Excellent. I normally use the paste special option under edit menu in ms word. The default choice under this menu is as html. Using ctrl+v performs it. But it also gives option for pasting unformatted text etc. Using this feature pastes the text only retaining line breaks.
Best regards, Amiyo. Cell: +91-9433464329 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Syed Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [AI] page breaks and jaws. > Hello Moiz and my dear list members, > > This is a lengthy E-mail. I like to share my technique of copying any data > from web pages in its original format including tables and hyperlinks. I > assure you that if you perform these operations correctly, you can copy the > exact data appearing on the screen. I further make myself clear to you that > the copied data will be free from line-breaks and page-breaks. So I hope you > don't mind spending some of your time with me to read this mail carefully. > Before telling you how to copy, I want to make you aware of a curious > technology which Freedomscientific is using in order to make web documents > accessible by using something called "Virtual PC cursor". The virtual PC > cursor performs the function of copying and differentiating headings, links, > formfields, and other such elements on a web page. This is called > "Virtualising". Virtualising includes finding out the different elements on > a web page, layout of tables, etc and making these elements appear in a > seperate line. The text we read using jaws in a web page is not what a > sighted person reads on the screen. Let me make it easy to understand by an > example. > I have given a paragraph in 2 different illustrations as to show how exactly > a paragraph with links might appear on the screen and how Jaws reads for us. > I think it is necessary for us to know how virtual viewer works, to > understand why line breaks appear when we copy any data from Internet > explorer > > I) Illustration 1 How does a web page appear on the screen? (not > virtualised) > ------------------------------ > > The process of pickling fruits and vegetables: > > Some LINK fruits and LINK vegetables preserved by pickling. The > fruit/vegetable washed and dried. Then it is cut into pieces and enough salt > is added. These pieces are kept in the sun. LINK Oil and LINK spices are > added. The pickle > are stored in a LINK dry jar with a tight lid. A dry spoon is used to stir > and take the pickle from the jar. The pickle will spoil if a wet spoon is > used. > > > In this illustration, you can observe jaws saying "Link" in the middle of > the line. I think this is how a "link" element appears on the screen. > But whenever Jaws encounters any links in a web page, it breaks the line to > present them in a separate line as to make more accessible and also to an > extent, save the time of the readers. Let me try to give an idea about the > same in the 2nd illustration: > ii) Illustration 2 How does Jaws virtualise the content? (virtualised) > > The process of pickling fruits and vegetables: > > Some > LINK fruits and > LINK vegetables > preserved by pickling. The fruit/vegetable washed and dried. Then it is cut > into pieces and enough salt > is added. These pieces are kept in the sun. > LINK Oil > and > LINK spices are added. The pickle are stored in a > Link dry jar > with a tight lid. A dry spoon is used to stir and take the pickle from the > jar. The pickle will spoil if a wet spoon is used. > > ------------ > > So this is how Jaws arranges the data in the web page after virtualising. > However, when you copy this text to Microsoft Word, you will observe the > text broken something like this: > > Some > fruits and > vegetables > Instead of: > Some fruits and vegetables > We can surely remove the line breaks by pressing CTRL+downarrow and then > back space followed by space bar as Vetry said, but it takes lot of time. > Especially the lengthy documents. So when you want to copy anything from > internet explorer, don't use selecting keys like Shift+downarrow, or ctrl+A > to select the text. follow these simple steps exactly to copy the exact > information without line or page breaks. > > 1. Open the web page from which you want to copy > > 2. Press Alt+E to pull down edit menu. > > 3. Choose "Select all," by pressing A. > We can't press CTRL+A directly instead of pulling down edit menu because > Jaws will select from its virtual buffer. And I think Moiz, this could be > the cause of your problem. > > 4. Again pull down the edit menu (Alt E) and choose copy by pressing C. > Now what actually happens is that when you select all and copy from the edit > menu, the data gets directly copied from Internet explorer and not from Jaws > virtual buffer. > > 5. Open Microsoft word with a new document. > > 6. Paste whatever is copied from internet. > This will paste the entire web page in your new documents including > pictures, tables, links etc. > > 7. Keep whatever you want and delete unnecessary stuff. > > > Some tips: > > 1. If you don't want pictures, tables and links, then paste it in notepad > and then copy it to Microsoft word > > 2. However if you want tables, then paste it in wordpad and after selecting > the pasted text, copy it to Microsoft word. > > 3. If you suspect that there are hyperlinks still in the edited document, > press CTRL+A and press CTRL+SHIFT+F9 to clear the hyperlink attribute from > the entire document. > > I am still searching for some easier way to copy from web pages and will be > thankful if anyone could help in this regard. > > For your success > > Syed Imran > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
