Pat and others, It appears to me that when I access the NotePad++ preferences menu, I can make it accessible by finding the "Show Close Button on Every Tab" check box with the mouse pointer and then unchecking it. After that, I seem to have to close the preferences with ALT F4 or from the system menu. Also, I have not found a way to save the preference that does not include the close button on every TAB. Jeff, maybe if what I have found works, the developer would be willing to make it easier to not have a close button on every TAB or look at why that particular option seems to mess everything up. I only did this a few minutes ago so I don't know if there are other limitations.
As others have mentioned, NotePad++ really won't process Word documents very well. I tried one document, and when one turns word wrapping on, much of the text does display. However, what has not been mentioned is that Duxbury takes advantage of Word styles to do formatting, and you would loose much of that by trying to edit a document in NotePad++. However, you can do some editing of Word Documents directly within Duxbury itself. Unless I am missing something, you would be best off learning about Duxbury's edit features if you are planning on editing documents from others that are created in Word. If you are creating your own documents for brailling, using Duxbury's editor might not be a bad way to go as well, also. Obviously, you could look at creating a text document with NotePad++ and then either including Duxbury commands or bringing your text into Duxbury and applying formatting there. I think, though, that it is worth giving some thought to all this and perhaps experimenting before settling on a solution. I don't think associating DOC, DOCX, and other such extensions to NotePad is the answer. Associating them with Duxbury might work, though. Also WordPad may work for some of these. Best regards, Steve Jacobson On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:29:39 -0500, Pat Ferguson wrote: >Hi Everyone, >I'm using the latest version of Window-Eyes with the text editor >called NotePad Plus Plus. This is free. >I'm trying to associate all my doc and docx files with it, so that it >will open them in their proper format, instead of using either >NotePad or WordPad. I'm using the latest version of Window-Eyes, but >the menus don't appear to be accessible in the Preferences menus. I >kind of like the program. I'm using it because I'm avoiding Microsoft >Word like a plague. I don't like it, and I'm not going to use it. <smile> >I have to keep my files in their proper format, to translate and >braille them with Duxbury. >Any help with NotePad Plus Plus and Window-Eyes is greatly appreciated, please. >Or if anyone has another better editor that will correctly read .doc. >and .docx file, with Window-Eyes, I would greatly appreciate this so very much. >Thanks much. >Pat Ferguson >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. >If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage >your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
