Posted by Michael Laplante on 02/03/36 11:49

"oldwetdog" <oldwetdog@yehooD0Tcom> wrote in message
news:1284mar84b1u083@corp.supernews.com...

> Not only are there the added steps needed as above, but when you save your
> file, even in ASCII Text mode, Word embeds characters which you then must
> search for and remove.

Hmmm, maybe you could expand on that. I use Word 97 and when I save as text
there's nothing extra in my files.

But, yes, there's a whole two extra initial steps involved. However, that
inconvenience is more than offset by the tricks I described previously.

Nor, I suspect, is this technique limited to Word. Probably Open Office,
Corel products and similar could probably be adapted in the same way.
Another trick -- if you use Word's styles, you can even define your own
syntax highlighting. Create and apply text styles, vice paragraph styles.

M

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