We seem to be doing something wrong. Any changes we make to a document do not show up when we open it in duxbury. Thoughts? Thanks! Erin oOoOoOoOoOoOo On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Lmonform@xxxxxxx wrote: > I use Word because it seems (to be) a bit better with text-handling than the > version of DBT that we have installed at our location. Also, I prefer the > grammar and spell-check capabilities of Word to that of DBT. > > I have found that it is much better to open the Word document from within DBT > than to try to copy/paste it. There were a number of characters that > translated incorrectly into Braille when I would copy/paste (about 5 years > ago, when I was very new to Duxbury). Opening the Word document within DBT > solved all of those problems. > > I'm not familiar with megadots, so I can't say anything about that software. > > Linda Monformoso > Braille Transcriptionist > Maplewood, NJ > > In a message dated 3/18/2011 11:03:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > livin4advntr@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Can you please tell me why using Word to prepare your documents is a > preferred way when using Duxbury? Why can't you just use the DBT transcribing > software? I am sorry for the ignorance but I am a new user to duxbury and > am used to using megadots. > Also I would like to know if when you do use Word do you have to copy and > paste into your duxbury doc? I would like to do this differently but this is > how I was shown. Thank you for your advice. > > Subject: [duxuser] Re: page numbering > Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:37:25 +0000 > From: george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To begin with, see Help: Codes, Styles and Templates: Codes: Page Numbering: > Print Page Numbers. > > How are you preparing your documents? Hopefully it's with Word for Windows, > in which case I can give you some further details to help do this. > > George. > > From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of shiftynifty100@xxxxxxx > Sent: 13 March 2011 03:25 > To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [duxuser] page numbering > > > > Is it possible to override the way pages are numbered in Duxbury so that they > correspond to page numbers from the text books that the other students are > using? > We would like to number them the way our textbooks come...such as a1, > b1,c1,d1...a2,b2, etc. > > =