I'll try that at home. also I'm trying to make everyting perfect or as perfect as it will get. I hope I can finish the book in now 12 days. Maybe if I work on it a bit I can do that. Does anyone know if the special chars thing is accessible wiht vo? if not I'll memorise the keystrokes and go with that. the last time I did that on the sample document I ended up with a mess. lol! Tc all and I don't give up! not easilly anyway. On Feb 14, 2012, at 16:23, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Edit file has both Find and Replace. I'm used to using the keyboard, > though; the apple key plus F takes you to Find, and the replace command is > also there; uh oh. Are you sighted? if not will you understand what I'm > trying to explain? > When the Find-replace box opens, at the bottom on the right-hand side there > is a box marked special with up and down arrows. When you click on that a > menu opens;with your cursor in the find space you can scroll up to section > break and click on it; Wait! I just--the keystroks to use for section break > is the upside-down caret that's above the number 6 on the keyboard and a > lower case b. When this is in the Find box, you can replace with upside-down > caraet and lower cas m to put in manual page breaks; (or leave Replace empty > if you just want to get rid of the section breaks > > I hope this is helpful and not confusing > Cindy > > From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:00 PM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: intro and a few questions > > HI Sarah, > > I hope that one of our Mac users can help you out. But I want to stress that > you do not want to get rid of page breaks. You do, however, want to get rid > of section breaks if they exist in your file, and replace them with page > breaks. A book without page breaks is a book very likely destined not to be > added to the Bookshare collection. I know that all of the terminology is > confusing, so with any luck, you meant to say that you want to delete section > breaks, or more accurately to replace them with page breaks. > > I'm sorry, I have absolutely no Mac experience, and can't help with the > specifics of that. > > Mayrie > > > > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:59 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] intro and a few questions > > Hello. I'm very very new to the volunteer process. I have a few questions. I > read the sample document and the instructions but I am on a mac running is10 > lion. How am I to strip all the page breaks out using text edit and I forgot > what else I need to do. Maybe I should not have chosen a 90 page gook for my > first task lol! I'm in college and want to try and do this as time permits so > I won't give up but thats my first question is how do I remove all page > breaks with out looking for them in text edit? > > thanks all and I hope to do you guys good. > > Btw I'm visually impaired myself. > > > Sarah Alawami: owner and founder of WICS Radio America. > Check us out on the web at http://wics.cc and thanks for listening > > >