Highlighting

[codswallop]

I have a printed letter that I scanned and saved using my printer with the intention of highlighting a certain passage to save,but it won't h/light any ideas please. Thanks! I can h/light elsewhere.

[ChuckFickens]

"I have a printed letter that I scanned and saved using my printer with the intention of highlighting a certain passage"

From that I would read that you are trying to highlight a passage on the printout of the letter, in which case use a highlighter pen!

However I get the feeling that is not what you are trying to do.

could you clarify for us please?

[rojash]

I suspect that you mean that you've used the scanner of your all-in-one. If this is the case, what you now have is a photograph of the original document. You need to either run it through an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to convert it into a text document, or use a graphics package (such as GIMP, Paint, etc) to draw the highlighting on it.

[codswallop]

I knew that I could rely on the two of you.You are correct in your assumptions and as I only have Paint of the suggestions given I'll give that a try first.Is a h/lite pen expensive?Thanks for your usual prompt answers!!!

[codswallop]

In this printed letter there is a link I want to go to,but it is so long I was hoping to just click on it and open up the site,But as you have said as it's now a "photo2 I can't do it.The type of h/liting in Paint isn't the sort for clicking on to put into a browser!
Oh dear!!!! Even I'm confused!!

[magicmerlin]

If you save your scanned image as a 'tiff' and you have MS Office you can do the following:

Go into where you open MS Office then go through Microsoft Office Tools and open up Microsoft Office Document Imaging.

Open the above file that you save as a tiff. You can now 'convert' your tiff file into a .doc file.

You will need to re-jig the sentences and paragraphs etc to look like the original.

Once you've done that you can select text to be highlighted etc.

[codswallop]

Hi MM I've gone right through MS Office to MS Office tools but can't find the document imaging. Thanks!!

[magicmerlin]

3rd from bottom, just above Microsoft Office Document Scanning.

[magicmerlin]

When you get to Microsoft Office Tools is there an arrow pointing right with approx 8 further options to choose from?

[magicmerlin]

Try here:
http://office.microso...p/hp010771031033.aspx

[codswallop]

Sorry for the delay in answering.....been snow clearing! I've gone through the Tools listing and all I have is:- VBA project....Language....Diagnostics....And Picture Mngr.but no MS document imaging.I went to the site you suggested but it depended on my having the imaging factor to be able to proceed.You have been very patient I would like to crack it. Thanks!!!!

[codswallop]

Eureka!!!! I've just opened the MS Tools and checked which files were "ticked" and the Document Imaging wasn't ,so here goes!!!!!! I'll probably be back so don't go away please.

[rojash]

Has it crossed your mid that it would have been easier to just type the address in?

[codswallop]

It certainly did cross my mind but with my poor keyboard skills I thought that it would have been easier to copy & paste and that is where my first post started.I've gone through every stage that magicmerlin said, the link below was put into the browser and was not recognised.Where's the gun??????

http:Ilwww. realestate. corn. au/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id= 1061 29578&f= 10&p=10 &t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&c= 1 7754849&s=vic&tm 1261045499

[rojash]

Your reading skills don't seem up to much either :-)
I think I've managed to work out was was intended - try this:
http://www.realestate...49&s=vic&tm1261045499

[rojash]

For some reason AB doesn't display the entire link, but the link does work.
Click it, and if it takes you to the right page, you can either add it to your book marks, or copy it from the address bar.

[codswallop]

Now,now,rojash sarcasm doesn't suit you!! How the heck did you reduce that very long link to jut a few "items"? I'm just a simple AB'er not a code breaker.Thanks again you have been very patient and helpful.

[rojash]

Sorry - it wasn't meant to be sarcastic, just a friendly dig.
First I copied and pasted the link that you supplied into a text editor to make it easier to read.
That's when I noticed that you had typed pipes instead of slashes after the http: part.
Then I noticed that you had replaced m in .com with the letters r and n - ".corn"
I then removed all the spaces because a URL cannot contain spaces (if that hadn't worked I would have replaced them with the code for a space: "%20"
I then pasted the result in my address bar, hit enter and viola!
Once I got to the page in question, I copied and pasted the URL from the address bar into the answer screen.
AB itself only displays a shortened form of the URL, but stores the full URL. That's why I said that if you want to record it you need to copy it from the address bar, rather than from the reply window.

[rojash]

...and don't tell me a viola is a kind of violin - it's a typo!

[codswallop]

Voila!!!!! Fantastic,it reads like a spy novel,the whole process has been worth it just to read your last post alone.Thanks again!