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I just discovered a neat little feature of MS Entourage ... if you select text and then hit reply, the only part that's quoted is the area you selected. That's particularly useful when replying to forwarded e-mails where there's lots of junk at the bottom.

[Editor's note: There was a previous hint discussing this feature in Mail.app, and Entourage was mentioned in passing in the comments, but I figured it was worth a hint of its own!]
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Yes, it's useful...
Authored by: Areh on Sep 25, '02 01:27:34PM

and I have been using it in Entourage/Outlook basically from day one.
If I had only known it was such a secret ;-) I thought it the most obvious always used feature...



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Yes, it's useful...
Authored by: osxpounder on Sep 25, '02 02:44:37PM

... and, like many of us, I guess I didn't think to report it because I'm used to it. That feature has been in Eudora for more years than I can remember.



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Yes, it's useful...
Authored by: peterw on Sep 25, '02 08:45:55PM

Ok, but can we turn the blasted "feature" off? In Eudora and all the other clients, it's a choice. I find I often copy some text to use elsewhere, come back, hit reply and all I have is a snippet -- often the snippet least likely to be of use in my reply.



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Always been there
Authored by: aranor on Sep 25, '02 05:23:15PM

This feature has existed in every single email client I've ever used. I didn't realize it was actually a secret to people.



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It's not 'macosxsecrets.com' :-)
Authored by: robg on Sep 25, '02 06:39:05PM

It's a hints site, not a secrets site. When in doubt, I'll almost always err on the side of publishing what some (even most) may consider obvious. There's always the potential that somebody didn't know about something.

About the only things I can think of that I try not to publish (but it does happen) are tips about things which are clearly in menu items. "Press command-Q to quit the application," for example.

At some point in the future, maybe we'll go to a self-moderating system where the readers control what's seen ... but that's a long ways away (mainly because it would mean migrating to some entirely new back-end content management system!).

-rob.



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