I often receive email in HTML format where I would prefer to reply in plain text. I know I can hit reply, then change to plain text format, but then I lose any ability to have the quote or indent marks correctly placed in the email (">"). The solution
for this is, apparently, to change the message type you're viewing to plain text before replying, but...
There is no option in Outlook 2013 to change the format of a message you're viewing!
Does anyone know how to get Outlook 2013 to convert to plain text correctly in the reply? It would be nice if MS made it so that when you convert a reply from html to plain text it would remove the silly/confusing blue line (which shouldn't be behind the new
text you're typing anyway), and replace it with the correct indent symbols in plain text, but...
Russ
You need to go into edit mode to change it. Open message > Actions (Move group) > Edit message.
if its something you'll do fairly often, you can use a macro - add it to a button and click it when you want to convert to plain text and reply.
This works with open or selected messages -
Sub ReplyPlain()
Dim objItem As MailItem
Dim oMail As MailItem
On Error Resume Next
Select Case TypeName(Application.ActiveWindow)
Case "Explorer"
Set objItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
Case "Inspector"
Set objItem = Application.ActiveInspector.currentItem
End Select
objItem.BodyFormat = olFormatPlain
Set oMail = objItem.Reply
oMail.Display
End Sub
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