[Sindyr]

What I want is simple (or so I thought.) When I reply to a message, I want that message quoted in my reply with a ">" symbol in front of it. (If the text got quoted in a different color that would be a plus as well.)

So I go to Tools, Options, Preferences, Email Options, go to the On Replies and Forwards section, and set When Replying to a Message to "Prefix each line of the original message" and set the Prefix Each Line With to ">".

However, every time I reply to an email, I get a solid blue line down the left side of the quoted text, with no ">" symbols to be seen! To make matters worse, if I insert my own text in the middle of the quoted text, the blue line remains at the left no matter what I do, making my new inserted text look like its part of the quoted email!

I have even tried going to Tools, Options, Mail Format and switching the Compose formatting to Rich Text and to Plain Text, but that damnable blue line keeps appearing on the left! And for the record, I am one of the few that do not *mind* composing my emails in HTML - in fact I prefer it!

There should be some way to force Outlook 2007 to actually prefix each line of quoted text with an actual ">" character without abandoning HTML composition - but it won't let me do that even if I *do* select Plain Text!

What is the answer, oh techguy gurus?

[Sindyr]

Anyone? Beuler?

[Sindyr]

All I need is a few good men... with answers...

[Sindyr]

Hep him! Oh please, hep him!

[Sindyr]

help!

[pufferdude]

Sorry I have no answer for you, but I'm having the exact same aggravation with broken inline quoting. Like you, I don't really care so much that OL2007 doesn't honor the > character I told it to use for quoting, but the fact that the BLUE LINE does not go away on NEW text you add within the quoted text (which is the entire point of inline quoting!) is a show-stopper.

As it stands there appears to be NO WAY in Outlook 2007 to do inline quoting for internal messages. Internet messages quote just fine, even with the > prefix.

I'm new to Outlook (new job, god I miss GroupWise...) and when I surveyed the rest of the office workers as to how they DO inline quoting all I got were blank stares... seems like you and I are the only two OL users in existence that actually understand how quoting is supposed to work...

[seanys]

I know how frustrating this can be and there IS a solution... the QuoteFix Macro: http://quotefix.flupp.de/

You install the macro and use Templates in your signature to format your replies/forwards.

[Ratboy]

Apparently the only way it's going to work the way you want it is to use the macro seanys provided or to set Outlook to read all your mail in plain text.

To do this go to Tools > Options> Preferences > Email Options and check the Read all standard mail in plain text box.