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   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Arlen,   
      
   >> as you would need to learn something   
   >> different when you already have something that works.   
   >   
   > Since I run the conversion a hundred times a day, I've scripted it to   
   > quick   
   > commands such as "Win+R > n" to bring up Notepad++.   
      
   Good for you.   
      
   Me myself ?   I just click a script, and it works on all the (html) files in   
   the folder.  Easy, peasy.   
      
   I want to convert one or more specific files ?   Just drag-and-drop them   
   onto the script and the magic happens.   
      
   And if one of those files turns out to be converted wrongly ?   I than can   
   either just copy the auto-backupped origional file back (by drag-and-drop),   
   or change the script and run it again - which than automatically uses the   
   origional text from the backup as its source.  Again, easy peasy.   
      
   I want to convert a snippet of text ?  I copy the text into the clipboard,   
   click a script and than paste the converted text back or where I want it.   
      
   Did I already mention that I like the freedom (flexibility) VBScript offers   
   me ?  well, I do. :-)   
      
      
   Kid, you said you have been using npp for years now.   I would be bored and   
   as such irritated as hell by having to do the same thing (copy the text,   
   paste text into npp, start the macro, copy the text from npp, paste the text   
   back) over-and-over-and-over again - according to your own claim, a hundred   
   times a day.   
      
   Heck, even if I would only have needed to do something like that just once a   
   week I would spend some time trying to automate it.    Even though I like   
   VBScript, I know of a program (I tried it out) which can record and than   
   re-play keystokes and mouse-movements.   I don't like it myself, but hey,   
   maybe you would.   
      
   You think you can use such a program ?  Than you only have to google for it.   
      
   > Batch scripts hate curly quotes, for example.   
      
   Batch scripts hate a lot of characters.   It was never build as a text   
   manipulating language, and it shows.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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