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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: HolyAarom on March 26, 2006, 06:03:45 PM
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Please, I need help with a stupid question. I'm using a floppy disk to store my data for a project. I don't know how to upload it! I can save it into the floppy, but I can't upload it into word.
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Can't get it into Word, you say? I will make the following recommendations:
1. Most simply, right click the file and choose "Open With...", then find Word or WINWORD.EXE or the like.
2. If it won't open, then either the file's corrupted or the floppy is stupid. Or both. Either way, I recommend emailing the file to yourself if Word won't open the file.
If you don't want to do the second one, could you tell me the extension of the file? If you can't see it, then click Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Deselect "Hide extensions." Then you'll be able to see the extension.
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Oh, actually, I can't find the file source when I put the floppy in.
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What type of file is it in?
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I'm not sure I understand that. Are you saying it doesn't appear? At all?
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That's why I stopped using floppies long ago. I usually email things to myself, and when that doesn't work I write files to CDs.
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Go into Word, click File, click Open, and from the pull-down menu at the top, click "A:", most likely.
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Um... maybe some screenshots will help? Do you know how to do them? If not... for all the viewers at home, simply press Alt + Print Screen, then go into a certain program (eg: Paint, any Office program, pretty much anything that can paste images) and save the image.
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Go into Word, click File, click Open, and from the pull-down menu at the top, click "A:", most likely.
That's what I wanted to know.
I just didn't know what to do next after inserting the floppie.
OK, Problem solved.
Another problem. How can you show pictures of your desktop? (Wallpaper, icons, and taskbar all in one.)
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When viewing your desktop, press the Print Screen key on your keyboard (by F12). This sends an image of your screen to the clipboard. To save it, go into a picture editing program like Paint and Edit -> Paste, then you can save the file.
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Hehehe...
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Thanks again. Also, would it be okay if anyone else could use this topic to ask questions about working several parts of their computer?
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Clipboard? What do you mean?
I pressed PrintScreen. What do I do now?
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I pressed it, but nothing came up. I'm using IE btw.
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That matters not. Press print screen. It copies it to the "clipboard," a little place in thecomputer where temp data is stored. Now, go into MSPaint. Press Edit --> Paste from the menu at the top. You will have your screen pasted in MS paint.
Oh, and BirdPerson, I thought you'd be a Firefox person. Please don't use IE.
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Well, I'm supposed to be an AOL user, but I only use AOL to check my email. I hate how it's all in one window for AOL... I do use Firefox occasionally, like when IE doesn't work. Most internet shortcuts I save on my desktop open in Firefox. I don't know why you all hate IE though... and I don't see much of a difference between IE and Firefox. Whatever.
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IE is horribly bloated and full of ugly broken code. Firefox is much more elegant and well-made.
I didn't know anyone had their resolution at 800x600 anymore.
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Eh? Oh, yes. I have a tiny, tiny monitor. With really terrible lighting. I have to look hard to see the FF's colors alternate. Which is strange, white is still white.
I've been using Firefox today. It's fine by me.
My computer moves slower than it should. I should defrag it more often. And delete my cookies sometimes. I've got 448 MB of RAM... I think that's bad. Well, if it lets me post on the FF's, I don't really care. I'm going to defrag it right after I post this.
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448 MB of RAM is pretty good! 512 is a pretty current-day amount. 448 megahertz processing speed is pretty bad.
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Good examples of well-made computers are Falcon Northwest's Mach V and any Alienware. I need that!
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Since this is off-topic, I guess I should say I use IE. Had no problem with it, didn't have any now.
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To tell you the truth, I'm almost computer-illiterate.