[bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with Open Book
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:18:24 -0700
Denise, I answered my own question (from another e-mail) by entering the
information in the boxes exactly as you gave it including parentheses,
brackets, braces, etc., and it worked.
Is there an easy explanation as to what the brackets braces etc. do?
This is an amazing solution!
Thanks.
Lori C.
----- Original Message -----
From: Denise Thompson
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:45 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with Open Book
Roger
you're digging yourself a hole here. Will you stop telling me it's the same
as the 27 step process and that bookshare says it won't work. I use OB myself
and I'm telling you it does work. Get yourself an inexpensive copy of word and
I'll help you with your issue. You don't need pro or any of the rest of the
suite just word. It'll be a lot less expensive than Kursweil which is either
$1200 or $1300.
This is what you do
The idea here is that when scanning into OB, don't make any line or spacing
changes until you're done. OB creates paragraphs by putting two paragraph marks
together which makes a blank line between paragraphs. So you do what follows in
the order I've specified. The first step gets rid of the paragraph marks at the
end of each line. It uses the double marks to determine where the paragraphs
are and thereby eliminates those single paragraph marks. The second step gets
rid of the double paragraph marks leaving just one paragraph at the end of the
paragraph and gets rid of the extra blank line. If you do the second step
first, word has no way of determining which are the marks within the paragraph.
So it gets rid of all paragraph marks. That's why you must do the first step
listed first. If you do some of the 27 step stuff before you do this it may
throw it off. If you convert the M dashes before the paragraph that won't hurt
anything. If you locate page breaks and eliminate blank lines at the top of the
page or something like that first it can goof uphow you want your page numbers
or chapter titles to be displayed. For example it may pull the chapter to the
same line as the page number. So you do this first before you look for page
breaks or any of that stuff. You do this first before you do any other clean up
and you're home free.
If you pull up a file into Word in which each line ends with a paragraph mark
and each paragraph ends with two or more paragraph marks:
1. On the Edit Menu, choose Replace.
2. In the Find What box, enter:
([!^13])(^13)([!^13])
In the Replace With box, enter:
\1 \3
Click the More.. button, and check Use Wildcards.
Click Replace All and click OK when Word tells you it has done the
replacement.
This will remove any paragraph marks that are at the end of a line but within
a paragraph.
3. Now, in the Find What box, enter:
^13{2,}
In the Replace With box, enter:
^p
Click Replace All and click OK when Word tells you it has done the
replacement.
This will remove multiple consecutive paragraph marks, so that each paragraph
ends with just one paragraph mark, as it should.
Note that the Use Wildcards setting is sticky, so if you subsequently do
another Find and Replace during the same Word session, you have to remember to
switch it off again, if appropriate.
Denise
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