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google "personalizing your (or my) PC"; you'll find lots of good info.
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NB: it's called "drag & drop", from the order of execution (in the event you try to explain it to someone).
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I checked out "personalizing", my problem is that I do
not understand all the terms that are used. I remember the
first day I bought a "computers for Dummies" book and it
talked about the "cursor" on page one. I had no idea what
that was. But I've bookmarked it and will try to go at
it slowly. Appreciative.
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google "personalizing your (or my) PC"; you'll find lots of good info.
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NB: it's called "drag & drop", from the order of execution (in the event you try to explain it to someone). Leave it to me to even get that mixed up.
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PM me if you like; I'll be happy to try and explain what things I do know. You're in the situation I was when I first tried reading recipes--or even now, Shakespeare: I could read the words (ex., sauté, blanch) but had NO idea what they meant.
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Thanks. I know there is probably a list of things like
terms. But try reading a sentence and looking up the
words as you go, you forget what the sentence is saying.
It is sort of like translating Latin back when you are
a freshman in high school, you find words, and hope for
some meaning; or, like you said, Shakespeare. I will PM
and ask for whatever....I really don't know what to ask.
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I'll jump onto Jackie's bandwagon: PM me, if you like. I've been on Macs for fifteen years, so I don't know much about Windows-specific techniques, but I do computer graphics, and hang out on a related forum enough to know that there's a lot of generic stuff, such as drag & drop, that is universal, and that Mac has a character palette instead of a map. The needs are the same, no matter what operating system, so the function is likely there somewhere. Don't be shy about asking ANYTHING about computer or text function, just as I won't be shy about saying, "I don't know." I'm not a computer geek, but I'm willing to help to the extent of my abilities, even if it's only to help you to know what to ask.
Peter
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Can I come to you too....there is something I have always wanted to learn to do.....
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Thanks Peter, this I will do. Along with Candy above,
there is so much that seems impossible to glean.
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Do you have some knowledge of the technique of poetry as well? I noticed some references in more than one of your posts.
Just askin.
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I wonder what I've been saying - I'd better be careful. It's been a long time since I actively studied poetry: I majored in English in college, just a few short decades ago. I haven't written much poetry; I like it, in general, when I stumble upon it, though I don't usually seek it out. I think that's because poetry requires more time than I have been able to afford to give it. I'm retired now, and hope to spend an increasing amount of time working and playing with language, including reading and writing poetry. I've performed in about a hundred productions as an amateur actor over forty or so years and I think I have a reasonably good ear for language, the one abetting the other.
It's probably fair for me to claim to have "some knowledge," but no real authority beyond having a high opinion of my own opinion!
And I talk too much, especially when I'm late for bed.
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