You have WordPad for wordprocessor. It can not set the text up in columns, so you must save the result as plain text-file, with .htm as extension, the open the file in your browser to print it.
In this example I will use BBC World Service's schedule page as example. The saving for 4 weeks schedule was 30 pages (39 pages before, 9 after). I add a few items from other pages, where it is useful.

A few tricks for the newcomer   :-)
Open your browser. Open the page you will copy from. (In this example: The first week's schedule listed on http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules). Open WordPad. Notice that you can change from WordPad to browser and back. To do this either use the line of icons at the bottom of your screen, or hold down Alt and press Tab (Tab is the button to the left of 'q' with two arrows on it. If you havent done this before: Notice that you get a little screen with icons of the programmes, which are open at the time. Hold Alt down and push Tab until the frame around the icon is around the icon of the program you want, the release Alt)

When you have the browser open, see, that the text you want to re-style is there, then hold down Ctrl and press A. This marks everything on the screen (this ought to work in other Windows-programs as well). Now hold down Ctrl again and press C. This copies the text you just marked.

Now change to WordPad. (Push the icon on the status line or use the Alt+Tab-trick). Press Ctrl+V. This inserts the text you just marked in WordPad. It inserts both the text you want, and a lot of text you dont want. Any pictures are replaced by something as <Image> or <Image: abcdefeghsl>. Most of the unwanted text is easy to remove, because it consists of the same text, which is repeated each time the browser shows a new piece of the text you want. You can remove the unwanted text very easily after that you have found and captured all the text you want to keep.

And now to the real work
 

  1. Open your browser. Open the page you will copy from. Press Ctrl+A to mark it, then Ctrl+C to copy it.
  2. Change to WordPad. Write the heading you want over the text. Then press Ctrl+V to insert the text.
  3. Change back to browser. Find the next page-full of text, and copy it (by pressing Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C). Go back to WordPad and insert it (by Ctrl+V). The cursor should be in the right place. Each time the information is from a new day or you want to enter a heading, do so before pressing Ctrl+V. (If you enter dates, the enter them in another format than the one, the database uses. You may change it back later)
  4. Then we start searching and replacing using Crtl+H. In WordPad you can replace text that way. In Word and WordPerfect you can also replace extra line feeds etc. with the things that are more useful. The button Replace All  does the trick.
  5. First you want to make sure that the text is devided up in the correct entries. This means that if it reads:

    00:00 News
    00:05 Sport

    then you want a break-tag in front of each entry, so you get the lines separated. Replace something at the right place with the tag <BR>. It could be '00:' changed to <BR>00:, etc. Or if it reads:

    05.11.2001 00:00 News
    05.12.2001 00:05 Sport

    then replace .2001 with <BR> (and throw away the 05.12 later). Remember to include the '.' in '.2001', as there are some occurances of 2001 that you don't want removed.
  6. You can not find the Return-codes here, but they are not shown in HTML, where you must have a <BR> or <P>-tag to make a new line. In stead you replace several spaces with one space (The result in an HTML-browser is the same, but you have to download all the caracters. In a word processor the result is not the same).
  7. Find and remove the headings and other unwanted material from the document. This is done by finding the first part of the heading, which you won't find another place, and search for it, using Ctrl+B.
  8. Search for the tag <Image by pressing Ctrl+B and entering <Image: as search caracter. Click outside the search box and remove the unwanted stuff.

Even if you are not going to publish the result on the internet, you must save the text as a HTML-document. This is because WordPad can not set text up in columns, which is why we save paper by doing this.

Save the result as plain text file with the right name and the .htm or .html-name, and open it in Netscape or MSIE to see if it is OK. Then upload it as usual or print it out.

Good luck

carsten_niel@geocities.com
 

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