How get Outlook to Forward in HTML?

Steve Adams

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Jan 17, 2008, 9:49:53 PM1/17/08

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When I forward a message that has a link, the new message is in "text only"
format.

How can I get it to "forward" in HTML?

Thanks,

Steve (XP Pro SP2, Office 2007)

Diane Poremsky

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Jan 17, 2008, 10:29:23 PM1/17/08

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what version of outlook and which folder are you in? does it happen with all
messages or just certain ones?

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Brian Tillman

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Jan 18, 2008, 8:08:25 AM1/18/08

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Steve Adams <stev...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> When I forward a message that has a link, the new message is in "text
> only" format.
>
> How can I get it to "forward" in HTML?

If the original message was in Plain Text, Outlook will always format a
reply or forward in Plain Text. It uses the format of the original message.
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Steve Adams

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Jan 18, 2008, 9:43:42 AM1/18/08

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Thanks Diane and Brian.

No it does not happen with every email forwarded, but if I recieve an email
with a working hyperlinklink (colored and underlined) and try to forward it,
the link turns into regular text (de-activated). I am in "Inbox", in a
personal folder.

Is this an Outlook security setting, or do you have any ideas?

I use Outlook 2007 (part of Office 2007)

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VanguardLH

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Jan 18, 2008, 12:01:23 PM1/18/08

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> When I forward a message that has a link, the new message is in
> "text only" format. How can I get it to "forward" in HTML?
>

> (XP Pro SP2, Office 2007)

The underlining and coloring are simply your e-mail client parsing out
what it *thinks* are URLs and then makes them clickable within that
e-mail client. They never did have those special attributes. That is
how the e-mail client SHOWED them to you.

The e-mail you got was all plain text. There was no underlining or
coloring in the actual message. Plain-text messages don't have that
extra encoding for special formatting. They are, well, just plain
text. It doesn't matter that they don't show underlined and colored
in a forward or a reply or even when you compose a new e-mail.
Whether or not those strings that represent URLs show up as underlined
and colored as viewed by the recipient will depend entirely on what
e-mail client the recipient uses.

Not all e-mail clients go parsing through an e-mail looking for what
looks like URLs to then make them underlined, colored, and clickable.
Those are not attributes within the content of the e-mail. That is
how the e-mail *client* decided to present them visually.

Steve Adams

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Jan 18, 2008, 2:26:39 PM1/18/08

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Thanks Vanguard.

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