Making Outlook 2007 quote responsibly

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on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:36:23 -0700
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Somewhere along the lines of HTML emails and Outlook RTF/Rich Text trash, reasonable email quoting got lost. I’ve switched outlook to default to text emails (Tools, Options, Mail Format tab), and setup nice quoting (Tools, Options, Email Options, When replying to a message: prefix each line of the original message). But replying to an html message still defaults to HTML, giving you the “blue line of evil“. Microsoft has directions to force everything to text though, as a “security feature”.

4 Responses to “Making Outlook 2007 quote responsibly”

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  1. 1 DJ
    Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:51:56 -0800 at 3:51 pm

    thanks, this is brilliant and just what I was looking for.

    Outlook loses sense of where the original message and the reply end, so it spell checks the entire thing, FYI.

  2. 2 Steve Jordi
    Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:14:20 -0800 at 8:14 am

    This is totally dumb from Microsoft.
    I posted messages in forums and some people told me that not being able to break this blody blue line using the “Paragraph unindent” (as the documentation says to do) is not a bug.
    Why does it work this way in all other mail applications, including Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2003?

  3. 3 Matt
    Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:38:25 -0700 at 6:38 pm

    Finally. I have been looking for a way to do this for ages.

    It’s very telling of the attitude of Microsoft that they think it’s fine to have a email client that can’t even do inline replies.

  4. 4 Johannes
    Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:10:34 -0700 at 2:10 am

    That seems to do the trick for me as well. I always hated the ‘blue line of evil’!

    Thanks a lot!

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