[nabs-l] docx files on the braillenote

[Chris Nusbaum]

What's funny is you can read DOCX files on another Humanware 
product, namely the Victor Stream, but not on the BrailleNote.

 Chris Nusbaum

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National 
Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)

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Sent from my BrailleNote

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:45:54 -0400
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] docx files on the braillenote

Hi All,
As of now, the BrailleNote does NOT support docx files.  It's the 
one
problem I have with the BrailleNote.  I find that the best thing 
to do
is convert your docx files to .doc files.  However, Humanware 
really
should do something to make reading docx files possible, because 
I
wonder how much longer .doc will be available?
Patrick

On 9/15/11, Humberto Avila <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
 Hello,
 I think the latest version of the Braille Note Apex, version 
9.01, does
 support opening and reading .DOCX  extention, but not quite sure 
if you can
 write .DOCX documents.  But, you can open them--which is a good 
thing.


 -----Original Message-----
 From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
 Of Chris Nusbaum
 Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:49 PM
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] docx files on the braillenote

 Hi Vejas,

 Unfortunately, DOCX files are unsupported with the BrailleNote 
as
 of now.  The only thing you can do is put the files on a thumb
 drive or SD card and convert it to a DOC or TXT file.

 Chris

  Chris Nusbaum

 "The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The
 real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
 exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and
 opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
 nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National
 Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)

   Visit the I C.A.N.  Foundation online at:
 www.icanfoundation.info for
 information on our foundation and how it helps blind and 
visually
 impaired children in MD say "I can!"


 Sent from my BrailleNote

  ----- Original Message -----
 From: vejas <brlsurfer at gmail.com
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
 list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:14:42 -0700
 Subject: [nabs-l] docx files on the braillenote

 Hi All,
 I am having a problem with DOCX files.  Today my Spanish teacher
 gave me some files, and two were DOCX, which I can't read.  She
 was unable to tell the difference between DOC and DOCX.  Do you
 think there is a possible way to open DOCX files, maybe in the
 next version?
 Sincerely,
 Vejas

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