[bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping headers
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:03:05 -0800
Hi, Denise, I don't understand what you mean. Sorry about that. Judy S. Gave
me a suggestion whereby you temporarily place a certain character in the
author's name or the title, thus altering temporarily what you want to keep.
I don't know about this though. What's going to stop the find-and-replace
function getting rid of author's names from within a blurb or something like
that? What is this up-down thing? Regards, confused and bewildered Kim.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripping headers
I get rid of headers or footers and keep the authours name and book title by
just going to the first chapter page and doing the find and replace stuff
then clicking more on that page. this allows you to change the direction of
the replace. I change it to down instead of all. It replaces or in this case
removes the material I've asked it to remove but doesn't touch the beginning
of the document. Works pretty slick.
Denise
At 09:37 PM 12/20/2009, you wrote:
Kim, one way is:
Make the header with the story title plus the author byline that you want to
keep distinctly different than the rest of the headers. Then you can safely
go ahead and do a global search and replace for the rest of the headers
without worrying about eliminating the ones you want to keep.
You can do that by, for example, by going to the first story header you want
to keep, and putting some asterisks (or some other character) temporarily
inside the words of the title and within the name of the author that you
also want to keep on the page. Then, you go back after getting rid of all
the rest of the headers that were originally identical to this one, you go
back and remove the characters that put in.
So lets say the title of the story is Proofreaders Wear Paisley by Ida
Knowbetter. On the pages where you want to keep the title and the author
from getting deleted, you change the title to something like: P*roofreaders
W*ear P*aisley by I*da K*nowbetter.
Then, you'd use the search and replace function in Word (or Kurzweil) to
search for Proofreaders Read Paisley, leave the "replace" box empty and do a
"replace all." Then do the same think with the author's name - do a search
for Ida Knowbetter and leave the replace box empty and do a "replace all."
Then, go back to the places where you want to keep the title and the author
name, and remove the asterisks you added into them.
Be very careful that you alter the title and author names on every page
where you want them to remain, not just the page where the story starts! So
if there is a Table of Contents, a list of authors, or a list of copyright
holders at the start of the book, or an index at the back of the book, you
want to alter those too if needed before doing your search and replace, and
you then must go back and change those the title and author name in each of
those places back to what it was after you finish your search and replace.
Judy s.
Hi, I'm working on a story collection as a proofreader. When I got to the
actual stories, I find the odd numbered pages have the story titles as the
header while the even numbered pages have the author's name. How can I get
rid of the excess headers while still retaining the header with the story
title plus the author byline on the first page of each story? If I can avoid
deleting all of them manually, that would save me from some repetitious
work. Please, folks, don't give me a capsule description of how to do this
because I think it's likely I might not understand what I should do. Be as
detailed as possible, filling in the who, what, when, where, why, and how
(in other words, please fill in any gap you can think of.). Your help is
needed because time's flying and I want the book to look nice. Regards, Kim.
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