Since several people have expressed wonder at my interest in having a
"margin bell" in word, I'll explain my reason. When sighted people are
entering text in a Word document, they are tracking their formatting
visually. They make decisions based upon how the text is lining up. A
person using jaws can do the same thing, but we have to stop typing in
the text and press some jaws commands to make jaws tell us what column
and what row we're on. I admit, it would be a luxury, but the most
likely reason Duxbury developers decided to put that margin bell in
Duxbury was for the blind users of the program, and I am very happy to
have it.
ANN FOXWORTH, BRAILLE CONSULTANT
DARS DIVISION FOR BLIND SERVICES
CRISS COLE REHABILITATION CENTER
4800 N LAMAR BLVD
AUSTIN, TX 78757
PH: 512-377-0471
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Susan Jolly
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 2:34 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Margin Bell in Word
I'm not quite sure why you'd want a margin bell in Word but you can use
Word to produce a text file with line breaks at the end of each line as
follows.
I don't know how to do this in Jaws but it should be possible.
Set the font to Courier New or some other monospace font. Set the left
and right margins and/or font size so that a line will just hold however
many characters you want the maximum to be. Then type normally. Word
will automatically wrap to the next line after spaces unless you hit
Enter for a new paragraph. If you insert or delete any words later, Word
will re-wrap the lines in the changed paragraph as necessary.
Then, when you save the file, do a "Save As" and select Plain Text from
the Save As Type pull-down list This will bring up a File Conversion
box.
Check the "Insert Line Breaks" option. This will put a line break after
every line in the file. Of course, once you've done this, you can't
edit the file so it's a good idea to also save the original file as an
ordinary Word document in case you want to edit it.
HTH,
SusanJ
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