Hi David,
I thought I tried that. I saved the file as what was offered, o d s t
or something like that, open document text. When I reopened the file,
which I thought was saved in that format, I had identical deletion
problems.
I've since moved on and went around the obstacle, but if I can know
how to deal with this for the future, I'd like to do so.
Thanks,
js
On Dec 3, 2008, at 3:23 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
John,
You might do better with plain text.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sanfilippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:17 PM
Subject: seeming inability to edit forwarded flight info
Hi,
A friend forwarded an airline's itinerary of their flight info to me.
I have been saving important incoming messages in Mail to my documents
folder as rtf, which seems to be the preferred default.
Well, when I went to bring this particular file into Text Edit I had a
jolly bear of a time trying to cut that message down to what was most
needed, the confirmation number and flight arrival departure info.
For one thing, I could not find the word "confirmation" at least, not
where I needed it most. For another, when I went to shave beginning
blank lines from the file, absolutely nothing happened. I could not
delete these by selecting from here to top, and I could not delete
them one at a time. Not a very positive experience at all.
Perhaps I need important information which would make dealing with
this type of file or message more productive.
Thanks in advance,
js
