Hi Jana,
Unfortunately, I don't think Kurzweil 1000 has a built in programming
language you can use inside of it like Visual Basic, which is what Word
relies on to do wildcard searches like this. Some of the Kurzweil pros
here would know far better about that, so I hope some of them chime in.
smile.
Judy s.
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On 10/3/2017 10:59 PM, Jana Jackson wrote:
Hmmm... Wonder how I would do this with Kurzweil 1000? Thanks, Judy, very helpful info!
Jana
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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Finding sentences that are incorrectly broken by paragraph marks
Hi all,
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.
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.
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