Gmail & Google Docs – Paste Text Without Formatting

You can simply click Forward (or press F if you have Keyboard shortcuts enabled) and then the Plaint Text button from the toolbar.

Or if your text is already in Plain Text, then GMail by default breaks long lines in a specific width by adding end line character. In order to remove these breaks you have to do it manually from Word (unless you have any other text editors that have this as an option) like this:

1. Select one paragraph
2. Ctrl+H to Search and Replace
3. Put ^p in the Find field
4. Put a single space in the Replace With field
5. Click the Replace All button
6. Continue with the next paragraph

I can reproduce the "quote box" with the latest Chrome version (Canary Build v.13), but not with current stable version (Chrome v.11). So the quote box should be a "new feature" introduced in the newer versions of Chrome.

I am afraid that, at least now, if you do not like the "quote box", you can only either use plain text to compose your mail, or change back to use the stable channel Chrome (v.11) instead.

Update: Another workaround, as you mentioned, since this only happens in copying and pasting Gmail messages, you could first try to copy the message you want from Gmail to another text editor supporting rich text, and then copy it back to your Gmail again......