How do you remove quoted text?

To do this, click and drag through the text to select it. Then click the Quote icon in the message body tools. This will offset the selected text with the vertical line. Note: To remove the quoted text effect, select the offset text, and click the Indent Less icon in the message body tools.

How do you not show quoted text in Gmail?

To see the content, simply click “Show Quoted Text” in each email. To avoid this in the future, delete any copies of the same test email before sending again so that there is only one test email in the inbox at a time.

What does quoted text hidden mean in an email?

The quoted text that is sent along with each reply is hidden by default. Since you’re already in a conversation, you don’t really need it – you can expand each message in the conversation to view its content instead of having to untangle pages of quoted, indented text.

How do you quote a reply from an email?

Reply to an email using Quotes

1. Open Gmail, and copy the part of the email you want to reply to.
2. Click Reply .
3. Click Formatting options Quotes .
4. Next to the gray bar, paste the original message text.
5. Press Enter and enter your response below the original message.
6. Click Send.

How do I turn off quoted purple in Gmail?

This ‘purple text’ is caused by conversation view and has been around for sometime. If you want to get rid of the purple quoted text, turn conversation view off under settings.

How do I forward an email without quoted text?

How can I disable ‘show quoted text’ compression for eMails forwarded in GMail?

1. remove the fwd in the subject.
2. use the gmail highlight text tool to highlight all the text to any color.(rich format mode)
3. remove the highlight by applying white highlight.
4. click the send button.

How do I ungroup emails in Gmail?

To ungroup your messages, log into your Gmail account on the Web, click on the gear icon in the upper right corner and choose Mail Settings. On the General tab, in the Conversation View area, click the button next to “Conversation view off” and then click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the settings page.

How do you reference a quote in an email?

An email citation should include the name of the writer, a description of the message including who it was sent to, and the date it was sent. Works cited entry structure: Sender’s Last, First M. Email to [recipient name].

How do you respond to an original email that has been forwarded?

My Answer – yes, you can reply to the forwarded message by copying the original sender’s email address and pasting it in your reply message.

Why is my sent email purple?

This purple quoted text signifies that this part of the email has been read or received before. You can copy it and paste to a new composition and change the subject so it does not get added back into the conversation mode.

Do Gmail recipients see purple unedited text from copy paste or forwarded emails?

If your text appears purple in Compose, your recipient will also see it as purple. In this situation, be sure to highlight the text and use the Tx button to remove the formatting. The compose box of Gmail supports rich text, plain text and/or HTML (Copy pasted HTML, it basically becomes a reader).

How do I delete a reply email?

Select the down (More) arrow next to the Reply button in the message’s title bar. If you see no Reply and no arrow, select More Options. Select Delete this message from the menu that appears.

How do I remove quoted text from an email?

You’ll have to trim or remove the quoted text yourself. You can make use of the “Quote selected text” labs module by highlighting some blank space in the email and replying to that. That will then leave you with something along the lines of:

How do I close out a quote in Gmail?

Find the last Gmail message from the recipient you received that you are going to send the message to. Then, select “Forward” instead of “Reply”. This will close off the quoted text. Then simply change the drop down from “Forward” back to “Reply”.

Can you expand quoted text in an email message?

Most email clients do this, and nobody seems to complain. Of course, online message systems (like Facebook’s ‘Messages’) look pretty odd if they have inception-style replies. One sneaky way to make this work okay is to render the message with any quoted lines collapsed, and include a little link to ‘expand quoted text’.

How to turn off quote text in the app?

Using Ctrl + A and Delete is the fastest way I’ve found. They should add a box to turn off “quote text” like they do on the phone app. Here is a Chrome extension I wrote.

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