I'm glad you liked Kennedy's Ghost. Personally, I found it a bit boring.
Given that I have been working on a lot of books culled from a library
book sale with the sole criterion being that they are not already in the
Bookshare collection I have found myself working on a lot of books
lately that I find boring.
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fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study
and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.” ―
Clarence Darrow,
On 5/20/2021 12:10 AM, Lissi wrote:
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
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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.
