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Hula Baloo - 23 May 2008 18:36 GMT

Whenever I go to "Create Mail", I have the FORMATTING BAR like I've
selected. However when REPLYING to an e-mail it's not there. If I go
to VIEW->Toolbars, while replying, the formatting bar is grayed out.
Outlook Express doesn't do that. This means that if I want to highlight
and bold, italicize, or underline something in a Windows Mail reply, I
can't do that unless I do it in a word processor, then copy and paste.
This is a step backwards, so I have two questions:
1) Is there a way around this? (I'm current on updates, including SP1)
2) If MS did this for some reason, does anyone know WHAT possible reason?
I guess I could switch to Eudora or Thunderbird, for e-mail, but it
sure would be nice if MS would provide a reasonable way to have the
formatting bar in replies.

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Bruce Hagen - 23 May 2008 18:57 GMT

That's because you are replying to a message sent in Plain Text. Either
click on Format and select Rich Text (HTML), or go to Tools | Options | Send
and uncheck: Reply to messages in the format they were sent.

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Imperial Beach, CA

> Whenever I go to "Create Mail", I have the FORMATTING BAR like I've
> selected. However when REPLYING to an e-mail it's not there. If I go to
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> would be nice if MS would provide a reasonable way to have the formatting
> bar in replies.

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Hula Baloo - 23 May 2008 19:32 GMT

Bruce, you know some great stuff! Man, was that one buried. Many thanks.
And here I thought I'd finally found an excuse to join the whiners
who perpetually complain about Vista. <big grin> Seriously I don't know
why MS took it upon itself to move and rename some things, and I'm still
not sure where the WOW is, but after having gotten used to Vista, I
really don't see what all the complaints are about either. Orifice 2007
is of course another matter, but Vista really ain't that bad IMHO.

> That's because you are replying to a message sent in Plain Text. Either
> click on Format and select Rich Text (HTML), or go to Tools | Options |
> Send and uncheck: Reply to messages in the format they were sent.

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Bruce Hagen - 23 May 2008 19:37 GMT

You're welcome. It was the same with OE.

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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

> Bruce, you know some great stuff! Man, was that one buried. Many thanks.
> And here I thought I'd finally found an excuse to join the whiners who
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>> click on Format and select Rich Text (HTML), or go to Tools | Options |
>> Send and uncheck: Reply to messages in the format they were sent.

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