Hi Niamh; First, never feel like you are asking a stupid question. The only stupid question, is the question that is not asked. This computer crap can drive us all up a wall! LOL
Below are a couple of ways of doing what you want, if I'm understanding your question correctly. One thing you can do is to select and copy information from a web site as text only. This use to be the default in earlier versions of JAWS. When on a web page bring up JAWS verbosity with Insert_V and use down arrow to move to the "virtual cursor settings choice." Expand the group if it is closed by using right arrow. Use down arrow to move to the choice "select and copy full content using on screen highlight." Press the spacebar until JAWS says "select and copy using virtual cursor" and then press the enter key. When you select the information and copy or append it to the clipboard, the formatting and HTML element information won't be included. Take care. Brian Lee I am working on a sales training manual and find that the following removes html formatting from source material copied from web based resources. 1. Highlight the text/Email you want to copy. 2. Copy it to the windows clipboard with CTRL+C. 3. Return to, or open a new document. 4. If you are copying text into an existing document, When you get to the place you want to insert your copied material press alt+E. Just press Alt + E if you are pasting text into a new document. 5. Up-arrow until you hear Jaws say "paste special...." 6. Press enter and up-arrow until you hear Jaws say "paste as unformatted text" and press enter. This will remove all of the HTML formatting from your copied material and insert it into your document. Be advised that your cursor will be at the bottom of the inserted material and you will need to use the appropriate reading commands to get to the beginning of your text. HTH Larry Stansifer Hope the above steps have helped. Take care. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Niamh To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 5:31 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Web page to plain tex help please Firstly, happy new year and heart felt thanks to you all for your help, discovering this site genuinely changed my life last year, I no longer feel alone and such a fool. What I needed was some help with copying a webpage and then reading it in a plain text format. I use Jaws 11 and have 12 available but would prefer to use 11 right now, any thoughts most appreciated. Niamh For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected] For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: [email protected]
