This is going to get ugly...
Jan. 16th, 2008 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpHidden in those 500 words are several full-page scans of intricately formatted tables. Yuk.
I scalped most of the 500 words (occurring after the tables) and prepended them to the next section. I then did a "Select All" of the next section (6000 words!), copied the file's contents, created a new file and attempted to paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text.
Word croaked.
Now to go see if I can un... ravel this.
Cheers...
UPDATE: It sure would be nice if Word had enough residual smarts when it decides to recover your files to determine which files don't need recovery (as in: the last thing anyone did with them before Disaster Struck™ was save them, so presumably, there's an okay copy sitting on a disk somewhere).
The second time around, pasting the clipboard as unformatted Unicode text does the trick, but I've lost a tremendous amount of information in the process. Now the key question is this: Is it easier to retype what is lost and not have to deal with erratic formatting, or should I struggle with the original Nightmare file?
I could keep the original Nightmare file open for reference and cut/paste, of course, along with the original PDF and the original OCR file. Maybe I should fire up another machine to use to refer to the sections I've already completed?
Criminy! Daylight is burning and I'm not even at the 1500-word mark!
UPDATE: And what really hurts is that every other sentence is a 100+ word run-on monster! My current (1:40 pm) strategy is to wind up work on the OCR Nightmare, eat lunch until 2 pm, and then switch assignments. Once I'm finished with the Thursday job, it'll be "back to the face!"
I scalped most of the 500 words (occurring after the tables) and prepended them to the next section. I then did a "Select All" of the next section (6000 words!), copied the file's contents, created a new file and attempted to paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text.
Word croaked.
Now to go see if I can un... ravel this.
Cheers...
UPDATE: It sure would be nice if Word had enough residual smarts when it decides to recover your files to determine which files don't need recovery (as in: the last thing anyone did with them before Disaster Struck™ was save them, so presumably, there's an okay copy sitting on a disk somewhere).
The second time around, pasting the clipboard as unformatted Unicode text does the trick, but I've lost a tremendous amount of information in the process. Now the key question is this: Is it easier to retype what is lost and not have to deal with erratic formatting, or should I struggle with the original Nightmare file?
I could keep the original Nightmare file open for reference and cut/paste, of course, along with the original PDF and the original OCR file. Maybe I should fire up another machine to use to refer to the sections I've already completed?
Criminy! Daylight is burning and I'm not even at the 1500-word mark!
UPDATE: And what really hurts is that every other sentence is a 100+ word run-on monster! My current (1:40 pm) strategy is to wind up work on the OCR Nightmare, eat lunch until 2 pm, and then switch assignments. Once I'm finished with the Thursday job, it'll be "back to the face!"
