Hey Shirley,
Your welcome--I'm glad that it worked for you. Like Evan, I too find the alt
codes to be reliable whether I'm using K1000 (my preferred editor) or MS
Word.
Deborah
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Hi Deborah,
The alt-code worked. Thank you so much. I was going crazy because nothing
else was finding the em-dashes. Since the book is over 400 pages it would
have taken me a long time to find them without the search.
Shirley
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Hi Shirley,
I assume you're using Word to proof your book. Have you tried using an alt
code to find the m-dashes? The alt code for an m-dash is "alt plus 0151.
Turn on the num lock and in the search field, using the numeric key pad,
type alt plus 0151. That is, hold down the alt key and type the number 0151.
If this doesn't find any m-dashes, you might want to try setting your screen
reader to read all punctuation and read until you find one. Copy and paste
it into the search field. If one of these methods doesn't find any m-dashes,
I'm not sure what your file has going on and I'm out of ideas.
Deborah
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Help with em-dashes.
I'm supposed to make sure there are no spaces either before or after the
em-dashes in a book. However, I can't seem to find the em-dash character.
I tried searching for ^8212 which JAWS told me was the value of the em-dash
but couldn't find it even though there are lots of them. The strange thing
is that when I tried that same search in another book it worked very well.
This book is almost ready to upload so I hope I can solve this problem.
Thanks for any help out there.
Shirley
