On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:58:27 -0700 (MST), der.hans <
PLUGd@lufthans.com> 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
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