Hi Dónal, You can speed this up even more if, after making sure that the "New TextEdit Window Containing Selection" option is checked under the Services menu option, you also assign this a keyboard shortcut. Then you only need to use Command-A to select all and apply your shortcut. You can find the instructions to set this up in the archived post I wrote for our list: • Re: Selecting a block of text from a website on Lion http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/msg00659.html I'm using the shortcut Command-Option-Shift-W for this, and this works to send your selected text to TextEdit from any application. An added bonus is that it can also be used to read some web sites that are not accessible with VoiceOver due to bad HTML coding, since using the Services menu option strips out the non-text elements, as a simple copy and paste does not. For similar reasons, you can use this to read embedded tables and lists in documents in Pages, Nisus Writer Pro, etc. by selecting the page and applying the shortcut, since it transforms the embedded material to text, and lets VoiceOver read out the table directly.
HTH. Cheers, Esther On Dec 19, 2011, at 06:36, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Ahh Paul, the best solution is usualy the simplest! thanks very much indeed > for this. > On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:30, Paul Hopewell wrote: > >> Hi Donald, >> I do this by selecting all the text in the Safari page and then going to the >> menu bar and selecting Safari then Services then Save selected text in >> TextEdit WIndow. I can then select the desired text from the TextEdit window >> in the normal way. >> >> Paul Hopewell >> On 19 Dec 2011, at 16:05, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> Folks, >>> >>> I need to copy large chunks of text from safari. Is there a way to do this >>> without interacting with each block of text, selecting it, copying, >>> pasting, returning to safari and doing the same thing all over again? >>> Dónal Fitzpatrick >>> dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> 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/>
