Editing Received Messages

Home / Outlook / Email / Editing Received Messages

Last reviewed on September 8, 2011

It's simple to open a received message to edit or change the format of messages.

  1. Open the message.
  2. On the opened message’s ribbon or menus:

    In Outlook 2010: Go to Actions, Edit Message (Actions is in the Move section of the ribbon)

    Editing Received Messages
    In Outlook 2007: Click on Other Actions, Edit message

    In Outlook 2003 and older: Go to the Edit menu, Edit message.
  3. Edit the message and Save it to save the changes. Close and cancel to discard the changes.

To change the message format (HTML to plain text), look on the Options tab.

How to Convert a Message to Plain Text Format Video Tutorial

More Information

Changes are not saved until you Save the message. You can reply or forward the edited message without saving it. (Change the format before hitting Reply to use quote prefix for that format.)

Related Posts:

  1. Read Outlook Messages using Plain Text
  2. Always Reply Using HTML Format in Outlook
  3. Wrap line setting in Outlook 2007 and 2003
    To Control Line Length in Internet messages
  4. To Change the Font on Incoming Messages

Written by

Diane Poremsky
A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999 and involved in IT support since 1985, Diane is the author of several books and video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.