Editing an email with Notepad
To use Notepad to remove those pesky >>> from existing e-mails you want to forward, you can use Notepad, which comes in all versions of Windows starting with Windows 95.
Copy the email contents and paste into Notepad. Select the 'Edit' option on Notepad's Toolbar. From the 'Edit' menu select 'Replace'. In the 'Replace what' field type '>' without the quotes.
In the 'Replace with' field, press the space bar. Then click 'Replace all'.
Copy the cleaned email and paste it into a new email.