Thanks. I'll try this. Sharon
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Speicher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 6:06 AM To: Sharon Clark; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Erasing Format with the BN No, you're not necessarily stuck. Press the outer thumb keys simultaneously until "editing" appears on the display. If you're starting from the default settings, 4 presses should do it. (THE display should cycle through "automatic", "layout", "reading" and then "editing". Once you're in editing mode, all embedded codes should show on the display while reading the document. The first tab on a line shows up as$t, that is, dots 1-2-4-6 then t with no intervening space. Subsequent tabs on that line show up, progressively, as$t2, $t3, etc., without the commas. When you find a tab code, press the appropriate cursor routing button to place the cursor on that character. You can then delete that code as you would any other word: for example, with backspace-dots 2-5. You can also route the cursor to the place just to the right of the tab code then press Backspace. You might then want to route the cursor to what you want to be the first character on the line and use the "where is this" command -- space with dots 1-5-6 -- to determine whether any extra spaces have slipped in during the process. In principle you should be able to do this much more simply, and for a whole document at once, with the global find and replace feature: backspace-F, then F for forward or B for back, then respond to the "find" and "replace with?" prompts. However, on my Apex, this feature works erratically or not at all, sometimes reporting as "not found" strings which show up unambiguously on the display when you go to the right place and look for them. If you're working with an mPower, or if your Apex is one where this feature actually works, First: Go into editing mode as described above and look at a sample occurrence of the tab character you'll want to remove. Determine whether it immediately follows a hard line break or whether there are intervening spaces; do the same for the locations immediately to the left and to the right of the tab code; Second: From this exploration, determine the "target string, that is, the sequence of characters, spaces or codes that you will want to search for and change into something else; Third: Determine what you will want to replace the target string with; Fourth: Initiate global find and replace as described above. When prompted for "find?", enter the target string. For a hard line break (shown on the display as dots 1-2-4-6 then a p, with no intervening space), enter space with dots 2-6; for a space, enter a space (but you may need a "binding" space, for which enter space-with-b; I haven't tried this); for a tab, enter space with t; Fifth: Hit enter to indicate the end of the "find?" string, then respond to the "replace with?" prompt. You may also want to have a look in the Advanced Word Processing chapter of the manual. In the Apex manual, for example, see section 7.4.2.4 and look at the discussion of "Translation find and replace". It seems to me that the manual contains, somewhere, a list of the formatting codes you can search for during find and replace; but I'm not finding it right now. Good luck. Steve Speicher 421 S. 9th Street, Suite 205 Lincoln, NE 68508 Tel.: (402) 475-8355 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Clark" <[email protected] To: "'Nicole B. Torcolini'" <[email protected]>,<[email protected] Date sent: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:26:09 -0400 Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Erasing Format with the BN So, if the BN is not erasing tabs then I'm stuck? Sharon -----Original Message----- From: Nicole B. Torcolini [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 8:22 PM To: Sharon Clark; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Erasing Format with the BN Yes and no. There is not a way to tell the bn to drop all formatting, like in word. However, you can save it as a BRF file and then resave it as a keyword Braille document. This can have minor draw backs, though, particularly if the file has grade change markers and language change markers in it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Clark" <[email protected] To: <[email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:31 PM Subject: [Braillenote] Erasing Format with the BN Hello, Is there a way to zap format with the BrailleNote? A student of mine used tabs to indent a paper, but cannot seem to remove them although the BN beeps like they have been deleted. Upon looking at the same wording, the tab indent is still there. Sharon ___ 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. 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