How to get MS Outlook Express to quote properly...

[Stephen <stephenbowden@home.com>]

jonathan.r.wagner@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> 
> > Just to say that I would really appreciate it if you'd quote the old
> > messages that you're replying to using the standard convention of
> > preceding each line with a ">" sign.  Otherwise it's terribly
> > difficult to make out what you're saying.
> 
> Fair enough, I actually prefer this. As you can see, I can do this on Webmail,
> just not on Outlook. So, since this is such a great concern to you, d'you
> suppose you can tell those of us with Outlook how to make the program do this
> for text you paste into a message? Eudora lets you just "paste as quoted," but
> I can't seem to get Outlook to do it, and I can't justify saving other people
> 4000 seconds by spending 10000 of my own seconds adding a "> " and a carriage
> return to every line. :)

MS don't seem to do "paste as quotation, but for the pre-existing text
in a reply the procedure is as follows...

In MS Outlook Express you need to select the <Tools> drop-down menu, and
from that select <Options>.  Click on the tab that says <Send> and make
sure that you have "Plain Text" selected under "Mail Sending Format". 
Click on <Plain Text Settings...> and make sure the box to the left of
"Indent the original text with" is checked, and ">" is selected in the
box to the right.  Click on <Apply> and then on <OK> and you are all set
(and as an added bonus your messages will not be truncated by vrtpaleo.)

cheers
Stephen