It depends on the document. I just dealt with some of those mysterious blank RTF docs, and the only work around I found was to save them in plain text on the PC. Then, when you open the doc on the BN, be sure to choose line format when opening and saving, otherwise you will lose all of your line breaks. Let me know if you need clarification.
HTH Sarah -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Cummings Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:21 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: [Braillenote] Opening RTF documents: urgent help needed! Hi list. This problem has only just come up today but it is a major problem for me anyway. At school, my carer puts work onto usb memory sticks for me to insert into keyword documents in class. The files are saved in rich text format (rtf). Today when i went to insert something, it inserted nothing. So i went and tried to open the rtf file directly and it just gave me a blank document with a few funny format markers showing on the braille display. This problem hasn't really come up until today. Last week, the laptop used to save the files broke so we were issued with a replacement. This replacement was running windows vista and i believe it was using MS Word 2007. I'm wondering whether it is anything to do with the fact that it is Word 2007. But the only strange thing about that would be that I was able to insert a document saved on that computer at the end of last week and use it without any problem. Oh and the files contained no complex formatting so i don't think it would have anything to do with that. Any help would be much appreciated as this has suddenly become a very serious problem for me. Thanks and sorry for the long email. Blind Tech Mailing List Administrator email: [email protected] Zone BBS username: pocket_PC (ID 8332) Braillenote mPower BT 32 user version: keysoft 7,5 build 29 words of wisdom: technology: it's great when it works, but rubbish when it doesn't! ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
