Hi Christina,It sounds similar to a problem I had earlier this year with some files my university gave me. The culpret in that circumstance was an optional hyphen. In Word 2003 you can use the Find/Replace dialogue to eliminate them. You would want to try replacing ^- with nothing.
Best of luck, Jake Jake Brownell QA Engineer, Bookshare.org jake.b@xxxxxxxxxxxx----- Original Message ----- From: "Christina" <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 4:36 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Character
Hello. I am still having this problem. I will explain as clearly as I can what I've done to attempt to resolve it and I welcome any advice you can give me.I'm using one of the older versions of Microsoft Word, 2003, I think and JAWS 7.1 to validate this book. JAWS pronounces some words differently than normal, prompting me to go over them character by character. There is a pause between some of the letters but JAWS doesn't read anything. I tried selecting this mystery character by hitting shift and then the right arrow, so that I can do the Search and Replace thing and remove all instances of it from the document, but it doesn't select anything. I had a sighted friend look at the document and he said that there is nothing in between the letters but that some of the words are in a different font. So, I went into the Edit menu and hit Select All and then I went to the Format menu and changed the font to Arial but that still didn't solve the problem. I tried switching it to Times New Roman next; still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas? Is there an easy fix for this? There are a lot of words in this book like this and so I'd rather fix them all at once than word by word.Thanks for any help. Christina----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:16 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange CharacterChristine, its extended ascii value is 173. U didn't tell us what software you're using to validate with, but, probably the easiest way to fix this if u have search & replace is the following: 1) Put your cursor on the weird character; 2) select it, in most word processors it's shift right arrow; 3) Copy it, usually control c in most word processors; 4) Use your software's search & replace function--control h in word & clones, sometimes control r in other packages;5) Paste the character into the search box--control v in most word processors;6) Go to the replace with box & don't enter anything; 7) Hit the replace all, & they're history. HTH. On 6/28/08, Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hello, all. I am currently validating a BSO of Dragon Bones by PatriciaBriggs. There is one, or possibly several different, character/s that keep appearing. Could someone please tell me what these characters are? I'vecopied some of the words that contain them below.I put my cursor on it and pressed the Insert key, I use JAWS, and the numberfive and I heard a bunch of zeros followed by 255255255. I have no idea what that means. Thank you. Christina hunting wandering dinner To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride Check out my homepage at: www.abletec.serverheaven.net & please join my fight against breast cancer <http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?px=1790196&pg=personal&fr_id=3489> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1524 - Release Date: 6/28/2008 7:42 PM
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