The thin blue line (final cry for help)

Peter Robertson

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Mar 11, 2003, 4:22:15 AM3/11/03

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I have posted this problem before.
I received one reply from MVP that completely
missed the point of my question, and one reply from
someone actually attempting to be helpful.

Unfortunately, none of the suggestions was any use.

The problem is that I am unable (reliably) to insert
text into the middle of replies to HTML messages
without the new text inheriting the blue line to
the left. Sometimes left-tab removes it, more often
it doesn't.

I want to keep the blue line on the original text, just
NOT have it on the new text I've inserted.

MVP suggested disabling the prefix - that's exactly
what I DON'T want: see the previous sentence.

The other suggestion was to use return twice. Sadly,
this doesn't work.

Help!

Gordon Burgess-Parker

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Mar 11, 2003, 8:37:01 AM3/11/03

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In article <055a01c2e7af$b47a4440$a201...@phx.gbl>,
p...@blueyonder.co.uk says...

Re-format the message as text.
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Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]

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Mar 11, 2003, 12:36:52 PM3/11/03

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I don't think this is possible. If you want the original body to have the
prefix and stay in HTML format, I don't think you can exclude your comments.
From viewing the HTML source while I was testing this, the added text is
included within the orginal body tags, and the prefix is set for the entire
original body.

I noticed if you insert a hard page break with CTRL+Enter, the prefix line
is excluded. However it reappears whenever you enter text in that space.
Also, viewing the HTML doesn't show any changes, so I think the space is
cosmetic only in the Word viewer, but I could be wrong.

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Greg Titamer

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Mar 11, 2003, 10:43:22 PM3/11/03

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Kind of a pain, but one thing you could do is copy the entire message, and
then paste it into a new message. Then you could edit it anyway you want.

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Peter Robertson

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Mar 12, 2003, 11:05:11 AM3/12/03

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Thanks for the suggestions.

I guess it's yet another of the "Microsoft says so, so
you have to lump it" mis-features.

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Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]

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Mar 12, 2003, 1:28:57 PM3/12/03

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Drop a message to msw...@microsoft.com and put Outlook in the subject. This
is where you can send feature requests. Believe it or not, I can assure you
they do actually read these. :)

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