Any way to manage text messages other than individually on the phone?

In preparation for switching to a replacement phone, I'd like to go thru my older text messages and dump/delete the ones I no longer need. The only way I have been doing it so far is to go into each thread and manually delete each un-needed message. I have done a few text threads on the phone and it's very time consuming that way. If I could just delete the whole text thread, it would be easy & quicker, but there are some text messages in each thread that I need to hang onto.
Is there any sort of tool or utility that I can sort thru texts when plugged into my PC, and mark which to delete and which to keep?
As I said, it can be done on the phone, but it's very time intensive to go thru each message thread. I have to delete the un-needed messages one at a time.
Thank you in advance.

What a great phone to have, mattt181.
Now that you have Verizon Messages installed, you should be able to access Verizon messages from your computer http://vz.to/1ybUH4M.
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