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Always reply messages in a fixed format automatically in Outlook

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-10-18

By default, Outlook will always reply with the initial format of the received messages. If you want to change the formatting when replying to an email, you need to manually change it in the reply window or apply VBA code to achieve it. Here, with the Fixed Reply Formatting utility of Kutools for Outlook, you can easily set one format as the default replying format in Outlook and always use it automatically in the future.

Always reply messages in a fixed format automatically

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Always reply messages in a fixed format automatically

With the handy utility – Fixed Reply Formatting of Kutools for Outlook, you can easily specify a reply formatting such as HTML, plain text, or RTF as you need, and fix the specified formatting as the reply format for all future reply emails automatically.

1. Click Kutools Plus > Utilities > Fixed Reply Formatting > Set Reply Formatting. See screenshot:

Set Reply Formatting option on the ribbon

2. In the Set Reply Formatting dialog box, select HTML or another reply formatting as you need, and click the OK button. Then click the OK button in the next popping up dialog box.

Set Reply Formatting dialog box

3. Now you just need to click Kutools Plus > Utilities > Fixed Reply Formatting > Enable Fixed Reply Formatting to make the utility take effect. See screenshot:

Enable Fixed Reply Formatting option on the ribbon

From now on, when replying to emails, the message format will always be HTML or another format you have specified in step 2.

Note: Each time to enable or disable the Fixed Reply Formatting feature, a dialog pops out for you to confirm. 
Confirmation dialog to enable the feature Confirmation dialog to disable the feature


Demo: Always reply messages in a fixed format automatically

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