Mike thank you for your response. Some back ground: This document is part of a book written in OO, as are 2 previous ones written over the past 3 years. After writing, editing, etc. over 2,700 pages, This problem is really Weird. OO writer has been an excellent tool after that other Word Processor. In these books, the index contains only full names (i.e.: Surname, Given name, title).
Why are only a few names are in error out of hundreds? Why do these errors only occur on a couple of pages? Why isn't ever name in the paragraphs missing 1st letters? I guess I have offended the "Indexing God"? DeWayne McCarty Member of Columbiana County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society ________________________________ From: Mike Scott <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 10:37:41 AM Subject: Re: [users] Fw: Missing 1st letters in surnames 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]
