Altering Outlook 03's email formatting behavior

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Paul B

I'm continuing my quest to see if I can get Outlook to do what I
want. I'm using Word 03 as a Rich Text editor for Outlook.

First of all, I'm appalled that it forces the user to top post. I
set the quoteback to be prefixed with "> "; fine. But then
navigating to the bottom of the page, there was no way to escape
the quoteback delimiter. Everything I wrote was treated as quote.
Amazing.

I'd also like to get rid of the From:, Sent:, To:, Subject:
header info that's included at the top of the quoteback.

Lastly, I'd like to change the style of the headers that are
shown in the Preview pane; they're basically way too big and take
up too much space and attention.

Can any of these be done?

Thanks much,
p.
 
Personally, I tend to skip bottom-posted replies as a waste of my time. I don't need to reread a post to find the response. However, since this is a world of "to each his/her own" (and I would not have it any other way), you may find that this little freebie helps you achieve what you want:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

Feel free to throw the developer a few dollars, euros, yen, whatever, I have done so for his very useful OE Quotefix.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Paul B asked:

| I'm continuing my quest to see if I can get Outlook to do what I
| want. I'm using Word 03 as a Rich Text editor for Outlook.
|
| First of all, I'm appalled that it forces the user to top post. I
| set the quoteback to be prefixed with "> "; fine. But then
| navigating to the bottom of the page, there was no way to escape
| the quoteback delimiter. Everything I wrote was treated as quote.
| Amazing.
|
| I'd also like to get rid of the From:, Sent:, To:, Subject:
| header info that's included at the top of the quoteback.
|
| Lastly, I'd like to change the style of the headers that are
| shown in the Preview pane; they're basically way too big and take
| up too much space and attention.
|
| Can any of these be done?
|
| Thanks much,
| p.
 
Personally, I tend to skip bottom-posted replies as a waste of my time. I don't need to reread a post to find the response. However, since this is a world of "to each his/her own" (and I would not have it any other way), you may find that this little freebie helps you achieve what you want:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

Feel free to throw the developer a few dollars, euros, yen, whatever, I have done so for his very useful OE Quotefix.
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Thanks. I'm quite the opposite - I think bottom posting or
interleaving is more logical, and if bottom posting is used in
the extreme, my newsreader will collapse the quoteback at my
command.

The QuoteFix addon only affects plain text, so that won't help
me.

Compounding the situation, I've noticed that Word spews
information on all my normal.dot's paragraph styles, and other
things, into each email it sends. That amount of bloat horrifies
me. I'm going to ask over in the Word group if there's anything
to be done about it, but I suspect my experiment will have a
short life.

BW,
p.
 
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