Thanks, LowRent! Some very good ideas. I have experienced a few of the
same irregularities such as being able to delete some of the prefixes yet,
on other occasions, not being able to delete them. My solution, I fear, is
a little more simplistic. At this point, I intend to simply turn OFF the
prefix characters.

I am finding that the program already separates the forwarded quote with a
nice horizontal line between the quote and my new message. Of course, this
may not help if the original email I am forwarding already has column after
column of pipe characters.

I also dislike the fact that Outlook 2007 often adds double-spacing in the
quoted email, where there was none before.

Thanks,

Richard

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"LowRent" wrote in message
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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.