[bksvol-discuss] Re: Could someone with Microsoft Word help me out with a line break problem?
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:42:45 -0600
Hi Michelle!
I have used a shareware program called PolyEdit that has an option in the
menus called "change paragraphs to lines" or something to that effect. I
have fixed books with it that have the exact scanning problem you
describe. Although the same thing can be done with Word, I believe, I
messed the test copy up of a book I was proofreading several months ago, so
I was glad to fine PolyEdit.
There is PolyEdit Lite, which is free. I bought the full version and have
never tried the freeware version, so I don't know how it compares to the
shareware version.
Here is a site that has both versions you can download and try.
http://www.sharewareconnection.com/polyedit-lite.htm
Debby
At 12:41 PM 12/3/2010, Michelle Brose wrote
I recently finished proofreading The Problem Body, but it was placed back
into the queue by Bookshare because the person who scanned it did so in
such a way that there was a line break at the end of each line, so each
line was its own paragraph. Microsoft Word would be able to remove all
these line breaks with a search and replace for ^l, but my trial version
of Microsoft Word ran out long ago, and the word processor I'm using now
(Jarte) doesn't seem to be able to handle line breaks a search-and-replace
command.
Bookshare said I could contact the original scanner and ask them to scan
it over again, but I think that would be a waste of the time we've both
already spent on this book. I'd like to salvage it if possible. Could
someone with Word run the search and replace for me? (Alternatively, if
you have any suggestions as to shareware word processors that have that
functionality...)
Michelle
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