In a mail message that has been sent to you, you’d have to copy and paste the text of that email into a new one and edit it that way.
HtH, Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can try pressing enter on a message and then editing the text in it. If > you use the preview pane, things can be tricky. If you try the preview pane, > make sure you interact with the text first. > > HtH, > Teresa > > "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham > > On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:25 AM, richie Gardenhire <richie.gardenh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Caitlyn, Did you try going to the body of an individual message, typing >> Command+A, the Command+C, then Command+V to paste? There are probably >> better ways to do the same thing, but haven't found them yet. HTH. >> >> Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. >> >> >> On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Caitlyn furness wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> today I was attempting to copy part of a mail message to send to someone. >>> when I did command a, mail went funny and started copying my whole list of >>> mail messages instead of just what was in the original message I *wanted* >>> to copy. >>> >>> I am using vo j to read my mail.. >>> >>> any help to fix this? I don’t generally like to just forward stuff, I’d >>> rather copy out the pertenent bits so my recipient doesn’t get all the junk >>> you do when simpley forwarding.. >>> thanks! >>> Cait >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.