I've not come across your situation, so I don't know if this will work or not. I'd probably try this on a test file first. There is a character for whitespace, which is ^w which might get rid of the blank lines after the page breaks.
Melissa Smith On 4/18/2011 1:25 PM, Alyssa wrote:
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 IssueOkay, 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! -AlyssaTo 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.
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