Kim, OK that's good to know. Then I won't worry about you thinking I'm talking down to you. (smile) You only need to check case sensativity if the case is important. So for example if there were instances when the authors name wasn't capitolized for some reason and you wanted them capitolized, you would type the name in without capitals in the find box and type it in the replace box with capitals then check the case sensativity box. if this box isn't capitolized it gives the same weight to instance of the find you've put in. In most situations like the stripping of headers the case is unimportant because you want them all deleted so just leave it unchecked.
DeniseIf it would be helpful to talk on the phone email me off list and I'd be happy to talk to you. I have unlimited minutes so it wouldn't cost me anything. My email is deniset@xxxxxxxx
At 05:00 AM 12/21/2009, you wrote:
Hi, Denise, you are talking to a relatively new computer user here. I haven't done much word processing type stuff as my word processing consists of proofreading my emails before I send them. When you do this method of header stripping, before you choose the "more" option, do you check for case sensitivity? Regards, Kim.----------From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise ThompsonSent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:43 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping headers Sorry Kim I'll try and explain better.As you've already pointed out, the authors name and the name of the book appear at the beginning of the book and if you do a replace all and get rid of the headers that include that info those references disappear also. So I either page down the document to the first chapter or do a control F which is the find short cut key for windows and type chapter 1 in. Once I'm at the first chapter page, I use the find and replace short cut for Word- if that's what you're using. in the find box I type the name of the book then tab to the replace box and leave it blank. then if you tab over a few more items you come to a button that is labled More. I click on this button. Now that button says Less- that's just so you'll know and won't get confused if you see the button again in another search. Once the more button is pushed, many other options show up that you can use to perform or specialize a find and replace action. One of these choices is a box that allows you to change what direction the find and replace action takes when going through the document. It defaults to all which means that no matter where you are in the document the whole document is searched and the action you've requested is carried out. If you arrow up there are two other choices. You can set the search to only go down from where you are in the document or only to go up from where you are in the document. So I arrow up to down. Then either tab back to the replace all button or just do an alt A combination wich is the short cut key that will start the action. The search and replacement goes down from the first chapter to the bottom of the document. When it gets to the bottom, Word will say that it has finished searching the document and --- so many changes have been made. Then it asks if you like to continue the search at the beginning of the document. You click No. Then you're back at the find and replace page. Just hit escape to go back to the document or do another find and replace like putting the authors name in the find box and checking to make sure it's still set on down before clicking replace all again. If you do this, it gets rid of the headers or footer info but it leaves the stuff at the beginning of the book untouched. This works really well if the header or footer has scanned well. If it doesn't, it'll get rid of those that scanned well, but the ones where the text isn't exactly as you typed in will still be there. But there's no way to fix that issue except doing a quick check to see if it gets them all. You can tell how affective it is for the most part by knowing how many pages are in the book and how many replacements word says it did. It should be pretty equally divided between the books name and the authors name if the scan was clear. I hope this helps and if I got too detailed sorry about that. I just wasn't sure how much to put down.Denise At 10:03 PM 12/20/2009, you wrote:Hi, Denise, I don't understand what you mean. Sorry about that. Judy S. Gave me a suggestion whereby you temporarily place a certain character in the author's name or the title, thus altering temporarily what you want to keep. I don't know about this though. What's going to stop the find-and-replace function getting rid of author's names from within a blurb or something like that? What is this up-down thing? Regards, confused and bewildered Kim.----------From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise ThompsonSent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:49 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping headersI get rid of headers or footers and keep the authours name and book title by just going to the first chapter page and doing the find and replace stuff then clicking more on that page. this allows you to change the direction of the replace. I change it to down instead of all. It replaces or in this case removes the material I've asked it to remove but doesn't touch the beginning of the document. Works pretty slick.Denise At 09:37 PM 12/20/2009, you wrote:Kim, one way is:Make the header with the story title plus the author byline that you want to keep distinctly different than the rest of the headers. Then you can safely go ahead and do a global search and replace for the rest of the headers without worrying about eliminating the ones you want to keep.You can do that by, for example, by going to the first story header you want to keep, and putting some asterisks (or some other character) temporarily inside the words of the title and within the name of the author that you also want to keep on the page. Then, you go back after getting rid of all the rest of the headers that were originally identical to this one, you go back and remove the characters that put in.So lets say the title of the story is Proofreaders Wear Paisley by Ida Knowbetter. On the pages where you want to keep the title and the author from getting deleted, you change the title to something like: P*roofreaders W*ear P*aisley by I*da K*nowbetter.Then, you'd use the search and replace function in Word (or Kurzweil) to search for Proofreaders Read Paisley, leave the "replace" box empty and do a "replace all." Then do the same think with the author's name - do a search for Ida Knowbetter and leave the replace box empty and do a "replace all."Then, go back to the places where you want to keep the title and the author name, and remove the asterisks you added into them.Be very careful that you alter the title and author names on every page where you want them to remain, not just the page where the story starts! So if there is a Table of Contents, a list of authors, or a list of copyright holders at the start of the book, or an index at the back of the book, you want to alter those too if needed before doing your search and replace, and you then must go back and change those the title and author name in each of those places back to what it was after you finish your search and replace.Judy s.Hi, I'm working on a story collection as a proofreader. When I got to the actual stories, I find the odd numbered pages have the story titles as the header while the even numbered pages have the author's name. How can I get rid of the excess headers while still retaining the header with the storytitle plus the author byline on the first page of each story? If I can avoiddeleting all of them manually, that would save me from some repetitious work. Please, folks, don't give me a capsule description of how to do this because I think it's likely I might not understand what I should do. Be as detailed as possible, filling in the who, what, when, where, why, and how (in other words, please fill in any gap you can think of.). Your help isneeded because time's flying and I want the book to look nice. Regards, Kim.__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signaturedatabase 4704 (20091220) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.comTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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