"Markus Ernst" <derernst@NO#SP#AMgmx.ch> wrote in message
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"Shiperton Henethe" <sh*****@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:40**********************@news.easynet.co.uk.. . Hi
I keep needing to cut and paste a column (or two) of
data from other people's websites.
How can I best do this?
(Without taking all the formatting with me!
And particularly when stupid things like
URLs and huge tables of data are involved!)
Paste the whole table into Word or Excel or whatever and edit it there.
MSIE (latest),
Windows2000,
msOffice2002
First of all if there is a lot of data
- particularly if they have lots of
hypertext on them, then Excel(v2002) hates
this and either takes 'forever' or crashes.
Secondly stripping out all the bloody Micro$oft
tags is difficult. Dreamweaver4 is remarkably
useless at this task. And it results in bloated
HTML code.
It would be much nicer to simply select
*that column* in the first place.
I have tried saving the entire page as HTML
to my local disk. However both MSIE and Netscape
seem to make numerous errors whilst converting
HTML to a local version...
THere was a utility thingie called "Detagger" knocking around
that claimed to be able to strip out all the formatting
elements form an HTML page ... but it always seemed
slightly rough around the edges and everytime I had
something really *large* to do (every couple of months)
it seemed to fall over!
Ship
Shiperton Henethe