Hi Lissi, Thanks for pointing this out to all of us and for thinking of me. I will include it in my material. I hadn't seen Jamie's original post, but then I seem to be constantly behind these days. Thanks again, and take care! Cindy W (Cindy 4) Start with the necessary and the possible, and you'll soon find you're doing the impossible. -- St. Francis -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Estelnalissi Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 5:08 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] tables converting to text Jamie's great tip 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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.