Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just tried it but if you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it just appears as an un-editable image. On Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:45 AM, Mike Fry <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> wrote: On 2013/10/31 12:24, david wilson wrote: > Does anyone know how to get the news articles from that site into an editable > text ? There are some long articles that would take an age to re-type . You need MS Word or LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer. The basic process is to copy the webpage in its entirety to a new document. If you're clever, you can select just the part of the webpage containing the text of the article, and copy that. Start a new, empty document and Paste what you've copied from the webpage. With LibreOffice and OpenOffice Writer, this can be pasted in several ways, but the best choice is probably as HTML. Then, what you get looks more or less like what appears on the web. >From there, it all depends on what you want to do with the document. If you want more details, contact me off-list. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 2013/10/31 12:53, david wilson wrote: > Thanks Roy , don't have MSWord , only have Wordpad and just tried it but if > you copy and paste from the downloaded pdf it just appears as an un-editable > image. Give me an example so that I can see what problems you're experiencing. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg