From: Mike Fry <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> > 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> Well, I tried copying and pasting my blog on Benedict Cumberbatch into Wordpad and it worked for me as a Rich Text document, no problem, with minimum editing necessary. I also make extensive use of the Snipping Tool, which is in Accessories, to capture photos and screen grabs, then save and paste them into other documents, including my Facebook page. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE