[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You should be able to select the text using any of the usual text selection
methods, then apply the appropriate formatting (or, preferably, a paragraph
style). The column select method works only in Word. Ordinarily when you
drag the mouse to select text, it selects the entire margin width, but if
you press Alt while dragging, you can select just a column of text, such as
the indent marks you describe.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Chad Harris" wrote in message
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Thanks that works. Or I think I did what you meant to get rid of them. I
highlighted a then held down alt then hit the clear formatting button
on the font part of the ribbon, and dragged up verticallythen hit delete.
Now how can I highlight the text and make paragraphs with a slight indent?

CH

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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They're "greater than" signs, and they're applied automatically to quoted
text in some mail clients. If you're using Outlook Express, for example,
in Tools | Options | Send | Plain Text Settings, you can choose to
"Indent the original text with" [choice of indent characters]. In Word
you can remove these leading characters using column select: press Alt
while dragging a narrow column to the left of the paragraph. Once you
have all the indent characters selected, press Delete. Or you can use
Find and Replace to delete them.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Chad Harris" wrote in message
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I'm using Word 2007 SP1 on Vista SP1. I'm trying to remove these and
find out the name for them and the reason why they get imposed on a
document when you paste it into html email. I did paste it into Word
first, on another drive, that's unavailable to me right now--although I
think I can access the documents, ( and in the meantime, I'm looking
for that document without these "tags" that look like this:

I don't know the name of these: I assume they're part of a basic html
tag, and hopefully someone will educate me. I don't konw a lot about
html, and when I have to comment somewhere and make my own html, I do it
from a "beginner's reference guide" or "html" cheat sheet. At least if
you look at html cheat sheets, these "brackets" (quite possibly the
wrong name) frame or bookend an html tag.

I pasted from an essay I wrote into a box to mail. I didn't set up the
box, but had to use it. I then pasted this essay into html email
(Yahoo) and as often is the case, it showed up with these "brackets."
Here's what I mean.

I wrote a sentence like this. But when I pasted it into Yahoo mail it
looked like this:

I wrote a sentence like this.
Every line had one of these "greater than" 'pointers', or 'tags.' I'm
assuming that html confers them on the text when you paste into web
based email like Yahoo. Now I've pasted it into Word 2007.
I want to get rid of these s that you see on the left here. I can
highlight each one and ctrl +x them, but that's time consuming and
tedious going line by line.

Is there some setting I can reach from the Word 2007 ribbon or otherwise
with a keyboard shortcut (even faster) that will make these things
disappear. Also if someone will help me with the correct name of this
, then I can stop calling them "these things."

Much appreciated,

CH