{"id":344,"date":"2015-07-06T02:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=344"},"modified":"2015-07-06T02:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T02:00:31","slug":"how-to-remove-coloured-lines-and-text-in-apple-mail-replies","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-remove-coloured-lines-and-text-in-apple-mail-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Coloured Lines and Text in Apple Mail Replies"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re using Apple Mac Mail and the coloured lines and text that you see in replies are interfering with the way you respond to emails here’s how to remove them.<\/p>\n

\"Remove-Colored-Lines-Apple-Mac-Mail-1\"<\/a>Some people may be thinking, Why would you want to remove the coloured quotes? \u00a0If you’re replying to a lot of questions in a senders email\u00a0and\u00a0you want to put the answers and comments next to the original questions and then reply with “See below” it can often look messy.<\/p>\n

Step 1. Open Mac Mail Preferences<\/h2>\n

Whilst in Mac Mail, from the top menu bar click on Mail<\/strong> and then Preferences<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Step 2. Fonts and Colors<\/h2>\n

Click on the Fonts and Colors<\/strong> tab and uncheck the “Color quoted text<\/strong>” checkbox.<\/p>\n

\"Mac-Mail-Color-Quoted-Text\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 3. Composing<\/h2>\n

Now click on the Composing<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n

Uncheck the “Increase quote level<\/strong>” checkbox.<\/p>\n

\"Mac-Mail-Increase-Quote-Level\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From now on when you reply to any new emails the quoted text will be in the same format as the original message and those quoted colour lines will be gone.<\/p>\n

\"Mac-Mail-Colored-Lines-Removed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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If you’re using Apple Mac Mail and the coloured lines and text that you see in replies are interfering with the way you respond to emails here’s how to remove them. Some people may be thinking, Why would you want to remove the coloured quotes? \u00a0If you’re replying to a lot of questions in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[25],"article-tag":[323,321,324,322],"class_list":["post-344","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-remove-blue-lines","article-tag-remove-colored-lines-mac-mail","article-tag-remove-quote-levels-mac-mail","article-tag-remove-quote-lines-mac-mail"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":26,"sum_votes":109},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}