Hi Lori, I can't find it now either. And the only way I could find to make it work was to type three periods, let Word create the ellipses character, then when I'm done, go back and do a find and replace with that character in the find box, and three periods in the replace box. It seems the autoformat only happens as you type, not upon opening a document. I know there's a way to change this and make Word not create the ellipses character when you type three periods, but I can't remember how to do it now, and can't find it in the menus either. Frustrating! But finding one and replacing all of them in the document works. Guess it's something to do at the very end of proofreading. I'm sorry. I wish my memory weren't so awful! See how bad it is that I proofread primarily using Kurzweil? I'd know this if I used Word more! Again, I'm sorry! I'll bet Melissa, or Judy knows how to fix this! So, so sorry! Mayrie _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lori Castner Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:46 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Is the Braille Translator Messing Up Ellipses? Mayrie, I've looked everywhere under autoCorrect and autoFormat to verify that I have ellipses turned off. I can't find it anywhere. I have Word 2002. Lori C. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mayrie <mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> ReNae To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Is the Braille Translator Messing Up Ellipses? Hi Evan, I'm discovering messages in my folder of volunteer e-mails that I never saw come in, so please forgive this very late answer to your probably long forgotten note. You ask about the ellipsis being inaccurately represented in brf copies of Bookshare's books. One cause of this may be that the proofreader didn't have the autoformatting feature of Word turned off that changes all ellipsis typed as three periods into the ellipsis character. If this is not turned off, when a person types three periods, or unites three periods separated by spaces, the resulting thing will be the ellipsis character, which the braille translator as yet can't translate properly. So, all proofreaders using Word need to turn off that autoformatting feature. Hope that makes sense. Mayrie _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:33 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Is the Braille Translator Messing Up Ellipses? I don't normally read books I've scanned after they get approved, since I either read through them before submitting them, or I scanned them for someone else that I myself didn't want to read, but knew they would read through completely before checking them in. Today though, I started reading a book that I didn't read when I scanned it, but that Lissi thought I would like. In the brf version of the book, I discovered that everywhere there is an ellipsis, (three periods in a row without spaces, not the special character ellipsis), the brf version of the file has not the three dot threes that are supposed to be there, but just one dot three. I checked a slightly older book that we did and found the same thing. I compared the brf file I downloaded from Bookshare with the original file I scanned, so there's no mistake. All the ellipses in the brf versions are just one dot three. I don't know how far back this goes. The book I originally discovered this issue in was added to the collection on July 30, 2010. The slightly older book I checked which has the same problem was added on April 16, 2010; so it's been going on for at least several months, unless it's been fixed since July 30. I'm sure that the brf versions used to have the ellipsis correct, but at some point it seems that a bug was introduced. Evan