Re: Fun with Word

["Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi, Kenpo,

I apologize for starting off what sounded like a personal attack. It was not
meant to be one,  but there's no denying how it turned out in the end.

If it's any consolation, I can never get cheesecake right, my money
management sucks, and I end up rubbing nice folks the wrong way. And I can't
pin any of that on software.

Peace,
Edwin



On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:35 PM, <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net> wrote:

> To those who have had no problems with bullets and numbering in relatively
> short documents, it's like jury duty or meeting the unknown driver who has
> your name on his front bumper -- your day will come.
>
> I know some folks who have been called up for jury duty several times in
> only a few years' span. I've been in Atlanta since the 1984 and have yet to
> be even called in for POSSIBLE jury duty, even though I'm a registered
> voter.
>
> Likewise, I know of a few folks who seem to have "Sucker" taped to their
> car; my wife, a transportation engineer here in Atlanta since the mid-1980s,
> has gotten several speeding tickets over the past few years for merely
> keeping with traffic -- yet _she's_ the one picked off by the cops; I follow
> traffic the same way and haven't gotten a ticket since November 1991, yet it
> could change on my way home from work tonight.
>
> As for Word, yes, I now use only preset paragraph tags called "bulletted"
> and "number", and yes, it HAS happened that mid-way or even later in the
> document, I'll highlight a block of text for retagging to bulleted for
> example and watch as miraculously, the tag name is applied (as shown in the
> "Style" field in the menu bar at the top of the screen) while every bulleted
> item in the doc reverts to bulletless text with body text attributes.
>
> Please don't tell me I must have done something wrong, because I know from
> this list what NOT to do and what TO do and this is EXACTLY as it happens.
>
> Not every time, but sometimes.
>
> Windows XP, Word 2003, on a PC with oodles of RAM and speed.
>
> -- Kenpo in Atlanta
>
> -------------- Original message from "Dan Goldstein" <
> DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>: --------------
>
>
> > Add a zero (350 pages). Still no problem. There are many TECHWR-L and
> > Word-PC posts that explain how this is done, so I won't get into it
> > here.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Geoff Lane
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:27 AM
> > > To: TECHWR-L
> > > Subject: Re: Fun with Word
> > >
> > > On Thursday, June 5, 2008, Edwin Skau wrote;
> > >
> > > > However, I have NEVER had a problem with a document that
> > > > ran into 24, 30, or 35 pages. Specially not with bullets
> > > > and numbers. Even when I didn't define styles.
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Edwin: As you say, a discussion about Word problems does
> > > tell us a lot about the user. FWIW, I rarely have problems
> > > with Word documents of that length - but I suspect that's
> > > mainly because I most of work isn't on documents that
> > > short!
> > >
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