Hello, Has anyone discovered a good way to select a block of text from a web page on Lion so that the text can be pasted into another document?
On Snow Leopard I used to press command+A to select all the text in the Safari window, then use the Safari service "new textedit window containing selection" which would copy the Safari text into a TextEdit window, and then copy the required text from the textedit window. Alas the service option "new TextEdit window containing selection" seems to have been removed in Lion. On Snow Leopard I was sometimes able to simply interact with the Safari page and use the arrow keys to select the desired text in the normal way. That does not seem to work on Lion either. So I tried the attached approach (which I had never used on Snow Leopard) and that does not seem to work on Lion either! I can manually create an empty textedit window and copy the Safari page into that and then select the desired text from there but that is hard work! I feel there should be an easier approach. Many thanks for any ideas. Paul Hopewell Begin forwarded message: > From: Anne Robertson <[email protected]> > Subject: Selecting a block of text from a website > Date: 23 March 2011 19:49:03 GMT > To: Mac iOS Accessibility OSX & <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility <[email protected]> > > Hello everyone, > > Here's how to select part of a web page and copy it into a text document. > > • Find the start point for your selection and set a hotspot > (VO-Shift-number), it must not be a link; > • Find the end point for your selection and set a second hotspot, once again, > not a link; > • Turn cursor tracking off (VO-Shift-F3); > • Bring the mouse to the hotspot (VO-Cmd-F5); > • Check that the mouse is actually on the hotspot (VO-F5); > • Click the physical mouse or trackpad; > • Go to first hotspot (VO-number); > • Bring the mouse to the hotspot; > • Check that the mouse is on the hotspot; > • Hold down the Shift key and click the mouse or trackpad; > • Press Cmd-C to copy the text. > > If you've succeeded in highlighting text, you'll hear "Copy". > > Cheers, > > Anne > > _______________________________________________ > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
