[LMB] AKICOTL: OT: Word help, pretty please???

[Patricia A. Swan]

From: "Meg Justus" <megj at nwlink.com>

>Megaera
>who also just tried copying all but the last paragraph into a new 
>document, 
>thinking just to type the last paragraph in and somehow escape the 
>thing, 
>but it *still* copied the darned border into the new document!!! 

This is a long shot, but have you tried "Save As" and chosen an alternate file type that doesn't support funky borders and stuff?  Then import the file back into Word as either a direct "Open" then saving it as Word format, or else opening a new Word document and then importing the file within the new Word document.  A third alternative is trying to export it as HTML, editing the line out in the HTML file, and then reopening the changed file.

I've never liked Word--give me WordStar any day for my own creative writing, but I like Open Office even less.  I'm like others on this list, and can't deal with Open Office's insistence on displaying nothing but "Page Layout View",  but as an intermediate for a problem file it's got some advantages since it creates a Word-formatted file that's about half the size of the one that Word generates.  And for my own work with Open Ebook stuff and web pages, I write and edit code directly in NoteTab Pro which is an HTML-aware text editor. You wouldn't *believe* what I've got to strip out of Word-generated HTML files to get it to meet Open Ebook standards so I can generate ebooks. :-P

If worse comes to worse, you can send me the file and I'll see what I can manage with my collection of word processing and text editing programs and see if I can route it through a third program and get something back out that's got the line stripped out.

Pat in North Carolina  {also cc: directly to Megaera}
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