Removing blank spaces and ">" marks

[Guest]

Hi all. I take a lot of emails that have been forwarded several times and
contain a lot of those aggravating ">" marks and paste them into a word
document. When I use the Find and Replace and enter the > and leave the
replace with blank, word removes the >, but now I'm left with all this white
space. What's the secret for removing extra white space between words?

 

[Graham Mayor]

You might like the free utility splitmail linked from the downloads page of
my web site, designed to do this in one operation - or see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It helps if you include the space along with the > when performing the
Replace, but if you've already failed to do that, try pressing Ctrl+E to
center the paragraph, then Ctrl+L to left-align it again. For more on this,
see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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

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[Guest]

Thanks for the post! I have tried that, but I guess what I'm looking for is
the utility that Graham directed me to. Your suggestion DOES remove the ">"
and a blank space, but I still have to go back and do some touch up
(sometimes a lot of touch up).

 

[Guest]

I'm hoping so, Graham. Looks like exactly what I've been looking for and will
try it out with next email and will post an update here. THANK YOU!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you try using Ctrl+E, Ctrl+L to remove the spaces? See also
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Clean_Up_Text.htm, which offers a macro to
automate the steps detailed in my article.

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

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