Also, at one point in the struckthrough text there is an outline of a picture
window; when I try to cut it I receive a response that "The selection is
marked as deleted text".

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Assuming that the strikethrough indicates deletions, rejecting the change
should restore the text proposed for deletion.

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"Dave Rogers" Dave wrote in message
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I am running under MS Windows XP, Word 2002 SP3. I have one Word file
which
is listed in Explorer as a Wordpad doc.

The start of the text is normal text. But a large part of it, having been
added later than the original (and it may have been brought in from a file
originally on an HP 720 handheld), is in markup. Some of that markup is
struckthrough. All of the markup portion is faced. There is a vertical
line
all the way down the left side of the markup text.

I want to make the markup text a regular, non-markup text, like the
beginning of the file. How do I do it? "Reject change/delete comment"
just
deletes the highlighted markup text. "Accept change" does not work. They
all delete the text.