[bksvol-discuss] Re: Confusing Styles in Word 2003

  • From: "Susan" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:21:41 -0500

I hope Jarte wouldn't eliminate the page breaks!

Susan
  

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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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