Colored Replies in Entourage 2004

In recent versions of Outlook you may change the format of email
replies. For example, when I send an email to a friend using Outlook
2003 and he replies to the email, his reply shows up in a different
font and color than when he types a normal email.

Is there a way to change the format of reply text in Entourage?

Henry
Thu Mar 17 07:13:19 CST 2005

Have you tried setting/using a category? That will color it in the email
window for you. Whereas a project assignment can put a colored dot there in
the Project column.

The next question you'll have no doubt, is how to assign categories
automatically to certain incoming/outgoing messages. I leave it to you to
explore Rules and Mailing list Manager both of which are very flexible in
this regard.

Also your Addresses' category settings tie into Mail quite nicely.

Henry


On 3/16/05 6:04 PM, in article
1111014274.956744.106560@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com,
"bunt4power@gmail.com" <bunt4power@gmail.com> wrote:

> In recent versions of Outlook you may change the format of email
> replies. For example, when I send an email to a friend using Outlook
> 2003 and he replies to the email, his reply shows up in a different
> font and color than when he types a normal email.
>
> Is there a way to change the format of reply text in Entourage?
>

Daiya
Thu Mar 17 08:45:20 CST 2005

Categories are irrelevant, if I understand your question correctly. But I
am not sure I do. Why would you want a reply to go out differently than a
new email?

Entourage in plain text messages (not sure about HTML) will distinguish
between new and quoted text, with colors.

E.g., I am quoting your message here, and the quoted text shows up in
purple. If you were to reply to me, and respond in-line, your text would be
in black, and my old quoted text would be in purple.

I'm not sure if you are looking for that, or something more.


On 3/16/05 3:04 PM, "bunt4power@gmail.com" wrote:

> In recent versions of Outlook you may change the format of email
> replies. For example, when I send an email to a friend using Outlook
> 2003 and he replies to the email, his reply shows up in a different
> font and color than when he types a normal email.
>
> Is there a way to change the format of reply text in Entourage?
>

bunt4power
Mon Mar 21 09:19:18 CST 2005

Thank you for your replys.

Yes, categories are irrelevant. I don't care that the email message
itself is colored.

I've just noticed how nice it is when people reply to my messages and
the text in their reply is a different color than the original email
message text (green, for example).

I tried switching to only plain text like Daiya suggested but no colors
showed up. Both my replies and the original messages stayed black.
I'm using Entourage 2004 if that matters.

Thanks again for your help-

Daiya
Mon Mar 21 13:58:41 CST 2005

Okay, make sure colors are set for different levels of quoted text in
Entourage | Preferences | Mail & News, View tab. But it requires the >
starting lines to work--maybe you have some setting that strips the > to
denote quoted text?

But when you type a reply to a message, it will still be black. Just the
message that you are replying to will be colored. (is that what you are
trying for?)


On 3/21/05 7:19 AM, "bunt4power@gmail.com" wrote:

> Thank you for your replys.
>
> Yes, categories are irrelevant. I don't care that the email message
> itself is colored.
>
> I've just noticed how nice it is when people reply to my messages and
> the text in their reply is a different color than the original email
> message text (green, for example).
>
> I tried switching to only plain text like Daiya suggested but no colors
> showed up. Both my replies and the original messages stayed black.
> I'm using Entourage 2004 if that matters.
>
> Thanks again for your help-
>