Sometimes you just don't know what to call those 'do- dads'

Got an E-mail, that I wanted to send on, but it had a thousand or more of those little 'crows feet' or less than/more than symbles or 'brackets'.

Went to Google and typed in every name for those little bugger's I could think of, but Google and I just couldn't communicate - so here I am asking you guys to point me in the right direction.

Isn't there a thingie in Word2000 where you click on the down arrow and a menu opens up and a window where you type in your -'< >' and then in the 'replace' window you leave it blank .......


I've dropped down every menu and opened every title but can't find that 'clean-up menu'

help!!

Kleo .. 8^(

I dislike them too Kleo
especially when on forum where they have to make a copy of the previous posting(s) in the thread A bad habit (looks untidy)
The AOL equivalent is to put a thick blue vertical line down the left side of the text in email(slightly better ) but it persists with the other method on the internal message boards
I have got into the habit of copying and pasting any relevant quote like on this site,and tacking on my observation Not copying the entire topic, threads and all into 1 posting! Looks ugly and unreadable if the topic is heavily subscribed to

PS Name for them? How about Daggers? Seriously I think there is a term for them something like hooks?

Here is a great tool to erase them off the postings(and other characters)
And the Author just calls them Brackets
www.mistered.us/stripper/index.shtml

And here is the same tool as a Zip file
www.mistered.us/stripper/stripper.zip

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Originally posted by kleo2x:
Isn't there a thingie in Word2000 where you click on the down arrow and a menu opens up and a window where you type in your -'< >' and then in the 'replace' window you leave it blank

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Yes.

Edit -> Replace
Or
Ctrl H

Thanks guys – that was what I was looking for.

Methor – when I seen your message I could read it right away – because my Italian born in Argentina wife speaks 4 & ½ languages, but hardly English, so I’ve become quite good at short-hand.

But for the ‘newbies’ that may read this – let me add a few things.

Whatever you are going to copy – place your mouse pointer at the start of where you want to start ‘highlighting’ and do a left click.
Move the mouse pointer to the end of the article – hold down the ‘shift’ key and do a left click. (the article is now ‘highlighted’ and ready to ‘copy’.
Do a right click (within and on the highlighted area) Menu opens. Do a left click on the word ‘copy’ from the opened menu.
Now from your ‘quick-launch’ bar (at bottom) do a left click on the ‘W’ which is the Word2000 icon. (Word opens up – with indicator flashing).
Place your mouse arrow close (or anywhere on page) and do a right click. Menu opens - - from that menu do a left click on the word ‘paste’. [Your article is now ‘pasted’ into the work area.] - [You will notice it still has all those little ‘crows feet’ looking things - < < < - that you want to get rid of and your so mad!!]
From the top left (on the tool bar) find the word ‘Edit” – do a left click – menu drops down. Find the word in the drop down menu ‘Replace’ and do a left click on that word. A window opens up.
It is the “find & replace’ window info box. [The replace tab will probably already be activated and ‘on top’.] It will have two address windows in it. One is titled ‘find what’ [If the window is not already activated/blinking – then do a left click inside the address window to activate it.
Insert the ‘crows feet/chicken track’ looking things found on your keyboard – on keys ‘comma & period’ from the bottom row.
You just have to type in one character. Leave the ‘replace with:’ window empty. And left click on the middle button ‘Replace All’
And Wa-la, all are gone. Clippie will pop you up an info balloon telling you how many ‘chicken track things’ were removed.

Highlite and copy/paste your article back into your Compose Page of your mail system - click on send - and you've just made someone happy!

Thanks to Bedstor and Methor, I can once again face the world. 8^)

She can speak a half of a language? Which half?

UmUm in the medical world and I believe in math, too, those things stand for "greater than" (>) and "lesser than" (<). I've always heard them called "brackets." If you can't do it any other way, copy/paste into your word processing software and do edit/find/replace.

Catty

There are many email cleaner programs on the net. The Cleaner is my favourite free one.