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Option to disable “quote only selected text on reply” feature

If some mail text is selected, only that text is set in quote part on reply. This behavior is not very convenient for me as a longtime user of Outlook for Windows desktop.
I want an option to disable it and let Outlook behave like Windows client.

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sakono shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
Completed  ·  AdminMac Outlook Team (Product Manager, Outlook.com) responded  · 

Hi all, as of release 16.21 it is possible to disable “quote only selected text on reply” in Mac Outlook. Go to Outlook/Preferences/Composing and uncheck the
“Only reply to selected text” box.

Thanks for your support!

Outlook for Mac Team

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  • Greg Abbott commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please give us the option to disable this! I was searching for a way to disable it and found this site.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ditto. Please allow me to disable this feature by default in Preferences.

  • Slavisa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    WORST PRODUCT FEATURE I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED!

    IT FAILS PARITY WITH WINDOWS OUTLOOK AND ADDS ZERO VALUE TO MAC OUTLOOK USERS!!!!!!

    GET RID OF THIS ASAP PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

  • Ams commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    cannot stand this feature! has anyone got a solution to disabling it?

  • Aaron Smusz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As a long time mac user I do use this feature but it would be good to ba able to toggle it off.

  • Manoj Gurnani commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is very shoddy design and proves Microsoft wants to keep office for Mac as a step-product and does not want to do anything to improve it to the standard of Office for Mac. The list of things that are there in Office for Windows and missing in Office for Mac is endless!!! For God's sake, we are not using Office for Mac for FREE!!! We pay for it just as we paid for Office for Windows!

  • Slavisa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This needs to be fixed asap! This is driving me crazy every day.

    Who even requested this feature? What is the use case and application need that this change made product fit?

  • Josh K commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Seriously, this needs to be fixed. So aggravating when it happens

  • Bart van der Wal commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Nice to see I'm not the only one. :)
    But sadly MS doesn't seem to monitor this site. :S
    Now at 1000 upvotes and counting...

  • ECP commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow. Over 2 YEARS and 100 COMPLAINTS later and this still hasn't been taken care of. Amazing.

  • Bryce commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would really appreciate this for both Mac and PC.

  • Volker Straßer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    nice feature - but only if you can disable it :-)

    @Microsoft - please go ahead and do the required :-)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I recommend on feature that when I pay to Microsoft, it will pay only the selected part of the amount. I will probably select the 0 :)

    Please allow us to disable this "killer" feature.

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