Presentations and data search

Searching data in text format

One of the first things to search while making presentations is to seek data as text. This may look a difficult thing to do but can be simplified by following few instructions. If you are new to making presentations then you can go through some of the instructions here to ease this part!

How to search?

If you are not acquainted with searching data then follow the steps below. For example you are searching about Google. Type Google followed by Wikipedia.

 The available results are shown. Click on the link that has your topic followed by Wikipedia. You’ll be redirected to a page in wiki where there is information about your topic. The page shown has text that you can copy and use directly or edit it.

How to copy text?

Copying text is a very easy. All that you have to do is as follows

Go through the text and identify what part you need. Now place your cursor at the point where you want to start. Keeping your left mouse button clicked move the cursor to the point where you want to end.

Now place your cursor on the selected portion that is highlighted and right click. You’ll see a menu box, click on copy. Now open a blank page in any text document reader (preferably MS Word)

                            

And right click on the blank space  paste your text. After pasting it would look something like this.

I want to select all the text

If you want to select whole of the copy-able items in a given page follow these steps

Open the webpage you want to copy and press Ctrl+a. Now right click on the page select copy and paste it in text reader (preferably MS Word)

Why preferably MS Word?

When you want to paste a selected part of text or all parts of a webpage in a text document reader it so happens that your selection has contents that a normal text reader like note pad cannot support

For example:

The Google webpage we've selected completely or partly when pasted in a note pad looks like this.

While the one pasted in MS word looks like earlier image. MS word helps you save most of the data of the webpage in its original form. So, always prefer MS Word.

I cannot copy the contents in a website

If you've tried all the above tips and still couldn't copy the contents of the website, the best option is to save the complete webpage and to your computer once you do this you can check the website on your computer even without internet connection.

Note: while browsing a saved webpage on a PC without internet connection you can go through the current webpage but cannot navigate to other links provided in that page.

How to save a web page?

Google Chrome users

Open a website and press Ctrl+s . You’ll be prompted to save the webpage to your PC. Save it.

You can browse the saved webpage with any web browsers with or without an internet connection. If you want only a part of a website, then, follow these steps. Navigate to the part of the webpage you want to copy. Now press the button on your Key Board "Prt Scr SysRq" or "Print Screen" .

Open MS word  or MS paint (or any image editor) and click Ctrl+v  or right click and paste.

This helps you take a snapshot of your current system screen and paste it in image format.

Other sources

If you want to search data in websites similar to Wikipedia you can try these other sources!

Hope this post was helpful! IF you have any questions related to making presentations feel free to ask!

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