OK, one website says to rename the Normal.dot to something else, forcing Word to rebuild a new default Normal.dot. So I'm gonna try that....

Bah. That didn't work.

What's happening is that the show/hide defaults to show, the documents open in split screen (two pages show side-by-side) and other weird stuff she doesn't like. It didn't used to do this. Word did create a new Normal document (not Normal.dot, just Normal) but things are still the same.

eta: OK, creating the new Normal document fixed some of the problems, but certain documents are still opening with two pages displayed side-by-side. How do I stop that?

Tommy, that's the last user view of the document. You can't change how it opens, because that's how the person who generated the file--I'm assuming it wasn't your friend--viewed it that way and saved the file in that view. You can change the zoom level, or from Reading View to Print View or whatever. But for it to stop opening that way, initally, is a user error.

Oh. That makes sense. I tried changing the view and saving, but I never changed the document so it didn't actually save. Duh.

Things seem to be working now....

I need some serious help before I throw some very expensive, fairly new (some of it brand new) equipment out my window in the rain.

Background: I decided to retire my almost 6-year-old desktop and use the monitor/keyboard/mouse with a docking station for my laptop, and consolidate all the files and everything. So, I called up Dell and asked them what docking station I needed for my laptop. They sold me this: [link] (and actually, for cheaper than that price. Go figure!).

So, today I sit down to set everything up. First, I discover there are no places to plug in an old-school mouse and keyboard. They have to be USB. So, I decide I'm buying a new mouse/keyboard set. Whatever. Then, I hook in the monitor; can't get that to work. So, after playing with that for a while, I decide I'm going to need a new widescreen monitor.

Several hundred dollars later, I'm back home and still nothing works. Here are my issues:

1) Stupid me bought ANOTHER keyboard/mouse set without USB. Is there an adapter I can just buy, because I actually REALLY like this set?

2) Monitor still not working. It's quite lovely, though. Um, my desktop picture shows up, partially, but nothing else that's on my laptop screen shows up. I don't see any way in the control panel to play with settings to fix this. Any ideas?

Ok. Actually, just figured out the monitor thing. I had it set to be an extension of my laptop screen. Had to right click on the Targus icon to fix that. So, nebbermind on that. Still curious about the adapter, but about to go google.

In vw is an idiot news, the PS2 part of the keyboard and mouse pulls off to get the USB. Yes, they got to point that out at Best Buy.

Hopefully all is now well. I have a new monitor, and I'm about to hook everything up.

I'm in the process of switching DH's website over to a Wordpress blog, and I'm wondering what's the best way to handle the data migration from the old database?

Wordpress has built-in tools for importing old blogs from LJ, Blogger, etc, but nothing for importing content from a regular old MySQL database.

Short of manually copy-pasting all of the old articles into Wordpress as blog entries (and then manually changing all the entry dates)...any ideas? I could always just leave them where they are and put up a link to the old site, but I'd like to consolidate everything if I can (and also take advantage of Wordpress' categories & search functionality, etc).

Wordpress has built-in tools for importing old blogs from LJ, Blogger, etc, but nothing for importing content from a regular old MySQL database.

What other import options are there? Maybe it can import some sort of text file (or other file) that MySQL can export to?

My TiVo is acting up. Since yesterday it's been behaving like I'm squatting on remote buttons, like I'm hitting (say) FF and not coming off it. I know it's not the remote since it's doing this in response to both the TiVo remote and the Harmony.

At first it was just annoying when it came to FFing and then stopping once the ads were over, but now I can't really do much of everything.

It also doesn't seem to be changing the cable box's channel away from its last successful recording.

I'm about to dive into TiVo tech support, but wanted to toss the symptoms out here in case they rang a bell for anyone...

Beuller?