Re: want all outgoing messages to use html format

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calvinburnes@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Dec 16, 11:41 pm, "Gordon" <gordonbpar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<calvinbur...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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hello,

running outlook 2003 with sp3 under windows xp.  outlook is setup to
send new email messages using html format which i like.  the issue i
have is that when i reply to a message that uses text format (rather
than html), the reply message also defaults to text.  is there any way
to change this default so that all my messages (both new as well as
replies, including replies to text email messages) go out using html
format?  i understand why outlook is setup this way, but i still want
to change it so all my outgoing email uses html format.

thanks.

There is, manually. But consider this - do you not think that people use
Plain Text for their emails for a reason? Might it be that they don't WANT
HTML replies? Not only is it impolite to change the format of the reply, but
it's actually arrogant as well.

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i do understand that it might be impolite to reply to a text message
in html, but i still would like know if i can setup outlook to
rautomatically reply to all email messages in html. this is not for
me, i am a computer consultant and it is for one of my clients. i
have explained to her that this might be impolite, but she still wants
to setup outlook this way. does anyone know if there is a way to
setup outlook to do this automatically? i know how to do it manually
for each reply. thanks.

Oh yeah, one of t-h-o-s-e wannabe "consultants".

Have your client ask for herself in these newsgroups. She'll get the
responses for free. No middleman and no fee.

Meanwhile, start boning up on Outlook by reading Dummies books, lurking
in newsgroups, Googling, and studying for the MSAP or MSAS certs
(http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/msbc/requirements/default.mspx).
In Googling "+outlook +write +html +text +addon", one matched site that
contains a useful article for you is at http://www.outlook-how-to.com/.
Which article is related to your query is obvious and a link to it is
right on their home page (for now). You could then show that article to
your client to assuage their disgust that what they want to do in
Outlook is not an innate feature of Outlook and that the client will
have to acquire a free or paid add-on to provide that extended
functionality.

So do you do VBA programming, too? There's another avenue of charging a
fee to your client to provide functionality to extend the base features
provided by Outlook. There might be something available over at
http://www.outlook-code.com/ that you could, um, "borrow" and pretend is
your own effort. If you don't know VBA, that site has a library page
that lists various books on teaching you. They also have forums there
so someone might be willing to invest the time to give you something
(but, please, don't charge the client for someone else's work).
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