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My question has always been, “how do we know that the Password manager site will not or can not be hacked”

Yes, this is the real issue for me. I don’t trust anyone with my passwords, not even a password manager. That’s why I use a system as described above, based on long pass phrase (not a password) to which I add a letter (at the beginning, end, or somewhere in the middle) from the URL of the site I’m visiting. That makes it unique for each site.

So the pass phrase “MyAuntSuzyIs62AndBoughtTonsOfFeathers”. Then you might replace ‘Of’ with the second letter of the domain name of the site. So for ‘www.example.com’ the pass phrase is “MyAuntSuzyIs62AndBoughtTonsxFeathers” and for ‘www.amazon.com’ it becomes “MyAuntSuzyIs62AndBoughtTonsmFeathers”.

This isn’t my real system ;-), but you can see how easy it would be to invent your own. And I guarantee the more bizarre is your passphrase, the more impossible it will be to forget it.

Here’s another way to do the same thing that may be a little easier to read and understand. Calling the ‘CountChars’ function like this: CountChars(“food”, “o”) will return the integer ‘2’. Note that this also works if ‘search_for’ is more than one character. So CountChars(“foodood”, “ood”) returns 2 as well

Code:

Public Function CountChars(this_string As String, search_for As String)
Dim count As Integer
Dim i As Integer
    i = 1
    While i < Len(this_string) + 1
        If Mid(this_string, i, Len(search_for)) = search_for Then
            count = count + 1
        End If
        i = i + 1
    Wend
    CountChars = count
End Function

Another way to do this is to create a macro for each task (e.g., Macro1==apply red to selected text, Macro2==apply blue to selected text, etc), then assign whatever keyboard shortcut to you want to each macro.

It’s easy to create macros using the Record Macro item on the Tools>Macro menu (that’s from memory…I’m at a Linux computer right now, so can’t check the actual menu choice).

To have those macros and shortcuts available in every document, you need to import then into your normal.dot template.

This is a bit more complicated than other solutions perhaps, but macros give you a lot of control over what you want to do, so thought I would throw the idea out there anyway.

Alan

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A few weeks ago, my daughter had the same problem and I found that somehow ‘use proxy server’ had been turned on. If you don’t have a proxy server, make sure that setting is off:

Go to Tools > Internet Options > Connections tab > Click LAN Settings > Uncheck “Use a proxy server for your LAN”