A Quick Note

If you arrived here directly from Beemer's Windows Tips, you might want to check out how this tutorial got it's beginning. " If Santa answered his mail honestly". This will lead back to this page.

Overview

Have you ever received a forwarded E-mail that is hard to read because of the corruption from indents? I have. Lots of them. The tex is scattered and hard to follow. Hardly worth reading some of them. The objective of this page is to make users aware of the ability of turning off the indent function.

Note: Hotmail can be "preferenced" to turn off the indented text as well. This article does not cover the procedure, although I'm sure you will be able to find the setting in Hotmail, Preferences to turn indented text off. Maybe even Yahoo has finally offered the setting.

The other function is not as necessary. This one is the "Reply to message in the format in which it was sent" function. In this tutorial I am using Outlook Express as it is one of the more common clients being used today.

Lets get on with it!
Open Outlook Express and in your upper toolbar click on Tools and then Options.

In here there are several different tabs depending on which version you are using. My version is Outlook Express version 5.01. All versions of 5.X will have realativly the same panels. Just look around for the each item I will be describing during this tutorial.

Panel 1

The first item to look for is the one with all the arrows pointing at it. If you don't have contact with a lot of businesses that only receive plain text take the check out of this one. it shouldn't matter even if you do have. they will still get your E-mail intact but in plain text. Their E-mail client will disreguard and HTML content is all and you went through a lot of work making the mail all pretty.

Place a dot in the radio button that has a red circle around it and click on the HTML Settings... button.

See the next graphic please.
On this panel, remove the ugly little check mark from the box indicated by the red X.

This is the main culprit that makes the text indent when you reply or forward.

Click OK when this is done.

Thank you for coming this far.

 

Refering back to Panel 1, click on the Plain Text Settings button.

Remove the check indicated by the red X on this panel.

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