Alex, Not for your urgent request, but for later jobs - buy a copy of Clipmate www.thornsoft.com about £15.00. Version 7 is current. It is a brilliant utility for saving clips that you cut or copy. It does all sorts of things with text, among them stripping out unwanted characters. You tick the ones you want stripped out from a long list, press Go and there bingo - you have plain text. I couldn't work without it. Another clever use is filling in forms. Set up your name and adddress and other details in a special clip list, then activate "Auto paste". Every time you press Ctrl-V it pastes the next entry in your cliplist. Peter