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From: Richard Roberts <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Quoting Text
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 20:57:32 -0600


Joe Makowiec wrote:

> Try this - highlight the text you want to quote before you click
> "Reply". Most e-mail clients will quote the text you highlight,
> saving you the added step of pasting. That's what I just did to reply
> to your message (Eudora Pro 4.3.2).

Richard Roberts wrote:

> The procedure you describe above is something I was already familiar
> with. You may not have caught my previous post, but since I receive
> the TMG Digest instead of the TMG List, I do not receive an email that
> can be replied to. The Digest is composed of numerous posts combined
> into one email, and when I want to snip some text, I have to rely on
> Copy and Paste. It was not until I looked under the hood that I
> discovered the method of pasting the quote as a quotation.

Lee Hoffman wrote:

> Richard, both of the methods above should work for you. Joe's method
> is a shortcut and when that is all that you wish to quote then it is
> usually the easiest. If I reply to a message (might be a digest) and
> wish to quote numerous times from it, I start with method that Joe
> suggests and then for subsequent quotes I follow the method you note.
>
> Now I am not that familiar with Netscape 7.0 (using Eudora5.2), but
> most e-mail program do work this way.


Apparently, there are some differences in the way various email programs
work. Using the method Joe describes does work perfectly when you
receive an email from an individual and you want to reply to that
individual. However, receiving the TMG Digest in Netscape 7.0, it
involves WAY TOO much editing to end up with what one wants.

- Highlight some text in the TMG Digest and click Reply.
- When the Compose Email window opens, it pastes the *entire* contents
of the Digest into the email, not the part that was merely highlighted.
- It lists the TMG Digest as the quoted author.
- The subject line will require editing, as it references the volume
number of the TMG Digest.

It is much quicker and simpler to Copy and Paste the quoted text into a
fresh, empty email and go from there. However, as I mentioned in
another post, there is the "Paste as Quotation" option available when
you right-click in the Email window, and that will give me the desired
result (as seen above), without having to manually simulate it with ">"
marks.

I appreciate all the comments,
Richard Roberts









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