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The Word integration works with Word 9.0 (Office 2000) to Word 2024 and corresponding versions installed on-premises as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription.

The two menus "Braille" and "Daisy" from the AddIns tab (from Word 2007) extend Word into a publishing system for publications suitable for the blind. You can easily convert your documents to Braille and digital audio books through these menus. The conversion is done with certain default settings, which you can also change from the menus. In the run-up to a conversion or for other publishing projects, you can use the menu item "Accessibility Check" to get an overview of the potential for improving your documents in terms of accessibility.

RTFC's accessibility checker includes the well-known rules from the following areas:

Alternatively and as a supplement to the menus, you can launch the Hypertext Wizard via the "Convert with RTFC" button from the AddIns tab (from Word 2007). The full potential of the Hypertext Wizard's setting options is available to you.

Finally, you can also use the Braille or Daisy menu to insert and modify hidden control commands for the conversion to the document (only for the Professional Edition). With these so-called Braille tags, you can change practically all parameters for the conversion in the course of a document. This makes it possible, among other things, to create individual table representations and complex formatting for professional braille printing. Print page numbers are also inserted into the document via Braille tags. Braille tags are also used for conversion to audio books, for example, to work with more than 2 voices in the same document.

If you want to enter documents directly in Braille and do not want to create them by converting them, the document templates "Rich Text Braille" and "Rich Text Computer Braille" are available for this purpose.

The RTFC Document Reader is a reading program for Microsoft Word. It can read your documents aloud with any SAPI 5 voice installed on your computer. You can navigate through the text as comfortably as in a daisy book. Since RTFC's pronunciation dictionary is also taken into account, you will hear the text exactly as it sounds after it has been converted into an audio book.

The reader uses the last selected default settings for the conversion to daisy format. If you change these settings via the "Synthetic Speech" menu item in the Daisy menu of Word, the settings will only be saved for the currently open document. This allows you to have each document read aloud with its own voices for different languages and individual playback parameters.

The Document Reader allows you to listen to words that you have corrected in RTFC's pronunciation dictionary in the context of the original document. In addition, the Document Reader can be accessed from the "Check Word List" dialog in RTFC via the "Read in Document" button. The currently selected word in the document is searched for and the complete sentence is read aloud.

Regardless of this, the Document Reader can be used as a convenient reading program for Microsoft Word documents. Thanks to the Braille back translation integrated in RTFC, it is also able to read documents aloud in contracted Braille.

The Document Reader is part of the RTFC Personal Edition or higher.

The RTFC Braille Viewer for Microsoft Word is designed to display 6-dot Braille in simulated Braille. This makes it possible to print out via a standard printer, which can also be converted into tactile Braille with the help of thermal copiers (swell paper) and other suitable graphic printers. 8-dot Braille (Computer Braille) is displayed with normal letters unless the file has been saved in Unicode Braille. This makes the texts readable even for people who are not familiar with Braille.

In combination with RTFC, the Braille Viewer also allows printing via a Braille printer from Microsoft Word and File Explorer. The integrated printer driver from RTFC is used for this purpose.

The Braille Viewer is part of the RTFC braille converter or higher. It can also be used as a standalone Braille display program (available on our download pages).