Windows – How to stop Outlook 2010 from blue-underlining all text in read messages

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For some reason only some HTML-formatted emails I receive get blue-underlined like this screenshot.
This problem is not with the original message, since my co-workers do not have this underline and I see can such messages normally for a couple of seconds and then see as Outlook progressively adds underlines to each word. This underline is the same style as "incorrect syntax" when composing a new message or in Word.
How do I turn this off for the incoming messages?

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While other answers were helpful in directing me to the final solution, ultimately this option was in another location. Settings in MS Word have no relation here at all.

Outlook -> Outlook Options -> Mail -> Editor Options -> Advanced -> Disable "Mark formatting inconsistencies".

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I found a solution that seems to work (I'm using Outlook 2007). Say you got an email and you hit reply. Looking at your reply email with that blue indent line click on the "options" pull down menu and then change the format to "Rich Text". Enter your reply in the body of the email and select your reply line or paragraph and then ctrl-Q. The blue line for that paragraph or email is gone. I tested this by sending the email back to myself and it seems to work.

If the format is HTML it won't work... although ctrl-Q seems to remove the blue indent line when I send the email back to myself the line comes back. But in Rich Text format the solution sticks...

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If you also have to use Outlook, for me it worked with a small VBA macro:

In Outlook open your Visual Basic Editor (+ or Extras → Macro → Visual Basic Editor)
I did this in german, so the names may vary a bit: In Project1 (VbaProject.OTM) open Microsoft Office Outlook Objects → ThisOutlookSession

Enter the following Code:

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)

'add reply-To address
Item.ReplyRecipients.Add "office@example.com"
Item.ReplyRecipients.ResolveAll   
End Sub

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