This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Time to fix the "Find" function!

Friday, July 27, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Time to fix the "Find" function!

I would tell you if i could, but currently i'm busy killing centipedes
running around my screen, reminding me of (and feeling into) a Burroughs
story.

Bouke

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shirley Gutierrez" <guanacaa@aol.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Time to fix the "Find" function!

> That would make sense, and I suspected as much. Except how do I type the
> different types of apostrophes? I only see on character for that on my
> keyboard.
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> Shirley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bouke <bouke@editb.nl>
> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 2:53 am
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Time to fix the "Find" function!
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> beside that, there are multiple apostrophes (well, they are different but
> look alike, and have of course different char codes.
> I highly suspect the problem to lie there.
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> Bouke
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> VideoToolShed
> van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
> 6512 AS NIJMEGEN
> The Netherlands
> +31 24 3553311
> www.videotoolshed.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger" <rogershuff@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Time to fix the "Find" function!
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>> Of course we old apostrophe pedants would argue that either that
>> apostrophe is in the wrong place or shouldn't be there at all! Avid is
>> throwing a hissy fit and trying to educate you!
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>> On 27 Jul 2012, at 01:27, Shirley Gutierrez wrote:
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>>> I'm I just cursed, or is anyone else finding that sometime the Find
>>> window simply refuses to search on certain terms when searching scripts?
>>> This one is "20's" as in "I was in my 20's when it happened." I've tried
>>> deselecting "whole words only" but no dice. I can search on "20," but
>>> that brings up every TC number in the script that contains that term. I
>>> have the raw transcript, and I can search on "20's" just fine in the
>>> context of MS Word - is it possible Word does something better than
>>> Avid?
>>>
>>> I understand the search capabilities in version 6 products are much more
>>> robust than in previous products; I just sometimes wish the search
>>> window
>>> were less of a diva. I've had weird problems with timeline text searches
>>> as well, and I'm starting to lose confidence that a negative search
>>> result really means anything.
>>>
>>> Thanks! Rant over.
>>>
>>> Shirley
>>>
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>> With best wishes,
>> Roger Shufflebottom
>> +44 7973 543 660
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