[DeanH]

For a start see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...eanWebText.htm.
Come back if you have any further difficulties.
Hope this helps
DeanH

"Chad Harris" wrote:

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