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Anyone ever notice when you have a reply started to one topic, that if you switch to another topic and click reply, that it totally usurps the reply that you've been working on?
I've been burned several times where I lost replies I was working on due to trying to reply to another topic.
Just a note of caution to you guys who hate losing your best posts the way I do. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif
~See you at the SCIWire-used-to-be-paralyzed Reunion http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/wavey.gif ~
marmalady
02-13-2003, 01:37 PM
Yeah, me too! I've just started 'minimizing' when I have to switch out. Even worse is when you crash in the middle of a reply! http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/mad.gif
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Tough times don't last - tough people do.
martha
02-13-2003, 02:00 PM
On the topic of replies -- am I the only one too stupid to figure out how to paste something into a reply now? Used to be a simple cut and paste but now it doesn't want to paste. And some things are just too long to retype.
Martha - I've never seen paste not work in the new reply window. Try pasting it in notepad to make sure it's on your clipboard. If so, it should paste into your reply window. If not then that is a problem.
~See you at the SCIWire-used-to-be-paralyzed Reunion http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/wavey.gif ~
martha
02-13-2003, 02:16 PM
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. But when I hit Alt E and then P for paste, it types the p instead of pasting anything.
Jeff,
When I use the back button sometimes(in the last 3-4 days) I get all the HTML and scripts instead of the actual page. If I refresh, the page will come up. Somebody mentioned this in another thread as well...
1 Fine Spine RN
02-13-2003, 02:35 PM
uh Jeff?
Clipboard? Notepad??? shhhhhhh buddy whats that???
M
...and she lived happily ever after...
Michelle/Ray
02-13-2003, 02:44 PM
How do we chat with other members here? I'm trying to get to know people, but is this the only way?
1 Fine Spine RN
02-13-2003, 03:01 PM
Go up to the top of the main page....click on "visit our chat room", then register using 'cure' as your password for the first time...later you can change it. Hope to see you there...
Mary...
Jeff is the head computer dude... he knows everything !!!
...and she lived happily ever after...
dogger
02-13-2003, 03:12 PM
Martha , i am a computer retard [ when i am told to ''boot'' i pick up a size 9 and give the ''piece of plastic high technology '' a touch up Mike Tyson would be proud of ] so i am probably off subject . to ''Paste'' i use CTL V..works for me http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif.
thank you
dogger
every day i wake up is a good one .
martha
02-13-2003, 08:44 PM
Dogger, you're brilliant! I have NEVER heard of nor used CTL V for paste -- always "edit" "paste". But your CTL V works! I owe you a pint for that one!
martha <--- who still thinks little tiny people live inside the computer and when they get pissed off it quits following orders.
dogger
02-14-2003, 01:18 AM
Martha , do you mean to tell me there isn't a mob of little slaves inside this black plastic thing ? must be more mice here than i thought , i've been leaving the remains of my evening meal in front of the ''slave tower '' and plate is always bare in the morning . i thought that was why you '' booted'' a computer , to get the lazy little buggers off their arses and working ? well you learn something everyday , i won't bother wasting my best curses on this turnout anymore .
thanks
dogger
every day i wake up is a good one .
marmalady
02-14-2003, 02:23 AM
Of COURSE there are tiny little folks inside our computers - they're called gremlins!
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Tough times don't last - tough people do.
Martha,
As a quad who doesn't use a mouse, I thought I'd share some other keyboard shortcuts with you.
Ctrl +
A - select all
B - bold
C - copy(instead of "edit" "copy")
F - find
N - new
O - open
P - print
S - save
U - underline
V - paste
X - cut
Y - redo
z - undo
martha
02-14-2003, 07:50 PM
cjo, thanks! What a great list of shortcuts. Thank you! Now if I can just remember them.
Dogger, you always crack me up, even when you're trying to be serious like this. You should know those guys aren't allowed to come out and eat. Something about if you capture one he has to tell you where the pot of gold is hidden or am I confusing my "little people" here? Jackie? Anyone?
dogger
02-15-2003, 02:54 AM
Martha , at the risk of being labelled a chauvinistic pig [ which i probably deserve ] , if i ever buy another one of these '' high tech piles of plastic and lights '' i am going to order one with ''female little slaves '' ! it is bad enough that i have to cook and wash up for these little bludgers , but i do think they could clean the glass they hold the pages of the encyclopedia up against themselves !
one person allergic to housework is sufficient in this household !
thank you
dogger
every day i wake up is a good one .
dogger
02-15-2003, 03:07 AM
Martha , at the risk of being labelled a chauvinistic pig [ which i probably deserve] , if i ever buy another ''pile of high tech plastic and flashing lights '' ,i will order one with female slaves installed .i'm not very houseproud , but i do consider the lazy little bludgers could pull their weight . it is bad enough having to feed them but i don't think it is unfair to expect them to clean the glass they hold the encyclopedia pages and those e-letter thingos up against for me to read .
how i yearn for the days when a ''monitor'' was the lucky kid who got to ring the bell at school .
thank you
dogger
every day i wake up is a good one .