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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / March 2006Send plain text to specific contacts.
Hi, I have Oulook 2003 (ver. 11) connected to Exchange 2003. I have read that it is possible to set the format options (plain text, HTML) on a per Contact basis. I have attempted to do this by: 1. Opening the specific Contact, right clicking on their email address, choosing Send Options, and selecting Plain Text (MIME). 2. Opening an email from the Contact, double clicking on their email adress and changing the Internet Format setting to Plain Text. However, when I create a new email for the Contact, or if I reply to one of their emails, it comes up as HTML (default). I have changed the mail editor to and from MS Word without any success. So I sent the message thinking that it might change the format after it has sent it, but when I looked in the Sent Items it was still HTML. I called the Contact up and asked them if the message was received in HTML or Plain Text and the reply was HTML. Why is this not working? TIA, Jarryd Wrong setting. Double-click the email address to bring up the Properties dialoag. Under Internet Format, choose Plain Text Only. Note that this setting does not affect the message format that you see when you begin a new message or reply, nor what you see in Sent Items. But what Outlook actually delivers to such a recipient will be plain text, not HTML.  SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Jarryd Hi Sue, But what you propose is what I think I am doing in method 2 of my original post. "2. Opening an email from the Contact, double clicking on their email adress and changing the Internet Format setting to Plain Text." However, the recipient still claims to be able to see the message body formatting, i.e. bold, underline, italics, colours. Could it have something to do with the fact that I use Exchange and Outlook is ignoring its settings and letting Exchange decide for it? TIA, Jarryd Wrong setting. Double-click the email address to bring up the Properties dialoag. Under Internet Format, choose Plain Text Only. Note that this setting does not affect the message format that you see when you begin a new message or reply, nor what you see in Sent Items. But what Outlook actually delivers to such a recipient will be plain text, not HTML. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Jarryd Exchange is definitely a factor, and it may even vary with the version of Exchange. Do you know what your organization is using? SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >> >> Jarryd Exchange 2003, Std. Ed. By the way, why would the Send Options set in the Contacts folder for Contact not work. I open the Contact, right click on the email address and choose Send Options. In there you can set MIME or Uuencode, but it don't work - ARRGGGHHHH (sorry, just venting)! TIA, Jarryd Exchange is definitely a factor, and it may even vary with the version of Exchange. Do you know what your organization is using? SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > Hi Sue, > [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] >> >> Jarryd |
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