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If you feel a like trying a little bit of VBA, try the following:

Press Alt-F11. This will open the Visual Basic editor environment.
Go to the Immediate window. If it is not there, Select View > Immediate Window from the menu.
Paste or enter the following in:

for n=0 to 8:activedocument.Shapes.AddLine(72,72+72*n,504,72+72*n).Line.Weight=2:next
for n=0 to 6:activedocument.Shapes.AddLine(72+72*n,72,72+72*n,648).Line.Weight=2:next
for n=0 to 8*12:activedocument.Shapes.AddLine(72,72+6*n,504,72+6*n).Line.Weight=1:next
for n=0 to 6*12:activedocument.Shapes.AddLine(72+6*n,72,72+6*n,648).Line.Weight=1:next

This will create a 8 inch by 6 inch grid on the active document with heavy lines every inch and lighter lines each twelfth of an inch. You can play with the number in the above to change the size, spacing, and line weights. You may have to press enter at the end of each line. The numbers are all based on 72 points per inch, so 12 works nicely, as does 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 24, or 36 divisions per inch.

…….11 letter word…….only 3 vowels, last 5 are all consonants (Y is not in the word)

Off hand, I can think of a 9 letter word with only 1 vowel that ends in 5 consonants: strengths

Excellent book to read.

2) corps

1) princes

I know this is going to sound crazy, but in our firm login script, we map the key drives on which shared documents are stored so that everyone works off the same drives for those files. Something to consider.

Fortunately, most of our users do too, so the problem was not noticed for quite a while. It’s just those few who do things like have different mappings or copy the template to their desktop to create files that cause problems…

I believe the problem is an intractable one. Before I ran into the problem with attached templates I had hoped to have an AutoNew macro reside in the created document that would insert the proper version number. Every time the document was updated, the version number would automagically update.

With the way that attached templates work, the code stays in the template, not the new .doc file. As long as the drive mappings are consistent, no problem. But that is not the way the real world operates.

After the .doc file is created from the .dot file, I can go and change the attachedtemplate to Normal. Unfortunately, that makes the code disappear. I can paste code in to the new .doc as AutoOpen, but when there are hundreds of documents, that is a problem. I could write some code to automate that, but what I wanted was code to take care of it as the document is created in the first place.

I can have a .dot template change the attached template to Normal (or anything else), but doing so removes the code I wanted which is still in the old attached template. The only way I could keep the code is to write a hideous kluge or to use a .doc file as the original instead of a .dot file. But that would cause way too many problems for the users (even if I wrote a ton of code to make it behave like a .dot file). They are used to creating a new document by double clicking on a .dot template.

Oh well…

I have no need for auto text entries. How would I go about switching the template back to Normal?

Any takers?

There are too many unknowns to come to a firm conclusion. One thing that is not mentioned is whether the six cows all eat at the same rate. You clarified that they eat at a constant rate, but if three cows do all the work and the other three are slackers, then the answer could be three days if the three workers are put back to graze or never if the three slackers are put back. Assuming that they all eat at the Same constant rate then there are still problems as we don’t know the growth rate, as Leif mentioned.
One thing that may come into play is the phrase “eat all the grass”. This seems to imply that the growth rate wasn’t too rapid, other wise it would be hard to get to a time when “all the grass” was eaten. If the growth rate is non-zero, all the grass could never truly be eaten. So some assumption has to be made about what “all the grass” means. If the growth rate was considerably lower than the eating rate, then three cows would take possibly only a little more than six days.
If the growth rate were higher, then it is possible that three cows could never eat all the grass.
This reminds me of the water flowing into and out of a tub differential equations from college days.

The question was about a merry-go-round, not a carousel. At the beginning, it says it is for US info. In the US, a merry-go-round typically refers to a piece of playground equipment. A carousel refers to the amusement park ride where you go in circles on horses and such.

25. Does a merry-go-round turn counter or clockwise?

This one can only be answered ‘yes’. It depends on which way you pushed it.
I really miss seeing playground equipment like this on the modern playgrounds. Both my sons and I learned a lot of physics on the playground sets of years past, including this “whirl-n-hurl” (centripetal force), the teeter-totter (laws of levers), and others.

It’s true that each shell you go through will have no effect on you gravitationally. Only the shells beneath you will. But if you are going through a very NON dense layer and there are very dense layers beneath you, you can get an increase. For example, as you get closer to the earth with a spacecraft, you are going through layers of atmosphere. So you are ignoring the mass of each shell of atmosphere that you just went through. Yet the gravity increases. A rather extreme example.
Suppose I have a large sphere made up of two layers, a core with density 10 and radius r, and an outer layer with density 1 and radius 2r. The volume of the outer layer would be seven times that of the core, but the mass would only be .7 that of the core. Standing on the outer layer, the gravity would be proportional to mass/r^2, or 1.7/4=.425. Standing on the inner layer (we ignore the outer layer now) the gravity would be proportional to mass/r^2, or 1/1=1. The gravity actually went up as we went down.

SPOILER:The Norwegian who played hockey with his fish in the yellow house on the left

Perhaps using the FOR command would help. The /f flag (at least in XP) has the ability to handle filename only. Do for /? for help.

Code:

for /f %%i in ("%1") do echo You clicked on file %%~nxi
call dosomething %1
echo You are done
echo Thank you for using FILEPROC

You could do something similar with the call line if needed.

I did some checking, and surprisingly several of the sixes that I loaded were 6B’s that were reconfigured into that exact door configuration. http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.sear…nesearch=Zantop International Airlines&distinct_entry=true[/url] . I guess I was awake enough in those days. Can’t believe some of those birds still fly!

Why three points defining a plane in 3D space? Why not four, defining a solid in 3D space? Actually, as many physicists would argue, we may live in a 10D or 11D space; the extra dimensions just wrap up so tightly around themselves that we can’t see them. Perhaps this would be why people get so tightly wound about the axle on some topics.