[bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
- From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:42:13 -0500
Nice thing in Kurzweil, is just to do this, find your "long dash," or
"single quote," etc. highlight it and copy to the clipboard, control H,
replace all, and you're done. Rather that than changing all one at a time
when there can be 4500 of them, etc. :)
Curtis Delzer
----- Original Message -----
From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:30 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
Your welcome. It's a great method because it is so general. It works in all
programs. You don't have to learn special keyboard combinations to get the
special characters for each program.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allison Hilliker" <hillikera@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 7:13 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
> Thanks Evan for the below suggestion. It worked perfectly! It's great to
> have those hyphens gone now. Also I've now learned a neat little trick
> for finding the alt commands for characters.
>
> Thanks again,
> Allison
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 7:12 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
>
>
>> What I would do is find an example in the book, then hit the 5 on the
>> numpad until JAWS tells me the ASCII value of that character. Then, go to
>> the Find menu and type alt-0 and the three digit number of the optional
>> hyphen character in there. I think that should work.
>>
>> Evan
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Allison Hilliker" <hillikera@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:02 AM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
>>
>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I just tried the ^- method again and it did not work. It said it made
>>> zero replacements, and sure enough when I checked the file, the optional
>>> hyphens were still there. I am using a different version of Word-Word
>>> 2002. That's the most current version that I have.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Allison
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 9:01 PM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Allison,
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure? I looked it up in the help and it says to use ^- I also
>>>> went through the menus in the Replace dialogue and had Word auto insert
>>>> it, and it put ^-. Maybe we have different versions of Word? I'm
>>>> running 2003. Odd.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Jake
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Allison Hilliker" <hillikera@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 9:31 PM
>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jake,
>>>>>
>>>>> No. I'd already tried the ^-. That is actually the code for a soft
>>>>> return.
>>>>> There are none of those in my book. So if anyone has another
>>>>> suggestion I'd appreciate it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Allison
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 3:23 PM
>>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Removing Optional Hyphens
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Allison,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If memory serves me correctly on this befuddled Friday afternoon,
>>>>>> using ^- will represent an optional hyphen in Microsoft Word.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Jake
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Allison Hilliker" <bookshare_girl@xxxxxxx>
>>>>>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 4:54 PM
>>>>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Removing Optional Hyphens
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone know how to do a global find and replace of optional
>>>>>>> hyphens? I have a book where there are several of them inside words.
>>>>>>> This breaks up the words and makes them difficult to read. Rather
>>>>>>> than replacing them one-by-one, I'd like to replace them all at
>>>>>>> once. With most unusual characters, I can do a find and replace, but
>>>>>>> it doesn't seem to be working with this one. In part because I
>>>>>>> don't know how to create an optional hyphen. I looked at the JAWS
>>>>>>> marks that one can find by pressing insert 4, but it's not in that
>>>>>>> list. I tried looking on my special alt characters cheat sheet, and
>>>>>>> it's not on there either. Lastly, I tried selecting and copying the
>>>>>>> character and pasting it into the find and replace box, but it
>>>>>>> doesn't seem to want to paste. In fact when I tried, it deleted all
>>>>>>> my spaces in the book and made it into a log strand of words.
>>>>>>> Yikes. I could luckily undo that easily enough, but I still have my
>>>>>>> optional hyphens cluttering up my book. BTW, I'm using MS Word 2002
>>>>>>> and JFW 9.0.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>>>>>> Allison
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