HTML to Text?

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Patrick Maxon

I create an HTML newsletter (using FP 2003), which I send out to around 550
club members (using a program call WorldCast by Fairlogic). I also mail out
a printed version (using Pub 2003 to create it) to another 250 members. I
then place the HTML version on the website. I think I would like to just
convert the HTML version to text to mail out along with the link to which
they may go for the HTML version if they wish to read it. Is there a good
clean way of converting the HTML version over to plain text to mail out the
my mail recipients? Just saving to text leaves in all of the html code, etc.

TIA!
 
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Patrick Maxon said:
I create an HTML newsletter (using FP 2003), which I send out to around 550
club members (using a program call WorldCast by Fairlogic). I also mail out
a printed version (using Pub 2003 to create it) to another 250 members. I
then place the HTML version on the website. I think I would like to just
convert the HTML version to text to mail out along with the link to which
they may go for the HTML version if they wish to read it. Is there a good
clean way of converting the HTML version over to plain text to mail out the
my mail recipients? Just saving to text leaves in all of the html code,
etc.

TIA!
Click to expand...

copy it into a new email in outlook express, then go to format where rich
text (html) should be shown as the selection and click on plain text

email it to yourself to test it
 
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Patrick Maxon

This seems to leave all of the html tags in place. That is what I am trying
to get around... I would like to find a way to strip out all of the html
tags and leave it in plain text.
 
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Kevin Spencer

If you copy the content to your Clipboard, and paste into NotePad first, you
will get only the text.

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Microsoft MVP
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Guest

If you open your HTML in a browser, select all, copy and paste to Word, you
get what's seen on the web page, not source code.
 
P

Patrick Maxon

I get this:

<body link="red" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#990000" bgcolor="#FFFFE6"
topmargin="3" marginheight="3" leftmargin="2" marginwidth="2">

<div align="left">
<table border="2" width="685" bordercolor="#0000FF" cellpadding="0"
style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt" height="3169" align="left">
<!-- MSTableType="layout" -->
<tr>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="white" valign="middle" align="center"
bordercolor="#0000CC" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000">
<p>
<a href="http://www.topekajayhawkclub.com" name="Logo">
<img
src="Maxons/My%20Documents/My%20Web%20Sites/topekajayhawkclub/art/tjc_logo1_sm_Newsletter.jpg"
border="0" width="110" height="40"></a></td>
<td colspan="8" bgcolor="#0000CC" valign="middle" align="center"
bordercolor="#0000CC" bordercolorlight="#000000" bordercolordark="#000000"
height="42">
<p><font face="Arial" color="white" size="6">Topeka Jayhawk
Club </font>
</p>
</td>
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

That would be correct, as a HTML page is all text. Try saving the newsletter from MS Publisher as
text.
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Kevin Spencer

I didn't mean to copy the HTML. I meant to copy the browser (or Design View)
content.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
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Patrick Maxon

This seems to work quite well. Thank you Kevin!

Kevin Spencer said:
I didn't mean to copy the HTML. I meant to copy the browser (or Design
View) content.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
.Net Developer
Neither a follower nor a lender be.
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Stefan B Rusynko

Converting the email to plain text in OE strips all underlying html (except hyperlinks)

You can also just paste the page to notepad, and strip all html

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| This seems to leave all of the html tags in place. That is what I am trying
| to get around... I would like to find a way to strip out all of the html
| tags and leave it in plain text.
|
| | > | >>I create an HTML newsletter (using FP 2003), which I send out to around
| >>550 club members (using a program call WorldCast by Fairlogic). I also
| >>mail out a printed version (using Pub 2003 to create it) to another 250
| >>members. I then place the HTML version on the website. I think I would
| >>like to just convert the HTML version to text to mail out along with the
| >>link to which they may go for the HTML version if they wish to read it. Is
| >>there a good clean way of converting the HTML version over to plain text
| >>to mail out the my mail recipients? Just saving to text leaves in all of
| >>the html code, etc.
| >>
| >> TIA!
| >
| > copy it into a new email in outlook express, then go to format where rich
| > text (html) should be shown as the selection and click on plain text
| >
| > email it to yourself to test it
| >
|
|
 

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