[CGUYS] What happened to the headers?
Can someone explain what happened to the headers in Digest mode? I miss being able to easily follow a subject, or even see who posted (if no name is included in the post), for any given topic. I really treasure being part of this list, but it's getting too confusing to follow most conversations the way it's coming across lately. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] 1and1.com is the best!
After yet another disaster with my mailing list because of a problem that ez webhost had, rather than something I initiated, I took Tom's advice and signed on with 1and1.com despite the fact that my ez webhost account runs through May 2010. 1and1 has been incredibly helpful. I was on the phone doing set-up for about 2 hours with them last night. The gal who helped me (from the Philippines, no less) was polite, knowledgeable, and incredibly helpful. We uploaded all my web files to the site and set-up 2 mailing lists in that time. I'm really looking forward to working with them. Having telephone support is making my life much, much easier! I'm very grateful for having been pointed in 1and1.com's direction. It looks like they will really make my life and internet interaction easier. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Keyboard problem
I don't know if Apple will help you with this, but there's plenty you can try yourself. You can pry off the keys pretty easily and see how much dirt / hair / smutz / is under each of them. Use something gentle to pry with. The keys should simply lift off easily, and then press back on. Not difficult to do. You can blow gently on the area to get the grunge out, use a soft brush to move things out of the area, etc. and see if this doesn't fix your difficulties. If this doesn't fix the problem, get some canned air from Radio Shack, or Office Depot, or Staples. Try cleaning under and around the keys that no longer work with the canned air. As above, get some tuner cleaner from Radio Shack, etc. and spray under and around the keys that no longer work. Or you may want to do this in reverse order, using tuner cleaner followed by canned air to clean and then dry off all contacts. It's been reported that you can also wash these keyboards in the dishwasher. -- By themselves -- Without dish detergent. Simply run a cycle with the keyboard (keys facing down) and then let dry -- a looong time -- and reconnect. I've never needed to try this, but I've read many times that it works. If all else fails, I think replacement keyboards are pretty inexpensive these days, but tuner cleaner and canned air have always worked for me. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com From: Jordan jor17...@gmail.com Date: September 9, 2009 9:31:48 AM EDT Subject: Keyboard problem The nice Apple keyboard that I use on the iMac has a problem. The cde and 3 keys have stopped working. Is there anything I can tinker with that might fix this? It's a couple years old, but does anyone think Apple will do anything for me on this? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Mac friendly web host recommendation
I am very unhappy with my current webhost. They have no phone access when problems arise, and lately they've been causing problems with mail list access and web host issues as well. I know this has been discussed before, but I can't seem to find the archived posts. I would like a local host if possible, but I definitely am interested in dealing with a Mac friendly host, and one with phone help available, at least during business hours. TIA Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] MacFriendly web host recommendation
Thanks to all who responded. I'll be checking out the recommendations, and I'll let you know what happens if / when / I switch. I'm currently using ez web-host (http://www.ez-web-hosting.com/). I use them to forward various mailing lists, some of which recently became in-accessible for some reason. When I asked for help with this via a trouble ticket, it took about 5 1/2 hours to get the lists accessible again. No explanation, just a note that they were back up. Then the CPANEL for another site became inaccessible for some (still) unexplained reason. The message I got said that I had too much information on the site, but I'm only using about 25% of the space I am contracting for. That was fixed a bit faster, but still with no explanation. I am not a technically oriented computer user, so I find all of this very frustrating, especially when I have to explain issues by e-mail and then wait - however long - for a response. Anyway, thanks! This week-end's project is to figure out where - when - to move my sites. Mical Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com On Sep 5, 2009, at 12:29 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: From: TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com Date: September 5, 2009 11:04:38 AM EDT Subject: Re: Mac friendly web host recommendation On Sep 5, 2009, at 9:42 AM Sep 5, chrper...@aol.com wrote: I am very unhappy with my current webhost. They have no phone access when problems arise, and lately they've been causing problems with mail list access and web host issues as well. To be fair you need to tell us the host you find so terrible. Hosts who provide bad service will get away with it if you don't share your displeasure. I know this has been discussed before, but I can't seem to find the archived posts. I would like a local host if possible, but I definitely am interested in dealing with a Mac friendly host, and one with phone help available, at least during business hours. These days I find that the typical good hosting service is sufficiently Mac friendly that I don't need to look for any special Mac attention. If the service runs on Apache servers you can expect both Macs and PCs to be handled about equally. After all the Web belongs to Unix, not M$. So just avoid clueless hosting services that litter their home pages with M$ trademarks. I'm doing very well with a big hosting company: 1and1.com. They are international so their call centers span the globe. That means I can get help 24/7/365. In most cases the service from the distant call centers is just fine and when I call it is not to ask easy questions. Calls usually get answered by a human tech after just a few rings. The first person you speak to will be a tech and not a level-1 type who just does triage. The first person you speak to will probably be the last person you speak to. The basic service is priced low and is completely adequate. Their control panel lets me manage my accounts very easily. They have extensive online help. They offer lots of extra services as part of the basic package. While they also offer M$-based services to appeal to the ignorant masses, their Unix-based services are M$ free. Their help files treat M$ and Apple OSs evenhandedly. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] MacFriendly webhost recommendation
I couldn't access my site to do an update, which I thought was urgent. I filed an urgent trouble ticket with EZ Webhost, and I received an e-mail back within 1/2 hour saying the issue would be resolved soon. About 5 hours after receiving their e-mail, I sent them a note, responding to their e-mail, and asked how soon soon was. They e- mailed back within about 1/2 hour (after 5 hours!) and said the issue was resolved, which it was. I'm never quite sure, when I e-mail with an issue, if my explanation is even coherent, and I think I would be much happier with some sort of phone support. Looking at my accounts, though, I find that one runs through May of 2010, and the other through October of 2010, so it may be a bit before I actually make a switch. But I want to be sure, before I switch, that I only have to do this one time! Thanks, again, to everyone, for your suggestions. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com On Sep 6, 2009, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:49 PM Sep 5, chrper...@aol.com wrote: When I asked for help with this via a trouble ticket, it took about 5 1/2 hours to get the lists accessible again. I would not consider that to be bad service. To get a report sent in by email fixed within a few hours is good. There is a good chance that switching another hosting service would give you even worse service. Though I would prefer a service provider that does provide phone support. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] DTV debacle
As previously discussed, we've now tried both Cable (on one tv, with a Comcast box) and a home-made antenna. We thought the antenna would stop working on 6/12 but, much to our surprise, we still get the same number of channels over the air that we got on 6/11 and before. Yes, of course we have re-scanned, many, many times. Amazingly, Channel 26 comes in now, sometimes. We can't tell if it's weather related, or if they really boosted power a bit after 6/11. The picture breaks up often, disappears for periods of time, etc, but we know it's out there somewhere. I guess we'll end up trying to figure out which TV's we really want to watch. Then we'll see if Comcast actually has the mythical DTA boxes which they are supposedly going to make available (2 to a household) at no additional charge. Because we moaned (or was it screamed) so loudly as stations started to disappear a couple of months ago, Comcast gave us a deal that makes a switch to Verizon FIOs, now available in our area, too costly to contemplate. Maybe next year, when our Comcast bill increases. Meanwhile our analog boxes limp along, getting whatever they get directly from Comcast. The cost of a roof antenna (which is working well for my dad, who lives just blocks away) is more than a couple of Comcast boxes for the foreseeable future, and a switch to FIOS isn't in the cards - yet, so I guess we're pretty well stuck. I sure would like to know who is benefitting from all this though. Someone must be making a mint. Mical Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] CD differences (?)
A friend recently posed the following question. Since I know nothing about this subject, I'm hoping for an answer from some of our forum geeks and guru's. - TIA! Question: Blank (writeable) CDs can be purchased either as DATA, AUDIO or (plain Jane) recordables. I'm in the process of transcribing my vinyl record collection onto CDs, and I discovered that one set of the blank CDs that I purchased is labeled DATA. So the question is 'What happens if I write an audio content to these purported data CDs ? Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] OT: Cable Digital TV
Thanks very much for the comments, Steve! Interesting that we'll lose stations when the UHF to VHF transition takes place. How do you tell, before you purchase, which antenna will give you the most gain? We'll have to look into the Channel Master 4228. Baltimore has a Channel 2, but we don't watch it much. The channel I'm currently trying to get, that I have lost except for the one TV with the Comcast box, is WETA, Channel 26, from Washington, DC. We're in Baltimore, so I can - sort of - understand that it's hard to receive. But it's on the list of stations we should be receiving, but are not. I'll keep everyone posted as we continue to experiment. Longer cable is being purchased now, so that should be installed in a day or two. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com From: phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.com On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 PM, chrper...@aol.com chrper...@aol.com wrote: We have also tried replacing our home-made antenna (a la the YouTube instructions) with an RCA super antenna. Same results whichever antenna we used, so the RCA antenna, with booster, goes back to Walmart tomorrow. No real need to throw away $30 for nothing. When June 12 rolls around, a number of the current DTV broadcasts that are on UHF frequencies, which your home-made antenna is designed to receive, will switch to VHF frequencies. That home-made antenna is not designed to work on VHF. The next move will be to buy some more antenna cable and try extending the antenna outside, and above the level of our (flat) roof to see what difference that makes. This is all pretty ridiculous, but at this point it's the principle of the thing. If the antenna works outside the house, we'll have to think about whether, or not, we want to get a real adjustable roof antenna for another couple hundred $$$s. What a rip-off this whole thing is turning out to be. You will most probably need to get an external antenna if you want the best reception possible. This was true even back in the good old days of nothing but analog TV. However, you will certainly not have to spend, as you put it, another couple hundred $$$s unless you decide to go fulll tilt from the outset. All you will need is a regular VHF/UHF TV antenna. There is no such thing as a specially designed HDTV or DTV antenna no matter what the ads say. Just get an antenna that has sufficient gain to enable you to receive whatever stations you can reasonably expect to be able to receive. You'll need that cable, but you can get it cheap if you look around a bit. A rotator? Maybe, but you can add that later if you install now with an update to a rotator at a later date in mind. I use the Channel Master 4228 which works well on channels 7 through 69. This is an 8 bay bowtie antenna, basically designed for high-gain UHF reception, but providing good VHF coverage down to channel 7. It does not work that well on the lower band VHF channels of 2 through 6. To my knowledge, no TV stations in the DC/Baltimore area are going broadcast on any channel below 7 anyway after June 12. Here is a link to an XLS database of channel assignments for stations all across the country: http://www.rabbitears.info/ss/DTV-Channels.xls Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] OT: Cable Digital TV
This can be read On-Topic or Off-Topic as you will. The saga continues, and continues, and continues: So far we've replaced the Apex box with an RCA box. We get a much clearer picture with the RCA box, and I like the RCA remote much better than the Apex remote, but we only receive one additional station. (Of course, it's not WETA.) We have also tried replacing our home-made antenna (a la the YouTube instructions) with an RCA super antenna. Same results whichever antenna we used, so the RCA antenna, with booster, goes back to Walmart tomorrow. No real need to throw away $30 for nothing. My husband has also reconfigured our home-made antenna to add a few inches (by using longer pieces of coathanger for the legs of the antenna). That has boosted our signal so we get an additional 3 stations. Nothing we want, especially, but 3 more than before. We have played with locating the best signal possible inside the house, and we've gotten to about 80% signal strength. (The RCA box has very nice controls for monitoring this, which is helpful in siting the antenna for best reception.) The next move will be to buy some more antenna cable and try extending the antenna outside, and above the level of our (flat) roof to see what difference that makes. This is all pretty ridiculous, but at this point it's the principle of the thing. If the antenna works outside the house, we'll have to think about whether, or not, we want to get a real adjustable roof antenna for another couple hundred $$$s. What a rip-off this whole thing is turning out to be. The alternative might (or might not!) be to get an HD tv and hook it up to the Comcast cable in our house. The only stopper for that is -- I don't think the signal strength to any of our tv's will be strong enough for them to actually receive digital signals without having Comcast come in and re-wire our house (the Comcast cable splits here and there as it is fed to various tv's in the house). We had to connect the new Comcast box directly to the one TV it's 'feeding' and split beyond it for that tv to receive any of the digital signals. When we put the splitter between the tv and the box, not only did we lose digital signals, but we also lost many of the signals we got before adding the box. Frustrating to the max! Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] OT Cable vs HS boxes
Just a brief update. We have now reconfigured the hook-up of the Comcast Cable box and we are receiving all stations that are included in our plan. (Think NO extra's.) We have not yet received the RCA converter, but I'm looking forward to trying that in different locations, and with different antenna configurations, to see how it works as well. This has all taken way too much time and thought. What happened to the old days when you bought a TV (or whatever), brought it home, plugged it in, and it worked? I'm really missing those old days. Needless to say, I was much younger then. :) Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com On May 1, 2009, at 12:09 PM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: I have set up several converter boxes for myself, my office and my Mom. In every case the process was very quick, about 5 minutes. Maybe another 5 minutes to get the converter box's remote to control basic functions for the TV. What took time ws playing with the antenna. Antennaweb was a big help because it showed me the direction to the station's broadcast antennas. The good news in DC is that they are almost all located on the hill top at Wisconsin and Brandywine. But as I said before, pointing the antenna was not a logical process. I did whatever the box's signal meter indicated was the strongest signal. So once I got a good signal from that collection of stations the job was done and I had my box rescan. In the end I did lose some stations, but for the stations I did get, most had multiple subchannels. E.g. WETA has 4 channels (unfortunately 1 4 seem to be the same program most of the time, I hope they improve that). So despite losing some channels I have more subchannels so more programming choices in total. I stopped worrying about the stations I lost. Channels 101-200 is a cable thing. I don't know anything about cable. BTW, this is not OT. Digital broadcast is definitely about computers. Odds are you need to buy a Clear QAM converter box for cable- QAM is a decoding scheme for digital cable systems. Apparently the cheap converter box program prevented boxes that included QAM decoding from being included in the coupon program. I bought a DVD recorder with a Clear QAM tuner from WalMart for around $150. All the useful looking QAM decoder settop boxes seem to come in around $100. There are dongles for computers and things that are less but I don't see an easy way to use them with your TV. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] OT: Cable vs. HD boxes
The saga continues (of course). We now have an APEX HD converter box hooked up to an analog tv, along with our home made antenna. It pulls in a few HD over-the-air stations, but not nearly as many as the over- the-air lists would indicate. This may be a function of the box, or it may be a function of the antenna. Or both, or neither. In any event, we have an RCA box on order through an ebay store and will report on its functionality once it is received and hooked up. Meanwhile: We had a 2 year old cable box from Comcast Cable. This box had never been used as we connect directly to Comcast's input cable with our analog tv's. We tried for 1 1/2 hours to activate the box with Comcast this past Saturday without success. The 1st technician (East Indian? Phillipine? don't know and didn't ask) switched us to a 2nd technician (American) who spent a great deal of time trying to get us up and running with the Comcast box. According to the techie, who sounded knowledgeable, the box was defective. (It would switch off for no reason, randomly. After playing far too long with the box, we all agreed it was futile and that the box needed to be returned and replaced with a working box.) That said: Techie #2 reduced our bill by $40 per month for a year. He also added stations 101 through 200 for the same time period. As he said, they are very well aware of the over-the-air and FIOS issues, and they are breaking their backs to keep folks using Comcast. Now here's the tricky part: Techie #2 also said that we don't really need the Comcast Cable box, which provides all sorts of on-demand and other features we will never use. He said we should return the defective cable box and pick up two DTA converter boxes, available from Comcast at no additional charge to our account. So we went to Comcast's offices in White Marsh, MD today -- their MD / Baltimore County / headquarters -- to make the swap. We spoke with a very nice young lady who said: #1 -- She doesn't know why the techies are telling folks to pick up DTA converter boxes. They don't have any in stock, and they don't know if they will ever have any. If they do get these boxes in, which she seemed to doubt, but . . . if they do get the boxes, they will be available as we were told. The earliest this might happen will be June. #2 -- We could add HD service to our mix, but it would not get WETA. What we need(ed) is the black Comcast Cable box (Model DCT700/US), the same as the one we were exchanging as being defective. This will provide us with access to WETA -- according to her. Haven't had a chance to hook it up yet, so we'll see. Now: There was a bit of discussion about digital versus hd channels. I totally do not understand the difference. Apparently the Comcast Cable box will receive digital channels, and these will be disappearing from boxes that only receive analog signals as stations switch to (Digital? / HD?). I'm very confused by this, as is my husband. Any, and all, explanations will be appreciated. As above, I'll keep you all posted on the continuance of this. If the Comcast box receives WETA, we'll all know soon. If not, we'll know that too - as will Comcast. Thanks, as always, for the continuing help. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] OT: Cable vs HD boxes
Thanks, Tom! Progress so far: WETA comes in fine. But lots of other channels that we previously received do not come in at all. so far as channels 101 through 200 go, most don't come through, and the ones that do are mostly pixelated. The next thing we have to do is check the signal to the house to be sure that's not the problem. Then the various connections within the house. Then we may just decide to ditch Comcast completely and start over with something else. Very, very time consuming, and very frustrating too. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com Subject: Re: OT: Cable vs. HD boxes Now: There was a bit of discussion about digital versus hd channels. I totally do not understand the difference. Apparently the Comcast Cable box will receive digital channels, and these will be disappearing from boxes that only receive analog signals as stations switch to (Digital? / HD?). I'm very confused by this, as is my husband. Any, and all, explanations will be appreciated. When you get your digital up and running you will discover that different programs are broadcast at different resolutions. Some are SD, some HD, some something in between. The are all digital, but only some are HD. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] What to look for in digital converter box?
I believe that the Insignia box is a Best Buy in-house brand. It's about $50 at Best Buy (maybe only $49.99, but . . . ). Interesting that it's the top rated on the one site. If I'd known that over the week-end I'd have probably just bought one and given up on the RCA box which is basically un-findable anywhere locally (to Baltimore). My dad has an Insignia box and is very happy with it, but he also has an outside automatic antenna. Mical Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com *Thanks for posting this. They seem to (overwhelmingly) like the Zenith Insignia, but where can you get one? Amazon is out, Target and KMart don't seem to carry it. Are all the good brands now gone? Is this another lesson in the pitfalls of procrastination? Randall * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] OT: Comcast Cable HD
Hi All! Thanks to wonderful Comcast Cable here in Baltimore County, MD, we have now lost the ability to watch WETA, Channel 26, on any of our TV's. We hook directly to cable, not using their 'box,' which means we are now losing HD signals as quickly as Comcast can drop them. This forces us to buy a conversion box for every TV in the house -- we have more than our share, or to stop watching the stations that switch. I have borrowed an HD set-top conversion box to see what's available over the air on our tv's. All are pre-HD and I'd rather not go out buy all new TV sets, or even one new TV set, as our existing sets work fine. However, in reading the instructions that came with the over-the- air box, it looks like I also need some type of antenna. Of course, we have no rabbit ears or other antenna's, and we don't intend to have a rooftop antenna installed just to watch WETA and other stations on one or two tv's. So: Can anyone suggest a place to buy a set-top antenna to work with an older TV and an HD conversion box? Or a place to begin looking for same? : If we are forced to get an HD TV in order to see the shows I'm now missing, any info on which type of HD TV is best would be appreciated. (One with QAM, one without QAM, what the differences are, etc,etc. I'm unable to comprehend the info I find over the internet. It's all contradictory and confusing. -- Yes -- i can read the words, I just can't understand their meaning.) TIA! Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] OT: Comcast Cable HD
My thanks to Richard for his wonderful recommendation. We actually had everything necessary to build the antenna readily on-hand. Had it built in about 15 minutes. Very clear instructions on YouTube, and pretty easy to do. Hooking up the conversion box was a snap once the antenna was built. We are getting many channels through the HD box. Sadly, though, WETA is not one of them. It is interesting to see what's coming over the air, though. This may inspire us to investigate a bit more -- maybe even dump Comcast. FIOS is said to be in our neighborhood now, though I don't think it quite is. I'm not interested in the 3-pack Verizon is offering as I do not want FIOS telephone service. But if internet (only) is less expensive than what Comcast is charging us, we may actually go that way soon. This list is the best! Thanks! Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com Without more information, I doubt you'll be able to get WETA from your location without an outdoor antenna. See http://www.antennaweb.org/aw/welcome.aspx for more info on what signals are available and what type antenna you'll need. If you want to try something cheap, you can build this antenna out of coat hangers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw A neighbor built one and it actually works quite well. Richard P. Hi All! Thanks to wonderful Comcast Cable here in Baltimore County, MD, we have now lost the ability to watch WETA, Channel 26, on any of our TV's. We hook directly to cable, not using their 'box,' which means we are now losing HD signals as quickly as Comcast can drop them. This forces us to buy a conversion box for every TV in the house -- we have more than our share, or to stop watching the stations that switch. I have borrowed an HD set-top conversion box to see what's available over the air on our tv's. All are pre-HD and I'd rather not go out buy all new TV sets, or even one new TV set, as our existing sets work fine. However, in reading the instructions that came with the over-the-air box, it looks like I also need some type of antenna. Of course, we have no rabbit ears or other antenna's, and we don't intend to have a rooftop antenna installed just to watch WETA and other stations on one or two tv's. So: Can anyone suggest a place to buy a set-top antenna to work with an older TV and an HD conversion box? Or a place to begin looking for same? : If we are forced to get an HD TV in order to see the shows I'm now missing, any info on which type of HD TV is best would be appreciated. (One with QAM, one without QAM, what the differences are, etc,etc. I'm unable to comprehend the info I find over the internet. It's all contradictory and confusing. -- Yes -- i can read the words, I just can't understand their meaning.) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Now the Word
Funny you should ask this, Marcio, as I have a friend who phoned about exactly this issue yesterday. Once you open Word, go to Format, then Font (from the Format menu!). Select the settings that you want when you open a new Word document, and then select the Default button at the lower left of the dialog box. I'm using Word for Mac OS X, but I think this is pretty standard for most versions of Word. Good luck! Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com Date:Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:40:31 -0300 From:Marcio m...@ix.netcom.com Subject: Now the Word... MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My wife is refusing to use Word 2007. She is lost. I tried to help and I myself feel that I must work with it at least three months daily to get an idea on how it works... Well... I installed Word 97... yeas the old Word 97... Now I only have one problem that I have not been able to solve for hours... How can I make the default font Arial 12?... When I start the program it goes to Arial 10... Why? Many thanks Marcio * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Needlepoint
Count me in, Sue! I'm just getting over a really bad cold. I took to my bed for about a week, and I've almost completed a needlepoint pillow (really complicated design) while resting in bed. It kept me from going completely crazy during the week. If you know of any sites with good stitch guides, or good patterns, that would be great! I'd especially be interested in any iron on patterns, if they exist, as the canvases I've been buying are embarrassingly expensive. Mical Wimoth Carton chrper...@aol.com * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
