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Ginger - Nov 12, 2008 7:02:14 am PST #8059 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Does anyone know how to copy and paste a bunch of small tables in word perfect at once?

Have you tried "Select all" and then used Control C to copy rather than the copy command? Inexplicably, Control C sometimes copies differently. Or, taking Vortex's idea a little further, can you convert table to text separated by tabs, then do the opposite in the new document?

I read an article once about the Cray supercomputers in which they interviewed one of the users about the speed. He said, "At first, it was 'Oh, shit, that's fast,' but after a few weeks, I was going 'Come on, come on."


Sue - Nov 12, 2008 7:08:29 am PST #8060 of 25501
hip deep in pie

I am not trying to import a file, just several tables from one document and I can't see a way to do it.

CTRL-A seems to only copy the text, not the table formatting.

Thanks for all the advice. I've managed to copy and paste them all one by one. I only cried when WP crashed twice.

I'll have to revisit this when I am not so pressed for time.


Deena - Nov 12, 2008 7:47:07 am PST #8061 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Sue, maybe next time, delete all the extraneous information around the table, so that all that's left in the original document is the table, save it with a new name, and then import that document into the one where you want the table. (What sumi said, but with a little more detail.)

I think that ought to work, though it's been a long time since I used WP.


DCJensen - Nov 12, 2008 10:01:05 am PST #8062 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

New Cray supercomputer is the fastest in the world

That reminds me.

Drew, do you still have Kristin's dead Macbook to send? I'll pay postage.


Liese S. - Nov 12, 2008 12:49:15 pm PST #8063 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Petabyte!

Looks like Alltel is dropping our internet coverage (tethering the phone to the laptop) because they don't have a roaming contract in place for data. Which makes some sense. I'm on the phone for minutes, but online for hours.

So now I'm looking for wireless mobile internet connectivity via either tethering or a card, that does have unlimited online capability and unlimited roaming, with pretty extensive coverage, particularly in the sparse West. Anyone else logging on this way?

Probably not, I suppose, but we've really loved the ability to get online in a moving vehicle, anywhere we go. And we can't really get any other connection at home other than paying a whack of a lot for satellite, which is definitely not mobile.


meara - Nov 12, 2008 4:06:35 pm PST #8064 of 25501

Liese, I have a Verizon card, which I use for work. It's fine, most places...but I'm almost always in cities, not in the sparse West. I have no idea how the coverage is, there. Sprint has them too. I only pay something like $45 a month, but it's with a corporate contract. You might be able to get some sort of deal if you get your cellphones through them too, or something.


DCJensen - Nov 12, 2008 7:38:17 pm PST #8065 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

From the New York Times:

3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to Keep Prices High

Prices for the flat screens in televisions, personal computers and cellphones have plummeted in recent years — but the decline would have been even faster if it hadn’t been for an international price-fixing cartel, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Three leading flat-screen producers — LG Display of South Korea, Sharp of Japan and Chunghwa Picture Tubes of Taiwan — pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a total of $585 million in criminal fines for their role in fixing the price of liquid-crystal display panels.

full story: [link]


NoiseDesign - Nov 12, 2008 8:31:02 pm PST #8066 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

Drew, do you still have Kristin's dead Macbook to send? I'll pay postage.

Yes, I do still have it and my schedule is finally easing up so I should be able to send it along in the next week or two.


DCJensen - Nov 13, 2008 5:02:50 am PST #8067 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Cool. Thanks.

Good to hear the stress factors might loosen a bit for you.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 13, 2008 9:05:32 am PST #8068 of 25501
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Quick Question:

Are either of these computers a good deal? I pretty muich use the computer to go online, and maybe work on Word or Excel for work occasionally. I want something cheap and light.

EEE pc [link]

Thinkpad [link]

Acer Aspire (it is pink and my favorite, but I can't tell if it has windows) [link]