I hope Jarte wouldn't eliminate the page breaks!
Susan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Confusing Styles in Word 2003
Openning, saving and closing in wordpad would probably also work. Jarte is
a simple word processor based on wordpad and it zaps almost all styles, but
leaves the basic formatting like font, bold, underline, indents. I am not
sure about tables, will have to check on that.
Misha
Melissa Smith wrote:
> Well, you could always try opening, saving and then closing out of it
> with OpenBook. Then open it in Word again, and see if the styles are
> gone. I don't know if it would fix it or not, since I don't have it.
>
> Melissa Smith
>
> On 6/18/2010 8:37 PM, Lori Castner wrote:
>> Unfortunately for this issue, I use Open Book not Kurzweil.
>> I have formatted the paragraphs and removed extra blank line. I have
>> not done the 27-step paragraph process.
>> I'm most concerned about this style issue, but can't find Judy's
>> message either, and I am sure I saved it!
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Lori C.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Melissa Smith <mailto:mdsmith25@xxxxxxxx>
>> *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *Sent:* Friday, June 18, 2010 5:46 PM
>> *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Confusing Styles in Word 2003
>>
>> When I had a book with varying styles applied to it, I opened it
>> in Kurzweil, saved and closed it. Then I opened it in Word and
>> things were back to normal. Of course, if you don't have
>> Kurzweil, that isn't an option.
>> Judy gave a wonderful explanation of this when I was having this
>> issue, but I don't have that message any more. At any rate,
>> styles are something that Word uses so that all similar text
>> keeps the same formatting. It is supposed to provide consistency,
>> as you can simply apply a style, and all of the formatting option
>> are all set based on which style you choose. I do not know this
>> for sure, but I suspect, that these occur in some of the books
>> scanners submit to Bookshare when they scan directly into Word.
>> Another thing that may help your file get down to the right size.
>> Well, on second thought, more than just one more thing. First,
>> have you selected all the text, and done the paragraph formatting
>> as explained in the manual? Second, have you eliminated multiple
>> blank lines? And, thirdly, have you followed the 27 step process
>> to eliminate paragraph marks that shouldn't be there?
>> Best of luck with this book.
>>
>>
>> Melissa Smith
>>
>>
>> On 6/18/2010 5:32 PM, Lori Castner wrote:
>>> I am proofreading a book that should have 174 pages. It began
>>> with 539 pages. By fixing formatting, changing page size from a
>>> small custom sized page to 8 and 1/2 by 11 and by changing
>>> margins, I now have 239 pages in the book. I also reduced the
>>> font to .12 throughout.
>>>
>>> What is really perplexing me is that every few lines I get a
>>> statement that says either style character 1 style character 2.
>>> I have selected the entire document and changed the style to
>>> body text. Even so I cannot get rid of these other two styles.
>>> Is there some simple way to change the entire style to normal?
>>>
>>> I'm hoping that using normal style throughout and increasing my
>>> page length will get the book to the right number of pages and
>>> also make it easier to read.
>>> I am using Word 2003.
>>>
>>> It looks like an interesting book, but I'm going to release it
>>> if I cannot get the book into one style.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Lori C.
>>>
>>
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