Dear Judy and Roger,
Roger, I move the page numbers just because I like them there for myself enough
that I don’t mind taking the extra time. And, Kennedy’s Ghost is checked in. I
wouldn’t have seen myself reading that kind of book but it was gripping and as
a newbie in espionage and political fiction, it was actually fascinating though
the ruthlessness gave me scared quivers. It was meticulously written. Evan and
plenty of other readers will find it engrossing.
Judy, I’ll try your suggestions and let you know my results. You’ve helped me
tremendously before.
Have you also noticed that sometimes the page breaks and the lines around them
are in italics? I expect this when the text before or after or the page numbers
are italicized but I’m finding it %100 of the time in some books even the text
and/or numbers aren’t italicized. I try and remember to highlight them and turn
itillics off but I might miss some. I guess I was hoping the tools wouldn’t
mind italicized blank lines and page breaks.
Oh, and obviously I don’t know how to work the spell check in my new windows
mail.
Always with love,
Lissi
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Judy
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 11:05 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font and quote control
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.
