Hi Cindy, I wish I knew a way to remove those anoying little buggers, but
alas at this time there're as bad as mosquitos!If you find a way to change
lead to gold, please let me know too!
Thanks for the encouragement, Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Great news optional hyphens
Thanks for the explanation, Tom.
I do get rid of those, if the subitter hasn't already, as I read, but I'm glad to learn I can get rid of them more quickly by using a global replace.
Is there some way I can replace non-optional hyphens in sentences with en dashes other than manually as I read? I tried using a hyphen from the keyboard and the optional hyphen (which, of course, now that I know what that is) didn't work? I thought I had done it successfully, but now as I'm validating I see they all changed to em dashes even when they weren't supposed to (I changed them by replacing using find rather than a global replace), and I want to change those that should be hyphens back but I can't seem to do it with a replace.
BTW, if you're who I think you are, I'm glad to see you haven't totally desserted us (smile). You're too valuable an asset here on the list.
Cindy
--- tom hawkins <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cindy, I hope I can explain this so it makes ssence.
Words at the end of a
line, as you know can end up hyphenated. , Office
Word calls these hyphens,
"optional" since if the page width is changed, they
become un-necessary.
But since it's a scanned image comming in Word
doesn't know any better and
of course leaves them in. but refers to them as
optional. They MUST !go to
allow the speller and the text reader to read
properly. At least that been
my experience to date. Not removing them has caused
several of my books to
be rejected. Turning them off in the tools menu
does not elininate them.
Tom tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Great news optional
hyphens
> What are optional hyphens? I see it as an option in my > replace but I have no idea what they are. > > Cindy > > > -- tom hawkins <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, everyone, some great news for those of us >> plagued by those optional hyphens. If you are >> working in Word, do the following "control H" enter >> a "shift 6" and a "hyphen" now do an "alt A". all of >> the optional hyphens will be replaced with nothing! >> First time I used it in my new submission, "Sword >> of Ice", coming soon, 1031 replacements instantly, >> it was so nice >> You will still have the regular hyphens breaking >> words between pages to find and fix. >> Tom Hawkins! > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > 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. >
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