To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:58:36 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: un-HTMLing
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>  KFL> Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> wrote:
>  >> Uh.  Keith.  I asked you how to un-HTML a message I was trying
> to
>  >> forward and when you didn't reply, I just gave up.
>
>  KFL> I apologize for not replying.  My answer is that I don't know
> what
>  KFL> software you have available, nor how to operate it.

If you are using Windows, to convert an html message to plain text, with
the html message displayed in the read window of your email program,
click edit, select all, copy.  Or, copy the html message by putting the
text cursor somewhere in the message, then hit CTRL-A, then CTRL-C.  Then
open the Wordpad accessory (start, programs, accessories, wordpad), and
paste the message in by clicking edit, paste special, unformatted text.
Then you may edit the text as you like.  When you are satisfied with the
text, click edit, select all, copy, and then paste it into the write
window of your email program.  That should do it, unless your email
program is defaulting to sending html, even though you have pasted only
plain text into the message body.  If so, you need to set your email
program to the plain text option.

Most email programs should have a way to turn off html.  In Juno, you
click edit, email format, view as, plain text.  That makes it easy to
convert a message you want to forward, to plain text.  Just select the
plain text option when the message is in the write screen, and the
conversion should happen.  That would be much easier than using the
Wordpad method described above.

Also, when you paste text from a web page into a message which is
otherwise only plain text, it has the effect of making the message an
html message.  So you would need to then covert it to plain text if you
are sending it to this list, or to Keith.

Ron Kean

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