Macro that emulates the Convert to DOS command ?

bcarney · Post by **bcarney** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:01 am

Does anyone have a macro that emulates the old "Convert to DOS" command from the version 4.7 era of TextPad? I used to use it to convert messy text from MS Word into plain text (removes fancy quotes, etc), but the function no longer exists so I was wondering if someone had a macro that does the same thing.

My workflow used to be Copy from Word -> Paste into TextPad -> Convert to DOS -> Copy from Textpad into my HTML editor. I'd like to emulate that as much as possible.

kengrubb · Post by **kengrubb** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:58 pm

There is a downloadable Macro called "Special Characters" with a description of "Macro which will convert all special ASCII characters to their HTML entities."

http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/macros.html

bcarney · Post by **bcarney** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 5:07 pm

kengrubb wrote:There is a downloadable Macro called "Special Characters" with a description of "Macro which will convert all special ASCII characters to their HTML entities."

http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/macros.html

Thank you - I'll give this a shot.

Bill