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2021-01-13
2014-08-06
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I just downloaded the zip but there are no instructions anywhere? In the .bas file there are some comments that refers to

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/macros4outlook/index.php?title=QuoteFix_Macro#Configuration

but that address is invalid.

Help! How do I use this?

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  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-08-20

    Who knows where the documentation went. The basics are this:

    You must be configured to be text-only. This will not work with HTML or RTF mail.

    Import the .bas file into the Visual Basic for Applications window you can get to by enabling the Developer tab/ribbon.

    Create a specific signature and make it the default for replies/forwards. The signature should have some combination of "variables":

    %Q = Quoted text from email you received
    %C = Cursor position in the reply
    %SN = The sender's full, official name
    %SE = the sender's email address
    %FN = best guess at the sender's first name
    %D = the sent date
    %OH = the default Outlook reply header

    Thus a signature like:

    %FN,
    %C
    On %D, %FN %LN stated:
    %Q

    might give you a window when the macro is called from in an email window:

    John,
    (cursor here)
    On Wed, Aug 6 2014 at 13:27:49 Doe stated:

    How does this work?

    For ease of use, you would want a custom ribbon button to click instead of the built-in reply button that calls the FixedReply macro. I won't get into how you make Outlook trust your macro because trusting all is dangerous and signing is flakey.

    I can confirm that this macro works for the most part in Outlook 2013.

    Good luck!

     
  • Oliver Kopp

    Oliver Kopp - 2021-01-13

    I finally had the time to move this project to GitHub. The content of the wiki should have been migrated fully. See https://github.com/macros4outlook/quotefixmacro.

     
  • Oliver Kopp

    Oliver Kopp - 2021-01-13
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