Choosing Your Quoting Format Open Tools, Options, E-mail Options and choose your quoting options at the bottom of the dialog. | Team LiB Choosing Your Quoting Format Open Tools Options E-mail Options and choose your quoting options at the bottom of the dialog. The choices for replies and forwards are Do Not Include Original Message Used on replies only not forwards. Does not include the original message in the message body. Do Not Include Original Message is not recommended in most situations. It s almost always better to include the original message and you can always Select All Ctrl A and begin typing to remove the original message. Attach Original Message Attaches the original message to the message as a message .msg . Including the original as an attachment is better but the recipient has to open the message to read it and it s not convenient when replies include the original message as an attachment. This option works well when you re forwarding messages. Recipients can open the message and reply to the original sender mimicking a redirect or they can drag attached messages into an Outlook folder. Mark My Comments With The text in the field is inserted in HTML- and RTF-formatted messages when you add comments inline with the reply. If you changed the default message format to plain text Tools Options Mail Format tab this setting is disabled. You ll have to change your default message format to HTML to change the text. Include Original Message Text Includes the original message text in the message body. Include and Indent Original Message Text includes the original message text and indents it. Prefix Each Line of the Original Message Prefixes the original message with a character usually . The character is user configurable. This is considered the Internet standard for replies. The last three choices are all good because the original message is included in the message body where it s easy to read it if necessary. Of the three options include and indent is the least desirable because it s difficult to read after a couple of replies back and forth with each reply indenting the quoted .
