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 twa...@twaynesdomain.com
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Sat, October 23, 2010 7:48:15 PM
Subject: [users] Re: Fw: Missing 1st letters in surnames
In news:72863.89240...@web81601.mail.mud.yahoo.com,
DeWayne McCarty clark...@sbcglobal.net 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 m...@scottsonline.org.uk
To: users@openoffice.org
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.
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