On Jun 18, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Harry Freeman wrote:
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.
Thanks Harry, but I always do do that -- it doesn't put the insertion bar at the end of the quoted text however.
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.
*That* one (cmd-opt-") I *didn't* know about, and am very glad to find it. As for the > marks, they aren't a wintel product necessarily: this very self-same Mac would show them on all quoted email text (no matter what program or computer generated it -- all that's needed is to switch to Outlook (maybe some other programs too, but Outlook is the only one I'm familiar with) and there they would be. To get rid of them individually all you have to do is select and delete -- but AFAIK to strip the lot it's necessary (in Outlook) to copy into a word processor and use the replace function. Being able to do find-and-replace directly is certainly a feature in Mail's favor.
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