[bksvol-discuss] Re: Editing with BNPK
- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:22:03 -0400
Thanks Regina. Very helpful. I'll make a file copy, then do some
experiments.
Tracy
> When you enter on the book name use space with X or enter with X and you
> will, as you repeat the command repeatedly, see the types of different
> files
> you might need. When you see .doc just enter. By the way, hope you have
> a
> braille keyboard and not a qwerty or ignore this is the word and sorry for
> cluttering up your day. Hope it helps, though, and hope you can open in
> Word. Sometimes those BN files are a real bear!
> Reggie
>
>
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> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 11:39 AM
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Editing with BNPK
>
>> Hi Debby.
>> That sounds like a good guess. I don't know how to make the BN save as
>> a
>> .doc file, though. If anyone does, please let me know the trick.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>> Hi Tracy!
>>>
>>> I don't have a BrailleNote, so I can't say specifically, but I'll take
>>> a
>>> guess based on an experience I have.
>>>
>>> I scan with OpenBook 7. Although I can save the ark file directly as
>>> an
>>> RTF, I don't, because MS Word doesn't like it. I get some kind of
>>> error
>>> that I can't remember what it is, because it's been about two years
>>> since
>>> I
>>> tried that. I must save as a doc file first while still in
>>> OpenBook. OpenBook's version of a Word document is Word version 6, 7,
>>> and
>>> 8, I think, so that's why Word 2003 doesn't like the RTF from
>>> OpenBook. Then I can open the doc file in Word by just hitting enter
>>> on
>>> it, and, whether I leave it as is and change it by saving as an RTF or
>>> first changing it to a Word 2003 doc file and then to an RTF, all is
>>> well. I wanted to experiment both ways when I first discovered the
>>> problem. Perhaps there is something with the BrailleNote file that is
>>> similar.
>>>
>>> Debby
>>>
>>> At 12:42 PM 10/5/2011, Tracy Carcione wrote
>>>>I was able to retrieve my file by going to Wordpad on my PC and opening
>>>>the file I'd copied from the BN, then re-saving it under a different
>>>> name.
>>>> Klooge! But at least I have my work.
>>>>I'd still like to know why Word won't open the file directly, though.
>>>>Tracy
>>>>
>>>> > Hi all,
>>>> >
>>>> > Use the file manager menu, check to see what kind of file it is.
>>>> > Suspect it got saved as a Keyword document. If so, go to file
>>>> manager,
>>>> > then translate and then choose RTF if they have it or doc. That
>>>> will
>>>> > be OK. You can always save it from Word as an RTF.
>>>> >
>>>> > Ann P.
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