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Subject:RE: Tool to clean up MS Word (2003) From:"Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> To:"Kathleen MacDowell" <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:42:12 -0500
I also recommend eCleaner, http://ecleaner.tripod.com/, a utility that
can strip extra line endings, spaces, etc., too.
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Subject: Re: Tool to clean up MS Word (2003)
Thanks, Brian!!!
I finally found the .exe after I wrote, but it's always good to know the
source.
Regards,
Kathleen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Brian Henderson
<brian-henderson -at- cox -dot- net> wrote:
>http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
>
> ___________________________________
>
> I used to have a (free) tool called Plain Text (I think) that you used
> as follows (on PC):
>
> 1. copy the formatted text
> 2. click on the PT icon (desktop or taskbar) 3. paste the unformatted
> text into the new location
>
> I don't recall who wrote the tool, or which list told me about it;
> it's been several years. I'm getting way too many hits when I google
> Plain Text and when I search my gmail account.
>
> Anyone recall this program? If you even have a good search term, that
> would be fine. Sometimes I'm just not approaching the concept
> correctly :-)
>
> TIA
>
> Kathleen
>
>
>
>
>
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