Outlook inserts extra spaces into edited replies & forwards

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Roy N - 21 Aug 2007 09:30 GMT

When I forward or reply to a message but need to edit the text in the body of
the message (the text in the originally sent email) Outlook automatically
places an extra space before & after the inserted text that I type.

This only happens when replying to HTML email, no problem with plain
text. Also, when I edit the original sender's text it is in blue arial
font regardless of what font & color the original email was formatted
in.

I am using OL 2003 SP2.

Many others are having this same problem. I've seen the question asked on
several forums but nobody has been able to provide a solution.

Can anyone help?

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Pat Willener - 21 Aug 2007 10:34 GMT

This is Outlook trying to insert the initials. No initials provided =
blank space(s). I don't know if there is a way to turn this off.

> When I forward or reply to a message but need to edit the text in the body of
> the message (the text in the originally sent email) Outlook automatically
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> Can anyone help?

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Roy N - 21 Aug 2007 13:10 GMT

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "trying to insert the initials?"

I think this can be turned off because it just recently started happening
in the last couple of months.

> This is Outlook trying to insert the initials. No initials provided =
> blank space(s). I don't know if there is a way to turn this off.
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> > Can anyone help?

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Pat Willener - 22 Aug 2007 04:41 GMT

When you install Office, at some stage you are asked to provide your
initials (e.g. mine PBW). These are inserted as [PBW] in front of any
text you alter in the original message body.

If it can be turned off, I simply haven't found this. Anybody?

> Can you elaborate on what you mean by "trying to insert the initials?"
>
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>>> Can anyone help?

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Brian Tillman - 22 Aug 2007 14:40 GMT

> When you install Office, at some stage you are asked to provide your
> initials (e.g. mine PBW). These are inserted as [PBW] in front of any
> text you alter in the original message body.
>
> If it can be turned off, I simply haven't found this. Anybody?

For Outlook 2003, click Tools>Options>E-mail Options and uncheck the "Mark
my comments with" box. Other Outlooks should have similar settings.

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Daz - 30 Aug 2007 00:02 GMT

The initials are added if you have the following checkbox checked:
tools->options
E-mail options
"Mark my comments with"

However, I have not got this checked, and I also get an extra space
added to any edited replies.

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