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Old August 29th, 2002, 01:08 AM
sallam sallam is offline
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Ok, I've found how, at last!
To enable the "Read as Plain Text" feature in Outlook 2002, you must first download and install Office 2002 service pack 1, from: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...-us/oxpsp1.exe
then, make the following additions to the system registry:

Click Start and then click Run. In the Open box, type regedit.
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\O utlook\Options\Mail
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWord Value.
With the new Dword selected, type ReadAsPlain.
Double-click to open the new value. In the Value Data box, type 1 and then click OK.

NOTE: "Read As Plain Text" is turned on and the BodyFormat property is locked at 1. (Help says it's read/write.) Any attempt to set it to another value will result in an error.
Click OK and then close the registry.

Changes That you Will Notice:
The setting applies to the preview pane as well as open messages.
Pictures become attachments to avoid their loss.
The object model (custom code solutions) may behave unexpectedly, because the note is still in Rich Text or HTML in the mail store.
Digitally signed messages are not altered.

I've tried this solution myself, and worked great. Now Outlook 2002 gets all my Emails in plain text format! I got this solution from Microsoft, at: http://support.microsoft.com/default...07594&sd=tech. The guys at Windows BBS gave me that useful link.

Thanks Steven.Bentley for your help.

Last edited by sallam; August 29th, 2002 at 02:32 AM.
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