Having read through this thread, the vertical blue "pipe" frustrates the heck
out of me too when trying to forward an email. Sometimes I get emails with
three or four of these danged vertical pipes. Sometimes I've had luck
removing them by highlighting the vertical pipe portion of the email to be
forwarded and clicking "Clear Formatting" under the "Styles and Formatting"
function listed under "Format" in the Menu Bar on top of the screen--
however, this often freezes Outlook and I have to exit and restart it.
Another way that usually works is (after I've hit "Forward") to Copy the
portion of the email I want to forward and Paste it at the top of the Forward
in the area that usually does not have any blue pipe (and it will usually
Paste without the blue pipe). Then I simply delete the rest of the Forward
and am left with only the desired portion without the blue pipe. However,
this is tedious, and there's got to be a simpler way. Any help?

"Blue Max" wrote:

When forwarding an email, how do we remove the prefix character, attached to
the front of each line of the quoted email, without changing the prefix
configuration? Isn't there a way to remove just the column of prefixes?
Alternatively, is there a way to resubmit the email, so it appears as an
original, versus forwarding the email? All we want to do is send the same
email, with a few changes, to another distribution group as if it were an
original.