Set Word as your email editor and choose Format-> Styles and Formatting This is actually much more easier than it sounds Luckily you can overcome this by defining a quoting style of your own. The above method gives the best results but it involves quite a bit of clicking. Once you’ve set that, click the left border button in the Preview section and then OK. For instance, leave the solid line style, set the color to blue and the width to 1½ pt. Here you can set the line style, the color and the width of the line. Select the Format Text tab, in the Paragraph section expand the Border icon and choose Borders and Shading… Set Word as your email editor and choose Format-> Borders and Shading… This is achieved with the Borders and Shading option This second approach can follow on the minimalist approach and brings back the blue line. This approach works with other one click formatting buttons as well such as Bold, Italic, Font Color or even selecting a different font (ok, that’s 2 clicks). The minimalist approach is to simply copy the text, reselect it and press the Increase Indent button to make the copied text stand out from your own contributions. In this tip I’ll give you a minimalist approach, a more complex graphical approach and a way to quickly and easily reuse this graphical approach. There are multiple solutions to this issue as it is mainly focused on clear formatting.
Is there some way to maintain this blue line formatting? Upon copying these parts, the blue line goes away which makes the quoted parts hard to recognize. We tend to use this to summarize earlier communications and/or to relay it to somebody else. We're copying parts of original emails and other sources to construct a new email in which we comment on these quotes. Another responds on the original blue line post and its follow up led to the following question