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textSOAP for Windows 1.6 - Email Cleanup Tool

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

TextSoap for Windows - Email Cleanup Tool

TextSoap for Windows - Email Cleanup Tool

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

textSOAP for Windows is excellent for cleaning text, but it has its share of problems with quoting it for use in email replies.

Pros

  • textSOAP cleans and wraps text flexibly
  • Lets you build custom cleaners
  • textSOAP for Windows is easy to use

Cons

  • Multilevel quoted text wrapping broken in textSOAP
  • No customizable keyboard shortcuts for cleaners

Description

  • textSOAP cleans text by removing '>' characters, spaces, line breaks, HTML codes, and much more.
  • textSOAP for Windows lets you wrap text at a number of common line lengths.
  • Adds one level of quotation ('>') properly.
  • textSOAP for Windows lets you construct custom cleaners and re-formatters.
  • You favorite cleaners can be collected in a customizable menu.
  • textSOAP for Windows supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - textSOAP for Windows 1.6 - Email Cleanup Tool

When it comes to cleaning emails, textSOAP for Windows does a fabulous job.

It removes '>' characters. It removes unnecessary spaces, line breaks, control characters or tabs. It cleans HTML code. It wraps all text neatly.

Unfortunately, cleaning text is not all there is to formatting email. And while textSOAP can successfully add one level of quotation to a paragraph, it fails miserably if you try to repeat the process to add another quotation level, which simply is not supported.

While textSOAP supports quite flexible custom cleaners, the process is not particularly easy. It is possible to write a cleaner that turns one '>' into two, but I haven't succeeded at getting the rewrapping right, too.

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