Brett, Does the FileApp Pro that was free the other day remember the same place or behave as the Downloads app? I had been using a file I exported as an epub, but changing pages was slowing me down a bit to much in this specific situation where I needed the text to be at my finger tips. :)
Thanks On Oct 29, 2012, at 4:08 AM, Brett <brettst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Two ways to read without having to scroll pages in braille are: > one Copy a word document to an app such as downloads. This will let you read > Word documents without having to scroll pages. > > 2. For greater navigation control, add Word heading styles in your document > to mark up the sections you want to quickly jump to. To mark a heading in a > word document on your computer, select the text you want as a heading, then > press Control plus Alt plus 1 (for a heading level 1), Control plus Alt plus > 2 (for a heading level 2) and Control plus Alt plus 3, (for a heading level > 3). > > Then save this file with a HTM extension using the save as dialog in word. > Once the file is saved, again copy it to the Downloads app on your phone. > When you open it, it will open as a HTML (wep page document), here you can > set the rotor to headings and them jump quickly to the sections you > previously marked up. This sounds harder than it is, but it really doesn't > take much time and its handy for meetings when I need to quickly skip around > a file. > > Downloads will also remember your place in a word or HTML document , when you > click the Back button to close the document. This doesn't occur when using > notes, although I do use notes for taking my shorthand notes in meetings etc. > > > Hope this helps, > Brett. > > > > Sent from Brett's iPhone > > On 29/10/2012, at 2:35 PM, Cheryl Ann Homiak <cahom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Well, after exploring my question this afternoon, i've decided to use the >> Notes app next week. Everything loaded in there reads straight through >> without the need to scroll pages and either the issue with vo doing strange >> things when a note gets too long doesn't happen when speech is turned off or >> my file isn't long enough to cause a problem. >> >> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote: >> >>> >>> Today I took my iPhone and braille display to try to sing with everybody >>> and follow along in the Scripture passages at church. I had typed >>> everything onto my computer and sent it to Pages on my iPhone. It worked >>> reasonably well. The only problem I had was that sometimes I would change >>> pages and either I would have blank display for a while or the right page >>> didn't come up. I am not using sppeech for this, just my iPhone and >>> Refreshabraille 18. Is there an app I can use or a way that I can use pages >>> so that I'm not having to change pages. Usually it seems that about 3 of my >>> pages show up on the screen or at least can be panned on my display. Then I >>> have to scroll using 3456chord and 1456-chord. If another page doesn't come >>> up pretty quickly, I'm left behind with only an 18-cell braille disply. Is >>> there an app that will let me just keep panning from one end of a file to >>> the other? I did like that I could try to go to different pages in case >>> something happened out of sequence but I don't like being stuck trying to >>> get the display to show the next page. I need to be able to just keep >>> panning from beginning to end of the file without having to do a scroll >>> command. Would Notes or Plaintext work for this; I know there have been >>> issues using Notes for longer files but would that matter as much since I'm >>> muting speech? If I can get this perfected it will save me from having to >>> carry around a backpack with a song notebook and a couple of Bible volumes. >>> >>> Thanks for any suggestions. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> and the meditation of my heart >> be acceptable to You, >> Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. >> (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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