I'm sure you all appreciate that I have moved on from my old phone in that we have passed the two years of wrongly faced smart quotes as apostrophes!

I occasionally see that on FB and think, "Oh, that's just like Liese!"

Zuisa,

Yes. I usually fix this by putting my phone in airplane mode then turning it back on. Sometimes, I have to do a hard reset to get my iPhone back in business. I need to do a clean reset and get back to basics with my iPhone, but that will take hours. It isn't syncing right for me anymore.

I occasionally see that on FB and think, "Oh, that's just like Liese!"

I contemplated moving to a style of writing that contained no contractions. But I was too lazy. But it's over now! I can contract all I want!

Mostly I've been reading about Windows 8 in the context of tablets (I'm a little tablet crazy right now, because I already shopped, thank you). But I did notice this on it, which is changing things:

Microsoft says that "to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free". That means that if you launch the browser from the Metro start screen, you won't be able to use Flash or other plug-ins on any of your sites. However, if you launch it from the traditional desktop, you'll still have your Flash. You can read more about Microsoft's decision at their blog, linked below.

iPads are the most prevalent tablet, Android the most prevalent mobile platform, but Windows 8 will be everywhere because it's everywhere. So when they start pushing HTML 5 and pushing out Flash, more things will change.

Liese's having contractions! pass it on

Not only is working eating from the bottom, but Office 2010 seems determined to eat my work. Starting to feel like that cartoon of the line of increasingly larger fish eating the next smallest.

OK - to get down to cases - has anyone else had this problem? We have this large Excel spreadsheet that has to have a lot of text in the various cells - lists of company names in several (done as a chunk of text with commas in some names, semicolons separating the individual names), a good chunk (100 words or so) of plain text in another.

I did a merge into Word file to get specific bits of information organized in specific ways. When I got the final version, certain names on the list were missing in the Word file and the large chunk of text had duplicated. When I went back to the Excel file, some of the lists of names had been cut short - which is why they didn't merge into the Word file.

to put it simply, WTF?

When I went back to the Excel file, some of the lists of names had been cut short - which is why they didn't merge into the Word file

Oh, man, I used to see that. It has something to do with the upper limit of the cell size when it's formatted for text, I think. I don't remember what to do about it, though.

I figured it was something like that. sigh

Thanks ... it is kind of reassuring to know I haven't completely lost it.

Yes, Excel has limits on how many characters can be in a cell. I think you might be able to find the limit if you google.

Sounds like time to switch to a database.