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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.
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On 14:31 09/02/04, Don Heyse wrote
> 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.
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 need to do an
"add /remove buttons" to find it.
I do not know _why_ it doesnt just change indent level automatically when
you hit enter, but I guess that would be too convenient...
Then you've got to use the "font colour" button to turn your text black (at
least around here, it tries to make the original message blue).
If it were just doing the decrease indent, I think people would catch on,
but having to unindent and then change colours just gets too many little
steps for most simple messages (a whole two :-)...
Course, it would be _great_ if exchange would do that little trick like
LUGNET does and send a message back to you about netiquete if you put the
reply at the top... Maybe then people would get a clue...
or even better, a strong electric shock through the KB if they do it wrong...
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aka stephen f roberts
wildbrick.com - Jain's Guide : Promoting more than just the MOC
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