Re: Word formattnig

2022-03-22 Thread zMan
Um. Pretty sure that was a joke, son. On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 8:47 PM Robin Vowels wrote: > On 2022-03-22 11:42, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:05 +1100, Robin Vowels wrote: > > > >> Notepad has a problem with large files. > >> It loads only the first part of a large file.

Re: Word formattnig

2022-03-21 Thread Robin Vowels
On 2022-03-22 11:42, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:05 +1100, Robin Vowels wrote: Notepad has a problem with large files. It loads only the first part of a large file. How large? No one should ever need more than 640K. Rubbish. On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote: I

Re: Word formattnig

2022-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:05 +1100, Robin Vowels wrote: >Notepad has a problem with large files. >It loads only the first part of a large file. > How large? No one should ever need more than 640K. >On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote: >> I >> ... But whenever I start up a new PC, one of

Re: Word formattnig

2022-03-21 Thread Robin Vowels
Notepad has a problem with large files. It loads only the first part of a large file. On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote: I agree. I get the impression that most Windows users ignore it entirely, and I know I have coworkers who use MS Word for pretty much all their note-taking. I use

Re: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread Bob Bridges
I agree. I get the impression that most Windows users ignore it entirely, and I know I have coworkers who use MS Word for pretty much all their note-taking. I use Notepad for basic notes, and WordPad if I need fonts, italics and bullet points. I doubt my victims notice the difference, since

Re: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:21:02 -0400, zMan wrote: >Oh, if he pasted into an *emulator* maybe. Seems...unlikely, though? >OfficeVision in 2022??? > FSVO "emulator". Once I encountered a PostScript file in which text strings contained no blanks. Rather, every word was coded like "x y moveto (word)

Re: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread Bill Johnson
I think this is the problem. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, March 21, 2022, 4:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:47:30 +, Seymour J Metz  wrote: >Sometimes I have been able to get good results by cut from

Re: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread Bill Johnson
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...) On Mon

Re: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread zMan
Oh, if he pasted into an *emulator* maybe. Seems...unlikely, though? OfficeVision in 2022??? On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 4:21 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > The incorrect abuttals were sporadic, perhaps consistent with screen > width, as if the display

Re: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:47:30 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Sometimes I have been able to get good results by cut from word, paste to >notepad, cut from notepad, past to e-mail. > The incorrect abuttals were sporadic, perhaps consistent with screen width, as if the display driver started each

Re: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
of Paul Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 3:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...) On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:17:49 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list

Word formattnig (was: Trouble ...)

2022-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:17:49 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam stuff >together. I’ve pasted the same thing elsewhere and it works perfectly. > I wonder whether there are ways to cleanse this, such as: o Export from Word or