[bksvol-discuss] Re: Help, my computer took a turn for the worse

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 15:26:02 -0700 (PDT)

Warning: My friend just bought a new computer--I think a Dell. She's been 
taking some Word lessons at the emeritus college (free courses) at the 
community college,but is frustrated because the assignments are n Word 2003 and 
she hasn't been able to convert them to 2007--and Vista has been causing her 
problems.

Lissi, maybe you should look into a Mac laptop. Didn't Chris H say it worked 
with voice?

It is possible that your computer  has "had" it. How old is it? 

As to the paragraph mark showing or not, I think that might change with the 
document. I always have mine on, and have it on the toolbar, but when it 
disappeared once I had to find it and drag it to the toolbar. But whether yours 
would be in the same place as mine, since I have a Mac, I don't know.

Good luck.

G.Cindy


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--- On Sat, 7/5/08, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Help, my computer took a turn for the worse
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 2:32 PM
> Dear Mary Ann, Cat Lover Lori Jackie, and Grand Cindy,
> 
> I'm ascared!
> 
> Control 8 didn't change anything. Maybe I'm
> supposed to be doing something 
> before I press control 8. I opened another book from my
> queue and it didn't 
> have those half lollipops jaws calls New Paragraph in a
> high voice. Only the 
> book I really wanted to finish today has them!
> 
> I was going to copy my file as text, but don't know
> where to put it and just 
> whimped out.
> 
> I went to the boxes Jackie talked about and didn't know
> what to check or 
> uncheck, but I think there was a box for paragraph markers
> and it was not 
> checked, so why do I have the markers. Now I think maybe I
> should have 
> highlighted the whole mess before pressing control 8. I
> just don't know. Now 
> that I see the Sweet Valley Twins Book I have isn't
> messed up, I'll work on 
> that, or on this wonderful biography of Jane Austin which I
> just got in 
> print from the library today so can finally start.
> 
> If Evan wasn't off covering the Amusement parks and
> fireworks circuits in 
> Pennsylvania he would either help me or council patience
> and convince me 
> again that computers are wonderful and are getting better
> all of the time 
> and that I'm not as computer impaired as I think I am.
> He is so right about 
> a lot of things, but in his denial that I'm computer
> impaired. I do have a 
> bad case of that.
> 
> I'm off to gratefully take Jackie up on her offer of
> help, though I think 
> discovering why my computer acts out is a lost cause. I
> don't even know 
> where that brightness preference thing is so I could tell
> it not to look so 
> dark and dismal as if it is having a personal brown out!
> Whoa is me!
> 
> I do have a plan for chilling. I have a hard copy of the
> fourth book in the 
> Mitford series from the
> Wisconsin braille volunteers.
> 
> They are also selling Gateway Computers all day on Home
> Shoppers tomorrow. 
> I'll buy a laptop which I want because I'd love to
> validate on my backyard 
> swing or hammock, or couch or anywhere that isn't my
> office chair. But how 
> would I ever learn Vista and Word 2007? I can already see
> me using the 30 
> day return option and swearing to keep my current computer
> working for the 
> next 50 years!!
> 
> Always with love,
> 
> Lissi
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mary Anne Lynskey"
> <yeksnyl1953am@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:26 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Help, my computer took a turn
> for the worse
> 
> 
> > Lissi, when I get a bunch of junk like that I'd
> consider saving the file 
> > as
> > TXT.  First though, you want to replace your page
> breaks with something 
> > like
> > qqq so that when you reconvert again, you can have the
> qqq where the page
> > breaks used to be.  then, save as txt.  Then, close
> the file. Go to 
> > Windows
> > Explorer, find your txt document and right click.  use
> the open with and
> > choose word as the program to open the file.  Now that
> you are in word
> > again, replace the qqq with the page break.  I usually
> replace with
> > ^p^p^m^p^p which will put a few blank lines before and
> after the page
> > breaks.  Don't forget to back up your original
> file before doing any of 
> > this
> > so that you have it, just in case something goes
> wrong.
> >
> > You should have your page breaks back now and can save
> as RTF.  I hope 
> > this
> > helps.
> >
> > --
> > Mary Anne Lynskey
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