Hello Barbara >Mike Edwards on 5/23/03 said > >>This trick worked great in MacOS 9.2, not sure about OSX. I know I know I >>have the CD and will get around to installing it one of these days. LOL >>I got a HTML message and I had to reply to it. I remembered CTM's >>suggestion about loading it in the browser and saving it, then sending it >>as a attachment. But that seemed like alot of work and I wasn't sure how >>the sender would receive it. I then remember a trick I used in Internet >>Explorer. So I clicked on the globe and opened up the email in IE, did a >>Select All and then dragged all the selected text to the desktop. What IE >>does is clean up the selection and save it as a text file. Double click >>on the saved file and it opens up in your text editor. Do another select >>all and paste it in your email. Took all of 30 seconds and it worked like >>a charm. >>I hope this helps. > >Well, whaddaya know. If you don't care about pictures; works in OS X as >well and also with Safari. It saves as a text clipping on the OS X desktop.
Whaddaya know indeed. Reading the above makes me realise that in effect I've been doing this for months with OS X and Netscape 7. I select the text from the Netscape page, copy it and paste it direct into a new text document. -- Frank Mitchell, Scottsdale, Arizona
