Microsoft KB Archive/185206

= OL98: Mark Comments Marks Each Letter in Comment =

Article ID: 185206

Article Last Modified on 8/11/1999

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q185206





SYMPTOMS
When you use Microsoft Outlook 98 and select the "Mark my comments with" option and then reply to or forward a message in Microsoft Outlook Rich Text format, making annotations in the original text, your name or the text you specified to mark your comments with, appears in brackets before each letter that you type.



CAUSE
You pressed the INSERT key before typing your comments.



RESOLUTION
Use one of the following workarounds:


 * As soon as you notice the problem, press INSERT once and close the message without saving changes. Open the message and make your comments.
 * As soon as you notice the problem, press INSERT once, backspace over the extra characters, and resume typing.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Outlook 98.



Steps To Reproduce Behavior
 On the Tools menu, click options. On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options. Click to select "Mark my comments with," and type YourName in the box. Click OK twice to close the Options. Select a message and click Reply. The message must be formatted using Microsoft Outlook Rich Text.</li>  Click the insertion point into the original message text, press INSERT and type "I'm replying to your message." The results appear below. <pre class="fixed_text">  [YourName]  I [YourName]  ' [YourName]  m [YourName]    [YourName]  r   [YourName]  e [YourName]  p [YourName]  l [YourName]  y [YourName]  i   [YourName]  n [YourName]  g [YourName]    [YourName]  t [YourName]  o   [YourName]    [YourName]  y [YourName]  o [YourName]  u [YourName]  r   [YourName]    [YourName]  m [YourName]  e [YourName]  s [YourName]  s   [YourName]  a [YourName]  g [YourName]  e [YourName]. </li></ol>

Additional query words: 98

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB185206

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