]
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Default Email Replies - Line Prefix

You can't change this unless you change your message format to Plain Text
before initiating the reply.
The pre-fix character only applies to Plain Text messages.

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I’m an Outlook newbie.

When replying to an email message in Outlook 2007 I have it set to prefix
each line of the original message with “” but it does not do that.
Instead
it prefixes each line of the original message with a vertical line | in
the
left margin.

I’ve seen that vertical line occasionally when I receive replies from
other
Outlook users but I don’t want the line at all, I want “” How do I make
that happen?

Thanks
Peter

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Old May 25th, 2010, 07:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Email Replies - Line Prefix

PMokover wrote:

Im an Outlook newbie.

When replying to an email message in Outlook 2007 I have it set to prefix
each line of the original message with but it does not do that. Instead
it prefixes each line of the original message with a vertical line | in the
left margin.


Because you chose to have Outlook default to composing in HTML format
instead of plain-text format. There are options in Outlook as to what
format to use when composing new e-mails. There is also an option as to
what format to use when replying to an e-mail (i.e., whether or not to
reply in the same format as for the received e-mail to which you reply).

Ive seen that vertical line occasionally when I receive replies from other
Outlook users but I dont want the line at all, I want How do I make
that happen?


When you reply to an HTML-formatted e-mail, the quoted portion of the
original message is put into a DIV segment within the HTML in your reply
and the vertical bar is used to offset that quoted content. If you
reply in plain-text format *then* you get the quoting character that you
specified ("", in your case).
 




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