page headers/footers

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by daesdaemar

Does anyone know an easy/efficient way to delete the headers/footers found repetitively on some book pages such as the author name/book title and page numbers?

Since you use MS Word, take a look at Wiki: BookCreator. If this does not help (I assume if will fix the page numbers but probably not the header), it may be worth asking in the BookCreator Tool v2.0 thread. This sounds like a common enough problem to be added as an option to BookCreator.

[=X=]

Originally Posted by daesdaemar

1 John Smith
2 John Smith
3 John Smith

1) In Word dpress the Ctrl+H button
2) In "Find what" cut-n-past the "[0-9]{1,5} John Smith" remove the quote(")
3) Check "Use Wildcards". If you don't see this option the option depress the <<more> button
4) Leave "Replace With:" blank.
5) Depress the <Replace All>

John gave you "True Regular" expression syntax. MSWord has a muddled up version that uses some RegEx and makes up their own. Another problem is that you where advised to use "*" Which means it "may" exist. You should have used "?" of course with MSWord it's "@" if you select the "Wildcards" option

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[=X=]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

Since you use MS Word, take a look at Wiki: BookCreator. If this does not help (I assume if will fix the page numbers but probably not the header), it may be worth asking in the BookCreator Tool v2.0 thread. This sounds like a common enough problem to be added as an option to BookCreator.

This might be a bit tricky since HEADER/FOOTERs differ per book. I suppose I could look for a single line text that had a lot of repetition hmmm... I'll play around with this.

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[daesdaemar]

Originally Posted by =X=

1) In Word dpress the Ctrl+H button
2) In "Find what" cut-n-past the "[0-9]{1,5} John Smith" remove the quote(")
3) Check "Use Wildcards". If you don't see this option the option depress the <<more> button
4) Leave "Replace With:" blank.
5) Depress the <Replace All>

John gave you "True Regular" expression syntax. MSWord has a muddled up version that uses some RegEx and makes up their own. Another problem is that you where advised to use "*" Which means it "may" exist. You should have used "?" of course with MSWord it's "@" if you select the "Wildcards" option

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It works fabulously! May I trouble you to explain exactly how the expresion "[0-9]{1,5} John Smith" actually works?

Thank you very much.

[=X=]

Originally Posted by daesdaemar

It works fabulously! May I trouble you to explain exactly how the expresion "[0-9]{1,5} John Smith" actually works?

Thank you very much.

Sure
[0-9] Means look for any digit from 0-9. For upper case letters A-Z
{1,5} Uses the match condition to the left of it and looks. Looks for any occurrence from a single digit 1 up to 5 digits. In your case it looks for 0-9, so it will look for (e.g 0-99999). If we had a page count 100,000 it would not find it. You can change these values. If you want exact digits do {1}.

" " = space. With real regular expression you use "\s" with MS you must use a space.
"John Smith" looks for that exact expression.

[daesdaemar]

Originally Posted by =X=

Sure
[0-9] Means look for any digit from 0-9. For upper case letters A-Z
{1,5} Uses the match condition to the left of it and looks. Looks for any occurrence from a single digit 1 up to 5 digits. In your case it looks for 0-9, so it will look for (e.g 0-99999). If we had a page count 100,000 it would not find it. You can change these values. If you want exact digits do {1}.

" " = space. With real regular expression you use "\s" with MS you must use a space.
"John Smith" looks for that exact expression.

Thank you. I can now edit my files much more efficiently.