How to always send plain text of emails to certain contacts in Outlook?
For some reasons, some recipients can only receive emails in plain text format, but you may forget to change the email format before sending in Outlook. How to deal with it? In fact, you can configure the email properties of these recipients and always send plain text of emails to these recipients in Outlook.
Always send plain text of emails to certain contacts in Outlook 2013
Always send plain text of emails to certain contacts in Outlook 2013
In Outlook 2013, the popping up "Contact Cards" will make the "Open Outlook Properties" command invisible. Therefore, you need to configure the settings of "Contact Card" to show the "Open Outlook Properties" command, and then configure this contact’s settings.
1. Open the "Run" dialog box by pressing the "Win" + "R" keys at the same time, enter "regedit" into the "Open" box, and click the "OK" button.
2. In the popping "User Account Control" dialog box, click the "Yes" button.
3. Open the "REG_DWORD" of "TurnOffHoverFunctionality" with the following path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\common\contactcard
Notes:
(1) If you can’t find the "Office" key, select the "Microsoft" key and click "Edit" > "New" > "Key", and name the key as "Office". You can follow the same way to create the "15.0" key, "common" key, and "contactcard" key as the above structure shows.
(2) Select the "contactcard" key, then click "Edit" > "New" > "DWORD (32-bit) Value", and name the new DWORD as "TurnOffHoverFunctionality".
4. Double-click the "TurnOffHoverFunctionality" to open the "Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value" dialog box.
5. Change the value to 1 in the "Value data" box, and then click the "OK" button.
6. Close the "Registry Editor", and restart your Microsoft Outlook.
7. Shift to the "People" view, and change the folder view by clicking "Change View" > "List" on the "View" tab.
8. Find the contact to which you want to always send plain text emails, and open it by double-clicking.
9. In the opening "Contact" window, right-click the email address in the "E-mail" box, and then select "Open Outlook Properties" from the right-click menu.
Note: If the "Open Outlook Properties" does not appear in the right-click menu, you need to restart Outlook and then open the contact again.
10. In the popping "E-mail Properties" dialog box, click the "Internet format" box and select "Send Plain Text only" from the drop-down list, and click the "OK" button.
11. Click the "Save & Close" button in the "Contact" window.
In the future, no matter which kind of format you send emails with, that specified contact can only receive emails in the "Plain Text" format.
Notes:
(1) You can’t configure the "Internet format" option for Exchange users’ email addresses.
(2) This method requires that the email account you send emails with is the type of POP3.
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