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Remove Filter  | HELP!!! I have Windows XP and Office 2003. When doing a spelling and grammar check in Word, I occasionally get a "comparison - revise text?" error on text. I have no idea what this error means, or how to correct it. The text looks fine. All of the tenses, persons, … |
| | I was trying to write a formula to find the number of days between two dates in Excel 2003. I decided to test it with the dates of the beginning and ending of the Revolutionary War. I got a #Value error. Experimentation showed me that Excel; does not recognize any … |
| | "The Dog Deleted My Homework" Now that I am teaching, I have come across several odd excuses people gave for missing their examinations or not showing up on time: - "Yesterday was Monday??? You're kidding!!!" (She accidentally set her clock back a day when setting it back an hour for … |
| | Strange lines I have come across in movies, TV shows, and articles: Can I scrootch him now Cloyd? Can I? Can I? You just said, "Cheese in my pants makes me happy." (in French) I don't care if he runs through the store with a rubber glove on his head …  |
| | I teach a class that includes the use of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Access. Everything has been fine until recently. Some of my students have been required by their employers to upgrade to Office 2007. The problem is that I now can't read their homework to grade it …  |
| | Pot users want pot legalized. But one would wonder if pot users are even competent to make such a decision for themselves. Examples: - Greenwood Village CO: Sonja Aguirre parked a car loaded with marijuana in a handicap parking space to save a few steps. The car was towed, and …  |
| | I am again having troubles with some of the same things: - The tooltips are appearing fast enough to be pesky when I move the mouse to an item. They seem about 3 times as fast as they used to be last week. - I am again losing the text-insertion … |
| | How do I center a table horizontally in an XHTML 1.0 Strict web page. The only reliable method I have ever found for centering a table uses the deprecated center tags? In IE, the method used for centering images works, but it also centers the text in all of the … |
| | The posting box text cursor is disappearing whenever the Verizon ads are on the screen. I also get the no-scroll error at the same time. These never go away. |
| | When I get on certain DaniWeb pages, holding the mouse button on the arrow point boxess at the ends of the browser vertical scroll bar (at the right) causes only one line of scroll to occur. It won't auto-repeat the scroll - I have to press the mouse button again … |
| | Several times today, the page has refreshed by itself while I was entering a post. One time it happened while I was editing a post (the edit box disappeared and the unedited page reappeared). Each time, I lost the text I entered. GRIMBIMBLES MOOMSNOPS! (An exclamation from an old Pogo …  |
| | How do I get rid of this square full of text that chases my cursor around the forum topic lists like an angry bee. It is annoying, especially when the text spills out from the square and covers other text. It used to appear only if I hovered over the …  |
| | Why do they make computers harder to use and program than they need to be? Here are some examples: - Why do most spreadsheets and programming languages do trigonometric functions in radians, when most people use degrees? - Why do most of the C-based languages (including Java, JavaScript, and Perl) … |
| | I am totally sick of that editing time limit. When I am trying to copy pieces of code from several files on my ISP, the 30 minute editing time limit keeps me from assembling the code together in the code tags in the post: - When I go to get … |
| | XHTML has removed the "name" attribute. But the JavaScript method for reading radio buttons requires the "name" attribute to be the same on each radio button. W3C says to use "id", but that no more than one "id" is valid. I need to write an XHTML page with radio buttons. … |
| | How can I get JavaScript to display values and attributes when they are written to input boxes by the script, instead of waiting for a rather lengthy (10 sec) calculation to finish? - IE does not change the boxes at all, until after the script finishes. - FF displays the … |
| | I copied this from another thread because it became buried. So far, all I got were kludges that changed other parts of the page to fix the problem. Divs don't always work exactly the way you want them to, especially when they are inside other layout tags. I gave up … |
| | Funny headlines and newspaper misprints I collected: Woman collides with police car. Goliath falls in Cup. Vaccinations available for whopping couch. 17 remain dead in morgue shooting spree. Experienced bricklayer and hog carrier wanted. Specter objects to bill's provision Shooting reported at firing range The Plaintiff does not know the …  |
| | What happened to the HTML and CSS help forum? It's gone. |
| | Several things are not working right now. - I highlighted some text in red, with a note underneath indicating that the user was to substitute his own values for the items in red. When the post published, the text had changed to green. - I used to use the Google … |
| | . . . . I can't read the first few lines of what I am posting, because there is already text in the background in the posting window. So I have to put the text down here to read it. Is there any way to get rid of this? I … |
| | I had a strange thing happen in IE when I tried to apply multiple styles to td tags: [code] td {padding: 2%; vertical-align: middle;} [/code] Applying the padding style removes the vertical-align style in IE. It works correctly in Firefox. I found a fix: Put a div inside each td, … |
| | You've had the same problem many times. You specify the size of your object on the page, or specify the amount of space it should take up. But you also specify margin, border, or padding sizes other than zero. Now your settings work on one of the two main browsers, … |
| | When I am trying to use the Quick Reply box, the page sometimes starts shifting up or down so the Quick Reply box scrolls off the screen. Then I can't type without moving the vertical scroll bar to bring the box back. |
| | On the DaniWeb home and development pages, the dropdown menu closes by itself if the cursor passes over a clickable link which is hidden under the dropdown. Thus, I can't click on some items. On the home page, the "Relax with our community in our Geek's Lounge" linked image causes …  |
| | OK, I know how to address all of the radio buttons on a page as an array, and address all of the radio buttons in a single group as an array. And I know how to create multidimensional objects in JavaScript. But how can I create a two-dimensional array of … |
| | In every book I have on HTML, it shows a database or other file associated with a form. I want to use form elements with JavaScript to control the web pages themselves, without the use of an external file. Can this be done? |
| | I want to understand the difference in parameter passing between the three methods used: - Returning an array in the return statement. (variable a in the code below) - Returning an array copied as a unit from another array. (variable c in the code below) - Returning an array, each … |
| | Ever since Microsoft downloaded its latest upgrade, Netscape won't work right. About once every two minutes, Netscape suddenly freezes. Other functions on the screen (such as the taskbar, and other software) continue to work. This lasts a minute, and then operation resumes for another minute. I opened the task manager … |
| | I suddenly can't get to many websites I have bookmarked, including: - Yahoo - Geocities - Several small overseas servers - Terraserver - Yahoo maps Your pages are also showing some of the ads broken. What's going on? It's like a large portion of the Internet is down. |
| | The DST II Bug is coming. It will strike on March 11 (one week from today). On this day, all computers running operating systems other than Windows XP or Vista, or Mac OS 10, and even those systems if they are not connected to the internet, will change to DST … |
| | When I hit the BACK button on my browser after posting, the following sometimes happens: - The posting window and the completed post appear multiple times as I keep hitting BACK. - The browser closes and I am on the Windows Desktop. I don't come to the page containing the … |
| | I have the problem that some people want me to have the "latest" web coding, while others want backward compatibility. I need to know how the following changes affect older browsers: - Adding the closing tags to li list elements. - Adding the space and slash to the ends of …  |
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