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[kdock]

I have one good reason for upgrading from Windows 7.  Online banking.  Fidelity Investments, for example, will no longer load if it detects Windows 7 as the O/S once it’s out of support.  Other financial institutions may not be as strict or as prompt.  I don’t know if they have any plans for the Win7 extended paid support.

I also recently got word from TurboTax that it will successfully install the 2019 version on Win 7, but BE VERY CAREFUL.  I think their warning is proactive and possibly a little CYA.

There are probably other companies gearing up to dump support for programs running on Windows 7.  That is, if whatever they do to their programs doesn’t sit well with Win 7, there won’t be official support.  I wouldn’t expect an instant clamp-down, but I would expect an official statement somewhere down the line.

<Sigh>

Kim

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AlexEiffel

I believe my first encounter with Windows was version 2, which shipped as a run-time O/S for a long-forgotten program.  I recall almost nothing about it except periodically checking that program on a Compaq 286 sporting an amber monitor.  I want to say this was back in 1987 or ’88, and remember wondering “why?”

I was the technology manager for a law firm when Word Perfect was king.  What a difference three decades makes. 

[kdock]

FWIW, I received three RSS messages from AskWoody today, including this announcement.  Should I have gotten more than that?

Kim

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“Windows is boring”

Well, when it comes to an O/S, I’m okay with that.  What is likely keeping Windows in the doldrums is its … unpredictability.  I just want to sit down and get my work done.  I don’t want to update and find that my bluetooth mouse no longer works.

In what business model (either Microsoft’s or my own) is this okay?  Most of the time I’m afraid to update for fear of being sidetracked with troubleshooting.

Thank goodness for Woody’s Lounge and everyone who contributes their level-headed, practical, very good advice!

Kim

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JLamede, rontpxz81, Tom-R, phaolo, Spiral, Average-Jane

Charlie wrote:

I’ve been holding off updating Firefox to version 70 just because of things they do that annoy me.  I read that the new FF 70 Theme will put all pages in black, but I thought they still gave you the ability to change your Theme back to “Light” and use Windows colors.  Is this not the case?

Yes, this is the case. I just updated to v 70.0 64-bit in Win 7, reported as the latest version of Firefox.  The Manage your themes allows me to use the o/s colors, or the Dark or Light color schemes.  They both seem to be disabled on my install. You can also apply themes.

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Charlie

I’ve used these games for quite a while, now. One memorable Windows update not only deleted the games, but searched and found the installation file and deleted that, too.  Fortunately, I also had it on a USB drive.

I bought a Dell OptiPlex 5050 last December.  It came with Windows 10 Pro, but I had downgrade rights, which I invoked.  It shipped with Win 7 Pro, but the Win 10 license is saved in BIOS–waiting, I suppose, for the moment I see the light.

I wonder if this counts as a Windows 7 sale or a Windows 10 sale?  The latter, possibly, since that’s the way the box was sold.  Could it possibly be considered a Windows 10 “active device”?  If so, this may enhance MSFT’s Win 10 lies da***ed lies statistics.

Are your Word documents to be printed, or are they intended for on-screen viewing? If you lower the resolution so they display well on-screen, but are too small or low-resolution to print properly, you’ll also reduce the value of any copied image.

But generally I agree with all the above comments–someone who wants the image will find a way to copy it.

What is the function of the Word documents? Is it in-house or public? Is it your own folks you want to keep hands off or unknown viewers (in which case restricting Windows functionality won’t help). There are scripts for web viewing that restrict right-click activities. Knowing the context may spark someone’s good idea.

Kim

I have the free Word app on my android phone and no Office 365 account. Although it prompted me to log in, it still worked with no issues. I’ve also found that I can open any Word document through the on-line version of Word, though I have to log into my Microsoft Live account. No costs involved there, either.

Kim

Beej,

You might be able to accomplish this with a macro by creating a dialog that displays only the fonts you specify. But I don’t think you can get Word 2010 itself to display fonts in anything but alpha order without a little coding. I believe the best your colleague can hope for from Word is that once she has selected a font, it will display in Recently Used Fonts section of the font drop-down.

Sorry about that. There are reasons a lot of designers use Macs…

Kim

Richard,

Macropod suggested what I do all the time–put your code in a sub in the ThisDocument module and name it Document_Open.

K

Tigris,

A long time ago I worked extensively with WordPerfect and my recollection is that .dat was an extension WordPerfect used for the purpose of designating them as data files, but there was nothing particularly different between a .dat file and a .wpd file. You might try just copying your .dat file to another name, changing the extension to .wpd. Does this forum allow you to upload .wpd files?

Failing that, can you do a screen capture of part of the odfcheq.dat file, just so we can get an idea of what’s in it? My suspicion is that there’s a fairly simple issue that’s keeping the find/replace function from working.

Kim

One last post, just so y’all won’t think I’m nuts (about this anyway)…

Here’s another screenshot of the line I just said (and captured) that wasn’t displaying correctly:

45852-correct-code-from-just-a-few-seconds-later

It seems to have straightened itself out with a page refresh. Definitely something wrong with the display. Could be mine, could be formatted text on the forum.
Just sayin’ I’m not :bananas:

You know, the string in my own post isn’t displaying or copying and pasting properly–even the one I claimed to be accurate.

45849-code-not-right-on-forum

So I’m going to paste what the line should be here, without any format codes:

Set aDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=”C:Usersodfcheq.dat, ConfirmConversions:=False, Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto)

And if that ultimately doesn’t look right, here’s a picture of what it should look like so you can type it out:

45851-picture-of-code

Whew.

Andrew, when I look at and copy and paste line 2 of the code from your post, I get this:

Set aDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=”C:Usersodfcheq.datnfirmConversions:=False, Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto)

There may be something odd going on with this string, because when I responded and looked at your original post, displayed below my Reply box, this line in your post was correct:

Set aDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=”C:Usersodfcheq.dat, ConfirmConversions:=False, Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto)

I don’t know what’s going wrong, but if Tigris copied and pasted as I did, it may be the reason he had an issue with your code.

Kim