I'm sure from a developers point of view they mean something, but to us there just part of the formula. They are part of the string that lets Word know what to do. I did some research on line last spring when I was having the paragraph mark issue with OB myself and came across an article written by a programmer who said what to do. I tried it and it worked great. I'm glad you tried it and it worked for you. I've actually created a macro in word that I use after I scan a book that gets rid of the unwanted paragraph marks, replaces the M dashes with double dashes,puts in the blank lines at the bottom and top of each page, etc. So when I finish a scan I run my macro and in seconds those basic items are completed. It really cuts down the cleaning up time. I don't run the macro on books I'm just proofing because they don't always have the same issues as books scanned with OB, but it certainly helps with my own scans.
Denise At 09:18 PM 4/7/2010, you wrote:
Denise, I answered my own question (from another e-mail) by entering the information in the boxes exactly as you gave it including parentheses, brackets, braces, etc., and it worked.Is there an easy explanation as to what the brackets braces etc. do? This is an amazing solution! Thanks. Lori C. ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:deniset@xxxxxxx>Denise Thompson To: <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 8:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with Open Book Rogeryou'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 doThe 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: ^pClick 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
