Hi Lissi,
Well, Judy is the true Word guru <smile>, but I’ll tell you what I do.
I assume you are using MS Word, so here goes.
1. Press control plus “F” for the Find dialogue box.
2. Don’t type anything in the edit box, but tab until you see/hear a
“more”button and press space to activate it.
3. 3. You’ll need to tab a number of times (I can’t remember without
doing it) until you hear “format button menu”.
4. Don’t press space here, simply down arrow to open this menu.
5. After one or two down arrows you’ll hear “Font…”. Press enter and
you’ll be in the font dialogue box.
6. From here you can specify the font type you’re looking for. Choose
bold from the font style combo box.
7. For Bookshare purposes, you’re probably looking for words that are 12
points and bold because we don’t want that in most cases. So also choose
point size of 12.
8. Tab to OK and press space.
9. Now that you’re out of the font dialogue, tab to “find next” and press
space.
I think you know how to handle it from here…
Hope that was clear!
Deborah
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:32 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] More work for Deborah
Dear Deborah,
While you’re telling us how to make magic inserts and finds, can you tell me
how to find bolded text? Sometimes my partial vision sees it and sometimes not.
Because of light, shadow or pressure on pages, occasionally whole pages are
bolded by an OCR and I don’t always notice because I rely 98% of the time on
Jaws. If I do catch something bolded that shouldn’t be, then I’m paranoid that
it could have happened anywhere in my book and I missed it, but I dread having
to scroll through all of the pages to check visually which is uncomfortable..
Thanks in advance.
Roger, I knew Bookshare tacked page numbers at the tops of pages. The work
feels smoother as I’m proofing if they are at the top, so much so that it is
worth the trouble for me to put them there myself as I go along. I’d never ask
a scanner to go to that trouble to accommodate my little quirk.
Our Vanessa is so sensitive and accepting of the fact that scanners and
proofreaders have varying work styles. we’re so lucky that she respects them as
long as we get the absolute requirements right. The volunteers here are so
responsive, uncritical and helpful with specific questions. I feel our
volunteering environment has been tremendously positive lately.
I hope we’ll get a count of how many books we volunteers have contributed as a
group as January approaches and that we’ll have topped last year’s total. The
proofreaders have a wealth of books to choose from thanks to the wish list
books the staff are putting up and I think we’ve got some new scanners as well.
For my part, due to some interfering downs, I’m way off my usual contribution
but I’m putting in lots of time to do what catching up I Can.
Always with love,
Lissi
