michaelr

If you have IE or Netscape on your machine, and the cookies and favorites/bookmarks work, then you can assume those are "known good" and can copy or export them to someplace where you can look at them. In IE, click on File and select Import/Export and you should be able to find them - I assume Netscape has something similar.

Compare the ones that work in the program you're bringing new stuff into with the ones you've mangled through the "converter" or just "copied" from some other program like Opera, and see if there are consistent changes you can make so that the one's you're trying to rescue will look like the ones that came from the program you're trying to put them into.

In Word, click on Tools - Autocorrect. Select the "Autoformat" tab, and put a check mark by "replace as you type - Internet and Network paths with hyperlinks." If you leave this turned on, anytime you type or paste a "clickable" into a Word document, it will "turn into" a "blue clicky." (Damned annoying in real world work, but handy occasionally if you're intending to work with links.

If you choose to work on them in Word, you should know that to search and replace on tabs, you enter ^t in the "Find" and "Replace With" boxes. Paragraph marks are ^p. Odd characters can be worked using ^nnn, where the nnn is the ASCII value of the character. The easy way to delete something everywhere it occurs is to "replace with nothing" - i.e., highlight the "replace with" box and hit delete, then "replace all." The way to put "something" at the begining of every line is to replace "^p" with "^psomething" (but watch the first line, since there may not be a ^p in front of it.)

John