I'm not sure about the symbols allowed in openbook, but you could try doing a find and replace on \ld to \l. I sure hope the d is at the beginning of each and every line otherwise you will have a mess on your hands. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 3:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF Well, again, I don't have word, but something else occurs to me. Is there an easy way to remove all of those d's from the beginning of each line. If someone here can do that I could just submit it to step 1 again and you could pick it up for proofreading. As far as I know, there is nothing else major wrong awith it. "I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition." Fidel Castro The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF Date: 6/28/2009 4:02:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end I've never used that version, but in version 7, there was a Launch menu that I used to use to convert to rtf--or doc, I forget which--because my copy of OB was in the bad habit of putting blank lines between every paragraph when I converted to rtf with the Save AS menu. If your version has the Launch menu, you might try reconverting the file by opening it, going to the Launch menu and choosing Microsoft Word. When it launches Word, it converts the file to either a doc file or an rtf file. If it's a doc file, you can convert it to an rtf file in Word. It's worth a try if you have that feature in your version. Evan block quote ----- Original Message ----- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 3:36 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A Problem With Converting to RTF There is a certain book that I downloaded for proofreading some time ago and put a lot of time into until I got it right. When I downloaded it I put it in my Open Book 6.0 to proofread it there. When I finished I converted from ark to rtf and placed it in my documents on the computer. The file was unreadable there. It appeared to be a blank file. After trying this several times I decided to try uploading it anyway to see if the Bookshare tools recognized a file. Apparently they did because they gave a page count and everything else as I would have expected, so I completed the submission. However, Carrie did not approve it. Well she meant to not approve it. Actually she accidentally approved it and then took care of it by withdrawing it from the collection. I figured out that the problem was that somehow, in the conversion process, the letter d was inserted at the beginning of each and every line. There is no space either. The first word of every line begins with a d. Well, I still had a copy, so I just submitted it to step 1 noting this problem and telling the proofreader to fix it. The person who picked it up for proofreading just rejected it saying that there are minor errors in virtually every sentence. That implies to me that the proofreader did not read my note, but if there is no easy way to remove the d's I think I might have rejected it too. I have what seems to be a perfect copy in Open Book right now and I don't have to remove a single d, but if I convert it they show up and I can't remove them then because I can't access the converted file. After having put so much work into this book I would hate to give up on it, especially when the ark file appears to be perfectly okay. Is there any way I can convert this book without this problem? "I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition." Fidel Castro The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221323006x1201367222/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=JuneExcfooterNO62) block quote end ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221323006x1201367222/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=JuneExcfooterNO62)