Hello, Entourage:mac Talk -- On 02/07/04 9:53 AM, Paul Berkowitz
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:

>> I second that!! Any compelling reason why increasing quotes was built-in on
>> Entourage but decreasing quotes was not (I know, you can remove quotes
>> altogether, but that requires several additional steps when you want to,
>> say, reduce 3 quotes to 2........
> 
> OE 5 had/has exactly the same AutoText Cleanup menu items as Entourage. As
> Allen probably remarked somewhere in this thread you can select, Remove
> Quoting, cmd-X, cmd-shift-V. Not too bad.

OK, maybe I was mistaken about OE, but I'm pretty sure some earlier email
version did allow both incremental quote increases and incremental quote
decreases -- maybe Claris Emailer?? Anyway, I realize you can remove quotes
altogether and then add one quote back by the method you suggest above, but
if you're replying to a back-and-forth string that includes many paragraphs
with differing quote levels that have been compounded to 4,5,6 levels, and
you want to prune the text string and reduce the quotes down to 1,2,3
levels, after following your scenario above, you then have to recall what
the original quote hierarchy was, and then, section-by-section, increase the
quote levels one-at-a-time to get, say, what was previously 6 quote levels
down to 3, what was 5 down to 2, what was 4 down to 1, and so on. Being able
to select all and decrease quote levels one level at a time would make this
quick and easy (i.e. as can be done now to increase quote levels), but
failing that capability, if there were at least a keyboard shortcut
available for the existing increase quote level function, that would be an
improvement (in fact, keyboard shortcuts for all the Auto Text Cleanup
functions would be useful, IMO). Just a wish for a future version
enhancement.......

Cheers,
George Arellano


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