Rose, The only other thing I can think of is to copy and paste the
characters you want to remove in to the find field.
Jim
12:07 AM 7/4/05, you wrote:
I have tried searching for -/n and -/t and replacing with nothing but every time I get zero corrections are made, but I can still find this -/nl and I cannot get a rank spelling to work because so many word endings are floating around. I am not into doing this all manually on a 900 page document, not even with tomorrow off.
Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rose Combs Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:38 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
Thanks. I did not intend to start out big , I did not know the file was going to be big, it turned out to be more than I'd bargained for but since I have it I might as well do it.
Thanks for the K1000 hints, I have used it most for reading and scanning and have not done a lot of the rank spelling or editing yet. I have a feeling that is about to change. Now, if it will quit locking up on me today.
Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kellie Hartmann Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:16 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating
Hi Rose, Wow, you're brave to take on a gigantic project like this for your first validation effort. Your experience with medical terminology is a great asset for the Bookshare collection. Just make sure you do other more fun validations too so you don't get Bookshare burnout. <grin> Here are some instructions/suggestions for your situation.
First, it may be that the tabs following the hyphens are throwing off Kurzweil's auto-correction feature. Try replacing hyphen followed by tab with just hyphen, then run the autocorrect again and see if it helps. The way to make a tab in the find/replace box is \t If that doesn't work, what you might want to do is replace hyphen followed by newline, or hyphen followed by tab newline, whichever is occurring, with nothing. To do this in Kurzweil all you have to know is that the way to make a tab in the find/replace dialogue is \t and the newline character is \n So to fix a hyphen followed by tab and linebreak you would hit ctrl-h to enter the find/replace box, then type -\t\n and put nothing in the replace with field. After you've done a mass f/r such as this, it's always good to check around and make sure it didn't have any unintended consequences. So I would save any other changes you made before starting this so you won't lose any other changes you may have made if something goes funky with the f/r.
I'm sorry if this message is a bit scrambled, I've been dealing with a three-day-long migraine, and between that and the unfortunately not as effective as I'd like medicine I may not be running on all eight cyllinders. Kellie