When I had a book with varying styles applied to it, I opened it in Kurzweil, saved and closed it. Then I opened it in Word and things were back to normal. Of course, if you don't have Kurzweil, that isn't an option. Judy gave a wonderful explanation of this when I was having this issue, but I don't have that message any more. At any rate, styles are something that Word uses so that all similar text keeps the same formatting. It is supposed to provide consistency, as you can simply apply a style, and all of the formatting option are all set based on which style you choose. I do not know this for sure, but I suspect, that these occur in some of the books scanners submit to Bookshare when they scan directly into Word. Another thing that may help your file get down to the right size. Well, on second thought, more than just one more thing. First, have you selected all the text, and done the paragraph formatting as explained in the manual? Second, have you eliminated multiple blank lines? And, thirdly, have you followed the 27 step process to eliminate paragraph marks that shouldn't be there?
Best of luck with this book. Melissa Smith On 6/18/2010 5:32 PM, Lori Castner wrote:
I am proofreading a book that should have 174 pages. It began with 539 pages. By fixing formatting, changing page size from a small custom sized page to 8 and 1/2 by 11 and by changing margins, I now have 239 pages in the book. I also reduced the font to .12 throughout. What is really perplexing me is that every few lines I get a statement that says either style character 1 style character 2. I have selected the entire document and changed the style to body text. Even so I cannot get rid of these other two styles.Is there some simple way to change the entire style to normal?I'm hoping that using normal style throughout and increasing my page length will get the book to the right number of pages and also make it easier to read.I am using Word 2003.It looks like an interesting book, but I'm going to release it if I cannot get the book into one style.Any help would be appreciated. Lori C.
