Clean Up E-Mail Instructions

Submitted by HOST GFS Acadian@aol.com

It took me exactly 2 seconds to clean out all of the forwarding arrows in this email. Before a friend told me how to do it, I would spend long frustrating minutes deleting them one by one, line by line.

Are you familiar with the program called Word Pad? It's the word processing program that comes with Windows. You copy the letter and paste it into a new file in Word Pad. Then you go to edit at the top, select replace, insert one (1) arrow in the "replace what line", leave the "replace with" blank, hit replace all and bingo! They are all gone. Sometimes you have to do additional editing to make sure the lines and words fall in correctly.

It's Simple, it's easy and you not only have a cleaned up joke, story or poem to send out, but you also eliminate all of the headers and names and addresses of other people. Simply copy and paste the corrected email into a new email, close out WordPad, address your cleaned up email and send it. I use it so often, that I made a shortcut to WordPad and put it on my desktop.

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Before:

>>Hello, Here's your chuckle for the day.
>>
>>
>>Dan and his wife were working in their garden one day
>>> > when Dan looks over at his wife and says: "Your butt > is getting
>>>really big. I mean really big. I bet your > butt is bigger than the
>>>barbecue. With that he > proceeded to get a measuring tape and measure
>>>the > grill> > and then went over to where his wife was working and >
>>>measured his wife's bottom. "Yes, I was right your > butt is two inches
>>>wider than the barbecue!!!" The > wife chose to ignore her husband. Later
>>>that night in > bed, Dan is feeling a little frisky. He makes some >
>>>advances towards his wife who completely brushes him > off. "What's
>>>wrong?" he asks. She answers: "Do you > really think I'm going to fire up
>>>this big-ass grill > for one little weiner?"
>>

After:

Hello, Here's your chuckle for the day.

Dan and his wife were working in their garden one day
when Dan looks over at his wife and says: "Your butt is getting
really big. I mean really big. I bet your butt is bigger than the
barbecue. With that he proceeded to get a measuring tape and measure
the grill and then went over to where his wife was working and
measured his wife's bottom. "Yes, I was right your butt is two inches
wider than the barbecue!!!" The wife chose to ignore her husband. Later
that night in bed, Dan is feeling a little frisky. He makes some
advances towards his wife who completely brushes him off. "What's
wrong?" he asks. She answers: "Do you really think I'm going to fire up
this big-ass grill for one little weiner?"

Big difference, isn't it?

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