That is finally what I did and it worked, now struggling with Rank spelling, adding words that I know are words to the K1000 user dictionary, but it found around 3000 of them. Last night I started paging down through the book reading just a bit from each page and all seems to be well. Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of The Pardees Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 6:37 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Rose, The only other thing I can think of is to copy and paste the characters you want to remove in to the find field. Jim 12:07 AM 7/4/05, you wrote: >I have tried searching for -/n and -/t and replacing with nothing but >every time I get zero corrections are made, but I can still find this >-/nl and I cannot get a rank spelling to work because so many word >endings are floating around. I am not into doing this all manually on a >900 page document, not even with tomorrow off. > > >Rose Combs >rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx > >-----Original Message----- >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rose Combs >Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:38 PM >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating > > >Thanks. I did not intend to start out big , I did not know the file was >going to be big, it turned out to be more than I'd bargained for but >since I have it I might as well do it. > >Thanks for the K1000 hints, I have used it most for reading and scanning >and have not done a lot of the rank spelling or editing yet. I have a >feeling that is about to change. Now, if it will quit locking up on me >today. > > > >Rose Combs >rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx > >-----Original Message----- >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kellie >Hartmann >Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:16 PM >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating > > >Hi Rose, >Wow, you're brave to take on a gigantic project like this for your first >validation effort. Your experience with medical terminology is a great >asset >for the Bookshare collection. Just make sure you do other more fun >validations too so you don't get Bookshare burnout. <grin> >Here are some instructions/suggestions for your situation. > >First, it may be that the tabs following the hyphens are throwing off >Kurzweil's auto-correction feature. Try replacing hyphen followed by tab >with just hyphen, then run the autocorrect again and see if it helps. >The >way to make a tab in the find/replace box is \t >If that doesn't work, what you might want to do is replace hyphen >followed >by newline, or hyphen followed by tab newline, whichever is occurring, >with >nothing. To do this in Kurzweil all you have to know is that the way to >make >a tab in the find/replace dialogue is \t and the newline character is \n >So to fix a hyphen followed by tab and linebreak you would hit ctrl-h to >enter the find/replace box, then type -\t\n and put nothing in the >replace >with field. After you've done a mass f/r such as this, it's always good >to >check around and make sure it didn't have any unintended consequences. >So I >would save any other changes you made before starting this so you won't >lose >any other changes you may have made if something goes funky with the >f/r. > >I'm sorry if this message is a bit scrambled, I've been dealing with a >three-day-long migraine, and between that and the unfortunately not as >effective as I'd like medicine I may not be running on all eight >cyllinders. >Kellie