Get rid of >>> in replies

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SWE

I prefer to send mail in plain text, but I don't like the greater than
symbols to precede each line of the original message. In Mail & News
Preferences, the only thing I have checked under Reply & Forward is Include
entire message in reply. Anybody know how to get rid of >>> in replies?
 
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Bernard REY

SWE wrote :
I prefer to send mail in plain text, but I don't like the greater than
symbols to precede each line of the original message. In Mail & News
Preferences, the only thing I have checked under Reply & Forward is Include
entire message in reply. Anybody know how to get rid of >>> in replies?
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Please don't change it :) That is THE standard for quoted text an it is
used by Entourage (among others) to display the quotes in different colours.
As far as I know Entourage won't let you change this, but you can uncheck
the "Use quoting characters..." box (concerns the forwarded messages only).
 
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Gnarlodious

Entity Bernard REY spoke thus:
I use an Applescript for this.
Please don't change it :) That is THE standard for quoted text
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Sometimes I receive an often passed-around message that is so clever I want
to save it as text or forward it without the leading ">" characters. Also,
my Windows buddies send me those same emails to clean up for them because
they don't have Applescript.

-- Gnarlie
This entire doctrine is worthless except as a subject of dispute.
Georg Lichtenberg
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Entity Bernard REY spoke thus:

I use an Applescript for this.
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That's not necessary. Just select the quoted text, control-click
(right-click in OS X) on the selection and select "Auto Text Cleanup -->
Remove Quoting". Or access the same menu item from Edit Menu.
Sometimes I receive an often passed-around message that is so clever I want
to save it as text or forward it without the leading ">" characters. Also,
my Windows buddies send me those same emails to clean up for them because
they don't have Applescript.
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They don't have Auto Text Cleanup either - that's an Entourage (and OE Mac)
special.


--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
 
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SWE

Entity Bernard REY spoke thus:

I use an Applescript for this.

Sometimes I receive an often passed-around message that is so clever I want
to save it as text or forward it without the leading ">" characters. Also,
my Windows buddies send me those same emails to clean up for them because
they don't have Applescript.
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I don't mind the leading ">" in newsgroups, but as you say, when there's a
lot of replying back and forth and forwarding, the >>> get out of control. I
often end up copying the email into word and do a find-replace to get rid of
them.

I'm a recent switcher, can you tell me how to create this applescript you
mention?
 
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Gnarlodious

Paul, thanks for the CM tip, I didn't know that!

Entity SWE spoke thus:
I'm a recent switcher, can you tell me how to create this applescript you
mention?
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You said you use Word, but I use Tex-Edit, a minimal and very scriptable
editor. When an email is selected I click on a script in Entourage's Script
menu and it copies the text of the mail to a new text window and runs a few
searches, etc.

Word is scriptable but I don't think it's the same as Tex-Edit. In spite of
that, the script I use looks like this:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theWindow to window 1
set windowClass to the class of theWindow
if the class of the front window is not message then
set theMsg to the message window
set theText to the content of theWindow
tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
activate
set theWindow to make window
set the paragraphs of the contents of theWindow to theText
activate
set position of window 1 to {93, 129}
set bounds of window 1 to {93, 129, 896, 706}
do script "Apple:AppleScript:Scripts:Tex-Edit:Menu:Email Clean"
end tell
end if
end tell

If you don't mind getting busy with Script Editor you can maybe adapt this
to Word, or just get Tex-Edit:
http://www.tex-edit.com/
Trans-Tex Software

In any case, for what you want to accomplish Paul's CM tip is the easiest.

-- Gnarlie
http://www.Gnarlodious.com/Cogent/Cogent.html
 
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