In news:[email protected], DeWayne McCarty <[email protected]> typed: > 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
I thought you said the first letters were missing on the pages, too, not just in the index? If a selection area only covers part of a column, that column won't be picked up by the operation. Either way it sounds like the Copy process failed to get the first column of data from those pages; easy to do if done manually, harder to happen if done by macro, but you left out a lot of useful data. HTH, Twayne` > > > > ________________________________ > 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
