Well, glad to hear you finally got rid of them, and didn't loose the page breaks.
Melissa Smith On 6/19/2010 2:16 PM, Lori Castner wrote:
Hi, Melissa, I tried that, but the styles remained.I found Judy S.'s e-mail which gave a description of how to remove the styles, but I just could not get her well-stated instructions to work. I could find list of formatting, but not list of styles and normal formatting did not solve the problem. However, I opened the file in Wordpad saved it and when I opened it again the styles were all gone, but the page breaks are still there.I still have too many pages, but think I can work that out. Thanks so much for all of your suggestions and help. Lori C. ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Melissa Smith <mailto:mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Friday, June 18, 2010 6:49 PM *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Confusing Styles in Word 2003 Well, you could always try opening, saving and then closing out of it with OpenBook. Then open it in Word again, and see if the styles are gone. I don't know if it would fix it or not, since I don't have it. Melissa Smith On 6/18/2010 8:37 PM, Lori Castner wrote:Unfortunately for this issue, I use Open Book not Kurzweil. I have formatted the paragraphs and removed extra blank line. I have not done the 27-step paragraph process. I'm most concerned about this style issue, but can't find Judy's message either, and I am sure I saved it! Thanks for your help. Lori C. ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Melissa Smith <mailto:mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *Sent:* Friday, June 18, 2010 5:46 PM *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Confusing Styles in Word 2003 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.
