Avoid this offensive term. Consider revising.

[raybear]

The WordPerfect "Grammatik" offered me the above helpful hint with regards to SEVERAL words in my short story. What can I say? The title is "The 24 Hour Cock" and it's all downhill from there. Except not pornographic. I mean, no more than my usual fiction.

Speaking of WordPerfect, I was using it because Microsoft Word suuuuuuuuuucks. Unless someone can show me how MS Word has the equivalent of WP's "Reveal Codes" function. And what's up with me not able to insert a line of dots flushed to the right (for a table of contents)? NO ONE in my office or in headquarters can figure this one out, but I use this function all the time in WP. Good thing I'm leaving this office just in time for the switch.

I mailed off my grad school packet. My final packet. Finally. I should have sent it Express Mail to make sure it arrived tomorrow, but I got cheap and decided my respect and reputation as a punctual and responsible student wasn't worth the extra ten bucks. I sent it Priority Mail instead, so it will probably get there on Friday.

For the next four hours I'll be working on citations and tables and covers for a brief. Then I go home to pack. At this point, only having one thing to do, even though that "one thing" is to pack up my entire apartment, sounds like a huge relief.

Comments

[brucebanner.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read this story! Even if it is not pornographic, the title intrigues me. And, I know what a great writer you are so I'm eager to read your fiction. May I?

You know, I once had sex for one hour and two minutes! Of course technically, it was on the Daylight Savings day. ;)

The Original 24 Second Cock,
--Joe

[ladisastre.livejournal.com]

i bet i could help you figure out word. it's my bitch. let me know if what i've given you here isn't what you're looking for. :)

when you say reveal codes, are you talking about wanting to see the hidden non-printing characters?
go to: edit/preferences/view/nonprinting characters/ ... click all.

about the dots for your toc:
go to: format/paragraph/tabs/ ... set tab stop position, choose right alignment and set leader to "...."
click okay. then tab, and you should see your dots.

there is a shortcut button for nonprinting character. customize by going to view/toolbars/customize. for the nonprinting characters, you'll have to look at commands. then click on edit and scroll to find the one that says nonprinting characters.

[raybear.livejournal.com]

about the dots for your toc:
go to: format/paragraph/tabs/ ... set tab stop position, choose right alignment and set leader to "...."
click okay. then tab, and you should see your dots.


i thought that would work too, but it did not. the IT person tried variations of this too and it didn't work, at least not where/when i wanted it too. i gave up and used WordPerfect, then cut-and-paste it back into the Word document. it took me less than five minutes, which is a fraction of the time i was spending on trying to figure out the other way.

i did figure out that version of 'reveal codes', but i HATE it. in WordPerfect, if you click on 'reveal codes' (which is conveniently located in the main menu), a window opens up underneath your document showing off all the coding. so you can easily toggle between the two and see what's causing the problems.

thanks for your offer, and i may take you up on more advice in the future. though i'm hoping i can get through the next 6 weeks at the office without having another aneurysm. then i can run away and never look back.

(i do use Word at home, but that's for simple word processing, which is fine. for legal documents, it's crap.)