Hi,

I am using Outlook 2003 under WinXP SP3 with all updates
installed.

Quite often I receive HTML emails that has one of more solid
lines to the left of the text and/or pictures in the body of the
message. I suspect that these lines are the HTML equivalent of
found in forwarded plain text messages.

Can anyone suggest how I can clean up the email by deleting the
solid line(s) before forwarding the message on to other
recipients?
--

Cheers . . . JC

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Hi,

I am using Outlook 2003 under WinXP SP3 with all updates
installed.

Quite often I receive HTML emails that has one of more solid
lines to the left of the text and/or pictures in the body of the
message. I suspect that these lines are the HTML equivalent of
found in forwarded plain text messages.

Can anyone suggest how I can clean up the email by deleting the
solid line(s) before forwarding the message on to other
recipients?

If you're not worried about preserving *other* formatting (colour, font
etc) - when in the Reply email, change to Plain Text - it'll drop all
the html formatting altogether, and revert to a plain text (ASCII)
format.

--
Duncan

you can only remove them by changing the format to plain text.

--
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"JC" wrote in message
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Hi,

I am using Outlook 2003 under WinXP SP3 with all updates
installed.

Quite often I receive HTML emails that has one of more solid
lines to the left of the text and/or pictures in the body of the
message. I suspect that these lines are the HTML equivalent of
found in forwarded plain text messages.

Can anyone suggest how I can clean up the email by deleting the
solid line(s) before forwarding the message on to other
recipients?
--

Cheers . . . JC

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:56:56 -0400, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
wrote:

you can only remove them by changing the format to plain text.

What a pity as that also deletes all of the pictures at the same
time.

It looks like I'll have to put up with the lines.
--

Cheers . . . JC

In article ,
says...
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:56:56 -0400, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
wrote:

you can only remove them by changing the format to plain text.

What a pity as that also deletes all of the pictures at the same
time.

It looks like I'll have to put up with the lines.

If you want to get fussy - you could edit the html directly in a
reply using an html editor, and then pasting back in to your reply.

--
Duncan

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:18:03 +1200, Duncan McC
wrote:

In article ,
says...
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:56:56 -0400, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
wrote:

you can only remove them by changing the format to plain text.

What a pity as that also deletes all of the pictures at the same
time.

It looks like I'll have to put up with the lines.

If you want to get fussy - you could edit the html directly in a
reply using an html editor, and then pasting back in to your reply.

I use Word as the editor for Outlook. That obviously doesn't do
what you are suggesting. Would you please suggest a suitable
editor?

The only fix I have found so far using Outlook is to save each
picture as a file, open a new email and then insert each picture
in sequence. That works but is very tedious when all I want to
do is pass on a bunch of scenes or cartoons to a few friends. If
that is what it takes then forget it.

Do you know what puts the lines into the email to start with?
--

Cheers . . . JC

The lines are how Outlook is designed to prefix HTML messages. I use the
reply option to include but not prefix, so I never get the lines (or on
plain text).

I never really looked into it as it doesn't bother me (either on replies
from others or the few times I use prefixes), so I don't know if you can
edit a style to remove it or change it to something else. In looking at the
HTMl, it uses a DIV but not a named style (div
style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt')
so you many not be able to change it in the template. remove the
border-left attribute or change it to white.

To reply or forward without prefixing, go to tools, options, email options
and change to include to the text (but not include and indent).

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:


Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

"JC" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:18:03 +1200, Duncan McC
wrote:

In article ,
says...
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:56:56 -0400, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
wrote:

you can only remove them by changing the format to plain text.

What a pity as that also deletes all of the pictures at the same
time.

It looks like I'll have to put up with the lines.

If you want to get fussy - you could edit the html directly in a
reply using an html editor, and then pasting back in to your reply.

I use Word as the editor for Outlook. That obviously doesn't do
what you are suggesting. Would you please suggest a suitable
editor?

The only fix I have found so far using Outlook is to save each
picture as a file, open a new email and then insert each picture
in sequence. That works but is very tedious when all I want to
do is pass on a bunch of scenes or cartoons to a few friends. If
that is what it takes then forget it.

Do you know what puts the lines into the email to start with?
--

Cheers . . . JC

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 11:53:59 -0400, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
wrote:

The lines are how Outlook is designed to prefix HTML messages. I use the
reply option to include but not prefix, so I never get the lines (or on
plain text).

I never really looked into it as it doesn't bother me (either on replies
from others or the few times I use prefixes), so I don't know if you can
edit a style to remove it or change it to something else. In looking at the
HTMl, it uses a DIV but not a named style (div
style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt')
so you many not be able to change it in the template. remove the
border-left attribute or change it to white.

To reply or forward without prefixing, go to tools, options, email options
and change to include to the text (but not include and indent).

I also don't get the lines for HTML or for plain text email
replies or forwards. Others obviously do as I sometimes
receive emails with 3 or 4 lines.

It is looking like I will have to put up with the lines.

Thanks for trying to help.
--

Cheers . . . JC

In article ,
says...
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:18:03 +1200, Duncan McC
wrote:

In article ,
says...
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:56:56 -0400, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]"
wrote:

you can only remove them by changing the format to plain text.

What a pity as that also deletes all of the pictures at the same
time.

It looks like I'll have to put up with the lines.

If you want to get fussy - you could edit the html directly in a
reply using an html editor, and then pasting back in to your reply.

I use Word as the editor for Outlook. That obviously doesn't do
what you are suggesting. Would you please suggest a suitable
editor?

The only fix I have found so far using Outlook is to save each
picture as a file, open a new email and then insert each picture
in sequence. That works but is very tedious when all I want to
do is pass on a bunch of scenes or cartoons to a few friends. If
that is what it takes then forget it.

Do you know what puts the lines into the email to start with?

You could use a free one like FCK Editor (IIRC), or even a good text
editor such as Notepad ++ (both available on sourceforge.net, IIRC).

The lines are *probably* done with CSS (probably some inline cascading
sytle sheet).

--
Duncan