Question About Spurious Inclusions

jstevewhite · Post by **jstevewhite** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:06 pm

My article "Mortage and Housing: Gloom - and a Glimmer" was rejected, because of:

The following is appearing at the top of your submitted documents:
header; heading 1;Endnote Symbol;Footnote Symbol;Internet link;

Is this happening with all of my submitted documents? I'm baffled as to its origin. I opened the actual file I submitted in Word, but saw nothing like that in it.

Help!

Thanks

J. Steve White

Ed · Post by Ed » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:42 pm

Weird. I saw it twice so far, but I've been away from the site today. If it's nothing to do with you, just ignore it and I'll do the same. It isn't that distracting. I'll let you know here if I run across it again.

Thanks,
Ed

jstevewhite · Post by **jstevewhite** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:31 pm

Thanks for the info. I've been trying to sort out the oddities. I think a friend (also a CC author) figured out the original problem with my plain text submissions - Scrivener was using the typesetter's quotes, and when I exported to ascii, it was putting in the unicode for those symbols. After several switches, though, I'm using (it hurts just to say it) Microsoft Word 2008.

If you don't see any more of those oddities, I may switch back to Scrivener and export the files to Word docs and see how that goes, if that's ok with you. Scrivener is soooo much better for this sort of writing, designed to help organize research and notes and make them visible in the same program at the same time as the work you're writing.

Thanks!

J. Steve White - still trying to nail down the workflow.

Ed · Post by Ed » Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:40 pm

Please do whatever works best for you. I'll let you know if any other phantom hieroglyphics appear.

Thanks,
Ed

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:37 pm

Hi Steve,

I still can't open the file attached to to the articles about uninstalling Windows. I get a "corrupt" error message this time. I don't know what else to suggest about this one.

Thanks,
Ed

jstevewhite · Post by **jstevewhite** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:11 pm

Ed - I cut it out of the document and pasted it into a new document and verified the extension in the CLI before resubmitting it. It's a Word document, start to finish; has me really puzzled. Everything else seems to be ok - have there been any more odd inclusions?

Thanks for being so patient!

Jstevewhite

Celeste Stewart · Post by **Celeste Stewart** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:12 pm

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Sometimes I get that with Windows Vista -- If I have a document open and try to send it as an attachment, it doesn't attach. Likewise, trying to upload a Word 2007 doc to Googles documents when it's open on my machine gives me a "corrupt" document error on Google's end. Maybe have JSteve close the document on his computer before uploading? Just an idea...

Ed · Post by Ed » Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:22 pm

Thanks for the input, Celeste.

JSteve, it's no problem. Believe me, I'd like to get this article reviewed just as much as you would. Haven't seen any other strange inclusions . . . but I can't open the file. Is what Celeste suggested ringing any bells?

Ed

jstevewhite · Post by **jstevewhite** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:32 pm

Ed - One last try. If this one doesn't work, I'll just delete the document and write the article over from scratch.

Celeste - thanks for the feedback - I wish it were that simple. I don't do much work in Windows anymore since my primary (bill-paying) job is being a *nix systems engineer. Macs are *nix based (BSD via NeXT with a Mach Microkernel) and it makes my job ever so much smoother. This document was Word 2008 ( that's the OSX version from Microsoft) because Ed had been having trouble with odd characters showing up from the documents I wrote in Scrivener. But yeah, Word was closed. This is also the ONLY document I created start-to-finish in Word.

Won't be doing THAT anymore!

Thanks again, everyone. Sorry to be such a pain.

-jstevewhite

Celeste Stewart · Post by **Celeste Stewart** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:42 pm

What file extension does the Word 2008 version save it in? I know Ed can't open .docx which is the Word 2007 extension.

jstevewhite · Post by **jstevewhite** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:28 pm

It wants to save to .docx, but I won't let it.

Apparently, the first time it saved to 97-2003 compatible format it didn't write an extension at all. Now it's been exported to the venerable .rtf, or at least as close to .rtf as Word can do. I'm assuming Ed is using Word as well.

Thanks again!

Steve

Ed · Post by Ed » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:53 am

Success.

jstevewhite · Post by **jstevewhite** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:55 am

Woohoo! - Thanks for all of your patience there, Ed. That was bizarre.

Thanks again!

Steve

Ed · Post by Ed » Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:03 am

Well, thanks for not giving up. I know it cost you a lot of time that could have been spent writing. I'll consider this even auspicious and hope the rest of the day goes as well.

Ed