Hi List, particularly those who work with
Word docs frequently,
If you people want me to (and if you give me
permission), I'm willing to conduct a
statistical study (similar to the ones that
I've done two years ago regarding memory
issues with IE). This time, it concerns Word
support and conversion issues.
Here's the background:
Lately, some people were experiencing an
issue where some Word docs could not be
opened on their machines. Apparently the
theory is that it might be caused by complex
formatting or inclusion of features which
KeySoft does not support.
Here is the inference, or the result that I
want to get:
Null hypothesis: there's no issue with Word
support as of KeySoft 7.5.28.
against
Alternate hypothesis: there are in fact
issues with Word support.
with 95% confidence with margin of error of
plus or minus 2.5%.
Here is the procedure:
1. Copy couple Word files: try copying four
or five Word docs, with at least one having
complex formatting such as images and/or
tables that are bound to have format marker
indicator and/or language tags. I recommend
that at least half should be saved under Word
2003, about 10% should be saved under Word
2007 (save it as Word 2003 file) and others
under XP (2002) or 2000.
2. Open a simple document first using either
"Open" prompt under KeyWord and/or from File
Manager/Directory option. See if KeyWord
presents errors and if not, check and see if
the contents are intact.
3. Now, open a second document, this time
the one that might contain language tags
(dollar sign, lge). Check if lang tags are
there and if the contents are intact.
4. Now, open a document that has images
and/or tables. See if you can read tables.
5. Next, open another doc that is bound to
show a lot of format markers (dollar sign,
fm). Check if this mark is present at the
beginning of every line and that the text is
there.
I'll try this myself (if I find some
documents). Let me know your findings (I'll
publish the result myself). The result would
be useful later on (maybe in another
BrailleNote Chat or something similar to add
to the website).
Cheers,
Joseph
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