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I'm not sure what *truly needs to be accomplished by going backward. Editing an edit? Revisiting pages pre- certain posts?
The main index link at the top is the "front door" to go to once you exit the back door which automatically locks behind you. I think they call this a "schoolhouse" style door lock!
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Pooh: Thanks
But how do you go back without the back button
Forgive an old non-geek for not mastering all the technique
what musick said; but sometimes that's not so helpful. 
o Why do you want to go back?
- if it's to continue editing, don't do that! if you scroll down a bit you'll find an "Edit some more" box
- if it's to get past the original edit window; i.e., you really want to go back multiple pages, then right click on the back button and select the page you want from the drop-down menu.
- is there another reason to go back? 
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you can also use the "Index" link at the bottom of the thread (between "Previous" and "Next" to get you back to the list of threads for that category.
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Thanks all for the tips. The trick of right-clicking on the Back button was a new one on me
I'm aware of the "Index," Main Index", "Next," "Previous" etc links but it's only out of sheer laziness I don't use them more since I resent the need for scrolling to access them. It is usu so much easier just to click on the "Back" button til I get where I want to be
Agreed that tweaking an algorithm is a tedious and thankless job--if not expensive too--and I wouldn't wish it on anybody just to satisfy the whim of a sluggard such as I. I had hoped that my proposal wouldn't be so difficult it performed during a routine upgrade
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Dale, this just happened to me for the first time. Do you make all or most of your replies in the "Quick Reply" box? I think it really means it when it calls it quick. I usually use the reply button at the top of the most recent post, but today, I started my reply in the quick box, dilly dallied and shilly shallied and lost my whole post to the dreaded "This form is no longer valid. Please click the back button and try again." Well, of course by hitting the back button, my reply became sucked in by cyberspace and I had to start all over again.
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Con: No, never. Yet I have encountered the message must be hundreds of times, and I never know how many clicks will get me out of it. Too few and it stays there. Too many and I overshoot and find myself in the wrong window. Terrible nuisance, drives one to distraction. But in other respects this site is fine business and I love it, while I realize the Director can't address everybody's gripes on account of the extreme tedium entailed by even a minor software change
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Um. I have finally ventured back into Miscellany, having postponed it until I had 319 new posts here...(Had an overnight hospital stay--all ok now--and when I got back to my computer, Misc. had the largest # of new posts, so I put it off; then got caught up in holiday preparations. Whew.)
Anyway--it's possible I might be able to change the time limit, BUT one of the computer experts is going to have to tell me what to look for, probably by phone, and then I would have to get permission from Anu. This is HIS place. If he says no or doesn't reply, then I'm not doing a thing.
FWIW--I very seldom experience the Expired phenomenon; wonder if it makes a difference if you're on dial-up?
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Welcome back Jackie
But I thought almost nobody had dial-up these days
Con: Thank you I will try Quick Reply
Anu: Please don't misconstrue my occasional suggestions as criticism
Last edited by dalehileman; 12/30/05 07:00 PM.
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Yep, here in farm country dial-up is the only affordable option.
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