Hi all,
Here's the corrected version of the search to find sentences broken by
paragraph marks. Sorry about the mistake in it last night, and a
grateful thank you Sue for finding the error!
The new proofreading manual has 26 step process to find incorrect
paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences that sometimes happen during
the scanning and OCRing process. For anyone who tries this, could you
let me know if your version of Word gives you any trouble getting to the
advanced search options, especially if you are using JAWS? Thanks!
I've been fudging around with a wildcard search to do this in Microsoft
Word and wanted to share what I'm using now.
To do this, you use a special kind of search, with the "use wildcards"
option in the find and replace dialogue.
1. In the Find and Replace dialogue box, click on the button that is
marked "More." This will expand the options that are available in the
Find and Replace box to include a new list of Search Options.
2. In the list of Search Options, check the box for "use wildcards" (you
can also do this while in the Search box by typing alt U, which is alt
capital U).
3. In the find box, enter ([a-z])^13 (that is left-parentheses
left-square-bracket lowercase-a hyphen lowercase-z right-square-bracket
right-parentheses caret 13)
4. Start searching (using an alt f to find) and examine each instance to
see if it needs correction.
When you're finished with this search, make sure you uncheck the use
wildcards box in the find and replace dialogue. You don't want it to
remain checked because it will affect other searches you will make later.
--
Judy s.
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