{"id":3255,"date":"2010-10-01T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3255-outlook-blues-the-annoying-blue-bar-when-you-reply-to-a-message.html"},"modified":"2010-10-01T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:08:44","slug":"outlook-blues-the-annoying-blue-bar-when-you-reply-to-a-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3255-outlook-blues-the-annoying-blue-bar-when-you-reply-to-a-message.html","title":{"rendered":"Outlook blues: the annoying blue bar when you reply to a message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written a long rant about how annoying Outlook is when you reply to a message. It\u2019s the blue bar, you see. You delete the entire original message, but it still appears when you type. Or you type after the blue-barred quote, and your typing gets the blue bar too. Or you try to type within the original message \u2013 as recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/mailformat.dan.info\/quoting\/bottom-posting.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> \u2013 and your typing is hard to distinguish from that of the original.<\/p>\n<p>The rant with some tips and workarounds is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/articles\/an-outlook-mystery-resolved-removing-the-blue-bar-from-quoted-replies\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written a long rant about how annoying Outlook is when you reply to a message. It\u2019s the blue bar, you see. You delete the entire original message, but it still appears when you type. Or you type after the blue-barred quote, and your typing gets the blue bar too. Or you try to type &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3255-outlook-blues-the-annoying-blue-bar-when-you-reply-to-a-message.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Outlook blues: the annoying blue bar when you reply to a message<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[362,586,691],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-email","tag-microsoft","tag-outlook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}