Have you ever wanted to copy a chunk of text from a web page for logging in an Excel spreadsheet and have been supremely annoyed by the formatting and spacing and all manner of other things that make it untidy and tedious?
Well, we did. So, a couple months ago, we added a new text mangling tool to our simple web tools page, we introduce, The Simplify to a single string – granted, we don’t have the prettiest names for our web tools.
It was originally designed to online transaction details from a bank web page that includes a small table, and turn it into a single string that we save in Excel for logging purposes. It’s turned out to be useful for mangling all sorts of web snippets to make them Excel, Word, and even email friendly.
We strip all formatting, remove extra spaces, and modify table cells and line breaks by replacing the breaks with dashes (“-“).
It’s useful to us, and hopefully to you! Enjoy.