How to fix broken Outlook 2007 quoting behaviour and blue line of evil? 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? |