[bksvol-discuss] Re: white out, help, please

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:02:28 -0800 (PST)

I've had books with the same problems and done what
you're doing. Maybe there's another way but I don't
know what it is. smile

Cindy
--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Jamie and Fellow Booksharians,
> 
> As a blizzard pays a rare visit to Akron, I'm coping
> with other expanses of 
> white beside the one surrounding my house and
> burying my city.
> 
> Another book I'm validating has enormous expanses of
> blank masses between 
> pages. If I highlight one of them, my entire
> computer screen turns black. It 
> takes several page downs to get through these to the
> top of the following 
> page, but only by having my cursor on the first
> letter of text on that next 
> page and pressing backspace can I eliminate those
> gaps. Surprisingly, though 
> it takes up to 25 page downs to reach the next page,
> it only takes about 2 
> to 4 control backspaces to eliminate them, and then
> I have to make sure the 
> page number at the bott;om wasn't lost and insert
> the page break which 
> disappears in the deleting process. I'm a fourth of
> the way through the book 
> and am enjoying reading it, so I'm going to to
> correct its problems instead 
> of abandoning it.
> 
> I've tried the global replace with the three carrot
> w's  and the three 
> carrot t's as Gerald and Jamie suggested. and which
> worked in similar 
> situations, but in this book, microsoft word tells
> me none of those 
> characters are in the document. I'm using microsoft
> word, 2003, jaws, in an 
> RTF file.
> 
> Unless someone has a better idea, I'll need virtual
> snowshoes to navigate 
> through this book.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Always with love,
> 
> Lissi 
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