I often find myself sending mails that are carefully formatted, with tables, colors, bolding, different fonts etc. When people reply to me, I see that the replies are stripped of most formatting, and in fact, when I look in my sent mail, I see the formatting stripped.

For instance, this is what I sent:

and this is how it ended up in my sent mail:

The c remained in bold, but the table is gone, and so is the highlighting of b.

This happens whether I'm sending the mail as HTML or RTF.

Why is Outlook doing that?

I am using Outlook 2013, but I've was seeing this in Outlook 2010 as well, and IIRC, also 2007.

4 Answers

This was because of this setting in outlook:

When I unchecked that, and set the message format to HTML, the formatting stopped being stripped away.

1

When you send your email do you make sure you have selected Aa HTML instead of Aa Plain Text? Also when people reply, if they reply using Plain Text formatting there is every chance it will strip out your HTML.

5

One solution would be to paste the table as picture. You can either copy and paste the table within Outlook itself, would would give the option of pasting as picture, or you can paste special > paste as picture.

Similarly, all formatting can be done in excel and the table pasted as picture in outlook.

3

I had the same problem. What I do is the following on Outlook 2010:

New E-mail> Insert> Screenshot> Screen Clipping, then using your mouse draw a box to the area you want to copy and Outlook will insert the highlighted area into the new email.

I assume it will be similar to other versions of Outlook.

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