Although in the 20+ years I've been using Word, it's gotten a lot more complicated & tricky to use. I still miss Word 4.
I miss Reveal Codes. Alt+F3 anyone?
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Vortex - Feb 18, 2012 2:08:38 pm PST #19511 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Ginger - Feb 18, 2012 2:11:13 pm PST #19512 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It was so much easier when you could see the code. Sigh.
Consuela - Feb 18, 2012 2:16:40 pm PST #19513 of 25501
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I miss Reveal Codes. Alt+F3 anyone?
Wasn't that WordStar?
And yeah, life was easier when you could see the code.
I like Open Office, but it's hell when you're trying to reformat fic, because the paragraph markers don't work the way they do in Word, and there's a whole other complicated process you have to use. Damned annoying.
Vortex - Feb 18, 2012 2:23:10 pm PST #19514 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Wasn't that WordStar?
WordPerfect.
Gudanov - Feb 19, 2012 3:09:01 am PST #19515 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
The Word format, at least the .doc format .docx wasn't around when I worked on translating document formats, doesn't really lend itself to WordPerfect style reveal codes. It's hella complex and you can have formatting out of order since it can append edits anywhere in the document to the end of the file. That made it able to save your changes to a big document really fast, but increased the chance for bugs. If you did a 'save as' as opposed to a 'save', it would reorder the file so it was linear.
§ ita § - Feb 19, 2012 11:10:57 am PST #19516 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone have any suggestions for RSS readers for Android? I'm trying to keep up to date in some areas, but clean up my web browsers.
I see an unofficial Google reader out there (gReader), but I'm not sure what that means--it ganks their featureset or style? Or their actual config?
Gris - Feb 20, 2012 6:30:29 am PST #19517 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Anything wrong with the official Google Reader app? I just use that.
Gris - Feb 21, 2012 11:23:17 am PST #19518 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I have a tech tool question.
I would like to do a very simple piece of data organization, and I'm sure there's a tool to do it.
I am organizing a MathCounts team for my school. I have a giant pile of problems, and I want to simply make a list of all of the problems, with tags. Basically, if I see a geometry question that uses the area formula for regular polygons, 30-60-90 triangles, and the pythagorean theorem, I want to associate the problem with tags "30-60-90","regular polygon area","area","pythagorean", and "geometry", so that later, when I'm working on a geometry unit with the girls, I can click on "30-60-90" and pull up all of the problems that use it.
If the problems were URLs, I'd use del.icio.us or springpad or Evernote. If I actually wanted to type the problems up, I would use SpringPad or EverNote. But since the problems are actually on paper, all I really want is to tag a title: "2010-2011 Warmup 10 Problem 3" - any other information is overkill.
Any suggestions for a nice svelte way to do this - add tags to something as simple as a title?
Ginger - Feb 21, 2012 11:37:02 am PST #19519 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Why not Evernote? You can attach files to notes in the desktop version.
§ ita § - Feb 21, 2012 11:41:07 am PST #19520 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anything wrong with the official Google Reader app? I just use that.
Because it's not one of the top whatever results when you search for rss reader?