Word tables are annoying and yes, that doctor almost certainly wouldn’t make it better. How frustrating!!
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I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
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meara - Feb 23, 2021 5:20:04 pm PST #3791 of 29994
Sophia Brooks - Feb 23, 2021 5:27:59 pm PST #3792 of 29994
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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.
brenda m - Feb 23, 2021 5:28:20 pm PST #3793 of 29994
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
If you need a second/fifth/eleventh opinion, JZ, I too concur with your diagnosis.
Volans - Feb 23, 2021 5:29:11 pm PST #3794 of 29994
move out and draw fire
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."
Beverly - Feb 23, 2021 5:34:50 pm PST #3795 of 29994
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Heal well and quickly, Sheryl.
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Cindy, I'm very sorry. Good thoughts to your nephew, and strength and courage to him, you, and the family.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 23, 2021 5:44:09 pm PST #3796 of 29994
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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.
-t - Feb 23, 2021 5:56:38 pm PST #3797 of 29994
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
"because budgets are made of words."
::blink::
Jesse - Feb 23, 2021 6:33:02 pm PST #3798 of 29994
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My job last year fired the budget person because she was trying to keep the budget in Word, "because budgets are made of words."
?!?!?!?!?!
JZ - Feb 23, 2021 7:19:22 pm PST #3799 of 29994
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
"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.
-t - Feb 23, 2021 7:53:20 pm PST #3800 of 29994
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like I have to admire, just a little, a habitual formatting mishap that is that outre