Re: I want to remove these: > (looks like a greater than sign in math)
- From: "Chad Harris" <vistaneedswork@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:50:12 -0400
What worked, and I guess you meant Suzanne, was to highlight one of the >s, while holding down the alt key+ then click the clear formatting button and drag up your highlighting which will then be limited to the narrow vertical column contianing the >s. That works. Now if a highlight the body of text, how can I get it to format as paragraphs with a slight left indentation? There has to be something to click after shading the area.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uNFw9QkmIHA.5368@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
They're "greater than" signs, and they're applied automatically to quoted text in some mail clients. If you're using Outlook Express, for example, in Tools | Options | Send | Plain Text Settings, you can choose to "Indent the original text with" [choice of indent characters]. In Word you can remove these leading characters using column select: press Alt while dragging a narrow column to the left of the paragraph. Once you have all the indent characters selected, press Delete. Or you can use Find and Replace to delete them.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Chad Harris" <vistaneedswork@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%239%23Hd$imIHA.4208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI'm using Word 2007 SP1 on Vista SP1. I'm trying to remove these and find out the name for them and the reason why they get imposed on a document when you paste it into html email. I did paste it into Word first, on another drive, that's unavailable to me right now--although I think I can access the documents, ( and in the meantime, I'm looking for that document without these "tags" that look like this: >
I don't know the name of these: > I assume they're part of a basic html tag, and hopefully someone will educate me. I don't konw a lot about html, and when I have to comment somewhere and make my own html, I do it from a "beginner's reference guide" or "html" cheat sheet. At least if you look at html cheat sheets, these "brackets" (quite possibly the wrong name) frame or bookend an html tag.
I pasted from an essay I wrote into a box to mail. I didn't set up the box, but had to use it. I then pasted this essay into html email (Yahoo) and as often is the case, it showed up with these "brackets." Here's what I mean.
I wrote a sentence like this. But when I pasted it into Yahoo mail it looked like this:
I wrote a sentence like this.
Every line had one of these "greater than" 'pointers', or 'tags.' I'm assuming that html confers them on the text when you paste into web based email like Yahoo. Now I've pasted it into Word 2007.
I want to get rid of these >s that you see on the left here. I can highlight each one and ctrl +x them, but that's time consuming and tedious going line by line.
Is there some setting I can reach from the Word 2007 ribbon or otherwise with a keyboard shortcut (even faster) that will make these things disappear. Also if someone will help me with the correct name of this >, then I can stop calling them "these things."
Much appreciated,
CH
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