[Stylist] Thumb Drives

[Joanne Alongi]

HI Sandra,

My experience with a thumb drive is it it has a USB connector that you plug into one of the side slots on your desktop or laptop. A dialog pops up in Windows on my computer listing all the drives you can get docs to or from and so cursor down to the newest one let’s say E, I think it’s E on mine because D is the DVD drive and C is the drive on the computer. If there are no documents on the thumb drive open a Word document, create your document then tab back till you find the list of folders and open My Computer and choose that drive then save as usual. Tab till you find the name field, name your document, pick RTF or plain text from the text selections and then tab to save. If there are documents on your thumb drive you need to open the drive and you should get a list view then arrow through the list and press enter on the one you want. The process is the same as opening and retrieving documents from your desktop. The thumb drive or USB drive is shaped like your standard cigarette lighter turned sideways with the connector attached. It’s about the length of a thumb. I have two of them.

The other thing you could do is start a Dropbox account and install Dropbox on your computer. Then you could download documents to it and you could access them on the web from any computer anywhere. So if you had a computer crash you could just go to another computer and work on that document. The basic Dropbox account is free. You can email me if you have questions if you don’t want to communicate on the list. I’ll be happy to help as much as I can.

Shelley Alongi,
First Vice President, NFB Writers’ Division
Editor: Slate and Style

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Subject: [Stylist] basic tutorial on prepping docs for sighted readers

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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