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Re: I hate MOCPages
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lugnet.general
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:31:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Stephen F. Roberts wrote:
Blame MicroSoft (again :-)... stoopid Outlook has trained people to reply
at the top of messages.  It makes it hard to figure out what they are
talking about. If you try to interleave your comments it does crazy
formatting to the message and makes it worse...

I've tried to train people at  my office how to interleave replies with the
original comments (and fix the weird format problem). You'd think I was
teaching them how to talk Klingon... :-/

Oh, Oh, teach me!  So, how do you set Outlook to do the right thing?
I always have to cutNpaste things into an emacs window and reformat,
then interleave the replies, and paste it all back.  And even then,
Outlook always wants to show how smart it is by mangling the pasted
text.

Don

Warning, FUT set to geek.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: I hate MOCPages
 
On 14:31 09/02/04, Don Heyse wrote (...) When you hit reply, it does that stoopid indent thing. You just have to go down to where you want to insert things and use the "decrease indent" (has a little left arrow beside some horizontal bars). You may (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: I hate MOCPages
 
(...) Get OE-QuoteFix (or Outlook-quotefix) from (URL) Outlook (and Express) behaves like a real program... (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: I hate MOCPages
 
On 14:06 09/02/04, Dan Boger wrote (...) Blame MicroSoft (again :-)... stoopid Outlook has trained people to reply at the top of messages. It makes it hard to figure out what they are talking about. If you try to interleave your comments it does (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)

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