[bksvol-discuss] Re: intro and a few questions
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:50:58 -0500
Hi Sarah.
Welcome to the gang!
I see you asking how to strip page breaks. That is totally *not* what you
want to do. You check that the page breaks are there, and in the right
place, so far as you can tell.
Just making sure you know. If 20 other people have already said this, I
appologize.
Tracy
> Hi Sarah,
>
> It's great to have you with us! Please feel free to ask any questions you
> might have!
>
> I can't tell you how grateful I am for our Mac-using volunteers! I
> suspect
> they will be invaluable to you!
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> _____
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> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:22 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: intro and a few questions
>
>
> I'll try that at home. also I'm trying to make everyting perfect or as
> perfect as it will get. I hope I can finish the book in now 12 days.
> Maybe
> if I work on it a bit I can do that.
>
> Does anyone know if the special chars thing is accessible wiht vo? if not
> I'll memorise the keystrokes and go with that. the last time I did that on
> the sample document I ended up with a mess. lol!
>
> Tc all and I don't give up! not easilly anyway.
>
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 16:23, Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> The Edit file has both Find and Replace. I'm used to using the keyboard,
> though; the apple key plus F takes you to Find, and the replace command is
> also there; uh oh. Are you sighted? if not will you understand what I'm
> trying to explain?
> When the Find-replace box opens, at the bottom on the right-hand side
> there
> is a box marked special with up and down arrows. When you click on that a
> menu opens;with your cursor in the find space you can scroll up to section
> break and click on it; Wait! I just--the keystroks to use for section
> break
> is the upside-down caret that's above the number 6 on the keyboard and a
> lower case b. When this is in the Find box, you can replace with
> upside-down caraet and lower cas m to put in manual page breaks; (or leave
> Replace empty if you just want to get rid of the section breaks
>
>
> I hope this is helpful and not confusing
> Cindy
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:00 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: intro and a few questions
>
>
> HI Sarah,
>
> I hope that one of our Mac users can help you out. But I want to stress
> that you do not want to get rid of page breaks. You do, however, want to
> get rid of section breaks if they exist in your file, and replace them
> with
> page breaks. A book without page breaks is a book very likely destined
> not
> to be added to the Bookshare collection. I know that all of the
> terminology
> is confusing, so with any luck, you meant to say that you want to delete
> section breaks, or more accurately to replace them with page breaks.
>
> I'm sorry, I have absolutely no Mac experience, and can't help with the
> specifics of that.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:59 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] intro and a few questions
>
>
> Hello. I'm very very new to the volunteer process. I have a few
> questions.
> I read the sample document and the instructions but I am on a mac running
> is10 lion. How am I to strip all the page breaks out using text edit and I
> forgot what else I need to do. Maybe I should not have chosen a 90 page
> gook
> for my first task lol! I'm in college and want to try and do this as time
> permits so I won't give up but thats my first question is how do I remove
> all page breaks with out looking for them in text edit?
>
> thanks all and I hope to do you guys good.
>
> Btw I'm visually impaired myself.
>
>
>
>
> Sarah Alawami: owner and founder of WICS Radio America.
> Check us out on the web at http://wics.cc and thanks for listening
>
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