Hi MudGuard--sorry I'm a bit tardy in getting back to this thread. Your help is greatly appreciated.

I just printed out this thread, and it took 15 pages. It probably would have taken about twice that many in Notepad because every line has a few too many characters on it and is continued on the next line with only one word on that line. Then there are double and triple spaces between posts.

The reason I wanted to copy and paste into a word processing program was so that I could edit out things, thereby having fewer pages to keep up with. The first page and a half lists the posters, and then there are menus and double spaces between posts.

Ideally, I would copy and paste into Word and just delete the stuff I didn't want. But when I tried that, I just got a blank box (maybe I need to go back and try again). So I pasted into Notepad and got lots of extra spaces and lines which would take too much time to go through and delete. I could then copy and paste this into Word and use the search and replace functions, but I couldn't get the search and replace to work for deleting spaces.

Is this at all clear?

Swimmin' in a mudhole,
Mary

PS How did Wincing Devil make the thumbnail? Can I do that with Paint Shop Pro?