I’ve done a search, so please forgive me if this has been addressed before.
Why, when I get a forwarded email do all those “>” appear on the side of it?
What are they for, and what do they represent?
Thanks a lot people.
I always thought they were just inserted to highlight the difference between forwarded text and anything that you add yourself when forwarding.
Outlook 98 allows you to choose what character (if any) to prefix existing text.
They denote text that has been quoted from another email. Older email programs that don’t support HTML or rich text formatting use them, other email programs still use them as legacy support for the older email software, or for people who have turned off their text formatting options.
I have a different problem. When I forward (or reply), and I want to modify the original text, I can’t do it, because my typing is in a different color (blue) than the original text. So, for example, I cannot fix spelling errors without reformatting the whole thing.
Is there any setting I can change so that when I type in the forwarded text, I use the same format as is already there?
This is so frustrating. When I open an old Word document and start typing in the middle, it uses whatever font is already there. But Outlook seems bent on making sure that my changes are noticable. Why?
I should add that each “layer” of > represents one time that the message has been quoted. So three >'s means it’s been forwarded or quoted three times. The multitude of >'s on mass-forwarded junk means that someone was too lazy to strip them, or to copy-and-paste the original.
In regular quoting, as in an e-mail discussion, I think it’s Eudora that allows you to put the quotee’s initial next to the >. The listowner of one of my lists does this, and his messages are very easy to read:
Much nicer than
This is the default setting for Outlook, below I have written instructions for changing this for Outlook 2000.
Select Options from the Tools menu. Select the Mail Format Tab.
In the Stationary and Fonts section, press the Fonts button.
Press the ‘choose font’ button in the ‘When replying or forwarding section’. This displays a Font dialog box, from here you can change the font and colour etc.
I hope this helps.
OK another email Q:
I have Outlook Express for Windows ME set with Arial as the default text. One correspondent always emails me in horrible-looking HTML. When I reply back, I switch off the HTML, but all the text changes to Times.
It’s really annoying and I don’t know why it does it.
The other thing is when I cut and paste Arial text from an IE web page from the net into an Arial word document, half the time it goes into this bizarre Arial Unicode.
Why oh why oh why?
Things are so much simpler on the Mac.
Thanks, Gartog. That’s close, but it doesn’t go all the way. It got rid of the blue, but my typing still ends up being in the font I specified in the Options. That’s not what I want.
I want it to be in the same font as the other stuff I’m forwarding, no matter what it is: bold is bold, 10 point is 10 point, 12 point is 12 point, whatever it is, that’s what I want.
istara Follwo the instructions in my previous post - but instead of
Press the ‘choose font’ button in the ‘When composing and reading plain text’ section.
Keeve I’m afriad that is the only place I can find any Font related options. Do you mean you want to reply in the same font as the mesage you are replying to? I’m afraid I don’t think you can with Microsoft Outlook. sorry.
A better way of phrasing it is that I want to modify the message that I’m replying to, but yeah, that’s it.
Thanks for trying.