Edit Message As New

[Bigaldoc]

I can't find an answer to this question in a search here. The above topic is a command in Thunderbird that allows you to edit a received message and change the addressees and/or text for re-sending to someone else. I use it on those occasions when I receive a multi-forwarded message and I want to send it to someone else. I generally encourage others to do the same on worthwhile messages to get rid of the pages of "forwarding" information.

Is the Edit Message command in Outlook able to do the same thing? I'd like to make the suggestion to someone and I haven't used Outlook for many years and don't have it installed. Thanks...

PS Yeah, the vast majority of those kinds of messages are crap, but sometimes there is a useful one!

[Leif]

Try:

Actions > Resend This Message

You may be asked to confirm the action as you are not the original sender, but it works in Outlook 2002

[Leif]

Warning:

I've just tested this and although it does work, it is sent from:

Joe Bloggs [joe@company1.com] <joe@company1.com> on behalf of Original Sender [original.sender@company2.com] <joe@company1.com>

After you've picked the bones out of that, you may find it liable to cause more confusion than good, and how the sender is displayed (I think) will depend on your email client.

A neater solution may be to open the message to be 'forwarded' and

Edit > Edit Message

Edit > Select All

...and paste it into a fresh message.

[Bigaldoc]

Warning:

I've just tested this and although it does work, it is sent from:

Joe Bloggs [joe@company1.com] <joe@company1.com> on behalf of Original Sender [original.sender@company2.com] <joe@company1.com>

After you've picked the bones out of that, you may find it liable to cause more confusion than good, and how the sender is displayed (I think) will depend on your email client.

A neater solution may be to open the message to be 'forwarded' and

Edit > Edit Message

Edit > Select All

...and paste it into a fresh message.

OK Leif, thanks! That sounds like the way to do it. I need to find someone nearby who has Outlook installed so I can try it. I think the computers at the nursing home do, so I'll ask the IT honcho there to try it for me. Thanks again.

[Wendell]

Sorry to be late to the party - been travelling for the last 10 days. Maybe I don't understand the question fully, but in Outlook if I choose to Forward an eMail I have received, then it includes the original message, but I can edit the message as much as I choose. I do that pretty regularly with comments on a proposed email for example.

[Leif]

....if I choose to Forward an eMail I have received, then it includes the original message...

By default (and my preference), forwards and replies have the original message indented - and it's not always that straightforward to edit out the indent and original sender's details, especially if they are in-line graphics.

[HansV]

Try:

Actions > Resend This Message

It's almost the same in Outlook 2007: in the Message tab of the ribbon, there's a button Other Actions. "Resend This Message..." is one of the items in the dropdown list.

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In this version too, you get a warning that you do not appear to be the original sender:

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Continue anyway; you can clear the From box so that you will be the sender of the new message. If you don't see the From box, click "Show From" in the Options tab of the ribbon:

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