I thought I just saw a message from Jake, saying the Bookshare tools handle tables, so don't convert them. I was much relieved to hear it. I'm sure I didn't dream it. Tracy > 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. > > 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.