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>>>When Windows Word, for instance, decides a file has too many misspelled words, it shuts down the spellcheck algorithm. A routine of 18 keystrokes is needed to restore it.
I've never seen that happen Dale. I opened up Word to try it out and I purposefully made 53 errors in the in a text and it still kept working. Seems like it would be contradict the purpose of the program. Have you noticed at when number it shuts off?
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I do the same thing as Maverick. If I know my post is going to be long, I type it in Word then paste it here.
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All: I admire your patience. If I had to do all that for a single followup I would go stark raving mad
Bel: 53 "errors" won't do it. In the large file Word/Windows throws in the towel only after it has detected thousands of "misspellings", grammatical "mistakes" etc etc etc
One would think, if the algorithm simply can't handle that many boo-boos how it would be able to go back to work when I address it with my 18-keystroke macro; a mystery, but it does
God bless Bill Gates and his crew of massively incompetent elves
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yeahbut...
once you've selected all text, any keystroke combination will delete it, without necessarily taking a clipboard version - for example, if you accidently hit control/z instead of control/x... Not any combination will cause it to disappear. And if you do hit CONTROL-Z by mistake you've merely hit "undo." You can re-do and un-do back and forth. Anyway, to each their own form of madness. 
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If I understand some of you correctly, you're telling me that WS won't time out and delete my entry if every so often I select all, copy, paste, etc. You will have to forgive me my lack of computer skills, but I don' think that's true
Unless what you mean is, if you anticipate a hiatus whilst composing, to go to another program such as Word, do your work there, then copy it to WS; a procedure to me monstrously cumbersome
Edited to acknowledge musik's suggestion to continually Select-all-Copy. What you're telling me is to lodge it in memory so that if WS times you out you will have it saved somewhere. I shall try this next time I get long-winded but it seems like a whole lot of trouble when it would be feasible to tweak the algorithm so the followup just wouldn't time out
Tho my suggestions are hardly earth-shaking and I would never ask Admin to make just one mod for something that could be performed at regular housekeeping. Thanks all and keep up the good works
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Jackie: If you're backing up the followup by means of a Windows program like Word or Outlook, key in Ctrl+C Ctrl+C. This gives you the possibility of saving up to 12 consecutive blocks, which you can then retrive all at once by clicking on Paste All. Still a lot of trouble though. I'm sure eventually Admin will obviate all this fuss by gouging the timeout algorithm
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> go to another program such as Word, do your work there, then copy it to WS; a procedure to me monstrously cumbersome
Why so? I commonly have between 6 and 9 programs running perhaps a total of 15 active windows, and flipping between programs is no trouble at all.
It gives protection against not just timeout failures but all the many other gremlins that can affect your intention to post into a vast database like this one over the vagaries of web connections. And above all, it enables you to easily handle all the edit functions and other text handling tasks including sequential saves in a program designed to do just that. I don't normally bother with a post of this length though.
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>I'm sure eventually Admin will obviate all this fuss by gouging the timeout algorithm
I surely don't know how you gouge an algorithm; but have you gotten the message that there is no regular housekeeping here?! as FS suggested, take your plaints/suggestions directly via email to anuATwordsmith.org. and then wait VERY patiently.
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There's even a quick way to do this: click on the 3rd. one of these, which are at the bottom of every post: Post Extras.
P.S.--by the way, it was these that led me to post the old thread last night; I got curious as to what the "remind me" one would involve--and that reminded me of that thread I don't want to forget.
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Mav you are absolutely right, that's the most careful way, but it would literally double my time at the computer every day and I need to go ouside to do chores
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> need to go ouside
you go outside? in the RealWhirledŽ? shudder! ;]
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