Eliminate blue vertical lines in forwarded email

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How do you eliminate blue vertical lines in forwarded emails with pictures or attachments? I’m using Yahoo and Hotmail at work we use Microsoft Outlook.

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Are you asking about messages you forward or forwarded messages you receive?

What version of Outlook?

Joe

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I’m talking about forwarded messages I receive. Microsoft outlook 2003 is what we have

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There is no easy way to do that. The lines are already in the email when you receive it. See [Resolved] How do I remove ‘forward lines’ from a forwarded email?, Solved: Annoying Blue Lines – Tech Support Guy Forums, & Mr. Ed’s E-Mail Bracket Stripper v3.0 for possible help.

Joe

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A crude way is to save the message in plain text. Edit | Edit Message | Format | Plain Text | Yes. You will lose all HTML formatting.

I learned to live with it.

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How do you eliminate blue vertical lines in forwarded emails with pictures or attachments? I’m using Yahoo and Hotmail at work we use Microsoft Outlook.

You could try this Outlook macro. I only found one such message, so I’ve used the exact code from that message. If yours doesn’t match in color or border thickness, then nothing will happen.

Code:

Sub StripBlueForwardBorders()
' Remove the blue BORDER-LEFT from the message
' Not fault tolerant, do not run without HTML message open and active
If Inspectors.Count = 0 Then
    MsgBox "Please open an HTML-format message before running this macro!", _
        vbExclamation + vbOKOnly
    Exit Sub
End If
If ActiveInspector.EditorType  olEditorHTML Then
    MsgBox "This macro is for HTML-format messages only, sorry!", _
        vbExclamation + vbOKOnly
    Exit Sub
End If
If MsgBox("Remove blue left margins from this message?", _
        vbQuestion + vbYesNo) = vbNo Then Exit Sub
Dim msg As MailItem
Set msg = ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
msg.HTMLBody = Replace(msg.HTMLBody, "BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid", vbNullString, , , vbTextCompare)
Set msg = Nothing
End Sub

Note that this was developed for Outlook’s built-in HTML editor, not for Word (which some people use as their mail editor).

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