Pictures in the Body of a Msg. How get rid of the debris.
W. eWatson
on the left running by html text and pictures. How does one remove this
stuff to get at the original? I've sometimes dropped it Word, but that
doesn't always get rid of the lines. Maybe it never has.
Pete Holsberg
This is a message that has been forwarded many times, no?
The cleanest way is to right-click on each picture and save it somewhere.
If you're familiar with HTML tags, you can select the entire message and
then Insert > HTML. Then edit the heck out of it. Very tedious.
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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> I often get msg like that in the Subject. It has multiple vertical lines
> on the left running by html text and pictures.
You're talking about the lines that indicate depth of quoting. There's a
purpose for those, and if you remove them, it would be very difficult to
know 'who said what' while reading your forward.
> How does one remove this stuff to get at the original?
Copy and paste into a new message. Select and copy only the content you
want to forward.
Also, if you look at the source of such a message, you'll see > and >>
and >>> symbols instead of lines. The lines are translated by the
graphical viewer.
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-bts
-Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
Michael
There was a little file you could use to remove the text quotations in
the body of a message. The file has been removed from the net for some
years, bur because it was a free distributation and the license states
we can freely distribute it, I could send you the original inatll file.
It is called "CutItOut", and works like this:
1. You copy all the text from the message body you want to resend.
2. You launch CutItOut.
3. In the open text panel you paste the copied text and you will see
these characters < and <<.
4. In the CutItOut tool menu you will see a window where you can insert
the specific character to remove.
5. Enter the < character and press the Go button and all those
characters are gone.
6. In the event there are groups of the same character ( << ) run the
program, or enter the << characters and run the program.
` 7. Once you have all the < characters removed copy the modified text,
or click the Copy All button.
8.Open a new message and in the message body click once an select Paste.
Example of using CutItOut.
"W. eWatson wrote:
> > I often get msg like that in the Subject. It has multiple vertical
lines
> > on the left running by html text and pictures.
You're talking about the lines that indicate depth of quoting. There's a
purpose for those, and if you remove them, it would be very difficult to
know 'who said what' while reading your forward.
> > How does one remove this stuff to get at the original?
After using CutItOut:
W. eWatson wrote:
I often get msg like that in the Subject. It has multiple vertical lines
on the left running by html text and pictures.
You're talking about the lines that indicate depth of quoting. There's a
purpose for those, and if you remove them, it would be very difficult to
know 'who said what' while reading your forward.
How does one remove this stuff to get at the original?
Michael
W. eWatson
> W. eWatson has written on 2/8/2010 1:34 PM:
>> I often get msg like that in the Subject. It has multiple vertical
>> lines on the left running by html text and pictures. How does one
>> remove this stuff to get at the original? I've sometimes dropped it
>> Word, but that doesn't always get rid of the lines. Maybe it never has.
>
> This is a message that has been forwarded many times, no?
>
> The cleanest way is to right-click on each picture and save it somewhere.
>
> If you're familiar with HTML tags, you can select the entire message and
> then Insert > HTML. Then edit the heck out of it. Very tedious.
>
W. eWatson
Pete Holsberg
That's because Word is a word processor, not an editor. Try Notepad.
John Corliss
Those vertical lines you refer to are attribution marks. If they're
several layers deep, then that means that the email you've received has
been forwarded a number of times.
When you say you want to remove the stuff to get at the original, do you
mean when you are using the composition window to either create a reply
or forward it yet again? If so, then what I do is to save any inline
images or attachments to my hard drive (making sure the attachments are
safe, of course). Then I select all the text and copy it. I strip out
all the attribution by using this old freeware program:
and paste the text back into the composition window either without
formatting or as quoted text. It's then an easy matter to insert any
images into the body of the message or to attach the saved attachments
to it.
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John Corliss
Evan Davidson
Try Clippy at: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/clippy.html and choose
"Unquote." It gets rid of the vertical lines, brackets (>>) and
linebreaks (fixes wrapping). It's uses a Copy-Paste sequence and the
clean-up is automatic.
Ken Whiton
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> W. eWatson has written on 2/8/2010 1:34 PM:
>> I often get msg like that in the Subject. It has multiple vertical
>> lines on the left running by html text and pictures. How does one
>> remove this stuff to get at the original? I've sometimes dropped it
>> Word, but that doesn't always get rid of the lines. Maybe it never
>> has.
>
> This is a message that has been forwarded many times, no?
>
> The cleanest way is to right-click on each picture and save it
> somewhere.
If there are multiple pictures I find it quicker and easier to do
a "mass" save.
1. View --> Message Body As --> Plain Text
2. Right-click in the attachment list box and select "Save All".
3. Select a target location and save the pictures to it.
4. View --> Message Body As --> Original HTML (to restore the
original view).
Ken Whiton
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John Corliss
Looks like a neat program but it no longer has a home page. I'm going to
grab a copy while it's still at Snapfiles.
Thanks!
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John Corliss
John McWilliams via TB
> It appears there is no simple sure fire solution.
the tool bar and hit the icon with the horizontal lines and the tiny
left pointing arrow. Each hit should remove a layer of vertical lines,
though it's hardly foolproof.
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john mcwilliams