[bksvol-discuss] Re: Opening a book in Microsoft word.
- From: "Sandra Ryan" <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 17:17:45 -0600
I'd bet Text Edit might open a .brf file. It's an ASCII text file. Just looks
funky because of what the ASCII characters mean in Braille!
Sandi
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Valerie Maples
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Opening a book in Microsoft word.
I will have to see what my download the options are, but I don't have notepad
or WordPad on a Mac, only TextEdit. I have to see if it can open up other file
extensions.
Thanks!
Valerie😃
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Please forgive any speech recognition errors! :-)
> On Feb 2, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Sandra Ryan <sjryan2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What if you tried opening the .brf document in Notepad or Wordpad? I
> think they will open .brf files.
>
> Sandi
>
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lelia Struve
> Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 4:18 PM
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> 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.
>
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