Hello and welcome to this DAISY Consortium tutorial on the Save as DAISY Add In for Microsoft
Word, in particular Microsoft Word 2010 which was released in December 2011.
This is one of a series of tutorials on the Save as DAISY Add-In for Word and in this
tutorial we’ll be focussing on downloading and installing the Save as DAISY Add-In.
If you’re new to the Save as DAISY Add In for Word then it’s essentially a way of
translating a structured Word document and translating or converting text into an audio
format which allows a user to navigate around the document, this is sometimes referred to
as a digital talking book. You can find out more about digital talking
books by visiting the DAISY Consortium, www.DAISY.org And as you can see here there is a range of
information about DAISY, talking books, standards and much more.
So now to get started - if you don’t have the Save As DAISY Add In in Word there’s
a good chance that it your 2010 Word document will look something like this one here. As
we tab thought the various menus on Word’s Ribbon there is currently only the default
tabs available. Once we’ve downloaded and installed the Save As DAISY Add In you’ll
see that an additional ‘Accessibility’ tab has been installed.
The easiest way to get the Save As DAISY Add In is from the DAISY Consortium site – there
are link on the left hand side menu which take you directly to the download.
So when the page appears in the browser it should be identical to this one here. There
is some information about the Save As DAISY Add In you can see on the menu here on the
left hand side and on the page here there are links to the download. Now if you are
not sure which version of Office you have on your computer system, to find out please
go up to File Menu then down to Help, and then if you look over to the right hand side
you see the Office Version there. On this computer here it's the 32-bit version. I’m
using the Internet Explorer browser, Version 9 here but it’s a similar process for other
browsers.
Okay, so I’m going to choose ‘Run’ and let the process run everything automatically.
I’ll just let you briefly see the download
and install process. When the Save As DAISY Add in has installed
it automatically launches Word 2010 and open up a document with some useful information
on where you can download the Add-In as well as some getting started guidance.
It’s also worth pointing out that if you look at the Windows start menu you’ll find
an additional DAISY Translator menu item where you’ll find an Accessibility Demofile, and
Instruction Manual and the Getting Started document.
Now if you open Microsoft Word, and tab through the menu items and find that the Add in hasn’t
appeared, similar to my one, then you’ll need to follow these additional steps.
In Word go to File, then to Options, and when the Options panel opens, select the Add Ins
item. This lists all the Add Ins in Word. Now it’s just a case of selecting the DAISY
Add in from the list and in the Com Add Ins select Go. Now make sure the Add In is ticked
and then Okay.
The Add In will now appear in the Ribbon as an Accessibility tab. If at any time the Save
As DAISY Add in disappears from the Ribbon, just follow the same process.
This is the Save As DAISY Add In for Word 2010. We’ll be covering some of the other
features in the next tutorial so once you installed your own Save As DAISY Add please
continue to the tutorial where you’ll learn how to create a basic talking book using the
Save As DAISY Add. Thanks for your time.