[duxuser] Re: Another item for the wish list
- From: "Susan Stageberg" <stageberg.susan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:31:47 -0600
Hi Deb and all. We are talking here about doing away with WordPerfect and only
using Word and Duxbury to do our editing; those of us who love WordPerfect have
been continually pointing out that when we get a document that is a mess, as
you say, WordPerfect is the easiest and best way to figure out what is causing
the mess. The Friends of Word club says that Word does indeed have macros for
cleanup and that you can look at the codes in a document; we are not convinced
but may not have any choice. I don't think there is any good answer for
getting documents that are easy for Duxbury to emboss. You'd have to train the
whole world. Somebody yesterday was telling me that they had a document where
a new page was forced by repeatedly hitting "enter". I have seen lines
centered with spaces. Obviously Duxbury goes nuts when this comes along. Then
there are the text boxes and all that other stuff. Duxbury is a wonderful
program but it's not magic.
Susie
-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Barnes [mailto:dbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:11 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Another item for the wish list
Londa, I sure agree with you. If the documents I get for transcription were
okay to start with I could get them done in record time. But often, they're
done incorrectly or not using the styles and so forth that are available in
Word and they are a mess when I get them. I often tell those who work with
me that they have no real idea what we go through to get the documents
embossed in some sort of order.
Deb B.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Londa Hauser
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:22 AM
To: 'duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Another item for the wish list
Actually, the big problem for many of us is that we get documents which
someone else has created. Most of the time they aren't created well, so
then we have to use dbt to fix all the problems. It's either that or put
in and/or change style codes in word. I feel funny about playing with
someone else's word document that way. Just to throw another dilemma into
the picture.
Londa Hauser, Access Technology Specialist
Tri-County Association for the Blind
(717) 238-2531
lhauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tricountyblind.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Dresser [SMTP:s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 2:18 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Another item for the wish list
On Saturday 1/25/03 07:01 George Bell wrote:
>As DBT has evolved, especially over the last year or two, I have tended
>to use Word for Windows as my primary preparation program.
There's certainly a lot to be said for doing that, especially when you
consider the power of a word processor. My own dilemma is figuring out
when it makes sense to use the word processor and when I should be tweaking
things in DBTW. Sometimes the importer does very well, but at other times
I simply have to work in DBT to get the results I want. That said, I'm all
for making things as easy and painless as possible.
Steve
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