[Athen] Extracting Highlighted Text

[Shelley Haven]

OK, this is really low cost (free) and you already own it: highlight text in Word, then use the Find/Replace function to replace all the non-highlighted text with line breaks.  Specific steps for Windows [Mac commands in brackets]:

1)  Highlight text in desired colors (perhaps using a highlighting strategy such as headers in yellow, sub-heads in green, details in blue, etc.)
2)  Save the document with a different name (important) -- this will become the extracted text document
3)  Select Home > Editing > Replace [Edit > Replace...]
4)  Click "More" [click that little down-facing triangle] to expose more options
5)  With the cursor in the Find text box, select Format > Highlight; "Format: Highlight" appears below text box
6)  Select Format > Highlight again; label under text box changes to "Format: Not Highlight"
7)  Place cursor in the Replace text box and select Special > Paragraph Mark (essentially, a line break)
8)  Click Replace All -- all the non-highlighted text is replaced with a single line break, leaving the highlighted text in the order it originally appeared

And if you can write a macro for this, you'll have one-step extraction of highlighted text in Word!

I haven't figured a way to automatically reformat by highlight color, but if you switch to Outline view, it will be easier to manually indent or outdent selected notes by color.

- Shelley

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Shelley Haven  ATP, RET
Assistive Technology Consultant
www.TechPotential.net



On May 14, 2010, at 10:45 AM, CUTLER_ELLEN wrote:


> Hello,

>  

> Are any of you familiar with a program that can extract highlighted text? If the text could be extracted hierarchically based on color as Kurzweil does, that would be an amazing bonus. We are looking for a low to no-cost solution that only needs to be able to extract highlighted text from a program that provides highlighting like Word.

>  

> Thanks so much.

>  

> Ellen

>  

> Ellen Cutler

> Santa Monica College

> Disabled Student Services, High Tech Training Center

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> cutler_ellen at smc.edu

>  

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