|
time_is_now
|
 |
« Reply #1050 on: 11:53:49, 21-04-2007 » |
|
George, I hate to suggest that your grumpiness might be wasted on this one, but there should be a little key somewhere called 'Insert'. Press it, and your troubles now are ended.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
Il Grande Inquisitor
|
|
« Reply #1051 on: 11:55:22, 21-04-2007 » |
|
This is only the tiniest little grumpette; more one of those 'Am I alone ....' things really.
You're typing away happily, right, minding your own business, right. You go back to do a little bit of amending, right. And then WITHOUT YOU HAVING TOUCHED ANY OTHER KEYS OR ANYTHING ELSE AT ALL the rules suddenly change. Instead of being able to insert new text, every new character you type in nibbles up one of the old ones. Nibble, nibble, nibble. And there's no way out except to type the whole ruddy thing again from the nibbling nodule onwards.
Wazzat all abaht, then? What have I done when that happens without realising I've done it?
George, in typing, you have probably aimed to hit the Delete/ Backspace button, but instead have hit the Insert button, as t-p has suggested. All you need to do is hit the Insert button again and it cancels out that annoying 'typing-over what you've already written' thing. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
|
|
|
|
George Garnett
|
|
« Reply #1052 on: 12:03:00, 21-04-2007 » |
|
Thank you all. I will do some experimenting. This may turn out to be a good and productive day after all.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
richard barrett
Guest
|
|
« Reply #1053 on: 12:27:55, 21-04-2007 » |
|
What have I done when that happens without realising I've done it?
Bought a Windows PC? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Mary Chambers
|
|
« Reply #1054 on: 12:34:12, 21-04-2007 » |
|
The Insert button was a great discovery for me. I was always getting into the muddle George describes. It will revolutionise your life, George - or possibly not.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Morticia
|
|
« Reply #1055 on: 12:45:58, 21-04-2007 » |
|
`It will revolutionise your life, George - or possibly not.` Mary, it may well revolutionise mine as well. I cannot tell you how many times that `nibble` effect has had me hurling such profanities as `Oh drat`, `Blast` and `Well heavens to Betsy!` at my screen.  All because of one little button..... |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
George Garnett
|
|
« Reply #1056 on: 12:58:26, 21-04-2007 » |
|
What have I done when that happens without realising I've done it?
Bought a Windows PC? I think that may well have been my moment of Original Sin from which all else has followed. But there was a serpent who beguiled me. That's my story anyway and I'm sticking with it. The 'Ins' key it is!! A small revolution has indeed occurred. Thank you all again. |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 16:33:43, 21-04-2007 by George Garnett »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Morticia
|
|
« Reply #1057 on: 13:21:45, 21-04-2007 » |
|
`there was a serpent who beguiled me.`
Oh dear George. I hope it wasn`t Enid, second cousin (14 times removed) to my scarf. Known to frequent dimly lit, dubious places of uninhibited hedonism and possibly unspeakable practices. She always was a bad lot. Expelled with her cohort Salome for tampering with the team lacrosse sticks.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
George Garnett
|
|
« Reply #1058 on: 16:39:08, 21-04-2007 » |
|
It might have been Enid but it was all rather dark at the time. A bit of a sibilant lisp? I'm afraid I'm easily beguiled.
"In the beginning was Microsoft Word."
|
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 20:56:22, 21-04-2007 by George Garnett »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
trained-pianist
|
|
« Reply #1059 on: 17:09:56, 21-04-2007 » |
|
I am curious what other women have in their bags. My bag is very disorganized. I can not find car keys in it. I have two sorts of lipsticks (I don't often use lipstick) and my wallet. I have a diary in it when I don't forget to put it in so that I will not forget who is coming next. I have a handkerchief which I forget to take out and wash. It is not bad, but wrinkled. I have a pen that doesnot write and that is all I think. Nevertheless it is embarassing to see it being out of the bag.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
oliver sudden
|
|
« Reply #1060 on: 17:12:10, 21-04-2007 » |
|
The 'Ins' key it is!! A small revolution has indeed occurred.
You mean you've turned it round so it now says 'sin'? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Kittybriton
|
|
« Reply #1061 on: 19:28:35, 21-04-2007 » |
|
I am curious what other women have in their bags. My bag is very disorganized. I can not find car keys in it. I have two sorts of lipsticks (I don't often use lipstick) and my wallet. I have a diary in it when I don't forget to put it in so that I will not forget who is coming next. I have a handkerchief which I forget to take out and wash. It is not bad, but wrinkled. I have a pen that doesnot write and that is all I think. Nevertheless it is embarassing to see it being out of the bag.
I have learned, with long experience to keep some things at the ready, regardless of where I might be headed or what I might expect to do: tweezers, safety pins, a small sewing kit, stamps, and a referee's whistle among other things. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
|
|
|
trained-pianist
|
|
« Reply #1062 on: 19:40:14, 21-04-2007 » |
|
I should consider a referee's whisle as a candidate to a place in my bag. Safety pins could be useful too.
There is a food for thought.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Morticia
|
|
« Reply #1063 on: 20:50:55, 21-04-2007 » |
|
I seem to be of the school of thought (unconscious/muddled) that thinks that anything can be accommodated within the confines of a handbag, should be. Makeup bag, keys, comb, standard lamp, emery board, jar of mint sauce, jugged hare, spare keys, monkey wrench, conker on a string, spare candles, sofa bed.....
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Soundwave
|
|
« Reply #1064 on: 21:29:26, 21-04-2007 » |
|
Dear Morticiaaa. Haven't you forgotten the Yak Hairbrush and the Duckweed Strainer? What about your Penny Whistle?
Cheers
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Ho! I may be old yet I am still lusty
|
|
|
|
