Text Box around mail reply

Thank you, Auricom! This worked perfectly. Really appreciate your time in posting this excellent response! 😍

Pls give it a "like" 🙂 thanks!

Hi ! How do I add the 'this solved my question' to your profile?? I see this in the legend but not sure how to credit you with it?

Wondering the same thing, it's probably only reserved for the asker.

This does not solve the original problem which was not pasting

but Reply to an email.

There was a time when if you selected some text and then replied/forwarded this "box" would not attach

Now there is no configuration that I have been able to find that will not do this...

The extra steps of having to copy the text then paste it is stupid (not you ... Apple in this case!)

Or, am I missing something?

I am using 10.7.4

I think this new behaviour started in 10.6

You aren't missing anything. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a setting to fix this. (Grrr.)

The easiest way I have for dealing with it is as follows:

after initiating a reply, type SHIFT-COMMAND-T which converts the reply to plain text.

Pretty painless, actually.

This is soooo frustrating.... I wish Apple in all their wisdom would have given US the choice to use this functionality.

It drives me up the wall!! I am not trying to cut and paste as most of this has been about...the original poster was just trying to reply to an email...

There are times when you want to edit what is in that reply and if you click down in the email to make those adjustments or what ever you get that DREADED BOX with the "X"....and many times that dang "X" just gets in the way...

I was really hoping to find a solution...but I guess not....

APPLE???

Or anyone found a solution yet??

[edit] Using plain text is not what I want to do either.... I like my formating and have nice links and signatures that I want to maintain

I, too, find this super annoying.

I'd like a way to turn off the entire funtionality.

It's another example of Apple 'knowing what's best for us' and giving us some feature we don't want because they think it will do us good. But it actually makes things unnecessarily complicated.This isn't on the same level as iTunes, though!

I just find that converting the reply to plain text works (Format - Plan Text), and if you want to do something incredibly advanced like changing the font or text colour ( ! ) you can change back to Rich Text and the boxes with the X symbol won't return.

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This stupid "X Box" in mail is just another example of an Apple Geek going viral with what should be an application for efficiently doing productive work. They should stick to designing complicated games for 7 year olds...

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.

Mail/Provide Mail Feedback

Perfect answer, thank you! 🙂