[bksvol-discuss] tables converting to text Jamie's great tip
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:07:47 -0500
Dear Booksharian Friends
I'd rather not know how many hours I've struggled to replace tables with
text. Often the columns are off and get more unmatched as the table
continues. Often JAWS and I have mixed results trying to read the table and
editing it is nearly impossible, especially getting mismatched columns to
line up properly.
Recently Jamie sent the following instructions to the list. Her I did a find
to locate her message and it saved me a huge amount of work on a book I'll
be able to upload early this evening.
Here is her short, very effective tip for converting tables to text in
Microsoft word.
To convert a table in word you just make sure your cursor is in the table,
press Alt-A for the table menu, V for convert and B for table to text.
This tip has made editing so fast and easy and the resulting information in
text format conveyed the table information exactly. It is very hard for some
people to visually skip the wide distance between columns in some tables and
remain on the same line. In text, these columns can be separated by commas
or dashes or whatever.
When you press b, in the last step of Jamie's tip, you get a dialogue box
where you can choose how you want to separate columns with tabs, etc. There
is even a place to type in how you want to mark the gap between or start of
information in the next column.
I went to Jakes site to see if Jamie's tip, or one like it was there and
didn't find it. I don't know if my link is as up to date as it should be,
but her tip really belongs on the list of Jakes tips. Cindy W, you might
also want to include this tip in the manual you are developing adding
information about the dialogue box which pops up when you press the b.
Thank you, Jamie!
Always with love,
Lissi
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