On 22/10/10 03:14, 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. > SAMPLE PARAGRAPH: Mrs. Bell leaves five children: Mrs. Edna Vanskiver, Winter > Haven, Fla.; Mrs. Ethel E. Haas, Columbiana; Ernest K. Bell, Leetonia; > Herschel > M. Bell near Rogers; Rolland O. Bell, Green Cove, Fla. She also leaves one > great > granddaughter, one sister, Mrs. Tirzah Lane, Dresden, O.; two brothers, > George > McGinnis, Springfield and John McGinnis, of Zanesville. > > I have copied these paragraphs and pasted them into note pad. The letters > are > missing there. > > Any help would be appreciated.
No solution so far, I see. You don't say where the document came from. It probably makes a difference if you made it with OOo, or imported it from somewhere else. If it's imported (from Word maybe??), it's probably worth checking back to whatever other versions you have to see if you can spot when the characters were dropped. From your other email, it does sound as though the letters in this version are lost, which isn't hopeful. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
