Fun question! Here are a few things to try. You could save the file as a space-delimited .prn file. Before transferring it to the BN, I would rename the resulting file with a .txt extension.
You could save it as an htm file and then open it in Keyweb. Text is converted to a table,but with two columns, this shouldn't be bad. You could convert to a .csv file, comma-separated. This would read well if you're reading in braille. I would think with these files if you set the reading mode to line, with either the prn or csv approach, with both renamed to .txt documents so the BN can recognize the file format, you would be able to use the spreadsheet. I have bus schedules in .xls format that I saved to .txt, less elaborate than the formats I suggested to you. Line breaks were preserved. As for accents, I would think they would be preserved, but you would then want to set computer braille to Spanish. Dean -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Oscar Corella Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Braillenote] Converting a file from excel to BN Hi, I hope I am not too far off topic here but I have a large excel spreadsheet with two columns of text and I need to save it in a way that the MPower can access it. Saving it as a txt file does not preserve the formatting and everything ends up on one very very long contiguous line. On top of that, the file has Spanish words and I need to preserve the accent signs. Does anyone have any suggestions? I tried going through ms word but no luck. This is not my area of expertise and I am way out of my element. thank you ___ 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
