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From: Nick London Nick on 26 Feb 2010 08:48
The main reason I found this thread was because, internally in my
organisation, half the staff default to RTF and half to HTML. My signature is
set up in HTML. So if I hit "reply" to an RTF message, my HTML signature
looks rubbish.

Rather than change the format of the message, I have found that going to
this location (WinXP machine, Outlook 2007):

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures

and changing the RTF signature files to match my HTML signature files does
what I need it to do, as suggested by someone further along in this thread.

I find the whole "don't be rude and change the format of the mail message"
conversation to be quite amusing: some of it almost verging on zealotry. If A
sends B something in plain text, but B wants HTML, is that rude of A to use
plain text? Apparently not.
But if B changes it to HTML to send the reply, apparently it is rude of B to
do so because A wants plain text. Even though most mail readers I've used (on
a variety of platforms) have an option for converting all incoming messages
to plain text... And I have that setting configured on a number of the
machines I use for responses that come from people I don't know.

Cheers
Nick
From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 26 Feb 2010 09:41
"Nick London" <Nick London(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D7426E9B-0E7E-4C8C-ADBD-45EC5B3D587F(a)microsoft.com...

> Rather than change the format of the message, I have found that going to
> this location (WinXP machine, Outlook 2007):
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures
>
> and changing the RTF signature files to match my HTML signature files does
> what I need it to do, as suggested by someone further along in this thread.

That's what I do as well. I make sure my variously formatted signatures files
explicitly contain what I want.

> I find the whole "don't be rude and change the format of the mail message"
> conversation to be quite amusing: some of it almost verging on zealotry. If
> A
> sends B something in plain text, but B wants HTML, is that rude of A to use
> plain text? Apparently not.

Since A initiated the message, A has no way of knowing what B can accept, so
it's not "rude" to use Plian Text even though B can accept (and maybe prefers)
HTML. A simply can't know what B would like. B, however, clearly knows what
A would like because B received a clear indication of it.

That said, I think you're correct. Some of the posters seem a little
fanatical about it. It's similar to the "top- or bottom-post" debate, more
religious than substantive.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

From: Braino on 16 Mar 2010 19:12


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

> Manually, on each message as you reply. Outlook does not support changing it
> via an option because it's rude to change the format on replies - if the
> sender uses a specific format, it's very likely they have a reason, such as
> they don't like the larger message sizes of HTML (if they pay by the minute,
> such as when using a cell phone modem) or they use a client that can't
> handle HTML.
>
>
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>
> "Chris" <Chris(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0987E835-071B-414A-A1D8-8E71D9967E38(a)microsoft.com...
> >I know how to change the format of individual replies. How can I change
> >the
> > default mail format to HTML for all replies?
>
>
>
From: Brainball on 31 Mar 2010 14:40
I agree with everyone that wants to send, reply, receive, and/or foward a
message in the format of choice. I get text but I want to send html,
rich-text or whatever. This would be a great help.
From: Bob I on 31 Mar 2010 14:44
Then you would need to Open, Edit and change it.

Brainball wrote:
> I agree with everyone that wants to send, reply, receive, and/or foward a
> message in the format of choice. I get text but I want to send html,
> rich-text or whatever. This would be a great help.

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