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)

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

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"Steve Adams" wrote in message
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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)

Steve Adams 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.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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)

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
...
Steve Adams 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.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"Steve Adams" wrote in message
. ..
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.

Thanks Vanguard.


"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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"Steve Adams" wrote in message
. ..
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.