Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

chapter 8: entourage email and newsgroups 333

•The Reply To All button addresses a message to all recipients of the original mes-

sage, including any Cc recipients. This is the button to use if you’re participating

in a group discussion; all six of you can carry on an email correspondence, al-

ways sending each response to the other five. (Reply To All doesn’t send the reply

to anyone who may have been in the secret Bcc field, as described on page 349.)

Tip: Entourage starts out placing the insertion point at the bottom of any quoted text in a reply. If you’re

the kind of person who likes to put your response above the quotation, choose Entourage→Mail & News

Preferences, select the Reply & Forward tab, and turn on “Place insertion point before quoted text.”

Editing messages

Entourage lets you edit a message somebody else wrote. For once in your life, you

can edit down some long-winded person without hurting his feelings.

Just double-click a message to open it into a window, and then choose Message→Edit

Message. (If it’s HTML formatted, you’ll be warned that the note is about to become

a plain-text message.) Feel free to delete or rewrite the text. When you close the

window, Entourage asks if you want your changes preserved. After you click Save, a

notepad icon appears next to the message’s name, a reminder of your meddling.

Reformatting messages

Some messages are forwarded and replied to about a ...