[bksvol-discuss] Re: stumped
- From: Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:04:37 -0700
Kim,
When you are using your screen reader in word, does it normally say page
field before page numbers? If so, then ignore my suggestion because it
is likely something else that is your problem and I haven't a clue why
it should always be 5.
However, if your screen reader doesn't usually say page field before
page numbers, that to me indicates it is something that has been set up
in Word, not just a simple number 5 on every page. It may be that
someone set up automatic page numbering in this book, but it isn't
working correctly. Automatic page numbering is a feature of word that
lets you insert a code somewhere on a page and it will automatically put
the page number there. You can adjust this code for all kinds of
options like starting with something other than 1, using roman numerals,
incrementing by something other than 1 and so on. In this case, even
though it is somehow using page number code, it is putting the same
number, 5, on every page.
Now, you probably care more about how to get rid of the thing easily,
rather than the nitpicking details of how it got there. You need
sighted help to do this (partly because I don't know how to describe
everything in terms of keystrokes and partly because of the way Word
works.) First you need to go to the View menu in Word. Arrow down to
headers and footers and hit return. Two things will happen (part of the
weird way Word does this that makes it hard to describe what to do). A
dialog box with a bunch of little icons and buttons in it will open and
at the same time, your cursor will be put in the header part of your
page (not to be confused with the header to be stripped for bookshare,
though that text may indeed be in this part of the page). Using the
arrow keys should move you through this header area if there is anything
there. If it says anything about page number in this area, highlight
that and then hit delete. Then, hit alt-c (the alt key and c at the
same time). This should get you out of the header area and close the
dialog box. Your page field numbers should all be gone if this is
indeed the problem.
Hope this helps,
Misha
Kim Friedman wrote:
Hi, gang, I don't know if this has happened to you, but I'm
encountering something in a project I've never seen before. Here's the
thing that has me stumped. I'm told by my screen reader (I'm proofing
this in Microsoft Word 2003 in case you're curious) that I'm on p. 12.
Now comes the weird part. I start reading the next page and there's a
header which I have to strip, then each page says "(header consisting
either of book title or author's name) "page field 5". What is this
all about? Not every page can be number 5. Please help me out as I'm
not sure what to do about this one. I'm used to seeing page numbers
that change arithmetically by one digit, not staying the same number.
This is weird. Regards, an extremely puzzled Kim Friedman. P.S.: Is
this a formatting issue? K.
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