In news:[email protected], DeWayne McCarty <[email protected]> typed: > Twayne, thank you for your replay. > Clarification: The 1st letter is missing on names in the > document that have been indexed. These same names listed in > the INDEX have the 1st letters. > > DeWayne McCarty > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Twayne <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 7:48:15 PM > Subject: [users] Re: Fw: Missing 1st letters in surnames > > 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]
Hmm, interesting. I'm not likely to be any help I don't think. All I can think of is to check the lines in the document with first letter missing and see if the left margin is hiding them by being mis-set. I can't imagine how an index operation could cause that, but ... stranger things have happened. That first letter has to be there if the Index has them in it, so something is hiding them? Like I said ... Sorry, Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
