Automatically Removing '>' on replies without using HTML?

Hi:

Is there a way to automatically remove the '>' characters when replying to
emails using plain text? I don't want to use HTML. Thanks.

Guy

Mickey
Wed Mar 21 19:54:29 CDT 2007

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I think I answered a similar post from you last year. Did you not receive
my reply, or did it not work? Below is a link to the thread on Google
Groups, and I've also included the content again in this post.
http://snipurl.com/1dnoi

Yes, you can avoid those using a script; I don't know of any way to directly
control it within Entourage.

On your computer, go to /Applications/AppleScript/, and open Script Editor.
Paste the following in:

-- Reply Without Quoting Characters
-- Based on code written by Paul Berkowitz

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
if window 1 = main window then
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)

else if class of window 1 = message window then
set theMsg to displayed message of window 1
else
error number -128
end if

if class of theMsg ? incoming message then error number -128
on error
beep
display dialog "You must have a received message in the front or
selected in the message pane of the main window for the Reply script to
work." buttons "OK" default button "OK" with icon 0
return
end try

if theMsg's has html then
reply to theMsg
else
reply to theMsg
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
pick menu item "Remove Quoting" of menu 1 of menu item "Auto
Text Cleanup" of menu "Edit" of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
keystroke (ASCII character 30)
end tell
end tell
end if

end tell

Then, go File > Save As. Call the script "Reply without Quoting
Characters", and save the script to ~/Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/. You can easily set a keyboard shortcut
to the script by adding a code to the end of the filename at this step. Read
here for more on that:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html>

Then, in Entourage, when you want to reply to a message, simply select the
message, and select the script from the script menu (to the right of the
"Help" menu), or press the keyboard shortcut. A reply will then be created
with the quoting characters gone and the insertion point on top.

(Note: "~" stands for your home folder, usually located in /Users/<Your
User>/.)

On 3/21/07 4:54 PM, in article C226F7BB.12259%glafreniere@telus.net, "Guy
Lafreniere" <glafreniere@telus.net> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Is there a way to automatically remove the '>' characters when replying to
> emails using plain text? I don't want to use HTML. Thanks.
>
> Guy
>

--
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac)
Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/>

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roups, and I've also included the content again in this post. 
<a href=3D"http://snipurl.com/1dnoi">http://snipurl.com/1dnoi</a> 
 
Yes, you can avoid those using a script; I don't know of any way to directl=
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On your computer, go to /Applications/AppleScript/, and open Script Editor.=
 
Paste the following in: 
 
-- Reply Without Quoti=
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-- Based on code written by Paul Berkowitz <BR=
>
 
tell application =
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    try 
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        tell<=
/FONT> application "System Events"<BR=
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Then, go File > Save As.  Call the script "Reply without Quoti=
ng Characters", and save the script to ~/Documents/Microsoft User 
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/.  You can easily set a keyboard shor=
tcut to the script by adding a code to the end of the filename at this step.=
Read here for more on that: 
<a href=3D"http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html"><http:=
//www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html></a> 
 
Then, in Entourage, when you want to reply to a message, simply select the =
message, and select the script from the script menu (to the right of the &qu=
ot;Help" menu), or press the keyboard shortcut.  A reply will then=
be created with the quoting characters gone and the insertion point on top.=
 
 
(Note:  "~" stands for your home folder, usually located in =
/Users/<Your User>/.) 
 
 
On 3/21/07 4:54 PM, in article C226F7BB.12259%glafreniere@telus.net, "=
Guy Lafreniere" <glafreniere@telus.net> wrote: 
 
> Hi: 
> 
> Is there a way to automatically remove the '>' characters when repl=
ying to 
> emails using plain text? I don't want to use HTML. Thanks. 
> 
> Guy 
> 
 
-- 
Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) 
Office & Mac Resources: <http://home.earthlink.net/~mickey.stevens/&=
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Diane
Wed Mar 21 20:02:10 CDT 2007

On 3/21/07 2:54 PM, in article C226F7BB.12259%glafreniere@telus.net, "Guy
Lafreniere" <glafreniere@telus.net> wrote:

> Is there a way to automatically remove the '>' characters when replying to
> emails using plain text? I don't want to use HTML. Thanks.

Is this for general mail? If you remove the > character, how will anyone
know who wrote what?

If you just want to remove the character for resending text...I do this a
lot for jokes that come to me with multiple quote...use the contextual menu
"Auto Text Cleanup". Select the text to clean up, hold the control key down
and select "Auto Text Cleanup" --> Remove Quoting.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Guy
Wed Mar 21 21:51:58 CDT 2007

On 3/21/2007 6:02 PM, in article
C22723A2.4CB54%dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid, "Diane Ross"
<dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid> wrote:

> On 3/21/07 2:54 PM, in article C226F7BB.12259%glafreniere@telus.net, "Guy
> Lafreniere" <glafreniere@telus.net> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to automatically remove the '>' characters when replying to
>> emails using plain text? I don't want to use HTML. Thanks.
>
> Is this for general mail? If you remove the > character, how will anyone
> know who wrote what?
>
> If you just want to remove the character for resending text...I do this a
> lot for jokes that come to me with multiple quote...use the contextual menu
> "Auto Text Cleanup". Select the text to clean up, hold the control key down
> and select "Auto Text Cleanup" --> Remove Quoting.

Thanks Diane. I just don't like it and don't want to do it manually each
time from the contextual menu, which I've been doing. By the way thanks for
your help on the html vs. plan text-can't believe I hadn't thought of
that-much appreciated.

Guy

Diane
Thu Mar 22 00:09:28 CDT 2007

On 3/21/07 7:51 PM, in article C2273D5E.123A9%Guy.Lafreniere@Pepsi-QTG.com,
"Guy Lafreniere" <Guy.Lafreniere@Pepsi-QTG.com> wrote:

> On 3/21/2007 6:02 PM, in article
> C22723A2.4CB54%dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid, "Diane Ross"
> <dross@nospam.mvps.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 3/21/07 2:54 PM, in article C226F7BB.12259%glafreniere@telus.net, "Guy
>> Lafreniere" <glafreniere@telus.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to automatically remove the '>' characters when replying to
>>> emails using plain text? I don't want to use HTML. Thanks.
>>
>> Is this for general mail? If you remove the > character, how will anyone
>> know who wrote what?
>>
>> If you just want to remove the character for resending text...I do this a
>> lot for jokes that come to me with multiple quote...use the contextual menu
>> "Auto Text Cleanup". Select the text to clean up, hold the control key down
>> and select "Auto Text Cleanup" --> Remove Quoting.
>
> Thanks Diane. I just don't like it and don't want to do it manually each
> time from the contextual menu, which I've been doing. By the way thanks for
> your help on the html vs. plan text-can't believe I hadn't thought of
> that-much appreciated.
>
Not to be augmentative, but that's like deciding you don't like driving on
the right side of the road in the US so you drive on the left. YMMV

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Automatically Removing '>' on replies without using HTML?

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