# technical help required

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Jul 1999*

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### Jonathan Laidlow
*12 Jul 1999, 13:46*

Hello folks,

I've grown used to thinking that I'm quite computer literate. 
Apparently not.  I like to download and format the Urth and Whorl 
digests using a Word processor so that I can bind them together and 
put them on my bookshelf. I have up to volume 25 and as I wanted to 
refer to the fight I started in volume 26 I tried to download it. Now 
no matter how hard I try to save it in text only format it still 
actually saves it in html format - which then produces  a zillion 
codes when I load the file into Word. If I could even find a way of 
deleting all html codes I'd be happy.

Can any of you explain to me where I'm going wrong? Best to reply to 
me off-list....

Jonathan
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Jonathan Laidlow
University of Birmingham, UK

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