remove carats

[Guest]

Is there a simple way to clean up email messages that have been forwarded
several times and transfer them to a word document? Mainly I would love to
save only the text to the word document without any formatting.

 

[Guest]

Copy | Edit | Paste Special | Unformatted Text

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm for some tips. For
removing the > symbols (they're actually "greater than" symbols rather than
carets), you can use column-select. Press Alt while dragging with the mouse
to select a column at the left of the text. Then Delete. This should get
most of them. Clean up the rest by searching for "> " or " >" and replacing
with nothing.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I'll take your extra carats. I love carats. Lots of them...especially in
diamonds.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, you mean carets? Too bad. Those you may keep.

 

[Graham Mayor]

See the stripmail utility linked from the downloads page of my web site.

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<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>

 

[Karen]

I was just searching the newsgroups for this issue and came across your
reply. I realize that this is a very old message, but can you direct me to
the stripmail utility link you are talking about?

Thank you, Karen

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm