Hi Lissi,
You have Word 2010 now or Word 2019? The method I have below will work
in either.
The ariel 10 is in the file itself, and is a common fonting problem from
scanning. I run into this all of the time.
What has happened is that the hard page break has been assigned a font
size 10 arial by Word. For some weird reason, I find this frequently
when a book was scanned by Kurzweil. Selecting an entire file and
changing it to font size 12 in Kurzweil, before doing any other font
size correction, may or may not correct this problem in or for Word.
It's a bug that's in Word, not Kurzweil, that kicks in when Word reads
in and interprets RTF files.
When you add a page number at the top of the page, the font size Word
matches is the most recent previous font size--which is the arial 10
assigned to the hard page break code. That's why you are getting Arial 10.
I use a search and replace to fix this. In the search and replace box, I
leave the search box completely empty but use the drop down box to add
the font attributes of font size 10 and font arial. Then I do the same
in the replace box, but use the font attributes of font size 12 and font
tahoma. You can then search and replace each instance.
I'm going to defer to others for the quotes problems. My thought is that
you may have autocorrect for smart quotations turned on in Word, and
that's what's messing stuff up. There's a section in the appendix of the
Proofreading Manual on how to turn that autocorrect feature off, if
that's the case.
Judy s.
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On 5/19/2021 9:49 PM, Lissi wrote:
Dear Booksharian Friends,
Now that I have Word 2010 I’ve had all kinds of problems. Tonight I’m writing to ask if anyone has an idea of how I can tell Word what kind of font I want to type and what to do about mixed right, left and regular quotes.
Here’s an example of the kind of difficulty I’m having.
Preferring page numbers to be at the tops of pages I remove the number at the bottom of the previous page and type the number of the page at the top right before the first word of text if it is in 12 point Tahoma. Last night when I did this the page came out in 10 point. There are two ways of enlarging it. I was just bumping it up but on a whim used control d and discovered that not only was the number ten point but it was always ariel. I don’t know why my computer is deciding for me to type in ariel size ten.
The work session before that anything I keyed into a proofreading document was coming out bold and the only way I could to think to stop that was to reboot which was when I got the ariel 10s.
My word is also confusing quotation marks. Some files are coming to me with regular quotes but others have a mixture of right, left and regular. I tried to replace them to standardize them but I was only allowed to replace with left quotes which ruined over half of the quotes. I had to scrap that effort and download the file again. Anyway I don’t know how to even tell the computer how to make a right or left quote. Also proofing by ear it is harder for me to hear the punctuation before a right quote so to be sure I have to listen to one character at a time which slows me down. Evan showed me how to make the quotes by typing 0 and a number but that is also quite slow.
Any thoughts about either of these problems would be very much appreciated.
Always with love,
Lissi who is proofreading like a tortoise with Word 10.
