In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jim Knight
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>"Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>My Emails as HTML? Can someone tell me why my OUTLOOK e-mail messages
>SOMETIMEs  get sent as HTML and SOMETIMES as plain text? People keep
>telling me to fix it, I thought I did but I really don't know the
>cause. Tracy Johnson

>>Outlook always responds in the format of the original message, so, if
>>you are replying to a message on the list that was plain text, it will
>>generate a plain text reply.  If you start a new thread and your
>>default message type is HTML, it will send it in HTML.  Does that make
>>sense?

>>Of course if you reply to a message marked as HTML that was sent to
>>the list, you'll send an HTML response.

Open Outlook Express.

Choose Menu Tools, select item Options, choose tab Send.

Untick 'Reply to messages using the format in which they were sent'.

Solves *that* one!

Tick 'Plain Text' for Mail Sending Format. The standard defaults should
do, and you shouldn't have to open the Plain Text Settings, let alone
amend them.

Tick 'Plain Text' for News Sending Format. The standard defaults should
do, and you shouldn't have to open the Plain Text Settings, let alone
amend them.

Bingo! No more outgoing HTML!

Then if you set yourself up a sig (signature), that starts with --
(dash dash space, on a line of its own
with all your contact details underneath. Like mine, below....

...then you can append this to every email easily, with Insert
SSignature.
Other email software, like mine, knows to automatically snip that bit
off...

And make a New Year's resolution not to just 'top post' your reply on
the preceding email(s), which then grow to excessive and duplicated
length....

...but to reply chronologically in or below the previous posting,
ssnipping out anything that is irrelevant to your reply....

....putting <snip> wherever you want to make it quite clear that you
hhave snipped for brevity, in places where the original poster's
intention or meaning might be distorted by an undeclared snip.....

...and use *this* for *emphasis*, not THIS, which is taken as
SSHOUTING....

...then you will be on your way to becoming a model netizen...... :-)

ATB

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