From: Christina <greensleeves1@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Character
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 6:42 PM
Hi, Jake. That worked!
There were 677 replacements made. This would have taken me
forever to fix
if I went one by one.
Thanks so much!
Christina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Strange Character
> 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 Character
>>
>>
>>> Christine, 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
>>>> Patricia
>>>> Briggs. There is one, or possibly several
different, character/s that
>>>> keep
>>>> appearing. Could someone please tell me
what these characters are?
>>>> I've
>>>> copied some of the words that contain them
below.
>>>> I put my cursor on it and pressed the
Insert key, I use JAWS, and the
>>>> number
>>>> five and I heard a bunch of zeros followed
by 255255255. I have no
>>>> idea
>>>> what that means.
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Christina
>>>> hunting
>>>> wandering
>>>> dinner
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