My eBook eXperience -- interlude

Tomorrow, I'll pick up where I left off, covering my transition from the Kindle to the Nook. I had to get up very early this morning, and I suspect I'm too fuzzy to do a good job.

But I'll leave you with one thought. Search-and-replace is your friend. You can do amazing things with it. I once had a manuscript that had been scanned into text. All the tabs were gone. (This was for a print book that was going to the copy editor, so the tabs were sort of important.) No problem. In Word, you just replace ^p (the symbol for a new paragraph) with ^p^t (paragraph, tab). Just like that, the tabs are back. You don't even need to know the symbols. Just select "more" and you can get to special things like page breaks, tabs, etc, as well as format items such as fonts and styles. You can search for all text in Heading 1, for example. But -- and this is IMPORTANT -- make sure to clear any special styles or type faces from your search when you are done. Why? Because they'll still be there if you search for something later. You might thing you're searching for the word "platypus," but the search is looking for "platypus" in bold face, or in Heading 1 style, or whatever. All of that stuff is listed in tiny text beneath the search box.

Okay. Enough for this morning. Check back tomorrow for a look at the EPub segment of my adventure.