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Lesson Three

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Lesson Three

Opening a Document Inserting Text Deleting a Character Deleting a Word Deleting a Sentence Automatic Braille Advance

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Opening a Document

Files in the Braille Note are stored in “folders”

The following folders come with the Braille Note: Dictionaries, Downloads, General, Keylist, Keymail, Keyplan, Manual, My Books, My Favorites, Windows

In this exercise, we will use the folder named “General.”

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Opening a Document (continued)

Turn on the Braille Note From the Main Menu, choose Word Processor From the Keyword Menu, choose Open a

Document For practice, press space to listen to the list of

folders available Continue to press space until you hear General,

and press enter to choose it.

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Opening a Document (continued)

The Braille Note remembers the last file you were using and will say “press enter for … “

Press space to listen to the documents available in the General folder

Move to the document name you created earlier and press enter

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Inserting Text

For practice, read the document Return to the top When inserting text, remember that text

will always be inserted to the left of the cursor. You also need to pay attention to the space before and after the text you insert.

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Inserting Text (continued)

Moving word by word (dot 2 or dot 5 space) place the cursor on the contraction of the word “to” following the word “men”

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Inserting Text (continued)

Type in the words “and women” followed by a space.

Read the current sentence (dots 1,4, space.)

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Deleting Characters

From the top of the file, move word by word to the word “all” so that the cursor is on the letter “a”

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Deleting Characters

Delete the letter “a” by pressing backspace with dots 3,6

3 6Backspace

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Deleting Characters (continued)

Continue pressing backspace with dots 3,6 to delete the letters “l”, and “l” and the space

Read the current sentence3 6

Backspace

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Deleting a Word

From the top of the file, move word by word to the word “country” so that the cursor is on the letter “c”

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Deleting a Word

Delete the word “country” by pressing backspace with dots 2,5

Type the word “nation” Followed with period and a space.

2 5space

Backspace

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Deleting a Sentence

From the top of the file, move word by word to the first word of the second sentence, “This”

Delete the sentence “This is fun.” by pressing backspace with dots 1,4

Type the letter “y” for “sure?”

1 4Backspace

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Practice Return to the Main Menu Open the document named “Demonstration

Document” from the General folder Listen to the entire document Return to the top of the document

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Automatic Braille Advance

You can set the Braille Note to automatically advance the display without having to press the Advance key repeatedly.

Each line of braille is displayed and refreshed at specific time intervals set by you.

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Reading the Whole File

Go to the top of the Demonstration Document

Press Space with dots 1,2,4,5,6)

Next will speed up the display, Previous will slow it down. Previous Next

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Stopping the Automatic Advance

Backspace Enter

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Displaying the Cursor

When you first enter the word processor, Automatic mode is selected. The cursor is turned on automatically when you are editing – but it is turned off when you are reading.

To display the cursor, use the touch cursor button or move to a word or letter.