Forwarding singular emails, not the entire "thread"

[BethAnn]

When I write to my friend, and she responds the messages "stack up" so
I can view the previous ones too I suppose. However, when I want to
forward just her LAST email to someone else ...the entire "thread" of
previous conversations are sent too. Often I don't WANT previous ones
sent too so how do I ensure that the message I want to be sent is the
ONLY one sent?
I now have to resort to copy and pasting the last message and going
back to Compose an entirely new message.

[Ryan Morehart]

When forwarding a message, Gmail copies the previous message into the
forward (as I'm sure you know). To forward only what you want, just
delete the unnecessary text. Only the text in the forward you are
writing is sent to the person, Gmail's displaying of messages in a
conversation thread is merely a convenience to you and does not affect
how your recipient sees your messages.

Ryan

[Andrew Ingraham]

Hmm, when I forward a message in a conversation, it forwards only that one
message, not the whole conversation. Click the arrow next to Reply in the
upper right corner of the message you want forwarded, and pick Forward in
the pop-up, pull-down menu.

When I click on Forward All, only then does it include all the messages in
the conversation.

But I'm using the "old version" of Gmail's web interface on this PC, so
maybe that's why it works fine for me.

Andy

[BethAnn]

I tried that all. I have tried EVERYTHING but it all goes. As the
other responder suggested I could delete the previous ones but I wish
I did not have to delete the other messages before sending on the one
message of the thread that I want to share with others, because I like
to keep the earlier ones for my own reference.
BethAnn

[Nick Chirchirillo]

When you reply to an email, do you delete the quoted text?  If not, it gets included in your reply.  Which in turn gets quoted back to you when you get a reply of your reply.  Perhaps this is what is happening?  If that is the case, then it has nothing to do with GMail, as ALL email clients will do this because when you forward an email, they all include the most recent message (the one you are forwarding), and if that message contains the entire conversation, then the whole thing gets sent.  However, if you delete the quoted text, it does not get included in your reply, and therefore will not be forwarded.

[Zack (Doc)]

I think a source of confusion might be because GMail neatly cleans up
the display of these messages with the "- Show quoted text -" line,
making it LOOK as if the current message doesn't contain hundreds of
quoted prior messages.

But Nick is right, the presence of all the lines below this one with
">" at the beginning is a standard mail thing. It is not GMail
specific at all.

--

Daniel Webster - "The world is governed more by appearances than
realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something
as to know it."

[Ryan Morehart]

You don't have to delete the messages from Gmail that you don't want.
Just remove the text that Gmail adds. For example, I'm replying to
your message, but I removed the quote that was included from Andew's
message. I still have his message in my Gmail account.

Ryan

[Richard Carlson]

I so identify with BethAnn.  I love gmail, but even after a year away from AOL, this technophobic old senior geezer sends replys and forwards to folks not intended.  I wish there was a tutorial for each aspect---but I am grateful for the patient instruction of users.

 

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