In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Originally posted by Brenda:
With a little help from Goggle I found an easier way of accessing Word rather then going directly to the icon, which means getting off my home page.So that is good.
Nice. How are you opening it now?
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Almost done with the project. It's so close I can taste it.
Like I said, there's always more work to do and more things that can be added, but I do think that I will have finished the bulk if not all that I set out to do when I started it many years ago.
Got some real life stuff getting in the way of me wrapping it up quickly, but I should be able to maintain a balance between the two for a short while before I'm truly done and I figure out how to get it out there.
Between all the extra under the hood work that I've done and all the documentation, I've been able to also make this something that people can pick and choose what they'd want if they don't have 5TB handy to keep a full copy of the package. We're well beyond the 64GB thumbstick I started with, but if somebody wanted a minimum install it should fit on a 256GB thumb drive. You'd be gimping the experience by doing so, but it's also made in such a way where somebody could later decide to get a large drive and add a whole bunch to it peace-meal and they'd work together seamlessly.
This is arguably as big as when I dehoarded my house and got rid of 70% of the stuff I owned. It will be nice to not have this thing weighing me down in the back of my mind anymore after all these years.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
With a little help from Goggle I found an easier way of accessing Word rather then going directly to the icon, which means getting off my home page.
Nice. How are you opening it now?
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I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.
And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.
Nice Brenda. I'm aware that is a feature now, but I've been using Windows for so long that most of the time it wasn't so I tend to forget that it even exists, despite the fact that it always says "search" down there.
Like I said before, there's a lot of ways to do pretty much everything in Windows, and really no wrong way to do any of it as long as it makes sense to you and is easy to get there.
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And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.
Right.
Are you aware that you can "PIN" your frequently used programs on the taskbar and make it even easier to open them?
Try it out. Next time you open your browser and Word, you see the icon in the taskbar there? Bring your pointer over it, right click on that with your mouse and it will bring up a Context Menu. Depending on the program there will be anywhere from 2 options that pop up to quite a few. Sometimes those options will be a list of your most recently opened files within that program (like your book in word, for instance).
One of the options though will be "Pin to Taskbar".
If you left click on "Pin to Taskbar" the icon will remain on the taskbar even after you close the internet or word.
Then any time you want to open those programs all you have to do is click on them and they open without even searching.
Even better, on when you pin Word to the taskbar, you can right click on it and your book will be one of the Context Menu options as long as it was one of the last 10 or so Word Documents that you opened and you won't even have to search for your book to open it.
For most people there is plenty of room on that taskbar for all of the icons of their most used programs. You're probably only going to need a few. With all my computer work I use a ton of programs and I've never even run out of taskbar space. But I do tend to add and remove programs pretty frequently. When I know that I'm done using something for good or even just for a really long time I remove it just so I'm not clogging up the interface with stuff I won't be using.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.
Nice Brenda. I'm aware that is a feature now, but I've been using Windows for so long that most of the time it wasn't so I tend to forget that it even exists, despite the fact that it always says "search" down there.
Like I said before, there's a lot of ways to do pretty much everything in Windows, and really no wrong way to do any of it as long as it makes sense to you and is easy to get there.Quote:
And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.
Right.
Are you aware that you can "PIN" your frequently used programs on the taskbar and make it even easier to open them?
Try it out. Next time you open your browser and Word, you see the icon in the taskbar there? Bring your pointer over it, right click on that with your mouse and it will bring up a Context Menu. Depending on the program there will be anywhere from 2 options that pop up to quite a few. Sometimes those options will be a list of your most recently opened files within that program (like your book in word, for instance).
One of the options though will be "Pin to Taskbar".
If you left click on "Pin to Taskbar" the icon will remain on the taskbar even after you close the internet or word.
Then any time you want to open those programs all you have to do is click on them and they open without even searching.
Even better, on when you pin Word to the taskbar, you can right click on it and your book will be one of the Context Menu options as long as it was one of the last 10 or so Word Documents that you opened and you won't even have to search for your book to open it.
For most people there is plenty of room on that taskbar for all of the icons of their most used programs. You're probably only going to need a few. With all my computer work I use a ton of programs and I've never even run out of taskbar space. But I do tend to add and remove programs pretty frequently. When I know that I'm done using something for good or even just for a really long time I remove it just so I'm not clogging up the interface with stuff I won't be using.
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I will keep all of that in mind. But no, I didn't I know that you could pin Word to the taskbar. Somehow last night I managed to get rid of the Edge icon on taskbar. Didn't notice it till this morning. Thinking about whether not it is important to put that back.
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Out soon in the rain. Have to see if hearing aide place is open to confirm my appointment for next month. I have developed a bad habit of not always reading or answering emails.
Also for some reason I've not been sleeping really good the last couple of nights. Guess trying to figure out how to keep the bathtub drain from clogging has been clogging up my brain.
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Well, accidentally closed my Goggle home page after I was here and EDGE came back up. Guess it was just slow to wake up. Then Chrome had a moment to come back up. Probably a little cold.
I think I know why now. I just noticed a cute little thing at the top of the page. It has changed ask Goggle AI to Ask Gemini with a little multi coloured star in front of it.
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When it rains, it pours.
I think we're coming to the end of disaster month. Sick van, sick dog, sick hubby, busted washing machine. And now at the tax preparer's office. At least I got my paperwork together.
It sounds like you're getting used to your new monitor, BRENDA. And exploring different options in your software. That's GREAT!
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Ah, man SIG that is a rough one for sure. Hope all goes well with the tax man.
Yeah, I am finding new and different stuff on this monitor which is good. Some of it I probably could have done on the old but just never bothered. I will admit it is kinda cool for me to be learning some of this new stuff.
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All done for today. Ick! on the rain though. Hearing appointment confirmed for next month. I got their email just never got around to answering it. Bad habit I have picked up over the months. Got lunch ordered for Thursday at the seniors' centre. So, yeah not a bad day in spite of the rain.
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