[duxuser] Re: Why is resetting margins preferable to using the tab key to...
- From: WarrenDFig@xxxxxxx
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:49:08 EST
In a message dated 11/26/2003 3:18:32 PM Central Standard Time,
Alan.Blackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Forgive my ignorance, but I don’t get the point! Why use Word to edit your
files before you import them into DBT. It sounds like you are going to have to
edit the file anyway (at the very least Braille formatting is nothing like
print formatting) so why not do it in DBT in the first place and edit once. I
am
not a Word user and can’t see the sense in learning to use Word to edit
something in 2 programs—twice!
Alan
I am responsible for the formatting of both print and braille documents so I
have had to learned skills in both word processors and braille production
software.
I use Word as an editor
Because I can edit so much faster in Word. DBT's editor is not the greatest.
(It's getting better but it has a long way to go.)
Because Word has an undo feature and DBT doesn't--There are times when I have
done dumb things and undo has saved me.
Because Word has a do-this-again single keystroke which saves tons of time
when applying the same style of format throughout a document.
Because I can undo sloppy formatting like multiple columns typed as one with
tabs and spaces much easier in Word
Because Word's find and replace features and macros make editing so much
easier than in DBT.
Because I've been using Word since the mid 1980s so I'm comfortable with its
features. I like Word just as many of you folks liked Word Perfect 5.1.
I don't view it as editing twice. I merely accomplish some things in Word and
other things in DBT.
It's a comfort zone thing for me--I work where I can produce braille in the
shortest time possible.
Warren
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