Global: Word Importer...

Keystroke: r from Global menu

(For more in depth detail, please see DBT's Word Importer Explained)

The Word Importer dialog allows you to control specific aspects of how DBT handles the import of Word.  All options except the last are Check Boxes.

Transcribe Courier to CBC - (Check Box) - Any Word text which is in Courier font will automatically have the appropriate Computer Braille Code applied in DBT.

Preserve hard page breaks - (Check Box) - DBT will put the New Page code in wherever Word has a hard page break.  (NOTE:  Soft page breaks are ignored)

Preserve Skipped Lines - (Check Box) - Where there is a Hard Carriage Return on a blank line in Word, DBT will also insert a blank line code. (Note:  Take care that what appears to be a blank line, is actually a blank line, and not "White Space")

Print Page Breaks: - (List Box) -

1. Ignore - Page breaks in the Word document will be ignored.
2. Mark from Word document  This will insert "Print Page Indicators" at the appropriate point in the document. Care should be used when using this option. These are usually only required for documents such as school exercise books, or minutes of a meeting, where the print page numbers are often referred to.
3. Treat hard page breaks as print page breaks  - A "Hard Page Break" is one which is inserted into a Word document intentionally using the Word command Ctrl + Enter.

(Note:  Many Word authors will use the Enter key to force text on to a new page.  This will NOT cause a new page in a braille document.)

4. Use publishers' <ipp no=#> reference page tags - Some publishers are now providing electronic files where the print page number is defined within HTML/XML Style tags.  If this box is checked, DBT will insert appropriate "Print Page Indicators".

Treat Braille & SimBraille fonts as braille - (Check Box)  If you have used these two fonts in your Word document, they will be imported into DBT exactly as is.  i.e. They will not be translated in any way.

Allow embedded DBT codes, eg. [[*pg*]] - (Check Box) It is now possible to include DBT Codes in a Word document, provided they are enclosed as shown here.

Unknown characters: - (List Box) - This is a List Box. Should the import process not recognize any special characters in Word, it will by default place an asterisk in the DBT print text document.  If you open the List Box, the following will appear.

The additional choices allow you to replace unknown characters with an asterisk (*), ignore them, or to output their value in Unicode. See Troubleshooting: Word - Missing or wrong characters in the on-line help files.

Note:  If you are unfamiliar with Unicode characters, and you are encountering problems, please contact Technical Support.  You might also like to look at the Special Characters Topic.

Ignore: - There are four check boxes here.

1. bold - Check this if you do not wish to show bold indicators in your Word document.
2. italics - Check this if you do not wish to show italic indicators in your Word document.
3. underline - Check this if you do not wish to show underline indicators in your Word document.
4. language switches - Word can have a nasty habit of automatically adding language indicators when you don't want them. Check this to have them ignored.