[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fake page breaks

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:37:00 -0700

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

 

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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-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy 
> Carcione
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 10:22 AM
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> 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
>
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