I'm going to guess sleep. How long did it take it to come back to full working order?

Sleep leaves the memory powered, so the whole computer continues to drain power, though obviously way less than when it's on. Hibernate copies the RAM to your hard disk and shuts down, then when you start it back up copies the data back to RAM and resumes operation where it left off. It therefore uses no power, but at the cost of taking significantly longer to return to a working state. The Mac has similar settings (when I use my laptop all the way to battery death or sleep it long enough for the battery to drain, it hibernates automatically).

The one thing that annoys me about mu current cheapy APC backup is that when there is a power problem it beeps until the power is normal. Hey UPC I noticed the lights are flickering. If power stays bad very long I will shut down. Don't need your nagging. Do more modern ones not do this?

Well, I just hibernated for the first time, and that answered that question. It made me put in my BIOS password on starting back up. But sleep seemed to use more batteries than XP's standby. I wonder if I can sleep for a weekend like before.

I want to love my Win 7 upgrade, but my key goal is never turning the computer off. I want to avoid that extra password level, plus the time involved.

Ours beep loudly when the power goes off, but just for a second or two.

But you know, it's possible to have a brown-out, where your lights still work but there's not enough power to run your computer so it crashes.

In my old office, the lights were on a different circuit than my computer. So someone could trip the breaker on the circuit that powered my computer without the lights going out.

Word question (I have 2010):

I need to add a sample passage -- think standardized test reading comprehension passage. It's supposed to look like it will on the real exam.

It's in two columns of text, and in the left margin to the side of each column are line numbers for each line, so people can use line numbers to answer certain questions.

The link to the sample test format I'm looking at is here, [link]

Except I think that might just take you to the whole guide. It's Reading Comprehension under Sample Test Items in the sidebar.

I cannot figure out how to format it.

Is there some reason not to put it in a table?

I haven't tried that one yet. I've been futzing about with columns, which is annoying.

I'll see if tables work.

Tables are way easier, except maybe dealing with where the text breaks.

You can do it a few ways

You can add a table with two colums
You can but in two section breaks and use the column button between the section breaks
You can put in a text box with columns