Another thing I would have done, (if my Braille Lite hadn't died the day I
got the brailleNote,) would have been to use both machines and read from one
while typing the required fields in to the other. If I ever get that old
thing fixed, I will do just that, since I lost everything. As I was backing
up data, it bit the dust. Hope this helps. I haven't checked mail in
awhile so I am still catching up with all the new developments.
Melissa
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From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] importing to address list
Hello!
What I have done thus far with one of my braille lite address files is
copy into the clipboard one piece of information at a time. I may know
the name of Joe Miller (a name I thought of in thin air), and I'd simply
type that into where the Keylist database wants it. I then look for what
the database requires next. If I have Mr. Millers Email address in that
file, I copy that to clipboard. I then go back into the database and
paste that piece of information. I then paste the street address. If it
has more than one line, I just copy and paste the first line of the
address, then the second line. Then I paste, City, then State, then Zip
or postal code. I keep copying and pasting appropriate information to the
clipboard till I answer all the required fields the database needs. Its
very easy to go back and forth between your file and the database since
the Braillenote remembers which file you opened last! Once you save a
record in the database, you can add more to it by typing backspace with
dots one four on a BT keyboard. You keep going back into your record and
pasting new information into it until it has all the information you want
in it. This process sounds tedious which it is but strangely enough, it
can go quite quickly! It is one of those things you do between major
projects. Since you paste needed information into the clipboard, you
don't need to retype it in. If you have ten years worth of stuff, you may
need to do some house cleaning so to speak. Mrs. Jones might have become
Mrs. Smith and moved to a completely different city. That would need to
be updated. You may have lost contact with others in your list. I could
go on and on.
As I say, this has worked for me and the clipboard will be your best
friend through this process. You need to paste one piece of information
at a time otherwise you could get too much data in a given field. Keep
that old file as long as you can! You may need to look up something in it
before you had a chance to paste into your new BN database.
HTH
Jim Aldrich
At 09:43 AM 06/23/2005 , you wrote:
yes you make sense. the braille lite treats the numbers as letters with a
number sign unless the numbers are dropped so i guess i am out of luck.
i have almost 10 years worth of contacts in that one file alone. wo is
me!
dan
At 09:28 AM 6/23/05, Susan Stageberg wrote:
The only way I can think of would be to save your Braille Lite address
list as a text document, put it on a floppy or some other storage medium
that works in both machines, and then copy the text file over to the
BrailleNote. The two machines don't understand each other as they are;
whether the Braille Lite's text file will be readable in the BrailleNote
I can't tell you for sure. The other way would be to somehow move your
Braille Lite file to your PC, save it as text, and then ActiveSync it
the text file over to the BrailleNote. You won't have a database like
the BrailleNote's contacts list; you'll just have a big blob of text
with the i information in it. Probably no quickie way to morph it into
the Keylist format.
I hope I'm wrong, and I'm sure somebody will pipe up if I am.
Susie
Susie Stageberg
Project ASSIST with Windows
Iowa Department for the Blind
(515) 281-1351
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dan kysor
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Braillenote] importing to address list
i have this huge contacts file on my braille lite, sorry for the
language! can i import this file to the address list?
dan
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