On Jun 18, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Victoria Brandon wrote:
On Jun 18, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Harry Freeman wrote:
"To keep your comments from being mistaken for part of the original
message, click to place the insertion point before or after the
original message and press Return before typing."
But that's not the problem, which is the necessity, every time, of
either grabbing the mouse or hitting command-downarrow and return
before starting the reply.
You can always change your preferences under "Composing" to the
selection, "Include selected text if any, otherwise include all." How
this works is that you select (High-light) the text that you want to
reply or forward before you select that function and that is all that
will be included when the window appears.
Just an annoyance, but it IS an annoyance,, and an unnecessary one.
Another irritant in Mail is the inability to specify whether a paste
is pasted as text or as quote, and a corollary inability to
selectively eliminate the quote indicator:
To selectively remove the quote indicator: (and I assume that you mean
the quote bar on the left hand side of the text, not the ">" that is
inserted by WINTEL machines) you would highlight the text and then
depress "command, option" and then strike the "'" key as many times as
necessary to remove as many quote bars that you want to remove. To
remove the ">" (grater than sign) you will need to depress "command"
and the "f" key, then use the "Find Window" to replace the ">" place
holders.
I send email newsletters, and often paste in somebody else's (ie
MoveOn's) alerts at the end. Sometimes it would be helpful to leave
off the quote indicators so that the recipient's can copy the
material for a related use, such as editing it before sending their
own letter to whatever legislator we're attempting to bug.
But if you want to remove all of the formatting, or should I say
reformat the complete document then you need to get, is MailScripts
The point is not whether one way of doing things is better than
another, the point is the lack of choice. In some respects Mail has
it all over OE, and I'm using it full time these days, but not
without bemoaning the loss of features that I'd taken for granted. I
think there's a lot of room here for some clever person to write
corrective AppleScripts and make them available to a grateful public.
Best,
Victoria
There's another application that you should have which will reformat
the complete document, but I can't remember the name and when I find
it I will send you an email
I found it, you should have WordService 2.5.3, it's available at
http://www.pure-mac.com/textword.html
It's a wonderful application as you can reformat a document in seconds.
Best Regards,
Harry (*^_^*)
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