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Kino · 09-01-2009, 03:17 PM

I have also been looking for a similar "template" that would magically take away most of the effort involved... it's an elusive beast and is essentially a collection of Word macros which do most of the tidying up.

I've given up trying to find a single solution and my routine involves using find/replace to:

1. remove excess spaces
2. remove tabs
3. remove manual line breaks
4. remove optional hyphens
5. remove section breaks

I then select the whole text and using font\format set the font spacing to normal.

Then I save as an rtf file, load into Wordpad and change the whole font in one go.

Re-loading back into Word it is then ready for a spell-check and any obvious page-break errors.

After scanning and ocr, the formatting doesn't take that long.

I then convert to mobipocket and read it with my Cybook, making corrections in Word at regular intervals, finally making a fully proof-read copy.

09-01-2009, 03:17 PM	#6
Kino Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: CyBook	I have also been looking for a similar "template" that would magically take away most of the effort involved... it's an elusive beast and is essentially a collection of Word macros which do most of the tidying up. I've given up trying to find a single solution and my routine involves using find/replace to: 1. remove excess spaces 2. remove tabs 3. remove manual line breaks 4. remove optional hyphens 5. remove section breaks I then select the whole text and using font\format set the font spacing to normal. Then I save as an rtf file, load into Wordpad and change the whole font in one go. Re-loading back into Word it is then ready for a spell-check and any obvious page-break errors. After scanning and ocr, the formatting doesn't take that long. I then convert to mobipocket and read it with my Cybook, making corrections in Word at regular intervals, finally making a fully proof-read copy.