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Quoting selected text in Gmail

Pt. 9 of 11 | 1:48 |

Gmail 401: Graduate Studies


Thursday May 13, 2010
Emails can get pretty long-winded at times, which makes it hard to respond to specific points. By default, replying to an email will quote the entire email that you received. If you want to just

quote selected text in Gmail

and respond only to those points, you can. It's a simple

Gmail setting

and we'll show you how to change it!

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Show Notes

Note: Before beginning this series please view the complete Gmail 101, Gmail 201 and Gmail 301 series of tutorials.

- Often, you might receive long emails and only want to reply to one small portion.

- By default, when you reply, the entire email is quoted.

- It's possible to only quote selected text, and here's how.

- Click on Settings and then on Labs.

- Scroll down until you find Quote Selected text and click Enable.

- Click Save Changes.

- Now in any email, just highlight the part you want to respond to and hit Reply.

- Your reply will only contain the text you selected.
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