LOL

Well, I threw my dissertation into its most recent PDF form, then hit "Select All-Copy" and pasted all of the text into Word to check for errors. Boy did I have a lot of typos! But also Word got all the way to 1/2 way through Chapter 5 before it told me "There are too many spelling and grammar errors for Word to continue displaying them". Most of those were weirdness from the PDF copy (lotsofwordsstrungtogetherlikethis whenever a math term was in the sentence), math formulae, and strange page breaks. So I just deleted the first 4 chapters from the document and then it displayed the rest. But how many times can I mis-spell "likleihood," jeez! O_o

All fixed now, hopefully. Gonna go get it printed at Staples. Gotta think about the kind of paper I want to use; there are some pages with high color and graph content that I'd like to put on photo-grade paper, but I've no idea how to do that along with regular paper for the rest of the document.

hm this is going to take more careful thought.

While I am all for spending a little bit more money to make life easier, the "drop dissertation off at Staples" option is going to cost nearly $900 to obtain all copies needed for binding & giving to the university library. Part of the problem is all my color graphs and the fact that they will run all pages as color which is six times more expensive than black & white. So I'm thinking i might be able to buy the paper on my own & print it at work, as long as I don't blow out the ink. Or splitting it into 2 documents so that the color & bw pages can be separated out. Should i do different kind of paper for the big graphics pages? Or would 28 grain paper be good enough for everything? The lady at staples said 28 would suffice but did not really seem to be an expert.

ETA: well I've split it out into the color and non-color parts in different files. This will reduce the cost down to a manageable amount, and I will just have to re-collate the pages together and not mess up