E-mail Carets

Frustration can be reduced! You receive a forwarded e-mail (one that was probably forwarded many times before it ever made its way to you) and it never fails; there's always tons of those little carets (>>>) infesting the e-mail. Well, you don't want to add to this do you?

There is something you can do to prevent more of the carets from showing up. In Outlook Express, go to Tools, Options and click on the Send tab. In there, look for the Plain Text Settings button and click on that. Next, make sure the box that says "Indent the original text with (carets) when replying or forwarding" is unchecked. This will stop any additional carets from getting into the e-mail.

If you want to forward an e-mail that has carets, but first delete them, copy the original e-mail with the carets into Notepad. Go to the Edit menu and click Replace. Then type a caret into the Find what box. Leave the Replace with box empty. Click Replace All and you have eliminated the carets. Now just copy the message back into an email window, and send it on.