I'm running Entourage v.X to access an Exchange server. I get emails and
when I hit reply, sometimes it correctly marks the original sender's text
and puts them in front of a colored ">" symbol so that it's obvious which is
the other guy's text and which is my reply. For some emails, it doesn't
happen and I have to do it manually. Can anyone tell me what makes the
difference and how I can force it to do it every time I hit reply?

Mike

Re: Why does it sometimes mark a received email's text with ">" by Mickey

Mickey
Sat May 21 11:37:46 CDT 2005

The ">" colored quoting only occurs when the reply is in plain text instead
of HTML format.

On 5/20/05 11:17 AM, in article BEB385C4.947B%mlevin@forsyth.org, "Levin,
Michael" <mlevin@forsyth.org> wrote:

> I'm running Entourage v.X to access an Exchange server. I get emails and
> when I hit reply, sometimes it correctly marks the original sender's text
> and puts them in front of a colored ">" symbol so that it's obvious which is
> the other guy's text and which is my reply. For some emails, it doesn't
> happen and I have to do it manually. Can anyone tell me what makes the
> difference and how I can force it to do it every time I hit reply?
>
> Mike
>

--
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>


Re: Why does it sometimes mark a received email's text with by Michael

Michael
Sat May 21 12:08:54 CDT 2005

On 5/21/05 12:37 PM, in article BEB4CE0A.170AE%mickey.stevens@mvps.org,
"Mickey Stevens" <mickey.stevens@mvps.org> wrote:

> The ">" colored quoting only occurs when the reply is in plain text instead
> of HTML format.
>
> On 5/20/05 11:17 AM, in article BEB385C4.947B%mlevin@forsyth.org, "Levin,
> Michael" <mlevin@forsyth.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm running Entourage v.X to access an Exchange server. I get emails and
>> when I hit reply, sometimes it correctly marks the original sender's text
>> and puts them in front of a colored ">" symbol so that it's obvious which is
>> the other guy's text and which is my reply. For some emails, it doesn't
>> happen and I have to do it manually. Can anyone tell me what makes the
>> difference and how I can force it to do it every time I hit reply?
>>
>> Mike
>>

If I hit "reply" and then turn the message to "plain text" by clicking on
the left-most icon (the html<->plain text switch to the left of the "Font"
drop-down menu), it doesn't work - it still sometimes won't do the ">"
colored quoting. It sounds (from what you said) that I have to somehow cause
it to reply in plain text *before* hitting "reply". Can you tell me how I
can do that? Thank you!!

--

Mike Levin
mlevin77@comcast.net


Re: Why does it sometimes mark a received email's text with by Mickey

Mickey
Sat May 21 12:36:06 CDT 2005

On 5/21/05 12:08 PM, in article BEB4E36B.2208E%mlevin77@comcast.net,
"Michael Levin" <mlevin77@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 5/21/05 12:37 PM, in article BEB4CE0A.170AE%mickey.stevens@mvps.org,
> "Mickey Stevens" <mickey.stevens@mvps.org> wrote:
>
>> The ">" colored quoting only occurs when the reply is in plain text instead
>> of HTML format.
>>
>> On 5/20/05 11:17 AM, in article BEB385C4.947B%mlevin@forsyth.org, "Levin,
>> Michael" <mlevin@forsyth.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running Entourage v.X to access an Exchange server. I get emails and
>>> when I hit reply, sometimes it correctly marks the original sender's text
>>> and puts them in front of a colored ">" symbol so that it's obvious which is
>>> the other guy's text and which is my reply. For some emails, it doesn't
>>> happen and I have to do it manually. Can anyone tell me what makes the
>>> difference and how I can force it to do it every time I hit reply?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>
> If I hit "reply" and then turn the message to "plain text" by clicking on
> the left-most icon (the html<->plain text switch to the left of the "Font"
> drop-down menu), it doesn't work - it still sometimes won't do the ">"
> colored quoting. It sounds (from what you said) that I have to somehow cause
> it to reply in plain text *before* hitting "reply". Can you tell me how I
> can do that? Thank you!!

Go to Entourage > Mail & News Preferences, and click the "Compose" tab. Set
the default mail & news formats to "Plain text". Click the "Reply &
Forward" tab. Uncheck the option to "Reply to messages in the format in
which they were sent", and click OK.

--
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>