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Getting Started with Premier E-Text Reader

The Basics

Open up the document you’d like to read. E-Text Reader can read any of the following types of

documents: Microsoft Word (*.doc), Rich Text Format (*.rtf), Hypertext Markup Language

(*.htm or *.html), Text (*.txt), or Extensible Markup Language (*.xml). Note: If you need to

read a PDF file, you will need to use Premier PDF Magic. Instructions are provided in another

document on this website.

Once you’ve opened your document, you can change the font, the text size, the zoom, etc.

Choose the voice that you’d

like to hear by clicking the

―Voices‖ icon at the top of the

screen, or by going to ―Read >

Voices.‖ You can select from

a handful of different voices,

and adjust their rate and pitch

to whatever levels work best

for you.

To read the text, place your cursor where

you’d like to start and click the ―Read‖ icon at

the top of the screen. Each word will be

highlighted as it is spoken. When you’d like

to stop, click the ―Stop‖ icon.

Continued on Next Page: Bookmarks


Helpful Features

Bookmarks

Maybe you’ve highlighted or made a note of something because you figure it’s important and

you’ll need it later. Maybe you just want to make it easier to skip from chapter to chapter.

Using the ―Bookmarks‖ feature is a good way to easily move from place to place in your text

without having to scroll through the whole thing trying to rediscover something.

When you find

something you’d like

to Bookmark, place

the cursor at the start

of the text and click

the ―Mark‖ icon at

the top of the screen.

This symbol should

appear before your

text: ß

1.

2. Done!

To move from one Bookmark to another, use the ―Prior‖ and

―Next‖ icons at the top of your screen.

You can remove a Bookmark by deleting the ß, the same way you would delete a

regular letter in a word processor.

Continued on Next Page: Color/Extract


Color/Extract

Color/Extract is a great tool that can help you take notes or create an outline by allowing you to

easily pull sections of text from your document and organize them in a new one.

First, find the text you’d like to highlight

and use the ―Color‖ icon to choose your

highlight color(s). Select the text you’d

like to extract, and then click the

―Highlight‖ icon. Once you’ve done your

highlighting, click the ―Extract‖ icon. At

this point you can choose which of your

highlights to extract – Yellow, Blue, Pink,

Green, All, or just whatever is currently

selected. Click ―Extract‖ and your text will

be placed in a new document, which you

can save as a Microsoft Word file (*.doc).

Note: If you are extracting text from a

large file, this may take a few minutes.

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2.

3.

Done!

Continued on Next Page: The Problem with Color/Extract


The Problem with Color/Extract (And How to Get Around it)

Premier E-Text Reader is a great tool, but like most things, it has some downsides, too.

Hopefully this will save you some frustration.

Every “Extract” action must have a new document.

You know how you can highlight text and extract it to a new document? Great, right? Here’s

the catch: If you’ve already extracted some text and then go to extract more, it will overwrite

what you already have:

―That was easy! Now I’ve got all this

important stuff in one place!‖

―Hey, this is a pretty good bit, too! I’m going to add it to my extracted quotes.‖

―Nooo! All of my important pink

highlights are gone! What am I going

to do?‖

Continued on Next Page: What You’re Going to Do


Let’s say that your first extract was all pink

highlights. Save that as a Word Document, then

close the Extract window.

For your next extract,

choose another

color—here we’ll go

with green.

Now you can do the same thing over again—save

the green into its own Word Document, close the

window, then extract blue. OR, you can copy &

paste the green into the document full of pink

highlights. Once this multi-colored document is

saved, you can even re-open it in E-Text Reader

and have it read to you.

It is kind of a hassle, it’s true. One thing that might make it easier is trying to organize your

thoughts by color. Say you’re going through Harry Potter trying to come up with a good

description of the Harry Potter universe. Put the characteristics of our heroes in blue, the

Hogwarts history in yellow, Muggle studies in pink, and go with green for He-Who-Must-

Not-Be Named and his cronies. Now you’ve got a document full of all the Harry Potter

facts you’ll need in order to write a vivid descriptive essay.

Of course, this is just a suggested fix, and if there’s something that works better for you,

then you should absolutely do it—whatever makes your studying easier!

We hope this has helped you learn a bit about how to use the E-Text

Reader. Now get started!

LSS AK 6/22/2010

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