[bksvol-discuss] Re: Opening a book in Microsoft word.

  • From: Lelia <leliastruve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 14:34:50 -0700

Hello all, well the issue is resolved I am reading my book. I actually had to 
call Microsoft accessibility for them to help me fix something in windows. 
Thank you all life is good

Lelia 

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> On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:08 AM, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Lelia, what you want to do is turn the Braille translation off before
> opening the book in Word. That was the only way I could manage to use it.
> Now I don't suppose you have Kurzweill on your system do you? Regards, Kim.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lelia Struve
> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 2:18 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Opening a book in Microsoft word.
> 
> Hi, first let me give you details on what I have, I am running windows
> 7 on a dell desktop, I have jaws 13, and I've got a focus blue 40 classic.
> 
> What I want to do is read a book with jaws and my focus 40 blue.  When I try
> opening a book in the BRf format in word it says it can't open the file.  So
> I then tried downloading the same book in daisy text only and opened the
> folder and tried renaming the mxl part of the book and for some odd reason
> renaming was disabled.
> 
> Any tips on this would be greatly appreciated, I can't believe there isn't a
> way to just open a bookshare book in word and read with your Braille
> display.
> 
> I also tried web reader and ugh that is not very accessible.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> --
> Lelia
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