James thank you for your reply. When I copy and pasted these areas of missing letters to a blank page in OO they did not show up. Also, there is no blank space where the letters are missing, as there would be if they the same color as the back ground. DeWayne McCarty Member of Columbiana County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society
________________________________ From: James Wilde <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 3:39:28 AM Subject: Re: [users] Fw: Missing 1st letters in surnames On Oct 22, 2010, at 04:14 , DeWayne McCarty wrote: > Windows 7; Open Office.org 3.2.1 (build 9502) > > > I am proofing a 800+page book. This book contains abstracts of newspaper > articles. > > > All names are indexed. > > On 3 of the pages, there are a few names in the articles where the Surnames >are > > missing the 1st letter. > (These entries are indexed and the index has the complete spelling so the > letters were there when they were indexed. ) > [e.g. The letters in red are example of missing letters. On my computer there are no red letters in your post, possibly since I have my mail reader set to text only (I think!). But since you mention colour for the initial letters, can it possibly be that these have been changed to invisible, e.g. white on a white background? <...> > > I have copied these paragraphs and pasted them into note pad. The letters >are > missing there. I must admit that you're having pasted them into Notepad and their still being missing would presumably invalidate my hypothesis. As far as I am aware, Notepad does not support coloured letters. //James
