[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: clearing out line breaks
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:54:07 -0800 (PST)
I echo Dave's advice. Before doing a global replace of
anything, think of possible consequences. When doing
one book I replaced something -- can't remember what
it was now - but I then had to make a list of all the
possible words that had that letter or apostophe in it
and go back and do a find to fix the words that had to
be changed. This also happened when I was deleteing
what I thought was an upright slash and turned out to
be the letter el in the font in whch the book was.
I've learned to be *very* careful now.
I have noticed, though, that if I'm in the middle and
do a Replace All, it will go to the end of the book
and then ask if it should start at the beginning. If I
remember to say No, then as I continue validating I'll
come across any mistaken changes I made, but I won't
have to worry about that part of the book I've already
validated.
Cindy
--- talmage@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Sue,
>
> Just don't enter anything in the replace with field,
> or as you say ignore it.
> One thing to note however, is when you do global
> replaces automatically you
> can cause other problems.
> As already mentioned, you may mess up paragraphs
> etc. by combining 2 lines
> that shouldn't be combined. You may also mess up
> valid hyphenated words,
> and if the word in question happens to be the last
> one on the page it will
> not have the desired effect. For accuracy sake,
> there is no improvement
> over doing it manually.
>
> HTH
>
> Dave
>
> At 08:14 AM 3/14/2005, you wrote:
>
> >This sounds stupid, I realize, but what do people
> mean when they say replace
> >with nothing?? What I mean is, do you just ignore
> the "replace" box, or is
> >there a symbol that indicates nothing?
> >
> >Sue S.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 2:12 AM
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: clearing out line
> breaks
> >
> >
> >Hi list. I'll just add that to do a similar thing
> with Word, or at least
> >Word 2000, search for ^l to find the line breaks.
> One really easy way to
> >fix split words is to go into the find and replace
> dialogue with Alt, E,
> >E. Search for the following in the find edit box:
> >
> >-^l
> >
> >Replace with nothing. Instantly your split words
> are gone. This also
> >takes out the line break, so you might have lines
> with only one or two
> >words on them. I don't have a good way to solve
> that. Also make sure you
> >do a spell check because some compound words that
> should be hyphenated will
> >need to have the dash put back in, like "twentyone"
> instead of "twenty-one."
>
>
>
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