In Digest V102 #180, Neal Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> broadcast into cyberspace:
>Every now and then I'll get a message with cryptic characters, such as >those in the following excerpt: >>'"It was as early as 1822 that Captain Whilldin, one of the most >> enterprising men of his time, started the first steam packet line >> to Cape Island�Ķ The landing of passengers and freight at first >> was done by boats through the surf on the bayshore�Ķ >The message originated on a PC and was written with Word (V98, probably) >and was sent via AOL's mail program. Which of these two is responsible? > >The issue is of some concern since I'm supposed to copy edit a long >section of text from this sender who, as it happens, isn't the most >skilled computer user. The problem is that the message was written in Word on a PC, then copied and pasted into an email application to send -- using AOL likely just added insult to injury. The umlauted A is probably equivalent to a line feed, while the paragraph sign indicates a carriage return, Two cures to this problem come to mind: If the passages aren't terribly long, have the sender do 'em in an email application. If they passages are long, have the sender save them in Rich Text Format (that's an option when saving in Word), zip the resulting file, and then send it as an attachment to an email. You can then unzip the attachment with Expander, StuffIt Deluxe, or ZipIt! for editing. -- Selah! BWms [EMAIL PROTECTED] bwms@altamahanet -="When Obi-Wan talked about the Dark Side of the Force, who knew he was referring to Windows...?" =- ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
