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
>
>
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> 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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