When you install Office, at some stage you are asked to provide your
initials (e.g. mine PBW). These are inserted as [PBW] in front of any
text you alter in the original message body.

If it can be turned off, I simply haven't found this. Anybody?

Roy N wrote:
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "trying to insert the initials?"

I think this can be turned off because it just recently started happening
in the last couple of months.

"Pat Willener" wrote:

This is Outlook trying to insert the initials. No initials provided =
blank space(s). I don't know if there is a way to turn this off.

Roy N wrote:
When I forward or reply to a message but need to edit the text in the body of
the message (the text in the originally sent email) Outlook automatically
places an extra space before & after the inserted text that I type.

This only happens when replying to HTML email, no problem with plain
text. Also, when I edit the original sender's text it is in blue arial
font regardless of what font & color the original email was formatted
in.

I am using OL 2003 SP2.

Many others are having this same problem. I've seen the question asked on
several forums but nobody has been able to provide a solution.

Can anyone help?