Removing forwarding hash-marks

Sometimes I get emails which have been forwarded multiple times, and each
has the previous person's hash marks or vertical lines (on the left side).

Is there an easy way to eliminate them ?

Presently, I save any graphic inserts, copy all contents to Word, remove the
or | thingies and then copy it back to a new email and re-insert the
graphics. This is rather cumbersome at times.

TIA,

Hagen

Click Forward, or Reply. Click on the Source button at the bottom. If not
already the View | Source Edit.

In the coding above the message, look for any instance of BLOCKQUOTE,
usually in purple. Highlight the entire string within the & marks. There
may be more than one for each line. Here is an example of what to delete:

BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT:
#0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA




"Hagar" wrote in message
...
Sometimes I get emails which have been forwarded multiple times, and each
has the previous person's hash marks or vertical lines (on the left side).

Is there an easy way to eliminate them ?

Presently, I save any graphic inserts, copy all contents to Word, remove
the
or | thingies and then copy it back to a new email and re-insert the
graphics. This is rather cumbersome at times.

TIA,

Hagen

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Text can be cleaned with eCleaner. Copy and paste into eCleaner.
--
Ron Sommer

"Hagar" wrote in message
...
Sometimes I get emails which have been forwarded multiple times, and each
has the previous person's hash marks or vertical lines (on the left side).

Is there an easy way to eliminate them ?

Presently, I save any graphic inserts, copy all contents to Word, remove
the
or | thingies and then copy it back to a new email and re-insert the
graphics. This is rather cumbersome at times.

TIA,

Hagen

Thank you very much, Bruce. You've just made my life a little easier.

Hagen Sahm

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Click Forward, or Reply. Click on the Source button at the bottom. If not
already the View | Source Edit.

In the coding above the message, look for any instance of BLOCKQUOTE,
usually in purple. Highlight the entire string within the & marks.
There may be more than one for each line. Here is an example of what to
delete:

BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px;
BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA




"Hagar" wrote in message
...
Sometimes I get emails which have been forwarded multiple times, and each
has the previous person's hash marks or vertical lines (on the left
side).

Is there an easy way to eliminate them ?

Presently, I save any graphic inserts, copy all contents to Word, remove
the
or | thingies and then copy it back to a new email and re-insert the
graphics. This is rather cumbersome at times.

TIA,

Hagen

You're welcome.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA


"Hagar" wrote in message
...
Thank you very much, Bruce. You've just made my life a little easier.

Hagen Sahm

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Click Forward, or Reply. Click on the Source button at the bottom. If not
already the View | Source Edit.

In the coding above the message, look for any instance of BLOCKQUOTE,
usually in purple. Highlight the entire string within the & marks.
There may be more than one for each line. Here is an example of what to
delete:

BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px;
BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA




"Hagar" wrote in message
...
Sometimes I get emails which have been forwarded multiple times, and
each has the previous person's hash marks or vertical lines (on the left
side).

Is there an easy way to eliminate them ?

Presently, I save any graphic inserts, copy all contents to Word, remove
the
or | thingies and then copy it back to a new email and re-insert the
graphics. This is rather cumbersome at times.

TIA,

Hagen

Just be aware that it is abandonware (back in 2003). Read the authors
home page at:

http://ecleaner.tripod.com/

But then Outlook Express is abandonware, too, so they match up nicely.
If it works, it works. I haven't seen an e-mail using quote marks for
so long that I can't remember when I last saw them used. It's been
years and years. Instead I see indentation used or attachments.

Many users employ OE-Quotefix. I used it for awhile but it requires
reducing security, like having to use the HTML renderer even on plain-
text messages (because it won't work with the plain-text renderer when
using the "read in plain text only" option). You also need to disable
the option in OE to block external content, like for web beacons, which
is a definite loss in security. see "Configuring Outlook Express"
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software...ocs/usage.html. My
primary reason to use OE-QF was to have it force bottom-posting style
for newsgroup posts; however, SP-2 added a registry edit where you can
make OE do that by itself. OE-QF can compress the quotation characters
(eliminate intervening spaces) and also rewrap (reformat) the lines.
Find it at:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

Alas, it is also abandonware (last update in 2003).

In ,
VanguardLH wrote:
Just be aware that it is abandonware (back in 2003). Read the authors
home page at:

http://ecleaner.tripod.com/

But then Outlook Express is abandonware, too, so they match up nicely.
If it works, it works. I haven't seen an e-mail using quote marks for
so long that I can't remember when I last saw them used. It's been
years and years. Instead I see indentation used or attachments.

Many users employ OE-Quotefix. I used it for awhile but it requires
reducing security, like having to use the HTML renderer even on plain-
text messages (because it won't work with the plain-text renderer when
using the "read in plain text only" option). You also need to disable
the option in OE to block external content, like for web beacons,
which is a definite loss in security. see "Configuring Outlook
Express"
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software...ocs/usage.html. My
primary reason to use OE-QF was to have it force bottom-posting style
for newsgroup posts; however, SP-2 added a registry edit where you
can make OE do that by itself. OE-QF can compress the quotation
characters (eliminate intervening spaces) and also rewrap (reformat)
the lines. Find it at:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

Alas, it is also abandonware (last update in 2003).

If you're going to recomment QuoteFix (which is a good idea), then you
should also provide this link to go with it:

http://www.insideoe.com/resources/tools.htm#oequotefix

Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries wrote:

In ,
VanguardLH wrote:
Just be aware that it is abandonware (back in 2003). Read the authors
home page at:

http://ecleaner.tripod.com/

But then Outlook Express is abandonware, too, so they match up nicely.
If it works, it works. I haven't seen an e-mail using quote marks for
so long that I can't remember when I last saw them used. It's been
years and years. Instead I see indentation used or attachments.

Many users employ OE-Quotefix. I used it for awhile but it requires
reducing security, like having to use the HTML renderer even on plain-
text messages (because it won't work with the plain-text renderer when
using the "read in plain text only" option). You also need to disable
the option in OE to block external content, like for web beacons,
which is a definite loss in security. see "Configuring Outlook
Express"
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software...ocs/usage.html. My
primary reason to use OE-QF was to have it force bottom-posting style
for newsgroup posts; however, SP-2 added a registry edit where you
can make OE do that by itself. OE-QF can compress the quotation
characters (eliminate intervening spaces) and also rewrap (reformat)
the lines. Find it at:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

Alas, it is also abandonware (last update in 2003).

If you're going to recomment QuoteFix (which is a good idea), then you
should also provide this link to go with it:

http://www.insideoe.com/resources/tools.htm#oequotefix

OE-QF wants me to reduce security by *not* enabling the "read as
plain-text" option. No thanks.

For coloring options to work in OE-QF, I had to disable the "block
external content" option. More security lost.

OE-QF let me make OE do bottom-posting. Got that with WinXP SP-2 which
afforded a registry edit to do the same.

With the lost in security and bottom-posting something available within
OE itself, there wasn't much of OE-QF that had any appeal to me. It
did, however, retain the ability to compress quoted lines and reformat
them, something that can be quite handy. Yet it has a bug. As I
recall, if there was no CR-LF at the end of the last line in a post to
which you reply, something didn't get quoted right. I don't remember if
it was the last line looked like part of your reply or if the first line
of your reply looked like part of the quoted content. I remember having
to get in the habit of going to the last line and hitting Enter once or
twice (and then deleting extra following blank lines, if any) to ensure
my reply and quoted content were okay.

http://www.papercut.com/emailStripper.htm
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

Hagar wrote:
Sometimes I get emails which have been forwarded multiple times, and each
has the previous person's hash marks or vertical lines (on the left side).

Is there an easy way to eliminate them ?

Presently, I save any graphic inserts, copy all contents to Word, remove
the
or | thingies and then copy it back to a new email and re-insert the
graphics. This is rather cumbersome at times.

TIA,

Hagen

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"Hagar" wrote in message
...
Sometimes I get emails which have been forwarded multiple times, and each
has the previous person's hash marks or vertical lines (on the left side).

Is there an easy way to eliminate them ?

Presently, I save any graphic inserts, copy all contents to Word, remove
the
or | thingies and then copy it back to a new email and re-insert the
graphics. This is rather cumbersome at times.

TIA,

Hagen