Hi Mayrie!!When I was first having a lot of trouble with crashes in Word 2000, I tried a whole raft of both freeware and shareware word processors. Unfortunately, none of them gave me the page break information I needed, so I abandoned them and went back to Word and with help from Judy S. and my husband, improved Word's performance.
OpenBook does fine on the page breaks, but it's not as feature rich as I'd like for proofreading, so Word it will be for me.
Debby At 01:46 AM 3/23/2010, Mayrie ReNae wrote
Hi there, Unfortunately, you do need software that will recognize, preserve, and announce page breaks. From what I know, and I don't use NVDA but JAWS, the two pieces of software best able to do what you need to do when proofreading are either Word, or Kurzweil 1000. Sorry to tell you what may be inconvenient news. But happy proofreading! Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andromache Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:29 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Proofreading Software I've just been approved for volunteering for a second time. I used to be on this list a long time ago but had a different e-mail address. I remember some of the names here. But my question is about screen readers and pagination, and what software works best to edit books. I tried opening the book in both WordPad and OpenOffice, but I don't get any feedback on page breaks. If it helps, I'm using the NVDA screen reader. Do I need to purchase MS Word for the sake of pagination? Thanks in advance for your help. Andromache To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2771 - Release Date: 03/26/10 02:33:00
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