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file, and when it pops up the tiny little Paste Options box, I specifying Keep Source Formatting. (I have Office 2010).

This also keeps the hyperlinks so I can click on them to go to the hyperlinked posts.

The reason I do about every 20 days is because the most recent posts have things like "2:55 PM" "Yesterday" "Monday", "Tuesday" etc. So these need to be scraped again when those time/day designations are replaced by dates like "Feb 5" "Feb 4" etc. which is much more useful for my long-term archives.

(Actually, rather than "about every 20 days" I actually look at the oldest line that still has these objectional day/time indicators and then realizing that these will fall off 30 days from then, I set a reminder in my calendar to scrape about 4 days before the "fall off" date I calculate)

After pasting, I then get rid of the duplicates that occur.

I do some formatting, e.g. get rid of the bold, make the font Arial 8, and I format with 1.5 lines between lines (Home -> Paragraphs -> Line and Paragraph Spacing ... )

One can search this file, which is named DUPostsA.docx, by the subject line of the posts and the post that was replied to

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Additionally, for key posts that I want to make easy to find and add some description to it, I separately write something and include the URL link after I write and post the post. This post of an example, so that I don't have to write this all over again the next time I want to post this or something like this.

I'm aware of DU's Search and Advanced Search functionality but have found them not reliable or easy to use -- others have indicated they too have to narrow search ranges and search repeatedly, but sometimes it's the way to go.