Comments on: Improved Kindle Clippings Macro for Word

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:26:17 +0000

Thanks for your work. it helps me to built personal great book summaries thanks again

Pedro

By: TKC 81 James McQuivey | Covers for Kindle

TKC 81 James McQuivey | Covers for Kindle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:57 +0000

[...] tip – Via Andrys Basten’s Kindleworld, Steve Brady (aka The Professor) creates a Word macro (Windows only) that might bring some order to your My Clippings file. To see your highlights and [...]

By: Adam Ramshaw

Adam Ramshaw — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:48:37 +0000

Steve — thanks for a great solution to a time consuming problem. I had just started down the — this is going to be easy path I’ll just text->table it, when it all came unraveled at the first carriage return in some text. This solution saved me lots time in development.

One suggestion in this section:
‘ replaces general carriage returns with spaces, hopefully identifying those fields that are still content.
With Selection.Find
.Text = “^p”
.Replacement.Text = ” ”
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
End With

If you make it .Replacement.Text = “@@@” then you can go along later (after it is text->tabled) and replace the @@@ for ^p to put the carriage returns back in and return the text to its original format.

By: The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 81 James McQuivey

The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 81 James McQuivey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:51:07 +0000

By: The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students - CollegeTimes™

The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students - CollegeTimes™ — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:28:33 +0000

[...] Clipping Extractor Macro: This is for Windows, and is a macro for MS Word. It allows you to sort through the clippings.txt file in such a way that you can extract notes and highlights from a particular book. This can be very useful indeed when it comes to studying. [...]

By: Gary_O

Gary_O — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:14:02 +0000

Thanks for the macro! One of my favorite ways to use the Kindle is to highlight phrases that resonate with me for future pondering and research, and this macro works great to organize these highlights and notes by book. Thanks again!

By: Andrys

Andrys — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:46:11 +0000

Steve,
As ever I’m grateful for you work on this macro.

While clicking on your link to the macro text will cause the browser to show the text, there is a built-in way to save the text as a file from the browser.

With the macro text link, people should right-click on the link and, on a Windows system, choose something like “Save link as” or “Save target as” or Save File as” (depending on what the browser wording is) and that will cause the browser to suggest “kindle.bas” — accept that. (With a Mac, HOLD DOWN the mouse click and eventually a menu will come up saying “DOWNLOAD file” or something like that.)

HOWEVER, the file will be saved as “kindle.bas.txt” so people will have to rename that new file to “kindle.bas” as you suggest.

Your suggestion works but there is the danger that people may not highlight all of it.

– Andrys

By: The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students

The Definitive Kindle Guide for College Students — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:21:29 +0000

By: Carrie Woods

Carrie Woods — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:25:32 +0000

Love the macro, thanks! Would be great if it could separate out the “date added” (without the words) so you could use Excel to filter to find only new clippings.

By: Steve Brady

Steve Brady — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:51:24 +0000

Gib

Thanks for your comment, and thanks for testing it in the older Word for Mac. Let me know how it goes!