Why does it sometimes mark a received email's text with &q..

On 5/21/05 12:37 PM, in article BEB4CE0A.170AE%mickey.stevens@mvps.org,
"Mickey Stevens" <mickey.stevens.RemoveThis@mvps.org> wrote:

 > The ">" colored quoting only occurs when the reply is in plain text instead
 > of HTML format.
 >
 > On 5/20/05 11:17 AM, in article BEB385C4.947B%mlevin@forsyth.org, "Levin,
 > Michael" <mlevin.RemoveThis@forsyth.org> wrote:
 >
  >> I'm running Entourage v.X to access an Exchange server. I get emails and
  >> when I hit reply, sometimes it correctly marks the original sender's text
  >> and puts them in front of a colored ">" symbol so that it's obvious which is
  >> the other guy's text and which is my reply. For some emails, it doesn't
  >> happen and I have to do it manually. Can anyone tell me what makes the
  >> difference and how I can force it to do it every time I hit reply?
  >>
  >> Mike
  >>

If I hit "reply" and then turn the message to "plain text" by clicking on
the left-most icon (the html<->plain text switch to the left of the "Font"
drop-down menu), it doesn't work - it still sometimes won't do the ">"
colored quoting. It sounds (from what you said) that I have to somehow cause
it to reply in plain text *before* hitting "reply". Can you tell me how I
can do that? Thank you!!

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On 5/21/05 12:08 PM, in article BEB4E36B.2208E%mlevin77@comcast.net,
"Michael Levin" <mlevin77 DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote:

 > On 5/21/05 12:37 PM, in article BEB4CE0A.170AE%mickey.stevens@mvps.org,
 > "Mickey Stevens" <mickey.stevens DeleteThis @mvps.org> wrote:
 >
  >> The ">" colored quoting only occurs when the reply is in plain text instead
  >> of HTML format.
  >>
  >> On 5/20/05 11:17 AM, in article BEB385C4.947B%mlevin@forsyth.org, "Levin,
  >> Michael" <mlevin DeleteThis @forsyth.org> wrote:
  >>
   >>> I'm running Entourage v.X to access an Exchange server. I get emails and
   >>> when I hit reply, sometimes it correctly marks the original sender's text
   >>> and puts them in front of a colored ">" symbol so that it's obvious which is
   >>> the other guy's text and which is my reply. For some emails, it doesn't
   >>> happen and I have to do it manually. Can anyone tell me what makes the
   >>> difference and how I can force it to do it every time I hit reply?
   >>>
   >>> Mike
   >>>
 >
 > If I hit "reply" and then turn the message to "plain text" by clicking on
 > the left-most icon (the html<->plain text switch to the left of the "Font"
 > drop-down menu), it doesn't work - it still sometimes won't do the ">"
 > colored quoting. It sounds (from what you said) that I have to somehow cause
 > it to reply in plain text *before* hitting "reply". Can you tell me how I
 > can do that? Thank you!!

Go to Entourage > Mail & News Preferences, and click the "Compose" tab. Set
the default mail & news formats to "Plain text". Click the "Reply &
Forward" tab. Uncheck the option to "Reply to messages in the format in
which they were sent", and click OK.

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