>Sure. I often have to remove the html tags from web pages that
>I download or from Outlook messages. Usually I remove the html by
>importing a file into Excel than writing it as a dbf file. but this is
>relatively slow and since it looks like Ken Slovak has a way to strip
>the html codes from an Outlook Message directly, I thought that I would look
>into it. But what I really need is a fast html->plain text convertor.

Steve,

Try

FUNCTION Html2Text
LPARAMETERS tcHtml
LOCAL lcText
oWeb = createobject('InternetExplorer.Application')
WITH oWeb
  .Navigate("about:blank")
  .Document.Open()
  .Document.Write(tcHtml)
  .Document.Close()
ENDWITH
lcText = oWeb.Document.Body.OuterText
oWeb.Quit
RETURN lcText