Outlook 2000 autoformatting--how to stop

[jmreinwald]

Hi all,

We have Outlook 2000 at work, and I was wondering is there is a way to turn off the "auto formatting" that takes place when you type anything that remotely resembles a network or web address. For example, we have a product that has the "@" in the middle, but Outlook always created a hyperlink for it.

Any ideas?
Joe

 

[joegz]

What are you using as the e-mail editor in Outlook? joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[jmreinwald]

First of all, I feel silly even asking this in the first place--I'm not an idiot when it comes to computers (I work in Tech support at an online database company, not that means anything!), but we just got Outlook/Exchange--we used to use Netscape mail. That being said, when I go to Tools-Options-Mail Format, it has &quot;HTML&quot; in the message format. The MS Word box is not checked. I actually don't conscientiously send html emails--I imagine when I bold or italicize it translates into <b> and <i> tags when sending?

Now that I've looked through the Options, I suppose if I chose Plain Text, the web &quot;false&quot; web addresses would not auto-format to become a link. Also, this clearly pertains to outgoing messages, but will it in any way affect html messages sent to me?

Thanks!
Joe

 

[joegz]

Your on the right track in your though process. Switching to another editor will help you with that issue. There is not going to be a way to turn that off using the HTML editor.

As for incoming HTML mail I believe you will run into the same issue. However if you do a reply you can switch the format from HTML to Plain Text. joegz
&quot;Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is.&quot;