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texasnightowl · 09-09-2008, 02:49 PM

I've been doing some editing over the weekend. Several of these are in PDF format and I am either using MobiPocket Creator to get an html file out to edit OR I am using Abbyy Transformer to get an RTF or DOC file out.

Once I have either the html or RTF/DOC file I am doing some editing in Word. In most cases I'm doing fine at removing line breaks or manual page breaks or whatever else. But in some cases, there are some paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences that I'm having a tougher time picking up without doing a grammar check and finding those paragraphs that have an incomplete sentence.

In these cases, the first sentence is beginning with a lower case letter instead of being capitalized.

Is there an easy way to do a search for paragraphs that start with a word with no capitalization? Am I overlooking something?

09-09-2008, 02:49 PM	#1
texasnightowl Guru Posts: 800 Karma: 2873645 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Texas Device: PW5, Oasis 3, K4B(NT), K3/KK	Question about doing some searching and replacing in Word I've been doing some editing over the weekend. Several of these are in PDF format and I am either using MobiPocket Creator to get an html file out to edit OR I am using Abbyy Transformer to get an RTF or DOC file out. Once I have either the html or RTF/DOC file I am doing some editing in Word. In most cases I'm doing fine at removing line breaks or manual page breaks or whatever else. But in some cases, there are some paragraph breaks in the middle of sentences that I'm having a tougher time picking up without doing a grammar check and finding those paragraphs that have an incomplete sentence. In these cases, the first sentence is beginning with a lower case letter instead of being capitalized. Is there an easy way to do a search for paragraphs that start with a word with no capitalization? Am I overlooking something?