remove blue lines (BLOCKQUOTEs) from emails

[rv4fun]

I get forwarded emails all the time with vertical blue lines (BLOCKQUOTEs)
down the left side. I always pride myself on cleaning up the junk before
sending the good ones on. Is there an easy way of doing this or must I
recreate the message from scratch?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Convert the message to plain text to remove them.

In outlook 2007, Actions, Edit message, then options to change the format.
In older versions, Edit, Edit message, then format menu.

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[rv4fun]

Converting to plain text format is just like starting over and I was trying
to get away from that. I know, I can always view the source code, copy it to
a text message and change the extension to .htm so I can edit it with an HTML
editor but that's a pain also.

You mean to tell me that once an email client sticks those blockquotes in a
message, there's no easy way to take them back out and clean-up the message?

I get all sorts of messages with several lines down the left side indenting
the text more with each one. I won't forward a message full of junk from the
previous recipients and find it very aggravating to clean up the blockquotes.
The other stuff isn't that bad but the blockquotes are too much.

I won't be following you advice to convert them to plain text so I can try
to recreate all the other formating that is lost when I do that.

If that's the best solution - no thanks.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No, there is no way to remove them.

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