On two occasions when I had my computer’s hard drive replaced, and reinstalled MS Word, I found that Word documents was rendering all quotation marks as straight quotation marks rather than as curved quotation marks. Here is how to fix the problem in MS Word: Open up a Word file Go to the “Tools” menu…
You can be diagnosed with coeliac disease, or have tests which give indications that you may have it; but that does not necessarily mean that you actually have it. Or, if you do, just by going on a gluten-free diet (GFD) you may not solve the problem. With celiac disease, gluten protein encourages your body’s…
Some words are notoriously difficult to find a true rhyme for, such as orange, purple, and silver. But there is hope yet … ORANGE Blorange, or The Blorange, is a hill in Wales. QI : What Rhymes With Orange? However, according to Alan Skorkin, this is not strictly correct as he alleges that the correct…
Here is a way to go about creating columns in WordPress: The starting code for Column 1 is div style=”float:left;width:50%;” closed off by /div The starting code for Column 2 is div style=”float:right;width:50%;” closed off by /div In this instance, there are more lines of text within Column 2, so here is a test to…
I found that when I pasted text from one particular programme into Microsoft Word that I got a whole lot of tab markers across the top of the Word document. It didn’t seem to make a difference, but it annoyed me nonetheless. Here is how to delete all tab stops from a MS Word document:…
For various Windows programmes: Copy: Ctrl+C Copy all: Ctrl+A Cut: Ctrl+X Find: Ctrl+F Paste: Ctrl+V Undo: Ctrl+Z Firefox: Open main menu: Alt or F10 (this switches to the first drop-down menu at the top of the window; e.g.: “File”) Full screen (toggle): F11 View page information: Ctrl+I View page source: Ctrl+U Zoom text larger: Ctrl+=…
A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sentence which can be read the same either forwards or backwards (punctuation, word spacing, and capitalisation are ignored for this purpose). An easy example of a palindrome is the word “eye”, which can be read the same from either end. Other examples of single words which are palindromes:…
These are manual codes. You may wish to investigate Cascading Style Sheets (commonly known as “CSS”) so as to enable you to make global changes to your site. Note: Each set of code needs to start with a left arrow bracket (to the right of the “M” on the keyboard) and end with a right…
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