I am working on a lengthy draft. For that I need to switch often between

type - draft & save

open and close draft repeated

Question= how to prevent this >>>> ???

I need a clean copy

What software are you using?

A search and replace of ">" with "" may work.

I am using Windows 10 and gmail. And searched web and windows but dont understand

They look like edit symbols used in Word. Do they show up in the print preview? If not you should be able to turn them of in the toolbar, not sure where, sorry haven't used word in a long time.

OK.

I would create your letter in WordPad (included with W10) you can edit your drafts without getting all the >>>'s in there. Wordpad has some word-processing functions which you ought to be able to use to get rid of the >>>'s.

Once you're happy copy and paste into Gmail.

John, the screen shot above is taken from gmail, more or less the only program I need.

Crossy, I will try WordPad. I hope the spell check is as good as google, I´m bad at tying, hit the correct key.

Some older mail programs and possibly Gmail, insert the > character into the forwarded part of a forwarded message?

Possibly you can turn this off in Gmail settings.

My apologises I thought it was word. Have you tried google docs? It has more editing features and it's easy to send as a email.

maybe OP can change the email type to HTML, these signs should then disappear.

That symbol is a copy from either an email or another system. You have to manually delete them. Similar to hitting reply to an email and the email quotation symbol (that one) comes up.

John, the screen shot above is taken from gmail, more or less the only program I need.

Crossy, I will try WordPad. I hope the spell check is as good as google, I´m bad at tying, hit the correct key.

Sadly Wordpad doesn't have a spell check built in, several free bolt-ons available.

Or you could go the whole hog and install OpenOffice and get a full function wordpro for free.

https://www.openoffice.org/

You´re right, had to eliminate > > manually. And I happy to have through you discovered, Google Doc

Still playing around with MS OneNote. I use a lot of dictation, for that is eems to be best..................w´ll sse

Good luck. It does get frustrating.

Look for a global replace option. Tell it to replace > with "blank." Here I'm on the home page in Word and I've circled the tool and typed in what's needed, both in red. This will replace every > with "blank," in other words remove them.

Cheers.

2nd the suggestion to use Google Doc's...seamless. Very easy to put away and then work again at a later date. Very straightforward interface.

I `ve been using googlDocs ever since it came up here......................LOVE IT