Certainly; this option is already there and if you didn't know about it, you
don't need any code.

With an open message, select the format you want from the Format menu. Note
that Rich Text will not be listed if the current format is HTML, and vice
versa. You need to switch to Plain Text when converting between Rich Text
and HTML back and forth.

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"Maureen" wrote:

Do you mean that when I open a message, there's a way to change the body
format before clicking on forward? I looked through all the toolbars and
didn't find that choice.
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Maureen


"Michael Bauer" wrote:

Am Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:56:29 -0800 schrieb Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]:

While with the CommandBar trick you´ll lose all the formattings, in OL 2002
(and up) you could simply switch the Bodyformat property.

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Viele Gruesse / Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook
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Hi Maureen. If you're dealing with these settings at a program level, see
my
post he

Outlook's Message Format Settings In The Registry:
http://blogs.officezealot.com/legaul...8/03/1324.aspx

For a specific message, you will have to automate clicking the choices
under
the Format menu by using CommandBar and CommandBarButton objects from the
Office Object Model. However, you have to switch to Plain Text in
between.
So HTML - Plain Text - Rich Text - Plain Text - HTML. Why do you need
to
do this?