Sometimes I have been able to get good results by cut from word, paste to notepad, cut from notepad, past to e-mail.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...) On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:17:49 +0000, Bill Johnson wrote: >Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam stuff >together. I’ve pasted the same thing elsewhere and it works perfectly. > I wonder whether there are ways to cleanse this, such as: o Export from Word or LibreOffice as text, then Copy and Paste from the .txt rather than from the Word GUI. o Paste into BBEdit, vim, or Notepad++; verify; Save; and Copy from a .txt. o Etc. >On Monday, March 21, 2022, 2:02 PM, zMan wrote: > >Hey Bill--not commenting on the actual content at all one way or 't'other, >just curious: how did you enter your longish post above? Something ran a >bunch of the words together, and I'm 100% sure you didn't enter it that >way. I've seen this in a couple of other places and either couldn't ask or >the folks didn't remember what they did. I'd just like to understand it! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
