Opening the file in Wordpad may remove the weird style, but I'm not sure about the weird pagination. Even so, it's worth a try. Normal view is always better for proofreading as it identifies the page breaks.
Have you tried turning on the show all feature? Sometimes that is helpful.If all else fails, you can submit the book with a note indicating what work needs to be done and ask Carrie to put it back on step one--or back in the check out list. That way all of your work won't be lost and someone might be able to solve the remaining problems.
Just random thoughts. Lori----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi, Lori, do you mean I should open my file using WordPad? I know this book has some kind of style thing, in fact it gives some kind of number or otherand I haven't the faintest idea about what to do about it. All I know is Igot rid of scanos, stripped all headers with the exception of the necessary ones, and the pagination is logical given there are six prefatory pages and474 pages of text. I really don't know what to do. It reads well and I'd hate to reject it because of all that work I put in. I have to save thisfile as an rtf one for Bookshare. I proofread this book in normal view, butmaybe I should have put the file in Print view. I could go round and round on this thing but prefer not to. Regards, Kim. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 5:06 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: questionKim, my comment is not going to help solve your problem, but I downloaded abook to proofread which had the same pagination problem you described. It was the book which had all the style issues, and when I solved those Ifound that many pages contained just one line even though my page length wasset at legal. I think this is what you are describing. I could not solve the problem and in fact rejected the book. Have you tried opening the file in Wordpad, then saving it and closing it? Maybe that will help. I do sympathize with your dilemma. If someone can solve your problem, I hope the solution is posted to the list. Lori C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 2:53 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: questionHi, Debby, I'll try and describe what I have in the document in question. The page setup is in legal size, i.e., 14.5 by 8.5 inches. The prefatorypages are okay. The trouble comes after page 1 which MS Word says is p. 7.On p. 1 is just the title page of a novel called Jack the Giant-Killer. After The title I hear "page break" then p. 8 in MS Word. In the printedtext I'm in p. 2 which has no text in it which I've noted by writing [Thispage contains no text.] Then a couple of blank lines, then "page break" and here MS Word says "p. 8" and immediately after that"p. 9". The text on this page has quotations cited on it and the print page is p. 3. After that I hear "page break" then "p. 9" and immediately after that "p. 10". This is p. 4 in the printed text and has no text on it which I noted by saying that the page has no text (paraphrase of what I wrote above. In the actual file I wrote [This page contains no text.].) Then there is a couple of blank lines then "page break" then " p. 10" and "p. 11", then print p. 5 which is where Chapter 1 starts. I hope what I've described to you makes sense. Regards, Kim. P.S.: Does this bore you silly. I would call it exhausting since I had to tab between this message I'm writing and the file. K. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 9:05 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question Hi Kim! You can delete an extraneous page break by just hitting delete on it. I have had to do that a few times, either because there was an extra one or the text on the following page didn't read well until I deleted that page's page break and inserted a new one for some reason. Also, have you set your page size to legal instead of letter? Perhaps page 10 is a soft page break? I'm not sure. Does it say "page break" then "page 10", or just "page 10"? Debby At 10:06 PM 7/4/2010, Kim Friedman wroteHow do you delete a page break if it's extraneous to a document? I'm having a devil of a time trying to get this thing right. I received a note saying the file I proofread were missing page breaks. I know how to put them in, but not how to take them out. My problem is I think I've messed up my proofread copy of the file and I don't dare mess with the raw file I was proofreading. This thing is giving me fits because the text is all right and the way the file is supposed to look is in the following way: 6 prefatory pages, p. 1, title page, p. 2, contains notext, p. 3, quotations cited, p.4, contains no text, p. 5 Chapter 1 and text. When the fifth page is there, MS Word has a page break should say p. 11. Anyway, on print page 3, the page break ought to read p. 9 and not p. 10. I'm really thrown by this and don't know what to do. If I haven't made myself clear on this, I'm sorry. The book I'm working on is an omnibus by Charles de Lint called Jack of Kinrowan which comprises two novels, Jack theGiant-Killer and Drink Down the Moon.So I'm having problems with the first novel in the omnibus. I'm stuck and need help. 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