Kathy, thanks for your quick response. First a couple of answers.
Let's star with are they text or printouts? And are you running OneNote 2003
or 2007?

This text is the result of sending your response to OneNote 2007, then
copying and pasting text in the manner you described. The result is good.
Next I "printed" a Word 2007 document to OneNote 2007, followed the same
procedure, and again got a good copy.

Next I followed the same procedure on a document downloaded from a web site.
This was again "printed" to OneNote. The result is shown below

AuthoT veTsion of papeT published as:
Dawes, Les and Goonetilleke, Ashantha (2003)
An investigation into the Tole of site and so il chaTacteTistics in on-site
sewage tTeatment. Environmental Geology 44(4): pp. 46?-4??
copyTight 2003 spTingeT-veTlag
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ROLE OF SITE AND SOIL CHARACTERISTICS IN ON-SITE
SEWAGE TREATMENT
L ES D AWES AND A SHANTHA G OONETlLLEKE
school of civil EngineeTing,
Queensland univeTsity of Technology

Two problems exist with this technique. The first is having the whole page
tranfered to text, it is not possible to cut a portion of the text from a
page. OneNote allows one page or every page in the document.

The second is probably related to the OneNote embedded OCR machine, and its
quality of recognition. The first part of the text was small format, and
recognition is not very good. The title text on the page was much larger,
and the OCR recognition is better; but not perfect.

I took the image of the OneNote page and used a well known OCR software
package. This was better, but again not perfect. However, it has a
"training" mode which will increase recognition accuracy in multipage
documents.

For a short text clip I will use OneNote and manually correct. In addition,
I will include the URL of the source document (either web or LAN) so that I
always have the option of "cut and paste" from the site or document.

Once again, thanks for your response

David



"Kathy Jacobs" wrote:

> Let's star with are they text or printouts? And are you running OneNote 2003
> or 2007? It sounds like they are printouts or scans of the articles, not the
> text of the articles. In this case, if you are using OneNote 2007, right
> click the article and select "Copy text". Then paste the text elsewhere on
> the page. That should get you the text of the article.
>
> Before you use the text anywhere, make sure you are following standard
> quotation and attribution rules. Get permission to use the pieces too as
> needed.
>
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> "David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> >I have many articles for a research project. They are mainly from the web.
> > I want to collect short clips from several and copy the text. OneNote
> > curser
> > just draws a blue outline around the text, but no way to clip text. Can
> > anyone help
>