The bizarre floating-point errors!
Oooh. I\'d forgotten about that one. Ahh.... good times...
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Jon B. - Mar 22, 2007 7:13:47 am PDT #980 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Gris - Mar 22, 2007 7:42:11 am PDT #981 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I'm about to order a Harmony. I hope it works on my Mac because my roommate's computer is the slowest Windows computer in the universe (I believe he paid $500 for it almost 3 years ago).
ETA: Hmm. The 670 is $100. The 880 is apparently only $150 on Amazon right now. Should I pay $50 for pretty colors? Very tempting!
Jon B. - Mar 22, 2007 8:13:07 am PDT #982 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I ordered the 880! Not so much for the colors as for the greater number of activity keys.
Gris - Mar 22, 2007 8:27:27 am PDT #983 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I went for the 880 too. Woot. Now I just need to figure out how to actually make sure it gets delivered to me... living in a non-doorman apartment is a big PITA.
-t - Mar 22, 2007 8:44:54 am PDT #984 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I was very tempted to go browse amongst the Harmony remotes when I found myself near a store that is said to carry them, but I am being all rational and holding off on getting a fancy remote until after I replace my TV. My 10 year old Symphonic keeps right on working fine, except that it refuses to take IR instruction of any kind. Or show things in high definition, of course.
Tom Scola - Mar 23, 2007 8:19:11 am PDT #985 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Batcave home theater: [link]
Typo Boy - Mar 24, 2007 7:28:59 pm PDT #986 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm giving a powerpoint presentation Wed. I have now prepared the actual slide show, and a speech to go with it. But for my notes, what I'd like to have is thumbnail of each slide, and then tie the stuff I'm going to say to that thumbnail. Is there an easy way to make powerpoint generate a series of thumbnails of the slides? I'd rather have that than the RTF outline so that I know exactly what the audience is seeing at any one moment. Right now it looks like I have to copy one slide at a time.
libkitty - Mar 24, 2007 8:06:30 pm PDT #987 of 25496
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I think I've seen powerpoint do what I think you want, Gar. I think it's in the print options, although the more I think about it, I'm not sure that this option is available in every version. I don't remember off the top of my head how to do it, and I don't have powerpoint at home. Monday is a holiday here, but if you don't get a response from someone else earlier, I would be happy to go through it at work and provide a step by step on Tuesday. Just email my profile addy if you still need help.
Typo Boy - Mar 24, 2007 8:49:56 pm PDT #988 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
What is frustrating is that it almost does what I want. If go into the slide sorter, there are a bunch of thumb nails of all my slides. But it won't export those thumbnails.
[On Edit] Ah - I think it something called handouts. (You can tell this is my first use of PowerPoint.)
[Update. Use send to word. Choose notes below or notes to left to get exactly what I want.
le nubian - Mar 25, 2007 5:14:16 am PDT #989 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Okay y'all, I feel like a complete doofus, but I couldn't figure out the basic thing of opening the Dell computer case. I tried several different ways short of jumping on it to get it to open - to no avail.
So I called the Geek Squad at Best Buy and paid $39 to get the wireless card installed.
Okay price, they did it in about 1 hour, everything is okay.