Amy, that's what's going on with Thinkpad too. I think it allows me to work for 10-20 minutes.

I think it is a bad battery. There may be instructions on how to "reset" the battery.

And I could do it that way if it was within a workbook, but I don't know what commands to use to work with multiple workbooks.

You can open and manipulate workbooks from a macro within another workbook.

I've decided to learn more about this new-fangled way of laying out web pages. Folks call it CSS.

Seriously, I've used CSS to format objects, but never to place them. I'm trying to learn how to do the latter, and I've got two questions. Both refer to the page here: [link]

• Why the f*** doesn't the theremin image appear in Firefox 1.5 WinXP. It shows up in IE.

• Is there a way to position everything relative to the margins of the big white box? I'm looking to do absolute positioning, but relative to the box rather than the page.

The link to your theremin image has a backwards slash in it (it's imagestheremin.gif rather than images/theremin.gif) -- IE "helpfully" corrects it, other browsers don't.

As for your positioning question, I haven't poked around at the details in your stylesheet yet, but yes, you can -- more details after I've taken a look.

Why the f*** doesn't the theremin image appear in Firefox 1.5 WinXP. It shows up in IE.

Your link to theremin.gif has a backslash in it rather than a slash. IE's parsing of backslashes in URLs is completely nonstandard.

Is there a way to position everything relative to the margins of the big white box? I'm looking to do absolute positioning, but relative to the box rather than the page.

One thing I would suggest before going foward is to get rid of the "align=center" attributes in your HTML code, and to put everything in the stylesheet. Trying to mix CSS styling with legacy styling is going to make things much more complicated.

What Tom said about your align tags.

As for the positioning, trying making the white block position:relative -- the divs inside it should then align themselves relative to that, and not to the whole page. Yes, it's weird.

Your link to theremin.gif has a backslash in it rather than a slash.

D'ohh!

One thing I would suggest before going foward is to get rid of the "align=center" attributes in your HTML code

Done!

trying making the white block position:relative

Whoa! That is weird. But it works!

Thanks all. I'm sure I'll have more questions in the days ahead.

Whoa! That is weird. But it works!

It sounds utterly backwards, and it doesn't resemble any definition of "absolute" I've ever seen in the real world, and the box model as a whole is overly complex and prone to cross-browser bugs, but for this case, the key thing to remember is that absolute elements are positioned relative to the next highest thing that has a position, not the next highest thing in the hierarchy, period -- which means that for your original stylesheet, they were looking up to the whole page and not the containing div.

Why, yes, I learned all this from painful experience.