Chris, thanks for this. I think I've seen this but never really considered it for probably unknown reasons. Could have just been my claims of being too busy to check into it.
Thanks again. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 21, 2017, at 11:38, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <[email protected]> wrote: A similar effect can be had by doing a "paste without formatting" which is command-option-shift-V. This is also handy when you're pasting text from different places into a document and you don't want all the font and other formatting to come along, which usually means your pasted text will inherit the formatting of wherever it is you are pasting it. CB On 3/21/17 10:50 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Thanks Andrew. Well explained. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Mar 21, 2017, at 08:23, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tim has just described how to select the entire text of a webpage once you > interact with it by pressing command+a. Then you might wish to paste it into > textedit open document. The key combination Tim has mentioned at this stage, > command+shift+t, converts what you've just pasted into plain text, which > strips it of all the links and other unnecessary features that html has. You > will be asked to confirm this, press ok and you will have just plain text of > the page whose text you wish to copy in its entirety. > > Andrew >> On 21 Mar 2017, at 14:10, Ramy Moustafa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks so much tim, very helpful really >> but may I know what is cmd-shift-t, ? >> >> >> On 3/21/17, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> There are multiple methods for copying from a web page. >>> >>> 1. VO-shift-c as mentioned by Andrew. Whereby you have VO read a block of >>> text, press VO-shift-c to copy the last phrase uttered by VO to the >>> clipboard. You can then paste it wherever you wish. >>> >>> 2. Hold down the shift key then arrow through what you wish selected, then >>> press cmd-c to copy. >>> >>> 3. Navigate to the beginning of the section you wish selected, mark it with >>> VO-return, navigate right through to the end of what you wish to select, >>> press VO-return again to mark the end of the section, then press cmd-c to >>> copy. >>> >>> 4. Press cmd-a to select everything on the web page, open a TextEdit >>> document and put it into Plain Text by pressing cmd-shift-t, then press >>> cmd-v to paste the text into the document. You can then copy out what you >>> need from this text. >>> >>> Note that in most cases, you need to Interact with the web content area, and >>> QuickNav needs to be turned off. Different web pages and/or web content >>> areas work better with different methods listed above. Just try one, if it >>> doesn't work, try one of the other methods. >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>> On Mar 21, 2017, at 07:22, Ramy Moustafa <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Andrew, thanks so much for that. >>> it's really so frustrating, specially if the page contains a block of >>> text that I need to get. >>> but so so sorry for asking, are you sure that this is the only way of >>> doing this? I mean copying a block of text? >>> >>> On 3/21/17, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Ramy, >>>> >>>> Selecting text on a webpage has always been a bit of a problem, >>>> especially >>>> if you need to select and copy just a small portion of the text. The way >>>> I >>>> do it is as follows: once you find and hear the text you are interested >>>> in, >>>> you can invoke Voiceover command vo+shift+c which copies the last phrase >>>> or >>>> portion of text that voiceover has just spoken. Once you press the key >>>> combination you can then paste it into another application. Bear in mind >>>> that you may have to edit the pasted text since what's copied to the >>>> clipboard is the last spoken piece of text which may be longer than the >>>> bit >>>> you require. You can then go back to Safari and copy another chunk of >>>> the >>>> text, using the same key combination. This is not ideal but at least >>>> it's >>>> doable. Just remember that Voiceover will copy absolutely everything >>>> that >>>> it has said. So for instance, if the portion of the text includes a link >>>> or >>>> image or clickable text, and Voiceover says this, the word "link", >>>> "image', >>>> "clickable" will also be copied as part of the text. that's why you need >>>> to >>>> check and edit what has been pasted. If you need to copy the entire >>>> content, there are other methods but I won't describe them now as they >>>> are >>>> more complex. You might find more information on the subject of copying >>>> text from a webpage in macvisionaries group archive as this topic >>>> regularly >>>> comes up and others have tried different solutions. >>>> >>>> Hope this will help a little. >>>> >>>> Andrew >>>>> On 21 Mar 2017, at 00:36, Ramy Moustafa <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello all: >>>>> Sorry if my question is a starting question, but i came to a web site >>>>> on >>>>> safari that i need to select some text from it, and copy them to another >>>>> file. how can i do this/ >>>>> thanks in advance >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>>>> Visionaries list. >>>>> >>>>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>>>> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>>>> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>>>> >>>>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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