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Bread Upon the Waters: MS Word Query
Jun. 9th, 2012 11:04 amJust in case All Knowledge is Indeed Contained in LJ still: Does anyone know how to turn off the crop marks in the PC version of MSWord 2003? Whenever I have a document open in Print Layout View (which is most of the time) in Word 2003, I have crop marks appearing in the corners. They don't interfere with my use of the program or anything, but I'd like to turn them off, and they annoy me because I don't know how. I figured out how to do it in the Word 2010 version I have at work, but can't seem to find the setting toggle in 2003. Any clues? Anyone?
(It may be worth mentioning that they appeared when I added the Asian Languages module to Word so that I can type in Chinese, which I don't *think* is relevant to turning them off but does mean that I don't know in what menu they got turned on, because I didn't manually do it. One might suppose they could be found in Tools/Options/View, or perhaps Tools/Options/Asian Typography, but I'm not finding anything in either spot.)
(It may be worth mentioning that they appeared when I added the Asian Languages module to Word so that I can type in Chinese, which I don't *think* is relevant to turning them off but does mean that I don't know in what menu they got turned on, because I didn't manually do it. One might suppose they could be found in Tools/Options/View, or perhaps Tools/Options/Asian Typography, but I'm not finding anything in either spot.)
Discovering Treasure
Apr. 29th, 2010 10:51 amHal and I watched another episode of James Burke's BBC series Connections last night. Wow this is fascinating stuff! I never watched the series when it aired in the late 1970s, but it holds up surprisingly well for television that's three decades old. Burke is a science historian, and each episode traces the scientific and technological breakthroughs that were stepping stones to some modern technological necessity. The path through the intervening history is always complex and circuitous and each individual stop is a story in itself. The show skips lightly from exotic location to historical re-enactment, guided along by Burke's puckish narration, and inevitably draws connections that I had no previous idea of. For instance (and this will sound mega-dorky) I had simply no idea how interesting and varied is the history of coal tar. The damn' stuff turns out to be crucial to everything from artificial dyes (mauve!) to oxy-acetylene welding to the illumination of London to the invention of artificial fertilizers. And there I thought it was just good for dandruff shampoos... For anyone who means to write alternate history or alternate technology fiction, this series seems like an absolutely invaluable grounding. For that matter, for anyone doing home schooling, they could do a lot worse than getting this series for their charges. If, like me, you've somehow managed to miss it up 'til now, by all means go forth and seek it.
Technology Lust: ASUS EEE
Dec. 27th, 2007 05:21 pmOkay, the name is unpronounceable: eee. It sounds like you're about to flee the monster. But it's a nicely compact subnotebook that only weighs two pounds. If it's light, cheap, easy to toss in a bag, and comes with wireless web browsing and a decent word processor, that's all I really want, anyway.
I've been wanting to fondle one in person -- because the real question is whether I can cope with touch typing on a keyboard that small -- but it looks like all the sources are online-only, even Best Buy and Costco. Still, it was tempting enough when I heard from Charlie Stross that the 4 gig flash disk Ultra is only $400 for a New! Wireless! Subnotebook! but those only come in black and white. Now ASUS has pushed up introduction of their entry-level model, and the Surf is only $300 (!) and it comes in candy-floss pink and spring green! Oh, oh, oh. Technolust. It's pink, dammit. That might just push me over the edge.
I've been wanting to fondle one in person -- because the real question is whether I can cope with touch typing on a keyboard that small -- but it looks like all the sources are online-only, even Best Buy and Costco. Still, it was tempting enough when I heard from Charlie Stross that the 4 gig flash disk Ultra is only $400 for a New! Wireless! Subnotebook! but those only come in black and white. Now ASUS has pushed up introduction of their entry-level model, and the Surf is only $300 (!) and it comes in candy-floss pink and spring green! Oh, oh, oh. Technolust. It's pink, dammit. That might just push me over the edge.
The Problem with Autodidacticism...
Apr. 1st, 2007 06:36 pmSo, I started out editing the Potlatch 17 web pages in MS Notepad. This procedure is Not To Be Recommended.
After a bit, Hal found a copy of EditPlus he'd registered yonks ago, and lo, their website still honored the registration, and thus I now have the latest version of EditPlus to use instead. OMG. OMG. OMFHJG. It uses COLORS. Like, so you can easily spot the difference between the tags and the operators and the comments and the content. It's like a whole new world. It's like, I may not go blind after all.
Also, David tells me I no longer have to obfuscate e-mail addresses by hand. That's a happy thing, 'cause reading the ISO codes was makin' the baby Jesus cry, and I wasn't too happy about it my own self.
When do I get to FTP webmastery straight to wetware?
P.S. - Why yes, I am procrastinating. What's it to ya?
After a bit, Hal found a copy of EditPlus he'd registered yonks ago, and lo, their website still honored the registration, and thus I now have the latest version of EditPlus to use instead. OMG. OMG. OMFHJG. It uses COLORS. Like, so you can easily spot the difference between the tags and the operators and the comments and the content. It's like a whole new world. It's like, I may not go blind after all.
Also, David tells me I no longer have to obfuscate e-mail addresses by hand. That's a happy thing, 'cause reading the ISO codes was makin' the baby Jesus cry, and I wasn't too happy about it my own self.
When do I get to FTP webmastery straight to wetware?
P.S. - Why yes, I am procrastinating. What's it to ya?
Drug Cure for Cancer
Jan. 30th, 2007 11:42 amHoly shit. An article in New Scientist: Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers says that there is an existing drug that kills cancer cells, and only cancer cells, in cultures of human cancers, and radically shrinks cancers in lab rats. Apparently, cancer cells are unique in that they don't use their mitochondria, which contain the self-destruct message for the cell, so the cancer cells never die. Dichloroacetate (DCA) works by switching the cancer cell mitochondria back on and thus causing them to shut down and die. And it's apparently been in use for years for certain rare conditions, so it's known to be fairly safe.
The problem? There's no patent on the drug. So no drug company is going to pay for clinical trials. (There's the benevolence of the invisible hand again.) Current efforts to get clinical trials going are focused on charitable and university funding.
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The problem? There's no patent on the drug. So no drug company is going to pay for clinical trials. (There's the benevolence of the invisible hand again.) Current efforts to get clinical trials going are focused on charitable and university funding.
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