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Re: Search & Replace

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In article <9nnhqfFb4jU1@mid.individual.net>,
   David Holden <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> wrote:

> On 18-Jan-2012, Dave Symes <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

> > Why would you want to Save text with styles, then manually remove the
> > style definitions?
> >
> > Seems a pointless exercise.
> > Just save as Text

> Because there's a lot of data you might want that's removed with the
> styles. For example, bold and italic, justification, headings, etc. You
> don't need the definitions of these things necessarily but if you want
> to convert the document to a sensible text document rather than just a
> block of plain text then they're very useful..

> Removing the styles header is pretty trivial anyway.

Thanks DH and CJ, now I see.

Dave

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Dave Triffid

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