George: good point lets hope it makes a difference. My concern of course is that in the past the percentage of Dux. users were braillests however as with computers in general many users are now appliance operators they don't care how it works they only want to be able to do what they need. in otherwards plug it in and get Braille. thanks for your input. Terry Bray System Support Analyst Adaptive Technology Services - Strategy and Planning Desktop Planning & Design ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS, Technology & Solutions Phone 416-549-6190 ________________________________ From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 8:20 AM To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxuser] Re: Help with a ppt. Hi Terry, In an ideal world, perhaps. But right now, it's hard enough just figuring out the inner workings of a Word file. However, there is some possible cause for optimism now that there is a definite move towards XML file format, especially with Office 2007. At least with XML, it should be easy enough to identify the text content. George. ________________________________ From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bray, Terry Sent: 19 September 2006 13:14 To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxuser] Re: Help with a ppt. the real question in this modern age of stable platforms is why can't we import directly not only from PowerPoint but excel as well. This question is flippant however producing Braille is important to those of us who use it we are already faced with difficulties however saving files importing files and cleaning them up seems to me to be a vary impractical way to handle this especially considering the power of Duxbury already. Personally I don't have the time at work to save retrieve let alone make the necessary changes required however I do need the documents for both PowerPoint and excel. Terry Bray System Support Analyst Adaptive Technology Services - Strategy and Planning Desktop Planning & Design ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS, Technology & Solutions Phone 416-549-6190 ________________________________ From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keren Hedges Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 1:56 PM To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxuser] Re: Help with a ppt. I haven't tried importing straight to Duxbury, but I often cut and paste the text into word first, section by section, sometimes the text is in a text box so I make sure I select the text inside the text box, and not the whole text box. Keren