Re: System for cleaning up legacy Word docs?

[<neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>]

Rebecca Stevenson asks: 
> I'm going to spending a lot of time in the near
> future working on legacy Word documents...

Sometimes if things are a real mess what you need to do is
to copy everything except document's final paragraph mark
and paste it into a new document.  Then use your own
styles on the new document.

The reason is that Word stores all the nasty formatting
information inside that final paragraph mark.  (Umm, I'm
assuming that you ALWAYS have Word set for
tools/options/view/formatting marks/all
so that you can see what Word is doing to you.)

Unfortunately Word has nothing like Wordperfect's reveal
codes.  Even if you think you know what it's doing, you
may still be wrong!

--Peter Neilson
  North Carolina



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