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====Composing in Word====
====Composing in Word====


If you are writing a particularly long message and you want to save and edit it on your hard drive, compose in Notepad or another text editor (not Wordpad). If you compose in MS Word or Open Office Writer, then copy/paste, you'll end up with a lot of question marks that will make your post difficult to read. [http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson Editor] is a good free text editor.
If you are writing a particularly long message and you want to save and edit it on your hard drive, compose in Notepad or another text editor (not Wordpad). If you compose in MS Word or Open Office Writer, then copy/paste, you'll end up with a lot of question marks that will make your post difficult to read. If you use Word, go to Save As, then save as Plain Text (.txt). [http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson Editor] is a good free text editor.


====Keep things work-friendly====
====Keep things work-friendly====