Hi Roger, Well, I have determined that some of the hard page breaks have two paragraph markers after them. Those I deleted in word by byping ^k^p^p into the find and replace box. Others have the page break followed by a blank line and then 2 paragraph markers. Unfortunately, I have no clue what the character is for deleting the blank lines. Still others are actually soft page breaks. LOL. I discovered this the more I got into the book last night. I changed the paper size but to no avail. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks for your help! -Alyssa -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran Bailey Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:09 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue I had a case in which I had proofread a book in Open Book and when I converted it to RTF extra page breaks were inserted. I did not have Word and I was about to give up on it because I thought that I would have to proof it again line by line removing each extraneous page break. I finally hit on a solution. I was able to remove them in Wordpad. First, the most recent versions of JAWS will not read page breaks in Wordpad. I had to go back to an earlier version of JAWS that would. I think it was version 9. Then, noting that the extraneous page breaks were each right up against a character while the page breaks I wanted to keep had a blank line before and after them, I did a find and replace for each letter of the alphabet and every punctuation mark I could think of. I used the find function to find the character with a page break right affter it with no space. I replaced it with just the character and all the unwanted page breaks vanished. It took twenty-six operations for each letter of the alphabet and then more for the punctuation marks, but it was a lot easier than proofing the whole thing again. _ _ _ "The ruling class makes wars and the working class fights them." - Eugene V. Debs Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogerbailey81 The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alyssa" <lyssassong@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:44 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue > Okay, so JAWS was being flaky. Apparently these are hard page breaks after > all! Not sure why it wasn't seeing them in that manner at first, unless it > had to do with blank lines I was able to get rid of. Anyway, is there a > method for removing blank pages in Kurzweil or MS Word? I'm about to look > for myself but wanted to ask here in case I do not find anything. I > realize > that Bookshare wants them to be there, but I believe it would be easier to > insert them where appropriate rather than arrowing through a file line by > line in search of the ones that do not belong. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -Alyssa > > > > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alyssa > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:29 PM > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Page Issue > > > > Hello, > > > > I cannot tell what is going on with a book I am proofing at the moment. > The > book appears to have double the amount of pages it should. When I checked, > it seems that before each hard page break, there is something else which > appears to be another type of break. I am guessing that this may be a soft > page break but do not know for certain. If anyone else has seen this and > knows more about what I am referring to, please help me get rid of these > in > one swoop. Otherwise, this is going to be a very tedious process. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -Alyssa > > 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. 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.