Exactly, I hate those >> brackets too. When I have a long thread going with a customer and I try and refer back to previous emails in the threads, I can't! There are countless thousands of these annoying >>>>>> which make up 90% of a long thread! I have them turned off in OE. I wish everyone would turn them off in their email programs. In OE, it's under "tools", "options", "send", then "Plain text settings" and you can uncheck the box there.
BTW, you don't need to use Ecleaner to remove them (or any other symbol/letter/character) if you use XP. Notepad in XP has a "replace" function. I used to use Ecleaner when I was on 98x, and it will remove all the <<<, but it still leaves all the white blank spaces and the screwed-up formatting the >>> create. So does the XP Notepad. So, you still have to go through the entire email and get the text back together the way it was ORIGINALLY. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello again, Personally I enjoyed our brief exchange of ideas in formatting email. Slightly different from the techie part of our discussions but it showed a human quality to our being here in this group. Here's a posting that I once sent that was never answered (note that I'm talking about the digest form, if that makes a difference) ... see the last paragraph. "This question has come up before and I still can't get it right. I also notice that in most postings, the problem persists. When I want to reply, I click the Reply button and then remove whatever postings that are not related to what I am replying to, and either make my point before or after the original point. That's not my question now. Where the new point should go really depends upon the issue, how big the original point, and how that point is expressed. In other words, "it depends" as long as it is easy to follow. What I want to know is how to avoid the scattered look in the thread with all the brackets (one line has one word, one line has ten words, etc etc). I'd like the thread to look like a regular paragraph when the email window is either maximized or restored. I see some of our most knowledgeable "screwing up" in this matter. Sometimes, to avoid the issue, I actually reformat all the paragraphs (using eCleaner, for example, to remove the brackets) and then identifying who is saying what. Can this straightened out, unscattered look to the thread be done? Any thoughts on this?" ... Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
