[Stylist] basic tutorial on prepping docs for sighted readers

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

Thumb drives, or flash drives, what they are also called, are just storeage
devices, equivalent to floppy disks of days gone by, grin. SD cards are also
the same thing. On your laptop, there should be a thumb drive slot to place
the device in. It's different on different computers. Once you put it in, it
might automatically bring up the device, but usually you have to open it.
Again, it will depend on your computer, but likely you will go to the start
menu, find computer and then find the device. You can name a thumb drive, so
when you bring it up, it's easier to find. For example, mine is named
Christmas, so when I'm in the menu, I can navigate to it quickly. Once the
device is open, you can create folders just like you do on your laptop. You
can also copy and paste documents and folders onto the drive. I always
recommend people use a thumb drive or SD card to back-up work. Once I'm done
working on something, I back it up to a thumb drive.

 

Bridgit

 

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More great suggestions! As I told Annie privately the other day, I am going
to copy/paste much of them into a Word doc I can refer back to as needed. I
did have a little experience with APA during my student days long, long ago,
but of course have forgotten quite a bit-though I may still have the
hardcopy Braille doc of instructions. At this point, I have a chapbook draft
awaiting my fine-tuning (on a thumb drive; I know this sounds dumb, and
maybe someone could also give me pointers on this-I am deathly afraid of
losing all that work through a stupid thumb drive mistake I might make in
trying to save the material once I do finish the fine-tuning; so, could
someone explain using a thumb drive-the only successful experience I've ever
had is using the NLS carts with the BARD site, so I am a total newbie at
anything but editing right on my desktop computer)! I have a draft novel,
which I think is in OpenBook awaiting more attention. Also considering
church newsletter articles, and/or a little church lit mag, and you never
know where life may take you career-wise-I might someday be tasked with
doing some PR materials. So, I have given a bit of thought about the idea
you've all presented: that graphics are less preferred except for PR and
advertising-that was my hunch. You're all giving me a lot to run with, which
I appreciate more than I can say.

 

 

 

Sandra

 

Something is wrong, I know it, if I don't keep my attention on eternity. May
I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful.

(Mary Oliver) 

 

 

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