[bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone know...
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:25:50 -0400
Dear Mike,
Thank you so much. I feel lightened, liberated, relieved!
For once I'm thrilled that I couldn't sleep and uncharacteristically checked
email past the middle of the night!
Your instructions were so clear that my first attempt to follow them worked!
I got into trouble by attempting to fix a checked out book which came to me
in columns, a first.
I've always been advised by successful computer problem solvers to work
through the menus to find answers. By the time I found the answer to vanish
the columns, I'd unwittingly invited in the normals. How could a person
intuit that by changing a zero to a one they would get a column of endless
normals? I had tried so many things that I went round and round in the menus
and couldn't remember what I'd changed to cause them.
Reading the computer screen visually is very taxing for my eyes and makes
for big, bad, banging, bury-your-head-in-the-sand-headaches. After trying
for ages at least every other day and not correcting the mess I'd made, I'm
jubilant to have the normals out of my proofreading life.
Now I need to get up the nerve to check out Show No Fear, a very well
written legal drama, the 12th in the Nina Reilly series. It's one of the
books I've proofread which Bookshare approved since the normals showed up to
hound me. I'll be very glad if the bookshare tools took them out. If it
didn't, then I have some explaining to do to Carrie as I ask for a few books
back for repairs.
I'm proofreading The Good Life, the 5th in the Matt Minough police
procedural series set in Dublin Ireland. It is so realistic, embarrassingly,
interestingly, sadly and occasionally pleasingly realistic. Not for the
faint of heart, but great for people genuinely curious to know the fabric of
contemporary Ireland, its rhetoric, it's people on both sides of the law and
success in life. It's gritty reading , but I admire Matt. I'm seeing Irish
life as tourists never could and I'm so glad to have an unencumbered file to
work with which I hope will be a credit to Evan's excellent scan and
Bookshare's ever improving collection. I'll be doing book 4 in this series,
All Souls, scanned by Jim Baugh, next, followed by book 6, another of Evan's
scans. There will be 10 books in the completed series.
Thank you so much for taking time to help a volunteer in need!!! thank you
for freeing up my time to proofread instead of blundering in frustration in
Word's menus.
Always with love,
Lissi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 12:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone know...
Lissi,
I found it (eureka)! I have never seen or heard of anything like this
before. I tried to search online and in word help before to no avail.
But, I decided to give it one more go today and I'm not even sure how I
got to the right place in the word help.
What you are seeing is called the style area (yes, back to those pesky
styles). I have no idea how one could accidentally turn it on, but here
is how to turn it off. Go to the tools menue, all the way to the bottom
is options, then select the view tab, and near the bottom of that window
it says style area width. Next to that is a little text box. Select
whatever is in there, then type 0. Then hit return (or click ok) and your
Normals should be gone (at least I made them appear by putting 1 in there
and disappear by putting 0 back in).
Misha
Estelnalissi wrote:
Dear Mike and Booksharian Friends,
I'm repeating a question I asked a week or so ago because I haven't
figured out a solution. In case it would help, I've investigated the
answers in this thread, but my problem remains.
When working in Word 2003, there is a vertical line portioning off about
a tenth of the screen. In that tall, slim area the word Normal appears
over and over again strung down every page of RTF files I get from the
check out page, new documents I start, and all of my old, saved word
documents. I've wandered around the menus and can't identify a way to get
rid of this useless column of Normal's.
On the plus side, those normal's don't seem to change what I'm doing. it
has occurred to me to wonder if they are in the files I check in when I'm
finished proofreading a book. Jaws isn't reading them with the PC or jaws
cursors, , but that could be because I don't know how to get the cursor
into that space.
I would be very thankful to make this phenomenon vanish.
Always with love,
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Does anyone know...
This is one of Word's auto formatting tricks. I've pretty much turned
off all the autoformatting because most of them interfere with proofing
for bookshare. Sadly, there is no all encompassing, turn off auto
formatting button.
You go under the tools menu, then auto correct options, which gives you
a dialog with a bunch of tabs, each of which displays a page of check
boxes. You uncheck a box to remove a feature. These are things like
change straight quotes to smart quotes, change 1st to 1 with the st
superscript, change 1/2 to the single symbol version of 1/2.
And one of these just says borders. I'm pretty sure this is the one
that turns three asterisks to a line that you can't delete. You can
however select the area around the line, go to the format menu, select
borders and shading, then in the dialog that comes up, select the box
that indicates no borders (sometimes you have to select a border, then
select the no border to get this to work, I don't know why). That
should eliminate the line.
If there are keyboard equivalents for all this mess they would have to
be long and complicated (as my description of how I do it as a sighted
person is long and complicated).
Hope this helps someone.
Misha
Valerie Maples wrote:
Hi, Pamela!
What you have is when you type three asterisks and hit enter. You can
undo it immediately with CTRL Z, but otherwise you need to copy and
paste the page in to a plain text notepad file and then copy above it
and paste into the original document and then the bottom, with a blank
line between and return to type the three asterisks.
I would love to find a simpler way and am more than open to suggestions
if others have better workarounds.
Thanks!
Valerie
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Pamela Hoffard wrote:
Does anyone know what this square-dotted line is? When I put my
cursor over it, it gives me a double line with an arrow above and
below the lines? I'm using Word 2007 to do the proofing. I
can't delete it the normal ways and I have all formatting marks
turned on.
Has anybody encountered this before??
This is what it looks like:
We'll be waiting a long time for that perfect husband, and we'll
be awfully disappointed during the waiting.
Here’s the difference:
***
You wish for a relationship
you dream of a husband
you long for a perfect man.
***
You wish for some cash
you dream of more money
you long for enough money to take away all your problems
Thanks for any help,
Pam
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