[bksvol-discuss] Re: removing dashes with macros

  • From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:30:58 -0500

My macro can do that, but you will still have to fix the ones that split a word across two pages. I really will get that macro and make it available to anyone who wants it some day. :-)

The dash repair part could also be separated out from the rest of the macro and used on it's own.
I just didn't do it because the books that I would have a problem with would have both problems, or I would fix it up in Kurzweil which is my prefered editing program.


I wish someone could give Word the capability of marking and editing a block of text, because the selection method doesn't always cut it, and no that was not supposed to be a bad pun. :-)

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Instructor
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Fogle" <cfogle@xxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] removing dashes with macros



Hi. The discussion about macros makes me think there might be a way to remove dashes between words when they are split between lines. Simply doing a find and replace for the dash won't catch it because of the hard line break. I have used the spell checker to find some of these split words when they look like mistakes and I fix them manually. Only after spell checking do I read through and remove the ones spell check didn't catch because the dashes slow my reading either with jaws or in Braille with the Braillenote. Are there any less time consuming solutions to this annoyance? I don't know computer programming to create a macro. Thanks.


Cheryl Fogle MA
Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of New Mexico


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