[bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note: -- careful header removal procedure

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:38:52 -0500

OOh, thank you Sarah!  This is wonderful!  I'm going to copy it in braille
so I will have the steps on a separate sheet until I have them down pat!

Many thanks,

Sue

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note: -- careful header removal
procedure


First make sure you have Word set to display tab characters.  You do
this by going to the tools menu with Alt-T, then pressing O for options.
make sure you are on the view tab.  Tab until you get to a check-box
that says Tab Characters and make sure it is checked.

Now in your example of a book with Robin Cook on some pages and
Abduction on the others, you have Robin Cook which probably only occurs
in the copyright material at the beginning of the book and in the
Headers, so it is safe to replace with nothing as long as you start on
page one of the book.  The word Abduction on the other hand, may be
found throughout the book and must be preserved.  Since you do not want
to remove that word you will have to make sure that there is a Tab or
large number of spaces in the header you copy into the Find box, because
a tab or numerous spaces are unlikely to be found along with the Word
Abduction unless it is in the header.

With those considerations discussed, here are the steps you should
follow.

  a.. Open the book you wish to edit in Word.
  b.. Go down through the file until you get to the beginning of the
story, which normally begins on page one, but doesn't have a page number
at the top.
  c.. Press Control-PageDown to get to the top of the next page, where
you will normally fine the first header.
  d.. Select everything on the header line except the page number.
  e.. Copy that text to the clipboard.
  f.. Hit Control-H to open the Find and Replace dialog.
  g.. Paste the header text you just copied in to the Find box.
  h.. Tab to the Replace box and press delete and backspace until you
are absolutely sure it is empty.
  i.. Press Enter on the Find Next button.
  j.. When Word says it has reached the end of the document and asks if
it should start at the beginning, make sure to say no.
  k.. Start reading the book if you intend to read it all.
  l.. When you get to a page with a header other than a page number
follow the above steps again by selecting everything on the header line
but the page number and copying it to the clipboard (steps 4 and 5).
Continue with the rest of the steps.

Is anything still unclear?

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

----- Original Message -----
From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 1:20 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note: -- careful header removal
procedure


>
> Now I am totally confused and I thought I had it straight.  What do
you mean
> when you say half manually?  And what do you coppy annd paste?  For
example,
> if Robin Cook is on every other page, and Abduction is on the
alternate
> pages, what, exactly, would you do?
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:09 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note: -- careful header
removal
> procedure
>
>
> Very good instructions, Guido. Since I read as I
> validate, I do what you do, i.e., remove the headers
> half-manually  and copy, paste the header into the
> replace space, and leave replace with blank.  It's a
> Replace command in the Edit menu, as least in my Word,
> and not the Find command.  Because the headers are
> usually corrupted, it doeshave to be done several
> times, because there are so many different forms of
> the headers, but it's a lot easier than dong every
> page manually. It's the copy and paste part that keeps
> it from replacing the title or author from the
> copyright and title pages, because those are usually
> either usually larger or in a different font, e.g.,
> ital or bold.
>
> I wish I were as good at explaining things clearly and
> in detail as you and Shelley, Guido. I used to be able
> to, when I was teaching. Maybe I haven't
> enough patience these days  :-(
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
> --- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Cindy and Mickey,  depending on what tool you are
> > using,  you may not be
> > able to use font changes as a qualifying filter for
> > a replace operation.
> > E.G.  Kurzweil allows filters only for simple
> > searches,  not for
> > search/replace.
> >
> > I often remove repeating headers  at the top of
> > pages with Kurzweil
> > semimanually as follows:
> >
> > 1.  Find the beginning of the actual authored text
> > of the book.
> >
> > 2.  Page down until I find the very first header.
> > Does not matter if the
> > header is perfect or it is corrupted.
> >
> > 3.  Select the text of the header--that is either
> > the book title or author
> > name only--and copy it to the clipboard.  Note that
> > you should not include
> > the page number in the selection.  For best result
> > select the header text
> > as follows:
> >
> > 3.1.  If the text part of the header is to the left
> > of the page number,
> > place the cursor on the leftmost digit of the page
> > number and press
> > shift-ctrl-home.  This will select the entire text
> > in the header including
> > any tabs, and junck chars which may be preceeding it
> > up to the position
> > immediately to the left of the cursor.
> >
> > 3.2.  If the header is to the right of the page
> > number,  place the cursor
> > immediately to the right of the rightmost digit and
> > press only shift-end.
> > This will select the text on the current line from
> > the cursor position to
> > the very end of the line.
> > Please note that if you pressed also the ctrl key
> > you would be selecting
> > the whole text to the very bitter end of the current
> > page.
> >
> > 4.  Press ctrl-c to copy the selected text to the
> > clipboard.
> >
> > 5.  open the copy/replace dialogue and paste the
> > text into the 'find' text
> > field with ctrl-v.
> >
> > 6.  Leave the replacement text field completely
> > blank.
> >
> > 7.  Specify matched case only.
> >
> > 8. Initiate a replace all operation or global
> > replacement.  This will
> > remove all headers that match the specified string
> > exactly.
> >
> > 9.  Press downarrow once.  If the line below the
> > page number is not blank,
> >  add a blank line.
> >
> > 10.  Press page down.  If you find a simple page
> > number just ensure it is
> > followed by a blank line.
> > If you find a full header,  go to step 3 and start
> > the removal process all
> > over.
> >
> > 11.    Continue these iterations starting with step
> > 1 until you have
> > reached the end of the book.  This may take a little
> > while,  but at the
> > end of the process you will have a book with page
> > numbers and no repeating
> > headers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Guido Dante Corona
> > IBM Accessibility Center,  Austin Tx.
> > Research Division,
> > Phone:  512. 838. 9735.
> > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Web:  http://www.ibm.com/able
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 04/07/2005 12:45 AM
> > Please respond to
> > bksvol-discuss
> >
> >
> > To
> > bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mickey,
> >
> > Since the fonts of the headings are usually
> > different
> > from that in the title and author pages, doing a
> > global replace shouldn't eliminate the those.  If
> > you
> > check Match Case (in my replace one has to open More
> > and then Match Case shows up) it should be o.k.  To
> > be
> > safe, you can enlarge the title and author's name if
> > they aren't already, but usually they are different,
> > either in larger font or something like bold or
> > italics.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > -- mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.  Don't forget that when we strip these nice
> > > headers and author's names,
> > > we strip the title at the beginning of the book
> > plus
> > > the author's name on
> > > the title page. On the book I'm working on, I need
> > > to go back to the
> > > step-two page to find out who the author is.
> > >
> > > Just thought I'd throw a reminder in.
> > >
> > > Mickey
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> --- Guido Corona <guidoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Cindy and Mickey,  depending on what tool you are
> > using,  you may not be
> > able to use font changes as a qualifying filter for
> > a replace operation.
> > E.G.  Kurzweil allows filters only for simple
> > searches,  not for
> > search/replace.
> >
> > I often remove repeating headers  at the top of
> > pages with Kurzweil
> > semimanually as follows:
> >
> > 1.  Find the beginning of the actual authored text
> > of the book.
> >
> > 2.  Page down until I find the very first header.
> > Does not matter if the
> > header is perfect or it is corrupted.
> >
> > 3.  Select the text of the header--that is either
> > the book title or author
> > name only--and copy it to the clipboard.  Note that
> > you should not include
> > the page number in the selection.  For best result
> > select the header text
> > as follows:
> >
> > 3.1.  If the text part of the header is to the left
> > of the page number,
> > place the cursor on the leftmost digit of the page
> > number and press
> > shift-ctrl-home.  This will select the entire text
> > in the header including
> > any tabs, and junck chars which may be preceeding it
> > up to the position
> > immediately to the left of the cursor.
> >
> > 3.2.  If the header is to the right of the page
> > number,  place the cursor
> > immediately to the right of the rightmost digit and
> > press only shift-end.
> > This will select the text on the current line from
> > the cursor position to
> > the very end of the line.
> > Please note that if you pressed also the ctrl key
> > you would be selecting
> > the whole text to the very bitter end of the current
> > page.
> >
> > 4.  Press ctrl-c to copy the selected text to the
> > clipboard.
> >
> > 5.  open the copy/replace dialogue and paste the
> > text into the 'find' text
> > field with ctrl-v.
> >
> > 6.  Leave the replacement text field completely
> > blank.
> >
> > 7.  Specify matched case only.
> >
> > 8. Initiate a replace all operation or global
> > replacement.  This will
> > remove all headers that match the specified string
> > exactly.
> >
> > 9.  Press downarrow once.  If the line below the
> > page number is not blank,
> >  add a blank line.
> >
> > 10.  Press page down.  If you find a simple page
> > number just ensure it is
> > followed by a blank line.
> > If you find a full header,  go to step 3 and start
> > the removal process all
> > over.
> >
> > 11.    Continue these iterations starting with step
> > 1 until you have
> > reached the end of the book.  This may take a little
> > while,  but at the
> > end of the process you will have a book with page
> > numbers and no repeating
> > headers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Guido Dante Corona
> > IBM Accessibility Center,  Austin Tx.
> > Research Division,
> > Phone:  512. 838. 9735.
> > Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Web:  http://www.ibm.com/able
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 04/07/2005 12:45 AM
> > Please respond to
> > bksvol-discuss
> >
> >
> > To
> > bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > cc
> >
> > Subject
> > [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cautionary note:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mickey,
> >
> > Since the fonts of the headings are usually
> > different
> > from that in the title and author pages, doing a
> > global replace shouldn't eliminate the those.  If
> > you
> > check Match Case (in my replace one has to open More
> > and then Match Case shows up) it should be o.k.  To
> > be
> > safe, you can enlarge the title and author's name if
> > they aren't already, but usually they are different,
> > either in larger font or something like bold or
> > italics.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > -- mickey <micka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.  Don't forget that when we strip these nice
> > > headers and author's names,
> > > we strip the title at the beginning of the book
> > plus
> > > the author's name on
> > > the title page. On the book I'm working on, I need
> > > to go back to the
> > > step-two page to find out who the author is.
> > >
> > > Just thought I'd throw a reminder in.
> > >
> > > Mickey
> > >
> > >
> > >
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