See: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...s-e-mails.html
The code there will do most of the work. Admittedly, characters like ¬ aren't dealt with as they're not normally found in emails. That said, they and any other characters you want to delete (or replace with spaces) could easily be added to a single wildcard Find expression.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]