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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: sharing Windows #160737 06/30/06 04:56 PM 06/30/06 04:56 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah dalehileman   OP Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Bel: I'd have no intention of destroying it, only improving it Typical example: Feeling guilty about my continuing felony, I reluctantly applied for "Genuine" Windows at a cost of $149 Filling in the necessary forms took forever. One of the most frustrating requirements was entering my phone number. Their diabolical algorithm just simply wouldn't accept the last two digits Billions of people for the past 129 years have written phone no.s trillions of times with the hyphens. But all at once all of us are supposed to realize instantly that the software world is uncomfortable with hyphens and therefore you mustn't use one when you don't have to Will it take another 25 years for Bill Gates to realize this He doesn't talk to his customers. It is forbidden for a software engineer to accept suggestions from the outside world; such as "Why don't you include an instruction, "...without hyphens'" dalehileman False positive = negative #160738 06/30/06 10:43 PM 06/30/06 10:43 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago Yet another take on the issue: A few bad apples may rot the basket!? Re: False positive = negative #160739 07/11/06 02:50 PM 07/11/06 02:50 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah dalehileman   OP Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA mus: They may not rot the basket but when you reach in there are so many of them that you are sure to pick the rotten one. Windows/Word, for instance, simply cannot handle quotation marks, often turning them in the wrong direction, a problem so easy to handle you would wonder why, after 22 years of peddling software, Bill hasn't stooped to fix the problem. You would think at least that they would provide a toolbar macro for the purpose of reversal Last edited by dalehileman; 07/11/06 02:51 PM. dalehileman Re: False positive = negative #160740 07/12/06 12:16 AM 07/12/06 12:16 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk   Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Dale, you should go read the article Musick links to. Word for Windows. What's wrong with your quotation marks? I tried getting them in the wrong direction, but couldn't. Mind you I have a French keyboard, so that may be it. Re: False positive = negative #160741 07/12/06 11:24 AM 07/12/06 11:24 AM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,523 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend   veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,523 Virginia, USA There is a free program that works very well called "Open Office" from sun microsystems. It includes: base, a database package calc, a spreadsheet program draw, a graphics package Impress, to make presentations Math, a math package (serves the same function as MathType, but it's not wysiwyg) Writer, similar to work .. you can make newsletters, brochures, etc. Some of these allow you to read the microsoft equivalents. Most of these allow you to write to pdf format. For the life of me I don't understand why they don't push this at K-12 schools instead of MS office. Re: False positive = negative #160742 07/12/06 01:24 PM 07/12/06 01:24 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah dalehileman   OP Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Bel: I may have stretched the truth a little for purposes of emphasis. Typically the backward quotes happen during editing, when for one reason or another one deletes a passage containing one, which upon an attempt to replace it, comes out backward. Since Word doesn't include a macro to reverse them, I had to write my own dalehileman Re: False positive = negative #160743 07/12/06 02:21 PM 07/12/06 02:21 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk   Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Ooo ya, I know what you mean. I've had that happen when I'm editing text. There is one thing that I've been trying to remove and haven't found the button yet. When I'm writing a date, the program automatically adds an abbreviated version when I press return. I want to write: le 12 juillet 2006 When I press return to go to another line the computer modifies it to: le 12 juillet 2006-07-12 I've looked in the automatic corrections and automatic text inserts, but can't find the place to modify this command. It is a tad annoying. Re: False positive = negative #160744 07/12/06 03:01 PM 07/12/06 03:01 PM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman OP Pooh-Bah dalehileman   OP Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA bel: With my PC and version, the pop-up shows just as yours does, annoying as hell, but fortunately it doesn't transfer to the text Why does Bill Gates hate us so dalehileman Re: False positive = negative #160745 07/12/06 08:51 PM 07/12/06 08:51 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont > OpenOffice FF, we're going to put this or NeoOffice in my new lab of 21 macs.... Bel, look in your prefs for the date thingy. formerly known as etaoin... Re: False positive = negative #160746 07/13/06 04:44 AM 07/13/06 04:44 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley   Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Quote: There is one thing that I've been trying to remove and haven't found the button yet. When I'm writing a date, the program automatically adds an abbreviated version when I press return. I want to write: le 12 juillet 2006 When I press return to go to another line the computer modifies it to: le 12 juillet 2006-07-12 I've looked in the automatic corrections and automatic text inserts, but can't find the place to modify this command. It is a tad annoying. That is the single most annoying thing in MS Word. I have to remember to type a space after any date so that it doesn't happen, but half the time I forget. 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