Paste to emailStripper, available for free from http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm Removes frames, links formatting, soft carriage returns, etc. -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robert Carneal Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 3:18 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] C & P'ing names and address into Excel from websites- Hello everyone. I am hoping someone can offer some advice. I am trying to locate address of descendent of my ancestors. That is, people like my gggg-grandfather's children, their children, and the children's children and so on. There are sites that will have names and addresses, but often are chock full of other stuff such as buttons. Suppose a find a list of names that I believe I might have some luck with by snail writing to them. I would like to capture / copy the name, address, and phone number, and paste it in Excel, and build a list of people with a high probability of being related to me. A list such as: John Doe Mark Smith Jane Brown 123 Walnut 1234 Apricot Way 65 Maple Avenue Indianapolis, IN 12345 New York, NY 22222 Miami, FL 57483 123-456-7890 333-444-5555 666-666-6666 Kathy Bowman James Brown William Brown 333 Apple Way 444 Banana Ave 55 Coconut Drive St. Minrad, IN 33333 St Jose, TX 77222 Oklahoma Cty, OK 44444 343-434-3434 222-222-2222 999-999-9999 Ok, my thinking was if it is already in a table of some kind, it would copy and paste into Excel fairly well. It often does not. "65 Maple Avenue" (Jane Brown's address in the right hand column) might paste into column CR (yes, *70* columns away from the left instead of just the third column!), whereas Kathy Bowman's phone number might get pasted in Row 358. In short, it is being pasted ostensibly at random cells instead of some kind of order. And, if a person's phone number is not listed, then the next person's name is put in the wrong cell, making the name and address off. If it would paste into Excel in some kind of reliable order, I can work with it. However, when I paste the above into a table is frequently disorganized. It might look like this (Exaggeration): John Doe Mark Smith Jane Brown 123 Walnut 1234 Apricot Way 65 Maple Avenue Indianapolis, IN 12345 New York, NY 22222 Miami, FL 57483 123-456-7890 333-444-5555 666-666-6666 Brown Kathy Bowman James William Brown 333 Apple Way 444 Banana Ave 55 Coconut Drive St. Minrad, IN 33333 St Jose, TX 77222 Oklahoma Cty, OK 44444 343-434-3434 222-222-2222 999-999-9999 That is not of much use to me. <g> My question: Does anyone know how to capture names and address on a website and paste it into Excel? This is not for a mass mailing list, I will contact them one at a time, person to person via snail mail. Any ideas? Suggestions? I tried SnagIt, which was advertised to capture text and save as text in CVS format, but the trial version didn't do that. I tried something called "SelectiveCapture" (which is supposed to let you define what you want from a web page, and I said name, address, town, state, zip, phone), but what it did was do that, and go on to get information from web sites I do not want information from. (too much information, in other words. Billy Joe-Bob MacKenzie might be a business partner of my ancestor, but I am not looking for him simply because my ancestor's name was hyper linked to Billy Joe-Bob, just the information on the web page I see. I hope I am making sense. If I am not making sense- write me and I will give some more examples. If someone suggests a product to try, I will happily try it. I have a lot of names I want to capture. Thank you. 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