Reply to Plain Text Message Does Not Display Ticking
Article ID: 192316
Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook Express 4.01
- Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0
- Microsoft Outlook Express 4.01
- Microsoft Outlook Express 4.0
- Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q192316
SYMPTOMS
When you reply to a message in Outlook Express, reply ticking may not
appear.
CAUSE
This behavior can occur if you have your default mail message format set
to HTML.
RESOLUTION
To include reply ticking in replies to mail messages, set your message
format to Plain Text. To set Plain Text as the default message format:
- On the Tools menu in Outlook Express, click Options.
- Click the Send tab. In the Mail Sending Format box, click Plain Text.
- If you want to customize the way your replies appear, click Settings.
In the Plain Text Settings dialog box, you can select a different
character to mark ticking, or you can turn the feature off. Click OK
to accept these settings, and then click OK again.
MORE INFORMATION
Indenting the previous text of a mail message with ticking, indicated by
default with the ">" character, is disabled in HTML mode. This occurs even
if you elected to send the initial mail message as plain text by
overriding the default setting.
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