> symbol before each sentence in some e-mails

[Guest]

There are > symbols in front of each sentence in some e-mails I receive. Can
I copy the whole email to Ms Word and get rid of them in 1 action?
Jeff B

 

[Jay Freedman]

There are > symbols in front of each sentence in some e-mails I receive. Can
I copy the whole email to Ms Word and get rid of them in 1 action?
Jeff B

You can use the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, enter

^p>

and in the Replace With box type one space character (press the
spacebar once). Then click the Replace All button.

That will leave the first > character, because it doesn't follow a
paragraph mark (which is what the ^p code searches for). You'll
probably also want to remove the extra paragraph marks at the ends of
lines that aren't really the last line of a paragraph. For
instructions on how to deal with this, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm.

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[David Horowitz]

You could use Find/Replace to replace "> " with "". If you needed to
automate this process, you could do the Find/Replace with VBA. You might
record the macro to do exactly that, in which case you wouldn't need to
become a full-fledged VBA developer.

 

[Graham Mayor]

See also the stripmail utility at http://www.gmayor.com/downloads.htm

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