Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Suspensions
So I just tried to copy and paste my Netflix queue into a Word document. Either the version of Word (2003, allegedly) is in desperate need of updating, or it hates tables. I am betting both are the problem, as I have dealt with tables before in Word and they suck, and since these library machines never get updated. How hard is it to enable these things to update once a week, or even once a month? These computers are less stable than Fallout 3.
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Actually, Bill Gates just hates you.
Copy from Web into Mac's Pages actually works great. Even into TextEdit.
You need to "Paste Special" and chose text only or Paste and Match Destination Formatting, it will lose the crazy html stuff.
You need to learn to write your documents in LaTeX.
I need to learn that there are worse things in life than losing your Netflix queue. It took a bit of forcing but I got the whole thing. It would have helped if the computer wasn't actively fighting me on this issue, but they "can't update them because we aren't sure what to do."
A little training would help, but I could also see a few librarians with a little knowledge utterly devastating their networks.
You could actually probably just do straight copy/paste into a Google Docs document or spreadsheet as well.
Since it's tabular data, a spreadsheet program would probably be the better format for it anyway and Google Docs spreadsheets are not horrible (unless you're some sort of Excel power user).
You should have hired a Franciscan monk to transcribe it by hand in a remote Spanish monastery. It'd be well worth the time and effort, I bet their calligraphy skills are "off the chain", and you'd be the proud owner of what would probably be the most artistic rendering of a Netflix que this side of the Atlantic.
Hint: copying WWW content into word... Don't use Firefox. Use IE.
Well, it is done now. I am not really sure why I bothered, but whatever.
The calligraphy would have been an interesting idea, but the only monks I know are trappists. Maybe they would have transcribed it all in watercolors.
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