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Anyway, I wrote a like 15 line powershell script to automate what it could; all that remained was printing, stapling, by-hand-highlighting, and COPING for failure states of the script. I was finding new and exciting edge cases up until my last day using it because NATO formatted messages can get so long (and apparently fuck with character encoding hard enough that even Outlook fails to save them consistently??) but for the most part, it worked and was non-destructive. Out of fear of the script failing, I didn't even have it delete stuff; just add markers for me to know where the message actually starts and ends and still do any deletions by hand.

But this was also a place that, when I brought up that these edits should NOT be done in Outlook itself, to preserve the message as transmitted (and that originals should be kept on our old Win95 teletype box) I got yelled at for that too, but no one noticed when I left them alone anyway. So one could probably see why I'm a little mad(insane) and a little upset(mentally) in addition to seething because I cannot cope in a healthy way