Thank you, Paul. Your reply made me think of the French version of Word, which by default adds all sorts of spaces in front of and after certain punctuation marks (e.g. ?, ! And, of course, :).
I am assuming that this language-specific functionality for the French version of Word might be present throughout Office, thus in Entourage as well. Blair On 25/03/05 15:31 (CET), Paul Berkowitz @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 3/25/05 3:07 AM, "Blair Van Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Entourage 2004, version 11.0, Mac OSX 10.3.8 (French) >> >> When I reply to an e-mail, Entourage automatically inserts the "Re:" >> abbreviation into the beginning of the Subject field. This would be fine, >> but Entourage insists on inserting a space before the colon in "Re:", so all >> of my outgoing messages look this: >> >> Subject: Re : Thank you for your e-mail >> >> So, when my correspondent replies to my reply, their e-mail client adds >> another "Re:" to which my Entourage replies by inserting another space >> before the colon. A thread of e-mails thus looks something like this: >> >> Subject: Re: Re : Re : Re : Thank you for your e-mail >> >> ARGHHHHHHH! I have searched the archives and other web resources and not >> found anything about this, so what am I missing? This is driving me crazy. > > The English-language versions of Entourage do not insert a space before the > colon in "Re: " (only after the colon), and we do not get multiplying "Re: " > or "Re : ", only one of them, no matter how long the thread. Perhaps it's an > error in French Entourage? > > > There are one or two French speakers here (speaking English on this list), > but perhaps they're using English-language Office. I have hardly ever seen > that "multiplying" Re, and I don't know what email clients those > correspondents were using, but I'm surprised I haven't seen it more often > here if it's an issue in French Entourage. > > -- > Paul Berkowitz > MVP MacOffice > Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> > AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
