On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:58:27 -0700 (MST), der.hans wrote: > Am 27. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Ric Fischer so: > > > I keep forgetting how badly MS' email programs munge the simple things > > in life (I'm referring to the original thread). > > > > G Gambill, any chance you can turn on the regular reply quoting in > > Outlook? (It's been a while, but I think it's in Tools -> Options and > > then an email button. Towards the bottom of the dialog box, there are > > different options for how the forwarded and replied emails should > > look. Are you allowed or able to turn on the "> " option for quoting > > or will your co-workers freak out? :-) > > Does this break anything? How does LookOut normally demark between the > original and the reply? (I'm sorry, but I don't call people or people's work names, I got the namecalling out of my system at a young age. Feel free to do so in my presence, I don't care. But I won't say them myself.) If the default is for Outlook to send messages as HTML and if, while writing the message, you convert from HTML to Plain Text, it doesn't carry over any reply quoting. Also, the default is for quoting to show up (using HTML) with a blue vertical bar down the left side, with an additional blue bar for each nested reply. The paragraphs stay as true paragraphs, so there's NEVER any paragraph flowing or re-flowing problems, no matter how many levels deep the reply is. The deeper the reply, the more its left margin is indented and an additional vertical blue bar runs along the left side. Unfortunately, this makes inline reply a pain in the butt, because you can sometimes farkle the blue bar effect and really get your reply message hosed. My preference was to set all my defaults to plain text, use the reply quoting fix that Bill mentioned, and just take the occasional, "How'd you do that?" or "Why does yours look different?" queries from co-workers. > m$ people at work are always having to state how they're showing their > stuff because LookOut apparently doesn't do decent mail handling. "how they're showing their stuff"? I don't understand. > The proper solution, of course, is to not use LookOut. Absolutely. If only their IT guys would let them switch to something else. Problem is, they usually also need connectivity to the Exchange server and, with that, all the calendaring, notes, to do's, etc. :-( -- Ric Fischer --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss