At 08:11 AM 4/26/2005, Adrian Tymes wrote:

--- Steffan <res1hhv1@verizon.net> wrote:

If you're running Windows, use WordPad and save your story as a .txt
file.   That should eliminate all of your formatting problems.

Better yet, Notepad.  Notepad automatically uses .txt format.  It's
what I write most of my works with.  I copy text to Word to do a
spellcheck, but I apply all of the corrections to the original copy
in Notepad.

Geez, you guys. If someone is used to authoring in Word, the LAST thing 
they want to hear is a chorus of anti-Microsoft bigots yelling "don't use 
Word" at them.

Selecting "Save As" / "Plain Text (*.txt)" and enabling the "Allow 
Character Substitution" checkbox in the conversion dialog box will do all 
of the desired "unformatting". Enabling the "Insert Line Breaks" checkbox 
will add a hard return at the end of each individual line of text, and 
selecting "Other encoding:" / "US-ASCII" will take care of any European 
special characters such as vowels with umlauts/macrons/etc.

It isn't rocket science, you know.


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