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.
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Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
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