Roger
you're digging yourself a hole here. Will you stop telling me it's
the same as the 27 step process and that bookshare says it won't
work. I use OB myself and I'm telling you it does work. Get yourself
an inexpensive copy of word and I'll help you with your issue. You
don't need pro or any of the rest of the suite just word. It'll be a
lot less expensive than Kursweil which is either $1200 or $1300.
This is what you do
The idea here is that when scanning into OB, don't make any line or
spacing changes until you're done. OB creates paragraphs by putting
two paragraph marks together which makes a blank line between
paragraphs. So you do what follows in the order I've specified. The
first step gets rid of the paragraph marks at the end of each line.
It uses the double marks to determine where the paragraphs are and
thereby eliminates those single paragraph marks. The second step gets
rid of the double paragraph marks leaving just one paragraph at the
end of the paragraph and gets rid of the extra blank line. If you do
the second step first, word has no way of determining which are the
marks within the paragraph. So it gets rid of all paragraph marks.
That's why you must do the first step listed first. If you do some of
the 27 step stuff before you do this it may throw it off. If you
convert the M dashes before the paragraph that won't hurt anything.
If you locate page breaks and eliminate blank lines at the top of the
page or something like that first it can goof uphow you want your
page numbers or chapter titles to be displayed. For example it may
pull the chapter to the same line as the page number. So you do this
first before you look for page breaks or any of that stuff. You do
this first before you do any other clean up and you're home free.
If you pull up a file into Word in which each line ends with a
paragraph mark and each paragraph ends with two or more paragraph marks:
1. On the Edit Menu, choose Replace.
2. In the Find What box, enter:
([!^13])(^13)([!^13])
In the Replace With box, enter:
\1 \3
Click the More.. button, and check Use Wildcards.
Click Replace All and click OK when Word tells you it has done the
replacement.
This will remove any paragraph marks that are at the end of a line
but within a paragraph.
3. Now, in the Find What box, enter:
^13{2,}
In the Replace With box, enter:
^p
Click Replace All and click OK when Word tells you it has done the
replacement.
This will remove multiple consecutive paragraph marks, so that each
paragraph ends with just one paragraph mark, as it should.
Note that the Use Wildcards setting is sticky, so if you subsequently
do another Find and Replace during the same Word session, you have to
remember to switch it off again, if appropriate.
Denise
