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
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