Step 1: Read a Message

If you receive a long email message and want to reply to a small part of it, the readers of your reply would appreciate it if you kept the quote short. Start Eudora and read a message in your In box that you'd like to use for a reply.

Step 2: Copy Text

Drag across the text you want included in your quote and press <Ctrl-C> to copy it to the Windows clipboard.

Step 3: Click Reply

Click the Reply button to send a reply to the sender, or Reply All to send a reply to all original recipients. The whole original message will be quoted in the message body.

Step 4: Use Trimmed Quote

Choose Edit / Select All, then Edit / Paste as Quotation. The keyboard shortcuts are <Ctrl-A> and <Ctrl-`> for these actions (that's a control-single-quote for the Paste Quotation). This causes the long quotation to be replaced by your shortened one.

Step 5: Add Your Comments and Send

Either before or after the quotation, add your comments. Make sure the Subject and To lines are correct, and Send or Queue the message.