Cindy, much ma for nephew and your whole family
JZ, I hate word tables. I hate word tables created by health care professionals. They do not know what they have created. There is no way for them to fix it. They are using Word like a typewriter.
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Cindy, much ma for nephew and your whole family
JZ, I hate word tables. I hate word tables created by health care professionals. They do not know what they have created. There is no way for them to fix it. They are using Word like a typewriter.
Word tables are annoying and yes, that doctor almost certainly wouldn’t make it better. How frustrating!!
It hailed a bunch here this afternoon, it was very strange. Not big hail, but a lot of it.
Do you know the website word2cleanhtml? That has been my savior many times. It isn’t perfect with tables, but workable if you can paste the html into the new platform.
If you need a second/fifth/eleventh opinion, JZ, I too concur with your diagnosis.
I hate people creating Word tables when they want Excel, or vice versa. My job last year fired the budget person because she was trying to keep the budget in Word, "because budgets are made of words."
Heal well and quickly, Sheryl.
Belated happies, Laura!
Cindy, I'm very sorry. Good thoughts to your nephew, and strength and courage to him, you, and the family.
I had a boss so scared of Excel she used word tables and just added with her calculator for our income. Oddly, she used Access, but only as completely flat tables.
ETA. These are people who think I am some sort of IT wizard.
"because budgets are made of words."
::blink::
My job last year fired the budget person because she was trying to keep the budget in Word, "because budgets are made of words."
?!?!?!?!?!
"because budgets are made of words."
Please to imagine that meme of Spider-Man squinting and asking what the goddamn fuck.
Though I have to admit that I do myself use Word tables occasionally--they're useful when dumping clinical notes or CVs out of yet another non-Word platform into Word, when all the formatting has been stripped in between and you've got long jumbled lists of medications or 20 years' worth of postdocs mentored, with a lot of chunks of info of wildly varying lengths to make orderly and readable with tabs alone. But in all my years I've never found any other excuse to use tables in Word, and if you asked me to create an entire lengthy narrative document made up of nested tables I wouldn't even know how to start.
This same doctor also invariably reformats all the bullet-point lists, of which these documents contain many, from actual bullets to random Greek letters (usually Σ, but not always), which the non-Word platform doesn't understand and which have to be reconverted to bullets. And I'm dead certain he again has no idea how he's doing this or even that he's doing it at all.