Let me say that I caused an awful problem for myself in Open Book that I finally fixed. At a certain point I turned off the recognize columns feature because it caused tables of contents to scan badly. What it caused was the page numbers to come after the chapter titles and I had to move them back up to appear right after the proper title. I figured that most things that I scanned did not come in columns anyway, so I could turn it back on if I did come across something like that. Well, everything I scanned had a line break after each and every line. Carrie kept returning my submissions and asking that I change my settings so that the breaks would not be inserted. I absolutely could not figure out what setting I had to change. Finally, after I was just about to give up, I found out that if I returned to the recognize columns setting those line breaks were no longer inserted. Now I am more inclined to just turn it off for scanning tables of contents and leaving it on most of the time.
On 3/25/2012 12:05 PM, Chanelle Allen wrote:
Dear Kathy,I don't know if you have Microsoft Word, but here are steps to remove line breaks.1. Press control plus h in Word to activate the find and replace dialogue.2. Type the caret symbol (shift plus 6) followed by the letter p folled by the letter a. Caret p represents a paragraph mark. Make sure that the a is lower case.3. Tab to the replace box and type a space followed by the letter a.4. Tab until you get to the "more" or "more options" button and activate it.5. Tab to the box that says ignore case and uncheck it. 6. Tab to replace all or press alt a.7. Continue to do this with each letter of the alphabet. Type caret p b in find and space b in the replace box. Continue to do this with each letter. Once you have caret p already written in the find box, you can just backspace once to get rid of the letter with the line break you replaced and then type in the next letter in the sequence.I am not certain of the menu structure in Openbook 7. You want to look for the general or settings menu that is on the top by bringing up the menu bar and then pressing right arrow until you get to it. Otherwise, pressing alt g may work. Go to the scanner settings options in the menu. There will be two tabs with different options in each one. Press control tab to move between the denfferent tabs. And of course, press tab to move between the different options in each tab. I'm sorry if it doesn't make sense, but I can't think of the correct terminology. You want to make sure that the option to keep exact view is checked. Uncheck the option to preserve line breaks. If you have trouble finding and removing line breaks, your proof reader should be able to fix them for you. I have not done this in OpenBook, so I can't give you steps for removing line breaks that way. You do not want to remove legitimate paragraph marks. That's why it is important to use only lower case letters in the find and replace dialoogues. Also remember that Openbook's default file format is OBX, so you will want to go to save as, and in the file types tab, choose RTF.As far as Outlook express attachments, there are several ways of viewing them. When you are in the message body, pressing insert a will bring up the list of attachments. Pressing enter will bring up a dialogue asking if you want to open the file. There may also be an option to save. If not, go to the file menu and look for the save attachments option. Save the file to a place where you will be able to locate it on your hard drive. Once you are in a message, instead of pressing insert a, you can press tab to get to the attachments list. If you have the preview pane turned on, you will not necessarily need to open the message that contains the attachment you wish to view. Just press alt f and go down to save attacht. The preview pane allows one to see message contents before opening the actual message. If you haven't changed default settings in Outlook Express the preview pane should still be enabled.I hope this helps. I am sorry for being redundant if your question has already been answed by someone else.Chanelle Sent from my iPhoneOn Mar 23, 2012, at 22:15, "Kathy Novak" <trebor@xxxxxxx <mailto:trebor@xxxxxxx>> wrote:I have several books almost ready to submit, but they apparently have line breaks in them. I use JAWS12 and Openbook 7.02 to work. How can I remove line breaks, or barring removing them, how do I set the scanner not to copy them? Anybody know how to read attachments on Outlook Express? Lots of info from bookshare I am missing.Kathy Novak
