Comments on: Removing Apple Mail Quotes

By: Misty Speck

Misty Speck — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:46:27 +0000

Hi Joyce, thanks for the reply, but it doesn’t address my issue…I know how to indent and de-indent, but for some reason I’m still getting the annoying colored vertical quote line displaying to the left of the indented content, even though the preference is turned off! Nothing in Apple’s help forums discusses this as a problem for anyone, and I know it shouldn’t be visible because my desktop Mac does it perfectly.

I want to be able to indent and not have the colored quote line display…might have to trash my mail prefs, maybe!

By: Joyce Aarsvold

Joyce Aarsvold — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:33:27 +0000

Misty,
If you want to indent some text in a Mac Mail email message, here’s how you do it:
You go to the Format Menu and select “Increase Indent” from the menu. That will move your cursor 1/2″ in from the left margin, giving you an indented look when typing. Consecutive lines of type are also indented. (Like a hanging indent.)
If you want to indent even more, just repeat the process and your cursor moves in 1″.
When you want to return to the far left margin, just go to the Format Menu and select “Decrease Indent” until your cursor returns to the left margin.

Hope this helps!

By: Misty Speck

Misty Speck — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:26:14 +0000

Yes, but what if you need to keep the indent? Even though I’ve turned off this feature in preferences, the damn lines still appear, but only on my laptop! I can indent on my desktop machine all day long and the lines aren’t visible, which is what I need.

By: Rena Langowski

Rena Langowski — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:32:41 +0000

Eureeka! Thanks for the tip, Joyce, I knew those lines meant the email had been forwarded, but didn’t know how to eliminate them.