Hi Roger, The tools do get rid of white space, but if our page count is messed up by it, we as proofreaders need to get rid of it ourselves sometimes. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 8:46 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fake page breaks I thought that the Bookshare tools automatically got rid of that extra white space. On 7/23/2012 10:46 AM, Deborah Murray wrote: > Hi Tracy, > > In addition to Mary's advice to change your paper size, there is > another issue that I've had with certain books. It's the issue of > having a lot of extra white space on some pages. I think sighted folks > can see it, but Jaws doesn't. > The way to get rid of it depends on your version of Word, but it's > easy enough to do. The setting you want has to do with "spacing > before" and "spacing after" in your paragraph settings. > > Deborah > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy > Carcione > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 10:22 AM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fake page breaks > > The book I proofread was just thrown back for further editing because > of "paging problems". I'm at a loss as to what to do. > Page 126-127 is one of the problems mentioned. If I cursor down the > page, Jaws says there is a new page partway down page 126, but when I > search for ^m, page break, it doesn't occur until page 127, as it > should. I deleted the hard return where Jaws says "new page", then > put it back, but that didn't fix the problem. > The margins under Page Setup are set to 0" for top, bottom, left and > right. Still the fake page break. > There are 14 lines on page 126 before Jaws says "new page". There is > a footnote number at the end of the line, but there are a lot of > footnotes in this book, so I don't think that's the problem. > The lines look to be normal length, with normal spacing. > > This is not a real page break, and I can't make it go away. I don't > know what to do. I've tried all the tricks I know. > Tracy > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a > list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.