The only reason why I am tempted to pull things over into MS Word is that
my mail program won't let me suppress the greater than signs, and it does
not have a very functional Find & Replace command.  You are right about the
headers--I could strip them off without leaving my mail program.  It is the
other stuff that I am trying to suppress that makes it better to pull it
out and edit it elsewhere, and then start a new message.  Of course, if you
have a mail program that handles this well (and is not Outlook Express), I
might consider looking at other mail programs.

73, de Lou K2LKK

At 03:00 PM 8/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I also found that you can put the email either in forward or reply and then
>just edit out all the junk that you don't want to send on.  It's realfast
>and easy and I know the recipients appreciate it.  Particularly those jokes
>that go around being forwarded and forwarded till the first page is full of
>that junk.
>
>73's and 88's where it applies.
>
>Bud Schwab
>
>
>At 02:13 PM 8/30/02, you wrote:
> >Hi folks.
> >
> >There are a couple of things that one can do to clean up a forwarded
> >message.  What I often do is to select everything in the body of the
> >message and copy it to the clipboard, then I open up MS Word, paste it in,
> >edit out the headers, and the annoying greater than characters that bug me
> >more than the headers.  Then I select the whole document, copy it to the
> >clipboard again, go back to my mail program, send a new message and paste
> >the cleaned up message into the body.  It works well.
> >
> >For those of you who are neophytes at this, in both Eudora and Outlook
> >Express, you can do a Select All by pressing CTRL+A.  Then hit CTRL+C to
> >copy it to the clipboard.  Once you open up MS Word, press CTRL+V to
> >paste.  Then, use the arrow keys to find the bottom of your
> >header.  Sometimes CTRL+DOWN ARROW can help you find the bottom of the
> >header quickly.  It allows you to skip down a paragraph at a time.  Then
> >press SHIFT+CTRL+HOME to select all of the header garbage and hit the
> DEL key.
> >
> >Press CTRL+H to get into the Find & Replace dialogue, and in the Find What
> >window, type a greater than sign or asterisk or whatever the character is
> >that marks forwarded text.  Then press ALT+A to click the Replace All
> button.
> >
> >Press CTRL+A to select all again, press CTRL+C to copy to the clipboard,
> >get back into your mail program, start a new message, and when you get to
> >the body of the message, press CTRL+V to put your cleaned up message into
> >the body.
> >
> >It takes five minutes to clean up a message, but folks sure appreciate it.
> >
> >73, de Lou K2LKK
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >At 10:02 PM 8/24/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Sometimes, it's useful to see through whose hands a message came.
> > >
> > >Also, at least with JAWS, there are keystrokes which allow one to skip
> > >past most of the headers if one doesn't wish to read them.
> > >
> > >Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
> > >... Ask not for whom the <^G> tolls.
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "John J. Jacques" <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 7:31 PM
> > >Subject: Re: [DIGITAL-SCANNING] Uniden's P-25 Scanner Receives approval
> > >(fwd)
> > >
> > >
> > >Hi all.  This is why I like juno.  It is easy to delete the header crap
> > >simply by holding down the shift key and arrowing down past all of that
> > >crap and hitting delete.  I understand that outlook express does not
> > >work
> > >this way, which surprises me, as you would think that a micro soft
> > >product would work in normal fassion as far as editing goes.  I wonder
> > >why theese mail programs forward all of that crap anyway?
> > >
> > >Have a good one everybody:
> > >John
> >
> >Louis (Kim) Kline, A.R.S.  K2LKK
> >e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
> >Work e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
> >Work Tel.  (585) 697-5753
>
>Bud Schwab
>W 6 Z Y P
>Malibu, California

Louis (Kim) Kline, A.R.S.  K2LKK
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