Does anybody know why Microsoft Word considers a file scrap

[ghostjmf]

under some circumstances & not others?


Does anybody know how to control these "border lines" I discovered just because I was trying to draw my own, you know, border lines. With the non-dotted line key. The normal way.


Does anybody know how to use those evil bullets everybody wants nowadays? I would toy with using, like, period-dots but that would push either me or the intended recipients over the edge. Maybe both.

I am already over the edge. I will still be working on this thing after THERE IS NO POINT if I don't get it handed in already.


Did I mention Bill Gates should rot in Hell & he isn't even dead yet? Philanthropist though he be; it is not yet amends enough! Even though he talks in a normal nerdy-guy accent & prolly even shares some of my own politics. It is not enough! To wipe out the EVIL he has done!


Remember I am a Unix Person through & through, even though most of the commands I used to know, use, & love have been disabled on this system for a long time now.

[silvercamaro]

I don't have Word currently to double-check, but if memory serves, you can find both borders and bullets under the "format" menu.

[traininvain]

I could try and explain it, but it would probably be easier if you just click the Help button up top, then Microsoft Word Help and type in your question.

Good Luck

[Beebs52]

under some circumstances & not others?


Does anybody know how to control these "border lines" I discovered just because I was trying to draw my own, you know, border lines. With the non-dotted line key. The normal way.


Does anybody know how to use those evil bullets everybody wants nowadays? I would toy with using, like, period-dots but that would push either me or the intended recipients over the edge. Maybe both.

I am already over the edge. I will still be working on this thing after THERE IS NO POINT if I don't get it handed in already.


Did I mention Bill Gates should rot in Hell & he isn't even dead yet? Philanthropist though he be; it is not yet amends enough! Even though he talks in a normal nerdy-guy accent & prolly even shares some of my own politics. It is not enough! To wipe out the EVIL he has done!


Remember I am a Unix Person through & through, even though most of the commands I used to know, use, & love have been disabled on this system for a long time now.

You really do have to highlight whatever text you have and then go up to the format menu or right click your mouse to do stuff anymore. I feel your pain. But, once you get used to it it's okay. It's just the undoing of parts that will piss you off even more. Like if you only want to bullet a section and you've already bulleted all of it or something. But, then just highlight things paragraph by paragraph individually and you can fix stuff.

Going to help is really the best advice, depending on which Windows you have.

Trying to "border" something with lines doesn't work so good anymore. You can create a box around a sentence but it's not a border. Borders and shading are on format as well. And if you want to do particular individual sections do "insert" a "text box." But that will drive you nuts, too, depending on what sort of document you already have going.

[ghostjmf]

Thank you all; I think I am going to leave the bullets alone for now, though, which will mark me as a fossil. Which I am, as far as Microsoft is concerned. I fear I may well be fighting a losing cause with this document anyway, but I will never know for sure unless I fight the good fight while I can.


I may be able to use this advice in the future, though, so thanks all.

As for the scrap; I was pretty much in tears until I remembered I was dealing with Microsoft here. (I still would like to know "the reason", even though there probably is none.) I wound up transferring the document, which isn't scrap within Microsoft Word itself, into a newly made folder, where it appeared as a real document. Then I transferred it to the folder where I originally wanted it, which accepted it this time & in this way.

I dunno if I could replicate my efforts on this sort of thing again, though, or if I will just break down & dissolve.

[BackInTex]

I consider myself pretty darn good at Word, but I have no clue what you are referring to by 'scrap'.

Or what that has to do with bullets, underlines, etc.

Care to enlighten me?

[ghostjmf]

I tried to export a file that I had created inside Word to a folder on my desktop. I had previously successfully exported a file I had created in the exact same way. File #2, however, did not export. Didn't matter whether I dragged it, which in my innocence I thought should work (either that or somebody told me to do it that way) or whether I did a bunch of clicking inside Word to get to the target file & "called it in" that way.

It appeared in the target file as something called "scrap". When I tried to open scrap (& rename it something good!) I was told "you don't have enough memory & anyway this is scrap". I put "scrap" into the refuse bin, emptied the refuse bin, tried again & got the same "scrap" thing happening, however I went at it.

Meanwhile, the file opened & behaved normally while inside Word. Yes, I realize all files created by Word appear as "inside Word", or at least mine have so far. As well as appearing inside various desktop folders created by the system, I believe, with the repugnant "My" in front of their name. Always makes me think "My Little Barbie", & I just don't want that mindset to apply to work-related (or any other) documents. Also, for the reason I learned on Unix, I don't want folders that have been named by an operating system instead of by me, because things the system names it owns, & can eat when it crashes. That's the way it happens on Unix, anyway. And I'd bet Microsoft isn't better than Unix in this capacity.


Then I did the operation I outlined in my previous message:

create new desktop folder

export file to new folder

export file from new folder to intended folder


Which worked fine.

Hope this is enough explanation/enlightenment for you.