would someone be able to help
Dear list, I don't know where to ask. So I'm hoping someone here can help me. I use the Braille Blazer embosser. It just stopped working and now I need a new one. Are there any suggestions as to what a good embosser would be? Thanks for any help, Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: Loss of speach
Hi Don i get we stop talking on a web page after its loaded i can just be arrowing down the page or tabbing. Cheers Michael. -Original Message- From: Don H via Talk Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:22 AM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: Loss of speach Running latest version of WE on a Win 10 64 bit system. When using IE as my web browser I am having a issue where WE stops speaking. Here are the steps that cause the issue. I go to any Web site. I want to search for a term on the web page so I hit ctrl shift f. I type in what I want to look for and hit enter. We goes silent. I then have to use control alt w to restart WE to get speech back. This happens on a regular basis but not all the time. Anyone else experiencing this? When WE stops speaking no WE error report is generated. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/michaelandjeanie%40aapt.net.au. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: Finding all Duplicates II
Rod said, "It also has the advantage of allowing you to monitor your data in great detail, rather than relying on an algorithm which can sometimes make you lose data." This reminded me of the golden rule. Always do these kinds of operations on a copy of the original file. Regards, Tom Good luck, Rod --Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:29 AM To: A I Squared Support Subject: Finding all Duplicates II Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Questions about Windows Live Mail
Hellow list, I have some questions about this program which I hope someone can help me with. 1. My spell check doesn't seem to work. When I get to it on the ribbon, it notifies me that it is disabled. How do I enable it? 2. How do I find out which version of WLM I am using? 3. If I want to request an automatic reply to a particular message but not for all messages, how do I do it? I am running Windows 8.1 with Window-Eyes 9.5.3 for Office. Thanks in advance. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: Loss of speach
wait a little longer. w e has to go through every word from the page that is stored in the browse mode buffer before it will say the phrase or it will say not found until it finds your search sometimes it may take30 seconds before you hear any response depending on how much text is on the screen. -Original Message- From: Don H via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 3:22 PM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: Loss of speach Running latest version of WE on a Win 10 64 bit system. When using IE as my web browser I am having a issue where WE stops speaking. Here are the steps that cause the issue. I go to any Web site. I want to search for a term on the web page so I hit ctrl shift f. I type in what I want to look for and hit enter. We goes silent. I then have to use control alt w to restart WE to get speech back. This happens on a regular basis but not all the time. Anyone else experiencing this? When WE stops speaking no WE error report is generated. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/netbat%40comcast.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
RE: Loss of speach
Hi Don, This happens to me as well, the loss of speech, I mean, although I can get speech to respond again if I Alt -tab away, and wait a bit. Hth, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Don H via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 6:22 PM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: Loss of speach Running latest version of WE on a Win 10 64 bit system. When using IE as my web browser I am having a issue where WE stops speaking. Here are the steps that cause the issue. I go to any Web site. I want to search for a term on the web page so I hit ctrl shift f. I type in what I want to look for and hit enter. We goes silent. I then have to use control alt w to restart WE to get speech back. This happens on a regular basis but not all the time. Anyone else experiencing this? When WE stops speaking no WE error report is generated. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutton%40hotmail.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
RE: Fix for WE not reading file type in Office Save As dialog box?
Hi Robin, Does it work any better if you first press Alt-DownArrow to pull down the list of file types? Hth, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant, Robin via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 6:05 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Fix for WE not reading file type in Office Save As dialog box? Hi all, I've been lazy about asking this question, but it's bugging me. Running latest WE and Office 2010. Is there a reason and fix to why WE does not read the combo box of file type choices in a save as dialog box? I was just trying to change the file type on an Excel file that came to me in a different format and really had to bumble along to select the right choice. Robin Van Lant | Sr. Program Manager Strategy & Performance Management | Key Equipment Finance 720-304-1060 | robin_van_l...@key.com This communication may contain privileged and/or confidential information. It is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of this information. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. This communication may contain nonpublic personal information about consumers subject to the restrictions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. You may not directly or indirectly reuse or redisclose such information for any purpose other than to provide the services for which you are receiving the information. 127 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44114 If you prefer not to receive future e-mail offers for products or services from Key send an e-mail to mailto:dnereque...@key.com with 'No Promotional E-mails' in the SUBJECT line. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutton%40hotmail.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Loss of speach
Running latest version of WE on a Win 10 64 bit system. When using IE as my web browser I am having a issue where WE stops speaking. Here are the steps that cause the issue. I go to any Web site. I want to search for a term on the web page so I hit ctrl shift f. I type in what I want to look for and hit enter. We goes silent. I then have to use control alt w to restart WE to get speech back. This happens on a regular basis but not all the time. Anyone else experiencing this? When WE stops speaking no WE error report is generated. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Fix for WE not reading file type in Office Save As dialog box?
Hi all, I've been lazy about asking this question, but it's bugging me. Running latest WE and Office 2010. Is there a reason and fix to why WE does not read the combo box of file type choices in a save as dialog box? I was just trying to change the file type on an Excel file that came to me in a different format and really had to bumble along to select the right choice. Robin Van Lant | Sr. Program Manager Strategy & Performance Management | Key Equipment Finance 720-304-1060 | robin_van_l...@key.com This communication may contain privileged and/or confidential information. It is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of this information. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. This communication may contain nonpublic personal information about consumers subject to the restrictions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. You may not directly or indirectly reuse or redisclose such information for any purpose other than to provide the services for which you are receiving the information. 127 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44114 If you prefer not to receive future e-mail offers for products or services from Key send an e-mail to mailto:dnereque...@key.com with 'No Promotional E-mails' in the SUBJECT line. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
RE: Finding all Duplicates II
I agree that the Excel function to remove duplicates would be my approach. I've used it several times recently on large data files. As long as you are typing the numbers consistently, e.g., with the same punctuation, this will work. Simply select all the numbers in your word document, then put your cursor in the first cell in a blank worksheet in Excel. Hit Control V to paste and each number should get pasted as a new row in Excel. Then, go to the Data ribbon and tab over to Remove duplicates. When you click on that, a dialog box will appear. Tab through the options. By default, the single column with your phone numbers in it will be checked and you may need to check or uncheck the box for whether your data has a header row. Hit OK and Excel will do the work for you, plus tell you how many rows were removed. Just as an FYI for anyone curious, the dialog box allows you to select the columns so that, for example, if your data could have duplicates in column A that you w ant to remove, but you do not want it to filter any duplicates from column C, you can specify that. Pivot tables is another way I'd handle this, but that's pretty complex for explaining. Good luck. Other than the typing of all those numbers, this sound like a fun research project to me, but I'm a geek for Excel sometimes. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+robin_van_lant=key@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 8:29 AM To: A I Squared Support Subject: Finding all Duplicates II Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. -- And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that file would be, or what it would be called. So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long list. Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, but this is not fool proof. So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to remove all duplicates. So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks here. Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/robin_van_lant%40key.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com This communication may contain privileged and/or confidential information. It is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of this information. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. This communication may contain nonpublic personal information about consumers subject to the restrictions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. You may not directly
RE: Finding all Duplicates II
Hi Dave, Here's what I feel is the simplest solution using only Notepad or a similar simple text editor. If all of yor data is in a simple text file, then all you'd have to do is go to a line containing any phone number, and alter the number in any way which seems convenient in order to make it unique. For example, if the phone number was: (123) 456-7890 Then you could alter it like this: (123)a456-7890 What I did was to replace the space in the phone number with a lower-case letter a. Then, using the Replace feature of the text editor, as Notepad has, in the Find field place the phone number in the form in which it was originally written, that is, with the space between the area code and the phone number. You would then tab to the Replace with field, and ensure that it is blank. Finally, tab over to the Replace All button, and, presto, all the duplicates of that phone number would be removed. You would then repeat these steps with each unique phone number in order to remove the duplicates. After all the duplicates for each phone number have been removed, you could then do another Replace, and, using the example above, you could replace the characters: )a that is, a right parenthesis followed by the lower-case a with the characters: ) that is, a right parenthesis followed by a space, in order to put all of the phone numbers back into their original form. Admittedly, this is a manual method, but, if the job isn't too big, it wouldn't take that long. It also has the advantage of allowing you to monitor your data in great detail, rather than relying on an algorithm which can sometimes make you lose data. Good luck, Rod --Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:29 AM To: A I Squared Support Subject: Finding all Duplicates II Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. -- And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that file would be, or what it would be called. So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long list. Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, but this is not fool proof. So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to remove all duplicates. So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks here. Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutton%40hotmail.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-a
RE: Open Office
Google docs/sheets works well using Firefox, Chrome etc. If looking for a free/low cost word-processing program, Jarte from jarte.com works well. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Don H via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 1:01 PM To: talk@lists.window-eyes.com Subject: Open Office Gw attempted quite a while ago to have WE work with Open Office. It never worked well enough to be useful. Now I find that NVDA works pretty darn good with Open office. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/cgrabowski%40aisquared.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB
because turning it off with a power strip only turns off the battery charger. the battery would stay on until it completely drains. -Original Message- From: Pamela Dominguez via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 9:36 AM To: Neville ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB Why wouldn't the battery turn off if you turned everything off with the power strip? Pam. -Original Message- From: Neville via Talk Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 1:43 AM To: net bat ; Window Eyes Subject: Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB I also use a power strip to turn off all the equipment but the Double Talk had a hard wired builtin battery whichneeded to be turned off at the unit. This, over time, stuffed it up. Neville. On 5/12/2016 4:38 PM, net bat wrote: i use a power strip to turn everything off. i would rather wear out the power strip then the power buttons on my equipment -Original Message- From: Neville via Talk Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 10:32 PM To: Casey ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB Hi, Over the years, I have used both the external Double Talk and the Tripple Talk syns and would never bother with an external unit again. These units were of the serial type and both were quite expensive for what they were. The Double talk needed to be turned off with the on off volume switch at the end of each session to save the internal battery. In time, the volume control became quite scratchy and eventually I gave it up. The Tripple Talk went the same way but in a much shorter time frame. In comparison, I found the Tripple Talk to be not worth the money. Maybe the later versions have improved. For some time now I have used a Creative usb external sound card costing around $60 connected to a pair of speakers with a volume control. If the volume ever becomes scratchy, it is an inexpensive solution just to replace the speakers. This setup has been working for years without any problems. I mainly use Eloquence as my software syn and find it very responsive. The other benefit to using a software syn is that there are many good free voices which can be easily obtained. Currently I have WE and Eloquence running through the external sound card and have another voice setup to run through the internal sound card if required. NVDA also is setup to run through the internal cardwhich gives me a way of tracing any problems if WE will not talk through the external card. In short, save your money and get an external sound card as mentioned above. With the modern fast computers, lack of responsiveness is not a big a problem as it once was. Neville. On 5/12/2016 2:42 PM, Casey via Talk wrote: Hi I am thinking about maybe getting one of these synthesizers. The triple talk USB or the dectalk USB. Witch is the better one that will give the fastest response time and work the best with window-eyes? now I know it maybe personal choice. But I know A few of you out hear of used either one of both of these units so all comments and suggestions are welcome. And if you like one over the other please tell us why that is. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/netbat%40comcast.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/geodom%40optonline.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7924 / Virus Database: 4664/13537 - Release Date: 12/05/16 ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/netbat%40comcast.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit
Re: Finding all Duplicates II
Here is the sort.exe program if anyone wants it. To get the file you want, go to the link below and hit enter on that file. http://www.shellworld.net/~butchb Butch Bussen On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Butch Bussen via Talk wrote: AS I suggested, save to a standard text file with one number per line and sort with the dos sort program. All duplicates should be together. 73 Butch WA0VJR Node 3148 Wallace, ks. On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Dave via Talk wrote: Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. -- And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that file would be, or what it would be called. So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long list. Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, but this is not fool proof. So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to remove all duplicates. So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks here. Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/butchb%40shellworld.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/butchb%40shellworld.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Open Office
Gw attempted quite a while ago to have WE work with Open Office. It never worked well enough to be useful. Now I find that NVDA works pretty darn good with Open office. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB
Yes, I have one of those. I got it when I thought I wouldn't be able to get my Dec-talk express working again. But I got it fixed, including a new volume control. Pam. -Original Message- From: Chris Grabowski via Talk Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 4:39 AM To: Neville ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB The newer Tripletalk mini doesn't have a built in battery and turns on when the computer turns on and off when it goes off. It also has a slide switch for volume. No power switch. I think it is around $200. -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Neville via Talk Sent: Monday, December 5, 2016 1:43 AM To: net bat ; Window Eyes Subject: Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB I also use a power strip to turn off all the equipment but the Double Talk had a hard wired builtin battery whichneeded to be turned off at the unit. This, over time, stuffed it up. Neville. On 5/12/2016 4:38 PM, net bat wrote: i use a power strip to turn everything off. i would rather wear out the power strip then the power buttons on my equipment -Original Message- From: Neville via Talk Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 10:32 PM To: Casey ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB Hi, Over the years, I have used both the external Double Talk and the Tripple Talk syns and would never bother with an external unit again. These units were of the serial type and both were quite expensive for what they were. The Double talk needed to be turned off with the on off volume switch at the end of each session to save the internal battery. In time, the volume control became quite scratchy and eventually I gave it up. The Tripple Talk went the same way but in a much shorter time frame. In comparison, I found the Tripple Talk to be not worth the money. Maybe the later versions have improved. For some time now I have used a Creative usb external sound card costing around $60 connected to a pair of speakers with a volume control. If the volume ever becomes scratchy, it is an inexpensive solution just to replace the speakers. This setup has been working for years without any problems. I mainly use Eloquence as my software syn and find it very responsive. The other benefit to using a software syn is that there are many good free voices which can be easily obtained. Currently I have WE and Eloquence running through the external sound card and have another voice setup to run through the internal sound card if required. NVDA also is setup to run through the internal cardwhich gives me a way of tracing any problems if WE will not talk through the external card. In short, save your money and get an external sound card as mentioned above. With the modern fast computers, lack of responsiveness is not a big a problem as it once was. Neville. On 5/12/2016 2:42 PM, Casey via Talk wrote: Hi I am thinking about maybe getting one of these synthesizers. The triple talk USB or the dectalk USB. Witch is the better one that will give the fastest response time and work the best with window-eyes? now I know it maybe personal choice. But I know A few of you out hear of used either one of both of these units so all comments and suggestions are welcome. And if you like one over the other please tell us why that is. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/netbat%40comcast.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/cgrabowski%40aisquared.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/geodom%40optonline.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7924 / Vir
Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB
Why wouldn't the battery turn off if you turned everything off with the power strip? Pam. -Original Message- From: Neville via Talk Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 1:43 AM To: net bat ; Window Eyes Subject: Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB I also use a power strip to turn off all the equipment but the Double Talk had a hard wired builtin battery whichneeded to be turned off at the unit. This, over time, stuffed it up. Neville. On 5/12/2016 4:38 PM, net bat wrote: i use a power strip to turn everything off. i would rather wear out the power strip then the power buttons on my equipment -Original Message- From: Neville via Talk Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 10:32 PM To: Casey ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: the triple talk USB or the dectalk USB Hi, Over the years, I have used both the external Double Talk and the Tripple Talk syns and would never bother with an external unit again. These units were of the serial type and both were quite expensive for what they were. The Double talk needed to be turned off with the on off volume switch at the end of each session to save the internal battery. In time, the volume control became quite scratchy and eventually I gave it up. The Tripple Talk went the same way but in a much shorter time frame. In comparison, I found the Tripple Talk to be not worth the money. Maybe the later versions have improved. For some time now I have used a Creative usb external sound card costing around $60 connected to a pair of speakers with a volume control. If the volume ever becomes scratchy, it is an inexpensive solution just to replace the speakers. This setup has been working for years without any problems. I mainly use Eloquence as my software syn and find it very responsive. The other benefit to using a software syn is that there are many good free voices which can be easily obtained. Currently I have WE and Eloquence running through the external sound card and have another voice setup to run through the internal sound card if required. NVDA also is setup to run through the internal cardwhich gives me a way of tracing any problems if WE will not talk through the external card. In short, save your money and get an external sound card as mentioned above. With the modern fast computers, lack of responsiveness is not a big a problem as it once was. Neville. On 5/12/2016 2:42 PM, Casey via Talk wrote: Hi I am thinking about maybe getting one of these synthesizers. The triple talk USB or the dectalk USB. Witch is the better one that will give the fastest response time and work the best with window-eyes? now I know it maybe personal choice. But I know A few of you out hear of used either one of both of these units so all comments and suggestions are welcome. And if you like one over the other please tell us why that is. ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/netbat%40comcast.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/geodom%40optonline.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7924 / Virus Database: 4664/13537 - Release Date: 12/05/16 ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: Finding all Duplicates II
At least on Linux, there is a program called uniq where you feed in a sorted list and you get only one of the numbers out. So, if you pipe sort into uniq, that should work for you. I don't know if DOS has any such command. On Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:28:35 -0500, Dave via Talk wrote: > > Good Morning, > > Thanks for the several suggestions. > > Here's a bit more on what I am doing: > > The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. > Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. > > So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the > caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. > > The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list > of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the > customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or > multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be > duplicates. > > > -- > And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to > get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. > > Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but > those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that > file would be, or what it would be called. > > So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone > system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long > list. > > Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, > but this is not fool proof. > > So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone > numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for > Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. > > The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting > called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a > customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. > > So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers > into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. > > Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. > > Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my > document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. > > Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the > power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me > and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to > remove all duplicates. > > So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks > here. > > Grumpy Dave > > > ___ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/covici%40ccs.covici.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
RE: Finding all Duplicates II
There is a remove duplicates option on the Data tab in Excel. It should work to just paste all numbers into Excel if there is one number per line and then sort the column and then remove duplicates. I think this would be worth a try before writing a program. Also, the sort in excel is generally easy to use, so I would consider sorting there even if one does not want to remove duplicates automatically. If a word document is needed, one could just select the entire column with CONTROL-SPACE and copy it back into word. Doing this may create a table in word, so one might want to use the "Paste" option on the HOME tab on the ribbon and choose text only. Another approach to avoid creating a table is to copy the column into NotePad and then copying the NotePad data into word. You don't have to even save the NotePad document, just use it as a holding area. Of course, there are other ways of doing this as well, this is just one approach. Best regards, Steve Jacobson -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+steve.jacobson=visi@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 10:15 AM To: 'Dave' ; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Finding all Duplicates II Simple really: Depending on the object holding the list you could write a little program to read the list one line at a time, one number at a time. Then look in a new list to see if the number is already there.If so skip adding it again. If not add it to the new list. The technicals depends on what object holds the current list and what tools you have available to you to do this. There are even simpler methods if you have the tools but I have no clue what you have nor what you are familiar with. Rick USA -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+ofbgmail=mi.rr@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:29 AM To: A I Squared Support Subject: Finding all Duplicates II Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. -- And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that file would be, or what it would be called. So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long list. Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, but this is not fool proof. So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to remove all duplicates. So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks here. Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/ofbgmail%40mi. rr.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options
RE: Finding all Duplicates II
Simple really: Depending on the object holding the list you could write a little program to read the list one line at a time, one number at a time. Then look in a new list to see if the number is already there.If so skip adding it again. If not add it to the new list. The technicals depends on what object holds the current list and what tools you have available to you to do this. There are even simpler methods if you have the tools but I have no clue what you have nor what you are familiar with. Rick USA -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+ofbgmail=mi.rr@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Dave via Talk Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 10:29 AM To: A I Squared Support Subject: Finding all Duplicates II Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. -- And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that file would be, or what it would be called. So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long list. Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, but this is not fool proof. So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to remove all duplicates. So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks here. Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/ofbgmail%40mi. rr.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: Finding all Duplicates II
AS I suggested, save to a standard text file with one number per line and sort with the dos sort program. All duplicates should be together. 73 Butch WA0VJR Node 3148 Wallace, ks. On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Dave via Talk wrote: Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. -- And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that file would be, or what it would be called. So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long list. Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, but this is not fool proof. So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to remove all duplicates. So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks here. Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/butchb%40shellworld.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Finding all Duplicates II
Good Morning, Thanks for the several suggestions. Here's a bit more on what I am doing: The Company's Voice Mail has been acting up for a couple of months now. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And lately, it hasn't. So when customers call in, if all Customer Service people are busy, the caller should go to voice mail. Well, they don't. they just go away. The phone system does record all numbers calling in, so there is a list of phone numbers. But we have no way of knowing the name of the customer calling, just their number. And some people call every day, or multiple times per day. So in the record there are going to be duplicates. -- And the crazy thing is that there is no way that anyone knows, as how to get this list of numbers out of the Phone Systems records. Now, I am sure there is a file some where on the systems storage, but those who know something about the phone system have no idea where that file would be, or what it would be called. So, the Boss has someone reading me these phone numbers out of the phone system. I then have been typing them out in a Document, as in a long list. Just by hearing the numbers, I can tell when I hear a duplicate number, but this is not fool proof. So I have these phone numbers, in a Word File. Hundreds of phone numbers, and I am to remove the duplicates, because the Boss intends for Customer Service to call all of these numbers back. The Company already looks like idiots since customers are not getting called back, and then to have the poor souls in Customer Service call a customer twice, three times or more, isn't going to look great either. So, I and another have been tasked with getting all of these numbers into a file, to be given to customer service, and with no duplicates. Welcome to the Real World when it comes to problem solving. Butch's Sorting in DOS sounds like a possible solution. I can save my document as a Text file. I'll give this a try. Since I have hundreds of numbers to weed through, I was trying to use the power of the computer to strip out the duplicates, rather than having me and this other person go through them one at a time and hoping to remove all duplicates. So thought I would ask the list here, since we have some smart folks here. Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
Re: OT: Looking for duplicates
If these numbers are one to a line and in a text file, you could use the old sort program from dos at a command prompt. I know dos is dead, but I still use it for some stuff. If you sorted the file, all of the same numbers should be grouped together and you could delete all but one. You can tell it what column to sort on also. I used it recently to sort the lilst of songs in my juke box. I wanted one one list by letter and another list by the name of the song. Just a thought. 73 Butch WA0VJR Node 3148 Wallace, ks. On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, David via Talk wrote: Not aware of any database that would be doing exactly this. Though I am not very familiar with commercial databases either. I'd say, this whole thing would be quickly and easily done, by a few lines of scripting. It is but one example, where scripting takes the bigger bite, over any full-fledged piece of software, simply because you can make the script do it the way you want. Without promising anything further, you are welcome to get in touch OFF-LIST, to discuss further scripting solution. Until I know more details on the project, I am not going to promise anything at all. All of this, just based on the information your message provided. Contact at: trailerda...@hotmail.com David On 12/6/2016 2:45 AM, Dave via Talk wrote: Hello, Maybe someone here can give me an easier solution? At my work, the Customer Service department has had a huge break down of their Phone system. Voice mail is gone, but the system does record the callers number. I've been given almost two months worth of calls that have come in and they want me to work with this list to remove all duplicates.There are Hundreds of phone numbers in this list. These numbers need to be Hand Typed into something, such as MS Word, so they can be printed out and then Customer Service can call them back. I am thinking there must be some way to detect duplicate numbers, meaning someone has called in multiple times attempting to get to someone in Customer Service. Since these numbers will be getting manually typed into something, I am open to any suggestions as to what would work for removing duplicate numbers. I thought of a Database, but Win eyes doesn't seem to work that well with a Database. I could type them all into a Spread sheet, but I am not familiar with all the features in spread sheets. Is there one that would detect and tell me the duplications? Anyone have any suggestions how to solve this problem? Grumpy Dave ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/butchb%40shellworld.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
