[bksvol-discuss] Re: tables converting to text Jamie's great tip
- From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:26:31 -0600
Nope, you did not dream it, Tracy, because I saw that message as well.
<smile>
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:46 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: tables converting to text Jamie's great tip
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
>
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