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Do you have the border in a footer? I know that often ‘suppress on page 1’ is the default. Just a thought.

Are you sure that black “border” is not just the background in the IrfanView window? I usually have the background colour set to some horrible puky purple, so that I know where exactly the background is. Set it from Options > Properties…

Alan

Well Alan, thank you so much, you are right on the money! (I was going to upload an image to show you what was happening but I haven’t figured that out as yet for our new Lounge) and then I opened InfranView, did the background colour thing, and voila!

I’m another one who find’s the GIMP just plain annoying; but since I have an old version of Paint Shop Pro, I tend to use that for anything other than the basics.

The basics (adjusting brightness and contrast, straightening, cropping etc) I do with Picassa as far as I can anyway.

I’m told that Paint.net is good, but whether it’ll replace PSP I’m not sure. I’m downloading it anyway.

My freeware recommendation that’s not already been mentioned is the Microsoft stitching and panorama software, ICE (Image Composite Editor). I find it quite impressive.

I’ve been using both InfranView and just now for the first time, FastSone. I LOVE the cropping ease of FastStone. Not so much Infranview which seems to leave a black border around the picture. No doubt it’s something I just haven’t figure out yet. But I totally love FastStone for cropping.

Chiming in a little late here, PhotoFiltre is a small but powerful freeware app, with capabilities sort of between Irfanview and the Gimp.

I also think XnView is a worthwhile complement to Irfanview.

Alan

I like Photofiltre and not too beyond my capabilities.

Google’s Picasa is handy to have around:
http://picasa.google.com/

Ken
PS Picasa for older versions of Windows (9x & Win 2K) are here:

Thanks to all of you wonderful people! Look at that, I come back and just like that I’ve got loads of help. I’ve downloaded Infranview, Fast Stone Image and Picasa. I’ll explore Picasa to check out the imaging capabilities and may download GIMP again. If I needed a program with additional capabilities it would be good to have on hand.

Hi Patricia,

Welcome back!

IrfanView is an excellent allround graphics application; it’s free and safe.
Another relatively simple free graphics editor is FastStone Image Viewer.

Thanks very much, Hans. The new Lounge is SOOOO fast. Perhaps not a “pretty” as the old one but much more efficient which is the point, isn’t it! I am reassured by your vote of confidence in Infranview. Funny that I was always told I was being SUPER-paranoid about my computer and yet somehow, I think via a pdf of all things, I got hit. I’ve downloaded Infranview and am just looking at FastStone to see what it’s all about. It’s rather comforting that in all my years of visiting Woody’s lounge, to return and find that everyone is [still] so helpful and courteous even to in-frequent visitors such as myself.

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded the software yesterday and have a look at the tutorial before starting with it.

Yes, thanks from me too for posting this! I am struggling with learning how to improve photos but only have MS PhotoEditor, Intraview and Photoshop Album (not full version) so this is a very big help. Happy New Year.

We’ve come to the conclusion what we want doesn’t exist. Even if we had someone develop the calendar this professional wants – basically like the day-time 3-days per page, time down the side, dates and days printed boldly across the top of each column … there’s a good bet that at some point there would be truncated text. c’est la guerre!

I said I’d post back if I found some suitable calendar software so here’s a link: http://www.thecalendarplanner.com/?gad=COq…Biq_uj-AyCmt9sV%5B/url%5D Truncated text in the standard Outlook calendar views was the big issue so it was this paragraph that caught my eye [indent]

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Traditional calendar software normally prevents you from having more than a few items in a day or week. Our unique overlap indicator will alert you when an event does not display and allow you to scroll or adjust the view. Use the additional views we offer or you can even customize them around your unique schedule, to make sure you can always display and print all your events.

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[/indent] Don’t want to download this on my home pc but will be doing this Monday morning … here’s hoping

Thank you Hans! Incredibly, we actually use Meeting Room Manager but not as an add-in – a totally separate application for boardroom bookings! I’ll enlist more tech support to see if this can be adapted in any way for our user. I’ll post back so that if this actually is adaptable, it might be useful for others with similiar issues. Cheers for now!

I think I might have figured it out. Word 2003 implements a new option, that is, “make hidden markup visible when opening or saving”: this is turned on by default. The only way we will be able to paste from a document with track changes enabled would be to to accept or reject all changes. I’m thinking that If we need to see a copy of all markups we should keep a separate copy which will show all changes tracked in that document. The document to be shared with others would be the one where all changes have been accepted – in other words, a ‘clean’ copy.

The thing that still puzzles me is that you, Hans, can paste the text from a document where track changes are enabled into an email message and none of the markup is pasted in – in other words the final text is pasted, “as if all revisions by both authors had been accepted”:. So I’m still going to dig a bit more on this …

Thanks again for your input.

Thanks Stuart and Hans. I did some further testing and found that if I copied and pasted from a document created by myself where track changes had been utilized, it pastes perfectly fine with no track changes. When I copy and paste from someone else’s [Word 2000] document where track changes had been used at some point, and the pasted copy shows all of the tracked changes in the email.

I tried this at home where I use Outlook 2003 – standard version – and HTML formatting. When I pasted the same text from the same document NO track changes appeared in the pasted text. Very puzzling.

No we don’t. I should certainly have included that information. Thanks Hans.

Thank you. I did download the latest driver but no luck. I have been told it is definitely an Operating System issue as as hardware isn’t my strong point I really don’t know what to think. Nevertheless I’ll keep it on my hot list and watch for further information.