Use highlighters to create an outline in the Kurzweil 3000

 The notes feature lets you attach notes to specific parts of a document. Before you begin make sure that editing (in the edit menu) is checked. It is also easiest to use the notes feature with the study skills toolbar. To display the toolbar...

  1. Click Tools on menu bar.
  2. Click Options in menu.
  3. Click General tab. You will see this dialog box:
    ;kurzweil toolbar
  4. In the Study Skills box, select Large (Captions).
  5. Click OK (or click Apply if changing other options).


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CREATE AN OUTLINE OF A DOCUMENT

  1. Open the document you want to outline.

  1. Go through the document and use the highlights tools (shown below) to highligh the text you want to appear in your outline. If you want to structure your outline, use a different highlighter color for different kinds of information (for example, yellow for main ideas, green for supporting details, and red circle for important dates).

    highlighters

  1. Go to File, select Extract Annotations, and select Highlights.

  2. If you have used highlight colors to structure your document, assign indents and prefixes to each highlight color. Prefixes can identify the meaning of highlights you use. For example, if you use the magenta highlighter for main ideas, you can type MAIN IDEA under prefix. Indicate the desired indent depth.

  3. Click OK to extract the highlighted text to a new text document. The new document displays the text using the formatting you specified.

For further questions, contact the LTS Help Desk, Lehigh University by phone at 610-758-4768 orby email at helpdesk@lehigh.edu.