Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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• Use quoting characters when forwarding. This option adds quoting characters

to each forwarded message’s text. The > symbols are an Internet convention used

to make it clear that you didn’t write the bracketed text. If you turn off this box,

Entourage will instead insert tags above and below the message to indicate where

quoted text starts and stops.

• Reply to messages in the format in which they were sent. If this box is turned on,

Entourage chooses the message format (HTML or plain text) according to the

formatting of the original message. Uncheck this box to use the format you’ve

specified on the Compose tab of the Mail & News Preferences dialog box.

• Reply using the default account. If this box is checked and you have more than

one email account, Entourage always uses your default (primary) account to send

replies—even if the original message was sent to a different account.

• Mail Attribution. If you like, Entourage can tack on some stock text that intro-

duces a message you’re answering. As you can see in the edit box, Entourage can

even incorporate the sender’s name and/or email address, or the date the original

message was sent into this boilerplate text. As with signatures, some people get

clever with these lines, coming up with introductory lines like this: “On [DATE],

[NAME] is thought to have uttered:”

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