The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 52, December 26, 2004, Article 11

FIXING THOSE PESKY GARBAGE CHARACTERS

  Many apologies for the recent email glitches, particularly
  the garbage character problem with issue v7#49.  Some of
  you requested a clean copy which I'm unable to provide at 
  this time.  One reader has provided instructions for 
  cleanup.

  Alan Luedeking writes: "For those of you who are anal 
  about archiving a hardcopy of every E-Sylum issue as 
  valuable numismatic literature, and are bothered by the 
  "garbage character" glitches in v7#49, here's a suggested
   fix:

  1) Open the message containing the corrupted 
     E-Sylum v7#49.
  2) Make sure you select the option in your email 
     message to allow the message to be edited.
  3) Open Microsoft Word.
  4) Go to 
  5) Select ONLY the entire text of the newsletter, 
     right click, then Copy.
  6) Paste the text into a blank Word document. 
     It will paste as a single cell Table.
  7) Now select the entire text again, being careful
     to omit the cell character at the end.
  8) Select Left Justify in your Paragraph formatting
     options and Copy again.
  9) Select the entire text of your corrupted email 
     message and Paste over it.

  Voilá, you know have a perfect E-Sylum vol 7 #49 sans 
  garbage characters, and formatted exactly the way Wayne 
  sends them all out. No doubt other much shorter and 
  simpler avenues exist, such as using the Replace command
  to delete unwanted characters, but this worked for me, 
  and my E-Sylum collection remains complete and (almost) 
  unadulterated.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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