I didn't know that you did not have a copy of Word. In that case, just ignore my last message. Or, if the Launch menu has WordPad in it, which I do not recall, you might try launching that while the original file is open. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:00 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF No, I do not have Word. I have proofread a number of books in Wordpad, but, as you know, that is not ideal. I thought that proofreading it in Open Book would be better, so this is the first one I did that with. If I had known this was going to happen I would have just stuck with Wordpad. Creating or using a macro is something I know nothing about. Converting it to txt is something I have not tried. Do you think that if I converted it to txt and saved it in Notepad I could then convert it to rtf? "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 3:45:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: abletec@xxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end Roger, without developing a macro, there is no easy way to fix that. Just curious--does it do that w/text as well? Perhaps if u have word u could save it as a text file, load it in2 word, & convert to rtf, . I've been workin w/another person on this list who uses OB & it does indeed do some weird things w/the conversion. On 6/28/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. 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