I think I answered a similar post from you last year. Did you not receive
my reply, or did it not work? Below is a link to the thread on Google
Groups, and I've also included the content again in this post.
http://snipurl.com/1dnoi
Yes, you can avoid those using a script; I don't know of any way to directly
control it within Entourage.
On your computer, go to /Applications/AppleScript/, and open Script Editor.
Paste the following in:
-- Reply Without Quoting Characters
-- Based on code written by Paul Berkowitz
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
if window 1 = main window then
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
else if class of window 1 = message window then
set theMsg to displayed message of window 1
else
error number -128
end if
if class of theMsg ‚ incoming message then error number -128
on error
beep
display dialog "You must have a received message in the front or
selected in the message pane of the main window for the Reply script to
work." buttons "OK" default button "OK" with icon 0
return
end try
if theMsg's has html then
reply to theMsg
else
reply to theMsg
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
pick menu item "Remove Quoting" of menu 1 of menu item "Auto
Text Cleanup" of menu "Edit" of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
keystroke (ASCII character 30)
end tell
end tell
end if
end tell
Then, go File > Save As. Call the script "Reply without Quoting
Characters", and save the script to ~/Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/. You can easily set a keyboard shortcut
to the script by adding a code to the end of the filename at this step. Read
here for more on that:
<
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html>
Then, in Entourage, when you want to reply to a message, simply select the
message, and select the script from the script menu (to the right of the
"Help" menu), or press the keyboard shortcut. A reply will then be created
with the quoting characters gone and the insertion point on top.
(Note: "~" stands for your home folder, usually located in /Users/<Your
User>/.)
