Thanks very much, Ona. lot of useful info.
Samson
On 11/7/17, Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> To add to CathyAnne's post, ...
>
>
> After I paste a web article into Word as unformatted text, I use Find
> and Replace to do a lot more clean-up.
>
>
> First, I get rid of extra spaces. In the Find field, I hit the space bar
> twice, and in the Replace field, I hit the space bar once, pressing
> alt+a to replace all. If Word tells me that 0 replacements were made,
> I'm done, and I press enter on OK. If Word tells me something different,
> I press enter on OK; then I hit alt+a again. And so on until I hear that
> 0 replacements were made.
>
>
> Next, I get rid of the extra spaces at the beginnings and ends of
> paragraphs. In the find field, I press space once and type caret p (
> ^p). In the Replace field, I type caret p (^p). Then I press alt+a. This
> clears extra spaces from the ends. In the Find field, I type caret p
> then hit the space bar once (^p ). In the Replace field, I type caret p
> (^p). This clears extra spaces from the beginnings.
>
>
> After that, I arrow down the document. Most of the time, paragraphs are
> separated by a blank line. If this is the case, in the Find field, I
> type Caret p twice (^p^p), and in the Replace field, I type ^m). Then I
> press alt+a. This puts a page break between paragraphs. Then in the Find
> field, I type one caret p (^p), and in the Replace field, I hit the
> space bar once. This turns all the line breaks that are in the middle of
> paragraphs into spaces. Finally, in the Find field, I type caret m (^m),
> and in the Replace field, I type two caret p's (^p^p). Then I hit alt+a.
> This puts a blank line between paragraphs. I may search for extra spaces
> after that.
>
>
> Once this is done, it's easy to use Words paragraph selection command
> (F8 pressed two or three times) to highlight an entire paragraph of
> junk, then hit delete to erase it.
>
>
> This all sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but it cuts down
> considerably on the time I spend cleaning up a document.
> On 11/3/2017 12:02 PM, CathyAnne Murtha wrote:
>> Next time, try this:
>>
>> Within Microsoft Word:
>>
>> - Open the Home ribbon (ALT-H)
>> - Activate the "Paste" command (V)
>> - Within the drop-down list, activate "Paste Special"
>>
>> This opens a dialog with a list box of options. Within the list box,
>> select "Unformatted Text" and press ENTER.
>>
>> All web formatting is removed from the text as it's pasted into Microsoft
>> Word. You get a nice clean paste.
>>
>>
>> CathyAnne
>>
>>
>> CathyAnne Murtha
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harry Brown
>> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 11:39 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [VICUG-L] spent a hole 2 hours getting rid of crap on an article
>> from a web page, anyone feel the same way as I do about this?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Using Windows 10, and Jaws 18, and internet explorer 11, on a desktop.
>>
>> I just googled for a list of the baseball free agent players, and found a
>> great article on USA Today!
>>
>> So, I grab the article from the web site, so I can read it, at my
>> leasure.
>>
>> So, I throw it into my word processor, wordpad, and folks, I kid you not,
>> there was so much crap in that article that I didn't need, like
>> >html><<html>andborder=html>html>.
>>
>> It took me 2 hours to delete all this crap from the article, and I'm still
>> not done yet.
>>
>> 1 line at a time.
>>
>> Is anyone else as frustrated as I am about this? Or, am I alone in my
>> frustration?
>>
>> These people obviously think that my time is not valuable to me. Well, it
>> is very valuable to me.
>>
>> I know there are people who cannot stand Apple products, and I don't use
>> them either, because of what happened to me, with voiceover gong bananas,
>> and having problems, which I had to call Apple about, twice, when I tried
>> it in 2014.
>>
>> However, there is 1 thing I can say about Apple, and nobody has duplicated
>> this. That is, at least in Safari, they have the wonderful thing called
>> Reader, which takes all the junk out of articles, and just reads you the
>> article. Now I don't know what it's like if you put the same article in a
>> word processor, from reader, but at least they got that going for them!
>>
>> Now, it's back to my work, because I'm still not done stripping crap out
>> of this article!
>>
>> Harry
>>
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