[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: clearing out line breaks
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:23:31 -0600
Yeah, the global search and replace method should only be used to save
yourself some typing and wrist strain, which means you do the search and
replace on something really messed up and then you read the book looking
for the few places where the replace was detrimental instead of
beneficial. That way you can mostly just enjoy the book without having
to stop reading ridiculously often to hit the delete key.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
----- Original Message -----
From: <talmage@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:02 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: clearing out line breaks
> 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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