I hope Jarte wouldn't eliminate the page breaks! Susan -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:17 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.