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Fred also returned to the use of msconfig to speed up reboots. The other side of that coin is rarely mentioned: that is – how can I add an executable to msconfig if it didn’t get there when the program was installed?

Fred Langa says “So the best password managers bypass the keyboard buffer. ”
Which are they,please?

Yes I have gone through your sequence (with saving) with several files, old and new.
But now I’m thinking perhaps you are referring to the very first file that wouldn’t print.
Of course I have no idea which file that was.

Thank you, Zeddy:
I altered and reset the regional settings as you prescribed, but still got the same errmess.
The same annoyance afflicted three other spreadsheets. In one case I had to have a print, so I used PlanMaker to get it.
Then I found your later post and tried
open spreadsheet
set print area
save spreadsheet
exit Excel

open excel
open same spreadsheet
select print preview – same errmess
select print – same errmess
exit Excel

Then repeated the latter sequence without the preview step.

I suppose I could simply use PlanMaker from now on!

I haven’t used WordPress yet but the way to do it from WebPlus is to put each second-level menu on its own “panel” triggered by click or hover (at your option for each panel) over the parent button in the main menu. For instance see the home page of http://derryhortsoc.org.uk and click the Features button.

In that case, maybe you should save your money and stick with Wordpad or Notepad. In any event, you cannot use Word without using at least one Style. Not using them in documents you share with others in a work environment, especially if they’re using them, is just plain rude and lazy.

I find this moderator’s response a bit rude (round here we misuse the word ‘ignorant’ but I refrain). Notepad is far more primitive than a Style-free Word would be. A fairer suggestion might have been to use Works Word Processor.

But isn’t Thomasja’s problem far more fundamental? Wouldn’t Amazon be doing a better job by accepting input in RTF, in PDF, or one version of Word without doing any tampering? Kindle is profitable enough to pay for a bit more coding.

I haven’t afforded upgrades since Word 97, and one of the reasons is that I dislike Word’s implementation of Styles. I have 20 home-grown templates which do generally stick to their assigned Styles, but Normal.dot, used for miscellaneous writings, doesn’t seem able to hold fast to the changes I “add to template”. And as for setting tabs …. But I will study those three references: now that we have an open file format they might convince me to upgrade.

Thanks again,Joe:
ShellExView is quite comprehensive and shortened my context menu’s appearance time appreciably. The main culprit seems to have been VLC media player, which had two lines in the context menu but each line had a sheaf of links.

Thank you, JoeP517:
The bartdart utility only deals with a few named programs’ links – I would need to know how to add several others to it to see any effect.
Probably a matter of editing the registry.

It’s highly unlikely that MS will include a mail client in WIndow 8. MS removes the mail client for legal reason, not technological ones. The EU made them remove the mail client to allow competitors to have a fair advantage in the mail client arena. Since the EU hasn’t changed anything on this, you’ll have to download Live Mail or Thunderbird or what ever.

Before OE lovers turn to T’bird they should be warned that it too is a long way short of ideal: f’rinstance the simple objective of moving the big folder of stored mail from drive c: to drive f: recently gave me a sore head – seemingly because of the roundabout way T’bird looks for the place to store mail. Web-based and loosely-organised help written by generations of volunteers is the Achilles’ heel of all open-source software I’ve tried, and T’bird’s may be the worst.

Because it’s a small target for hackers and does everything I want. And it’s mostly quicker to load.

I was an Opera-first user for years, until a revision that stopped it handling my JavaScript the way it had done (which was just like IE and FF did and do). I could not get any help from company or community so I reverted to FF (in spite of its non-existent help system). Before long a FF revision concealed the familiar GUI and disconnected both my add-ons without any speed gain at all.

Chrome was then newish but as fast-loading as Opera had been and did everything right, including lightning-fast updates. Just recently Chrome has started to mess with my text formatting (as has Opera – so the newer Standards must be to blame), but it’s still the best I can find (Safari’s “wall” annoys me and it’s slow to patch over security concerns).

Strangely enough, Opera’s recent updates have restored the JavaScript functionality the earlier update removed !

As a heartfelt generalisation, browsers’ managements need to stop interfering with users’ GUI preferences and move the liberated manpower to providing good help facilities.

You make a lot of sense as regards photos of evident merit or potential, but I make ten times as many maybees that I would risk to the cloud.

Sincere thanks to all contributors to this thread! I still maintain T’bird desperately needs a proper .hlp facility, but now my two worst fears are over. Undoing the damage done by the last uninvited “upgrade” ruined my Christmas holiday. They won’t do that to me again. And I have found out where my email files have been hidden.

Sydney Harrod

Spot-on, Paul: many thanks.
I must have fiddled with those check-boxes when half asleep.
Then when trouble-shooting I failed to recognise a text box as a drawing object.
All’s well that ends well.

Rejoice! Uninstalling the printer and reinstalling with a very convenient downloaded driver utility from Epson has cured the problem.
I still wonder whether I gave a wrong instruction or a file became corrupted!

Anyway, I’m much obliged.

Thank you – we’ll see. I have Revo and hope it can find all the Epson drivers.