Put the blinking cursor at behind the last text you are including within
your reply, ahead of the remaining text you are culling, then hold down
the CTRL+SHIFT keys and hit the END key and everything after that cursor
will be selected. Then just hit the BACKSPACE or DELETE key and you're
set.
Be well,
Mike in Zone 8, Texas
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On Fri,
August 13, 2010 11:28 am, Mark Phillips wrote:
> How does one get
gmail to "prune the excess"? I have tried highlighting
>
just the lines I want to quote and then clicking on reply, but I get
the
> entire message and all the history. Do I have to manually
delete all the
> lines I don't want in each reply?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
>