Advanced usage

Configuration is done via constants in the QuoteFix code (see below for a storage in the registry)

1. Start the VBA editor (Alt+F11)
2. Open the module “QuoteFixMacro”
3. Scroll down to the block “Configuration constants”

Configure the template inside the code

The variable QUOTING_TEMPLATE can be used to store the quoting template. Thus, the Outlook configuration can be left untouched.

If this is not enabled, one has to configure Outlook differently:

Tools > Options > Mail Format > Signatures…

• Create a signature that is only used for reply and forward. You have to insert at least %Q to get the quoted original mail.
• Assign this signature to every mail account you want to use.

English replies

The variable QUOTING_TEMPLATE_EN can be used to store en English quoting template. In case USE_QUOTING_TEMPLATE is True and FixedReplyAllEnglish() is called, that template is used.

Auto conversion to plain format

By setting CONVERT_TO_PLAIN to True, HTML mails are automatically converted to text mails. Without the usage of Microsoft Echange, one cannot convert the messages back to HTML after replying in the current Outlook session. One has to restart Microsoft Outlook. When using Microsofot Exhange, the messaged in plain text is saved as a copy one the server. Some users report that Outlook 2016 asks them whether they want to store the modified version of the message. When answering “now”, the message is presented in HTML again.

Note that if this makes following Outlook obsolete:

Tools > Options > Mail Format

• Message format: Plain Text

Condense Headers

With CONDENSE_EMBEDDED_QUOTED_OUTLOOK_HEADERS, one condenses reply/forwarding headers added by outlook so that the email gets even shorter The format of the condensed header is configured at CONDENSED_HEADER_FORMAT

One can also condense the first header only CONDENSE_FIRST_EMBEDDED_QUOTED_OUTLOOK_HEADER.

Date format

The date format used is ISO-8601, which is YYYY-MM-DD. One can change the format in the variable DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT.

Strip sender’s signature

By default, the sender’s signature is removed from the reply. If you don’t want this, set STRIP_SIGNATURE to False.

SoftWrap

When enabled, this feature resizes the window in a way that the text editor wraps the text automatically after N characters. Outlook wraps text automatically after sending it, but doesn’t display the wrap when editing. Thus, this is useful to double-check that no new line breaks are introduced by Outlook when sending an email.

One can set USE_SOFTWRAP to False to disable it.

Use templates from the code

Instead of confuring a template in the signature setting, one can set DEFAULT_USE_QUOTING_TEMPLATE to True. Then, QuoteFixMacro reads the signature from DEFAULT_QUOTING_TEMPLATE_EN for English emails and from DEFAULT_QUOTING_TEMPLATE for all other languages.

Random Signature Generation

In case you want to try out the current “random signature generation”, import RandomSignature.bas.

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