-----Original Message----- From: William Smith <[email protected]> Reply-To: YouTalk Entourage/Outlook <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:49:51 -0600 To: YouTalk Entourage/Outlook <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Help Saving the Outlook Preferences for Plain Text
>On 1/1/11 10:12 AM, "arkay" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I opened the Outlook Preferences/Composing and selected >>the Plain Text option and close the pane. >> >>All new messages still start in HTML format and if I go back >>to the Preference file, it shows the defaut HTML. >> >>How do you save the Plan Text format option? > >First, have you also unchecked the option in the same area "When replying >or forwarding, use the format of the original message"? > >One of the nice things about Office 2011 for me as an administrator is >that it now supports .plist files, which are preference files. These can >be managed in a variety of ways to accomplish some pretty nice effects. > >Can you do an experiment for me and see if this works for you? > >First, quit Outlook. > >Next, locate this file in your home folder, where " ~ " denotes "home >folder": > > ~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Outlook.plist > >This is the preference file that holds the preference you are wanting to >change. Select the file and tap the spacebar to view it in Quick Look. >Scroll down a few lines (you won't have to scroll too far) until you see >these lines: > > <key>Compose_messages_in_HTML_by_default</key> > <true/> > > >You want the "true" to be "false". As an administrator I would use a >variety of tools to control this. As the end-user, you can use the >Terminal application to force this. See what happens. > >Open the Terminal application found in /Applications/Utilities. > >Enter this line (you can copy and paste it): > > defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook >Compose_messages_in_HTML_by_default -bool false > >Once you've done this, select the com.microsoft.Outlook.plist file and use >Quick Look again to see if the "true" has changed to "false". If so, >launch Outlook and the option should be changed there as well. > >Hope this helps! > >-- > >William Smith My com.microsoft.Outlook.plist file does NOT contain a Compose_Messages statement. Maybe this is why I cannot get the Preference to save to Plain text? How do you get Outlook to make a new .plist file without hosing everything? > -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
