Hi, Antonio,
I'm sorry to hear that you are having trouble learning how to use the
BrailleNote. I was able to use mine straight out of the box, but I was
familiar with Keysoft since I'd used a VoiceNote and a Keynote Companion.
The answer to your first question is no. The "review previous options"
question is always asked when you open any file which isn't a KeyWord file.
The answer to your second question about navigating files and folders is
most of us find the folders and subfolders awkward at first. The secret of
using subfolders is to press control with t to bring up the directories
list. (I think the BT command is function with t.) Then navigate through
the list of directories by pressing the space bar and to get to the
subdirectories you would press the right arrow key (don't know what right
arrow is for the bt keyboard). When you find the subdirectory you want,
press enter.
Another way to access directories and subdirectories is to simply type the
directory/subdirectory's name. For example, if you had a directory called
customers and it contained a subdirectory called John Doe, you would type
/customers/john doe.
The BrailleNote will allow you to set the line length to be whatever you
want. Go to the page settings menu. Press space until you get to page
width. Type a number between 5 and 250. The default margins in a braille
document are 0. 250 characters should be enough for anyone! You can also
change the page length so that a page can be from 5 lines to 250 lines.
The BrailleNote has commands for reading letter by letter, word by word,
sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph and line by line. I don't know
the BT commands, but others on the list could help you. The default
boundary for a paragraph in a braille document is a new line. You can
change the paragraph boundaries to anything you want.
You can also see the format indicators by pressing the previous and next
thumb keys together until you reach "edit mode."
You can even turn off word wrap and the BrailleNote will behave like a
Perkins brailler or manual typewriter. If you have speech turned on and
your keyboard voice is spell or words, you will hear a tone when you are 10
spaces from the end of the line.
I'm also wondering why, if you are happy with the BrailleSense, you are
"transitioning to a BrailleNote." Is your employer making you change?
For me, the BrailleSense would be harder to learn to use than the
BrailleNote and I prefer a QT keyboard over a bt keyboard.
I hope my explanations help you.
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