[bksvol-discuss] Re: ALL the text highlighted - validator puzzlement mode
- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 13:05:57 -0600
Thanks for your suggestions on this issue.
But the issue I'm afraid is not the color of the text. It is the formatting
of all the text somehow.
I have continued to experiment trying your suggestions and whatever else I
can think of. I even unzipped the file and started with it again, thinking
I may have had a glitch occur when I first opened it.
I have both Word 2003 and Word 2000, and I opened the file in both. Same
exact situation. Then I got the bright idea to try opening the file in my
OpenBook program. This was different indeed. OpenBook did take out all the
formatting completely. I thought this might be good, then I could just save
it, close it and then edit in Word again. UNTIL I discovered that when it
stripped out the whatever formatting which was causing all text to be
highlighted, it ALSO strippe out ALL page breaks. Not wanting to seek out
every header in a 400 page book, I opted out of this, and closed it and then
I was back to trying to figure it out using Word. Wordpad, by the way, also
showed all the text being in a different colored highlighted form, if that
tells anyone anything.
I chalk all this up for learning to use the Word program better. (smile)
I would like to know better how to just simply see what all the formatting
there is in a file. I tried the Reveal Codes. I used to use that in
WordPerfect, but never figured out how in the MS Word. Trying it here, I
just got all confused and gave up. So if someone out there knows that, I'll
be interested to read where to learn.
BUT... Just in case it is helpful to anyone else like me, I've finally found
the solution (I think) in Word, and I think I'm on the road now to just do
my normal thing and get this here Woody Guthrie biography ready to upload
sometime soon.
In the drop down EDIT MENU there is a choice called CLEAR. I had never
noticed that before. The submenu has two choices, Format, and Contents Del.
I tried the Formats one. I just did it while my cursor was on a line of
text. THAT line alone was now no longer highlighted! So then I tried to
select a couple pages to see what happened. I was worried about losing the
page breaks. And they were still there.
So, then I selected ALL text and I did the Clear Formatting from the Edit
Menu. All the highlighting is now gone. I hope I did not lose anything
else that was needed, but it does not seem like it. Maybe some font
atributes like italics and bold and such, but we don't need those, I figure,
or at least I hope not.
According to Carrie Karnos who submitted it, this book was scanned with a
fast Canon using scanned it with the high-speed scanner (a Canon), and then
used the ABBYY Finereader program version 8.0 to OCR. I don't know if that
means anything, or exactly what it was that may have caused my problem, but
I'm thankful to be moving onward with it now, and if anyone else has this
happen, I hope this little sharing of my process is helpful.
Thanks again for all your help and suggestions.
Rik
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