Hello Diane,

That is interesting, because our backspace removes the line return, but not
the prefix character, which in our case is a vertical pipe character "|".
Furthermore, if we re-insert the line return, that prefix character
reappears at the beginning of the new line.

For example, we cursor to the right of a prefix character, backspace to
delete it (the character plus the line return both disappear and the second
line is now appended to the line above), then we reinsert just the line
return (both the line return and prefix character reappear and the second
line returns back beneath the first just as before - prefix character and
all).

Worse yet, if we delete all the blank lines above the quote, we cannot write
anything new without the prefix character appearing, even if we delete the
whole quote and are left with a blank message.

Thanks,

Richard

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"Diane Poremsky {MVP}" wrote in message
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You should be able to, but it takes longer. I often click after the caret
and backspace. I never tried drag or shift arrow and its as fast to
backspace.

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"Blue Max" wrote in message
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Thank you, Diane. However, I am still curious. Why can't the user
simply manually select the prefix character, like any other character,
and delete it? We don't seem to be able to drag or shift-arrow over the
character to select and delete it.

Thanks

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"Diane Poremsky {MVP}" wrote in message
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you'd have to use find and replace to remove the reply characters.

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"Blue Max" wrote in message
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Thank you for the reply, Bill. I recognize that this is where the
option is enabled or disabled, but how do you remove the prefix after
it has been placed there? We want to leave the feature enabled, but
are curious whether the prefix can be manually removed once it is
placed into the reply or forwarded email.

Thanks

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"Bill R" wrote in message
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which version of Outlook?
For 2007:
Tools | Options | Preferences tab .. email options button .. in the
"on replies and forwards" section.

"Blue Max" wrote in message
news When forwarding an email, how do we remove the prefix character,
attached to the front of each line of the quoted email, without
changing the prefix configuration? Isn't there a way to remove just
the column of prefixes? Alternatively, is there a way to resubmit the
email, so it appears as an original, versus forwarding the email?
All we want to do is send the same email, with a few changes, to
another distribution group as if it were an original.