[duxuser] Search and Replace in Microsoft Word
- From: "Rick Boggess" <rboggess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 08:15:11 -0500
I was recently doing some document clean up in Word before importing it into
Duxbury. I had instances where there were blank lines followed by a capital
letter and blank lines followe by a small letter. I wanted to search for
"^p^p" followed by small letters and change the "^p" to " ". I looked at
the Word help file and foun all kinds of advanced features but there did not
seem to be one which worked for this particular situation. I would
appreciate hearing from anyone who might have suggestions for dealing with
this.
Thanks.
Rick Boggess
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Teri McElroy
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 1:47 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Question
Hi
Not sure if I'll be too late because your original message was from March 8,
but I want to offer another way of doing tables which I use. I don't always
separate the columns by blank space or guide dots, and the way I'm about to
detail is also good because I don't have to work out how wide each column
will be.
First, I put a tn in the document which says "columns follow each other in
this order: Column 1: column 2; Column 3; Column 4" then put the
headingnames of the columns. The first column is followed by a colon, and
each subsequent one is followed by a semicolon except the end of the very
last one. So, the words "column 1" etc would obviously be replaced by the
actual column name.
then, I have to put the colons and semicolons in between each column. This
is quite easy to do if the table is in word because I just do a search and
replace, replacing the tab character, or "caret-t" with semicolon followed
by a space. I chose the semicolon because it will deal with the majority of
the column separators in one foul swoop. Then I've got to go replace the
semicolon after the first column with colon, but I do that in duxbury.
Finally I put list codes around the whole table. Each row of the table
starts in cell 1, and the overruns are in cell 3.
I prefer this method to the stetp-stair method which wastes quite a lot of
paper.
Teri
----- Original Message -----
From: Karina Gregory <mailto:Karina.Gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Question
Hi Rosy,
Duxbury has a strange way of handling tables. It does a step-down process.
I use a lot of tables and if they comprise of only two or maybe three
columns (depending on the data in the columns), then I usually put it
through Duxbury, and align it, but it's quite tedius. I then use either
dots 6 or dots 3,6 to seperate the columns so that it is easy to read in a
straight line and you can't get lost when moving from one column to another.
If this isn't possible, due to the length of the data in the columns, I get
it put onto swell paper (others on the list may call it Minolta paper) and
leave enough room on the paper to stick it in the appropriate place.
However, when this is done, it is translated through Duxbury first to get
grade 2 and then repasted back into the Word document.
I hope that you find this useful, and if you would like to discuss this
further, then please do not hesitate to contact, either on or off list.
Karina
----- Original Message -----
From: Rosy <mailto:rosegood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Goodrich
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 5:48 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Question
George,
I have a document to translate into braille. It is a table in Word. What
do I do to make this work. I could get a hard copy and type it in, or maybe
scan it in, but there must be a way to translate it from Word to Duxbury.
All this work for one copy for one client!
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