Quoting Characters-how to avoid having them on replies?

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Guy Lafreniere

Hi:

Something that stumps me and I wondered if anyone can help and whether there
is a solution. I don¹t like the quoting characters that show up when I reply
to emails. Any way to avoid them being there? I¹ve looked and can¹t seem to
find a preference that can change that. Thanks.

Guy
 
K

Kim

Guy said:
Hi:

Something that stumps me and I wondered if anyone can help and whether there
is a solution. I don¹t like the quoting characters that show up when I reply
to emails. Any way to avoid them being there? I¹ve looked and can¹t seem to
find a preference that can change that. Thanks.

Guy
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Did you try unchecking the option under Preferences>Mail & News
Prefs>Reply & Foward> Use quoting characters when forwarding?
Kim
 
G

Guy Lafreniere

Did you try unchecking the option under Preferences>Mail & News
Prefs>Reply & Foward> Use quoting characters when forwarding?
Kim
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Hi:

Thanks for the suggestion-yes it is unchecked. It is when replying, not
forwarding, that I have this issue. Though that is one solution, forwarding
emails rather than replying then adding the addresses, but it adds that step
so isn't ideal. Thanks.

Guy
 
M

Mickey Stevens

I'm guessing you're talking about plain text messages with ">" quoting
symbols. 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>/.)
 
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