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Change quoting level in Outlook 2007

When replying to an HTML email, the original message has a blue bar to the left (which replaces the traditional > symbol). I've seen in previous versions of Outlook that pressing enter on this line takes you to a new line without the blue line ("paragraph unindent") and allows you to write a reply inline. That's fine and what I'd expect.

But currently that doesn't work and I can't easily get rid of the blue line, meaning all my inline replies look like they're part of the original message! Quite odd. Here's how to work around the problem:

  • Change the message format from HTML to Rich-text
  • Type Ctrl-Q where you want to add a reply
  • Type your reply
Voila