[bksvol-discuss] Re: deleted too many letters, help!!!!!!!
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:34:34 -0700 (PDT)
I had the same problem once and learned my lesson. I
did what you did, Lissi. I don't remember the exact
letters, but when, as I was continuing to validate, I
found letters in the middle of words missing, I made a
list of all the possible words and when I finished I
went back and did a search for all of the and put the
letters back. They were common letters, so there were
a lot of words, and it took hours, literally.
I have since found that, at least with the Word with
the Mac, if I've made a mistake I can undo Replace
All. If I do a replace all in the middle of a book and
go back to the beginning and find that there are more
changes made than I think there should have been, a
click on the document and Undo Replace All will go
back to what it was in the beginning--even if I've
saved the document. Then I can do a Replace and check
the words one at a time.
Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear bud,
>
> Talk about that sinking feeling! Just a few fast
> keystrokes and the problem
> can saturate your book and you've lost your chance
> at a quick fix. It's hard
> to face starting over again. If part of your
> enjoyment is in reading the
> book as you work, it's not fun the second time
> around.
>
> Everyone is welcome to stop reading here because,
> yes, I have my horror
> story, too. A very clean scan of a novel I was
> validating had several quirky
> consecutive instances of the word if at the
> beginning of sentences spelled
> with a small I and capital f. I put that in the find
> box and capital I f in
> the replace box and entered. After that all words
> with the letters i f
> appeared with capital I's in the middle. I never
> imagined just how many
> words had if in them, wife, signify, snowdrift,
> gift, stiff, bbailiff,
> capital I f when if was within sentences, nearly 800
> replacements.
>
> Like you, I'll be treating that find and replace
> with caution. Do you think
> the control z would work as well as closing the file
> without saving the
> changes to undo the replacements?
>
> If you like Ruth Rendell, as I do, you might like to
> try another British
> author who has been compared with her, Minette
> Walters. I'm reading Acid Row
> on casette from NLS,. Bookshare has 4 more of her
> books, The Breaker, The
> Echo, The Sculptriss, and Fox Evil.
>
> Always With Love,
>
> Lissi
>
> Give me the higher ground any day even if I have to
> climb uphill to meet it.
> Bill the Pony, from The Tenth Walker by Lyndellia,
> Tolkien Fan Fiction
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bud Schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:37 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: deleted too many
> letters, help!!!!!!!
>
>
> > Thanks for the sympathy Julie. I wasn't bright
> enough to save my changes.
> > I have several more books here to scan so I will
> be real careful and pay
> > attention to what I am doing. That's a hard way
> to learn but I bet I'll
> > never forget it.
> >
> > Bud
> >
> > At 09:15 PM 8/10/2006, you wrote:
> >>Oh, Bud, how awful! I would have immediately
> closed out the book, saying
> >>no
> >>when asked if I wanted to save the changes, and
> started over, but that's
> >>assuming you made frequent saves of your work. Oh,
> dear! I hope you did
> >>manage to get your work back! Take care.
> >>--
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> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Bud Schwab" <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>To: <k1000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Cc: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:36 PM
> >>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] deleted too many
> letters, help!!!!!!!
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Gang,
> >>
> >>I think I really got myself in trouble. am using
> k1000and was
> >>starting to clean up a book for bookshare and
> that's where my trouble
> >>begins. I was trying to delete authors name, but
> in most cases it
> >>has spaces between each letter. It's Rendell and
> I got rid of all
> >>those with no trouble. But, most of the
> occurences of her name have
> >>a space between each letter like R E N D eE L L so
> I don't know what
> >>I was thinking, but I put it on the E in her name
> and proceeded to
> >>delete 1.000 occurences of e throughout the whole
> book. Is there any
> >>way that all these e's can be restored. I'm
> afraid the answer is to
> >>rescan the book but wanted to check with you minds
> out there before I do
> >>that.
> >>With a very red face, I am
> >>
> >>
> >>Bud Schwab
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