how do I know subrip is workin

[animalia]

I am new to subrip and I have no clue if I am doing it right how do I Know if it is working?

[Baldrick]

After you used it then open the srt subtitle file using notepad and you should be able to read the subtitles. And click on subrip for some guides.

[animalia]

I guess I should have been more specific about what I want to do. I want to rip some hardsubs from an avi file so I can edit them, then later attach them to a RAW video. (If i can get that raw by removing the subs from the avi file mentioned so much the better< if not oh well no big deal.)

[violetta]

I downloaded SubRip, installed it and became totally confused by this ugly interface. I don't understand how to work with it. When I open .SUB (or .IDX) file, it shows another window where I can click "Run". Run what?

When in another window I click "Save As.." it doesn't show me the name of the file and create NewFile.srt. But I don't know where is it located...

Please, help me. The software looks extremely ugly. But I don't see any other option for SUB-to-SRT conversion.