Replying or Forwarding in Outlook

Have you wanted to either reply or forward a message to someone in Outlook but only wanted some of the original text? In the Mac version of Outlook (Entourage) all you have to do is select the text you want in your reply/forward and then do it. What’s selected is all that’s copied into the new message.

Unfortunately the Windows version doesn’t have this functionality and up til now I’ve just resigned myself to deleted the text I didn’t want to go along with my new message. But this post over at the Contextures blog has changed that. Turns out that is you select the text and then click and drag it to one of your Outlook folders, it will create a new email with just the selected text in it.

Now if you’ve taken NPower’s Outlook Foundations class, this should be familiar. We go over how to create a new Contact or Calendar event using this process. But it never occured to me that you could do this with your email replies or forwards. A pretty cool trick!