On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Howard Brazee wrote: >My favorite on this is from Brian Regan: > >"I before e except after c >Or when sounding like 'a', >As in neighbor and weigh. >And on weekends and holidays and all throughout May, >And you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!" > > >I don't get it. > > Outlook should allow you to use prefixed quote characters, rather than your rather confusing method of simply including it (which makes it impossible to distinguish between material written by the person you are replying to, and your reply). On Outlook 2000, at any rate, the sequence is: Tools > Options > E-mail Options > "On replies and forwards", "When replying to a message", change the drop-down list to: "Prefix each line of original message" Please make sure that you are using ">" as a quote prefix.