Joe:
Warning -- I'm not going to be very helpful here.
Yes, you can certainly use Find and Replace, and especially the "Use
wildcards" option to eliminate large chunks of unwanted material, provided
you can identify where the chunks start and stop.
But that's liable to vary a lot between different newsgroups. So most of the
work is going to be up to you.
I can only suggest that you teach yourself about Find and Replace, and about
wildcard searches, then experiment to develop what you need. Also, learn to
record macros and save the various searches you create. That way, you can run
a series of different find and replace operations if needed to completely
clean up a collection.
See:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/UsingWildcards.htm
Bear
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Windows XP, Word 2000
"Joe" wrote:
I like to cut discussions off Usnet and message boards and paste them
in Word docs for later reading. The problem is that there are certain
headers with information I'd rather not include that always show up in
a cut and paste, for example:
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Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
From: t***
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:20:01 -0700
Local: Tues, Apr 24 2007 8:20 am
Subject: Making Windows Mail default for Word documents instead of
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Is there a way I can eliminate all of this superfluous info using Word
to just be left with the message text?