Thread: Patience is a virtue ..... they reckon

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Originally Posted by Lionelgee

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Oh dear, I hope this doesn't mean Trouble at t' Mill.

We were having a discussion yesterday regarding Doctorate studies, the observation was made that with most other courses of study, the path to completion could be seen as a road with milestones and a finish line. A doctorate was described as a road, but an endless one which when you look back you cant see where you started from, then while you have your head turned a magical being moves the finish line and adds some hills to the road. Keep plugging along

Regards,
Tote

Hello 4bee,

Just another moan about Microsoft Word and its latest glitch. It just happened to be in the file I sent to my PhD supervisors after receiving an email saying it has been a week since you sent me your final draft. Have you made any changes in the interim? If so send it to me. Pretty cunning - aye!

Anyway, I sent an attached version of the document that I was really happy about to them in the morning. I went out and did some shopping and when I came back I opened the file. Let's just say that the latest glitch was that when you clicked on the Table of Contents to be transported to the selected page in the document - instead a void opened up with a rotating circle with a 'Please wait" message. This was accompanied by a title line "Word is not responding". Now this document was pristine when I saved, attached and sent it. It is really nice to have to send an email of apology to your supervisors with the message do not open the last attachment and delete the whole message. Then I found out that after I had fixed the issue with the dead-walk-into-a-void Table of Contents the fault had caused extra hard returns to appear at the top of random pages.

I wrote a couple of messages here on AULRO.

So I was not a happy bunny. Some hours past. I watched the latest detective show on SBS. Then watched a couple of episodes of Oak Swamp on YouTube where a bloke is putting an 850 cc Reliant motor into a 1936 Austin 10 to make a rat rod. You know doing 'normal' stuff - that does not involve Word or academic pursuits. After that I decided to revisit my two postings on AULRO. Then I started closing windows down on my computer in preparation for shutting it down. One of these windows was the dreaded thesis. I thought "bugger you - I am not going to be beaten by you and have a crap night's sleep because of your glitches playing with my mind". So whacked the zoom up to 150% scrolled through the whole document and found every extra hard return and deleted them. In the process my eye just happened to fix on a hyphen appearing instead of a number in the Table of Contents, plus some odd lapses of numeracy for which the blame is entirely mine. So these were fixed up too. Then I went to bed and had a good sleep. I even slept in!

Did I ever mention how much I hate Word?

Kind regards
Lionel

Hi,
Find and replace can remove double returns
Find ^p^p
Replace with ^p
If I remember correctly
Cheers

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello 4bee,

Just another moan about Microsoft Word and its latest glitch. It just happened to be in the file I sent to my PhD supervisors after receiving an email saying it has been a week since you sent me your final draft. Have you made any changes in the interim? If so send it to me. Pretty cunning - aye!

Anyway, I sent an attached version of the document that I was really happy about to them in the morning. I went out and did some shopping and when I came back I opened the file. Let's just say that the latest glitch was that when you clicked on the Table of Contents to be transported to the selected page in the document - instead a void opened up with a rotating circle with a 'Please wait" message. This was accompanied by a title line "Word is not responding". Now this document was pristine when I saved, attached and sent it. It is really nice to have to send an email of apology to your supervisors with the message do not open the last attachment and delete the whole message. Then I found out that after I had fixed the issue with the dead-walk-into-a-void Table of Contents the fault had caused extra hard returns to appear at the top of random pages.

I wrote a couple of messages here on AULRO.

So I was not a happy bunny. Some hours past. I watched the latest detective show on SBS. Then watched a couple of episodes of Oak Swamp on YouTube where a bloke is putting an 850 cc Reliant motor into a 1936 Austin 10 to make a rat rod. You know doing 'normal' stuff - that does not involve Word or academic pursuits. After that I decided to revisit my two postings on AULRO. Then I started closing windows down on my computer in preparation for shutting it down. One of these windows was the dreaded thesis. I thought "bugger you - I am not going to be beaten by you and have a crap night's sleep because of your glitches playing with my mind". So whacked the zoom up to 150% scrolled through the whole document and found every extra hard return and deleted them. In the process my eye just happened to fix on a hyphen appearing instead of a number in the Table of Contents, plus some odd lapses of numeracy for which the blame is entirely mine. So these were fixed up too. Then I went to bed and had a good sleep. I even slept in!

Did I ever mention how much I hate Word?

Kind regards
Lionel

I very very vaguely recall summat you said.

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
Find and replace can remove double returns
Find ^p^p
Replace with ^p
If I remember correctly
Cheers

Hello Austastar,

Thanks for the ^p tip. I did do an internet search and found the same technique. I used hard returns to position numerous tables and figures so they would fit on the exact spot on a page that I wanted them to be positioned in. Probably not the best way to do it. Using the Find and Replace bit was less easy than just my scrolling down through the pages - unfortunately. But as stated before I do appreciate your taking the time to post the tip.

At the time it was more... straw ... camel's... the... back ... broke ... the ... that ... bit that I did not need to encounter. To use another metaphor - apparently, a light congratulatory tap on the shoulder can unintentionally knock a person over just after they have completed a marathon. While the Word sourced tap on the shoulder was not so much congratulatory - I am staggering to the finish line. The line was just shifted in front of me. Plus, for fun some sod threw up yet another hurdle for me to negotiate and I came a cropper before I reached the extended finish-line. Despite this I have picked myself up, dusted myself off and I continue to stagger forth. Yes, hurdles do not belong in marathons - perhaps this is an example of a mixed-metaphor. Or just a really nasty variety of sod in action. Thank you Mr Gates!

Oh yes - I forgot... now I just have to wait patiently to receive what I hope to be the last lot of feedback from my supervisor before the tome gets submitted. Waiting patiently ... waiting ...

Kind regards
Lionel

Hi,
Paragraph/properties/ space before and/or after is a robust way to format that sort of stuff.
Easily repeated by using styles too.
Fingers crossed for you.
Cheers