Jim, here is another thing. Can you send an attachment to your wife and be able to read it, or will it come out blank?
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:20 PM Subject: [Braillenote] Word Pad Notice > Hello list, > > I placed a Microsoft Word File into my BN. When I attempted to open it, I > got a gong chime sound then some kind of word Pad message that the file I > was trying to open didn't fit the specifications of 1995-1997 MSW program > file I would say! This of course is an improvement of silence we use to > get, but was surprised to get this alert! I understood 6.1 was to better > handle newer versions of MSW. I was then presented with options but > couldn't see them at all! My BN soon started beeping! I hit enter and my > unit said opening file, please wait! I waited for some minutes but my unit > kept beeping! I could only reset my unit to get out of that mess! I tried > it twice! I then opened the file with Openbook and I could read it > there. I converted it to .rtf and my BN could read that okay! I sent it > to myself so I could retrieve it on the BN through Email. The BN said the > message was too large to download so changed the size of post i could > download and managed to get the file. I'm wondering whether others have > encountered this and how often might this happen with MSW files? Of > course, the file may have been converted from an .SLX file so that may have > caused the problem as well, I really don't know! Thought I'd bring it to > your attention for what it is worth! > > Jim Aldrich > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
