Highlighting and editing

[Guest]

I'm looking for a way to be able to extract content from a document. Say for
example I'm reading a contract and want to highlight specific words/paras,
and then have the highlighted content copied to another (fresh) document.

Rather than "copy/paste" each selection one at a time, I'm thinking
something along the lines of highlighting everything that interests me, and
then being able to copy and transfer all the highlighted text in one fell
swoop!

Can this be done? Any ideas gladly received!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

One process, not tested, others may have different approaches:

Apply highlight formatting to the stuff you want

Use Edit | Find to find all highlighted text, and set Find to Highlight (aka
select) all found text

Copy and paste to new document. (and probably do something to remove the
highlight formatting)

Definitely part of this, if not all, could be translated into macros to
trigger at one click.

 

[Guest]

Daiya, wow.....thanks for quick help, and it works! One hickup is that the
order of the pasted exerts seems not to follow the original document. I have
made sure that my cursor is at the beginning of the orog doc, yet still the
highlighted & copied exerts follow no order that I can see! Do you know why?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Ooh, that's a problem. May or may not be solvable, I don't know.

Things to mess with:
Making sure the cursor is at the very beginning when you run the Find.
Experiment with the different Edit | Paste Special options?

Second approach: I think recent versions of Word have a multi-item
clipboard? In my version (MacWord 2004), putting clipboard into Help brings
up a discussion of something called the Spike, which allows you to do what
you want. See if Help re clipboard turns up anything useful.

 

[folu_limitless]

Has any one figured out how to make the highlighted text copy/paste in the
same order as the original document please?