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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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  • Mike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Outlook for iOS app on my iPhone 6s: I'd really like to be able to turn off the quoting feature when replying to an email. I have to support an email driven ticketing system, and to see the couple lines being quoted every time some replies to a "ticket" just makes for a messy mess :( PLEASE, at least offer the abilt to configure it (e.g. how many lines do you want quoted 1, 2 .. or ZERO).

  • Ruben Lara commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As I can see by most of the comments, this is not a feature we the users actually appreciate nor need. Please remove from the product, or at least give an option to disable it, if the owner of the feature is an upper level manager that must have this feature.

  • Xavier commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can only confirm that this is just useless ! Why would we want to only keep a portion of a text when replying ? This makes absolutely no sense ! Just remove this please

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Worst feature ever. Please remove or add an option to turn it off! This is such a productivity killer, happens to me so often. Makes me want to leave Mac.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Completely agree - really disappointed to have googled for this setting, to arrive at this thread. How is this not even an option?! Such a time waster.

  • Brian Jarvis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think the ONLY person who likes this feature is the person who wrote the code. It personally drives me nuts! Please get it out of Outlook or allow me to turn it off!

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can't believe there is no option to disable this; I hate Outlook but unfortunately, it's used by my company. Wish companies could just all use Google for Work.

  • Peter commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please turn this off. Worse idea ever. No one asked for this. So annoying. I thought this was a bug actually.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please remove this feature. It drastically slows productivity.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is the most annoying part of Outlook for mac. Please allow it to be disabled.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why the **** is this still a thing? REMOVE IT or at the very least GIVE ME THE OPTION TO TURN IT OFF.

    COMPLETE WASTE OF MY TIME

  • Rot commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please remove this feature (or allow switch to disable it). it wastes a lot of my time.

  • Micah Roth commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    yep. pretty bad. might be a ploy to get people off of macs, haha.

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