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- Word 2010: disable annoying little popup menu getting in way of cursor
I’ve reconciled myself to most of the new Word’s features, but this is seriously a pain in the ass I move my cursor to a particular point on a document, and am about to hit a key, when that goddamned little mini menu I never use pops up right in front of the arrow and obscures my view Is there an option to disable this? Thanks
- Ream of paper: Print This Side First. Umm. . . which side?
The arrow points to the side of the paper that should be used “first,” which really means “use this side if you’re only going to use one side ” The trick now is to get that side turned the right way in your printer There used to be a pretty standard rule that you put paper in the tray “upside down,” meaning the side the seam of the ream wrapper was on when on top; this is not
- Before the telephone, how did you get someone’s . . . - Straight Dope
Billy wasn’t in the original series Just plays and movies He embodied some of the characteristics of the Baker Street Irregulars To be precise, Billy appeared in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone Although that is unusual, as Doyle originally wrote it as a one-act play before adapting it in text He’s part of the canon, though
- MS SQL Server Studio, cant import Excel any more since upgrade to Win . . .
For the last six years it has been part of my job to import data from Excel workbooks into MS SQL Server I would open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (it says it is version 18 12 1) and then use the Object Explorer (a floating window of MS SQL Server Mgmt Studio) In Object Explorer I’d locate the database on the list, right-click it, select the Tasks submenu and pick “Import Data
- when your position is overrun and you call in an air strike?
I believe it is called, or has been called a “Broken Arrow” over the radio to call in CAS on your position in such a situation Not sure if that is the phrase you are looking for tho Yup the term was used during the Battle of Ia Drang: As the battle along the southern line intensified, Lieutenant Charlie W Hastings (USAF liaison forward air controller), was instructed by Moore (based on
- How many meanings has the phrase time flies like an arrow
I know fruit flies like a banana, but I recall reading a book that claimed there were at least seven distinct possible meanings for the phrase “time flies like an arrow” So far, I’ve got: Simile: Time moves fast, like an arrow moves fast Simile, literal, although untrue: Time describes a parabolic arc, then falls to the ground Instruction: Please measure the speed of flies which resemble
- Sympathy for Trump? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope
Yeah, I know I hate most of the things he and his cohort are doing attempting, and yet… Increasingly I see a flood of suggested youtube vids about Trump stinking As in, literally smelling so bad people around him are holding their breathes fanning away air looking repulsed When I first noticed them they were generally tied to the idea that he was using adult diapers Later a whole spate
- Origin of hating something with the white-hot passion of a thousand . . .
The “radiance” or “light” of “a thousand suns” is a recurring element in Hindu mythology: From the Bhagavad Gita: If the light of a thousand suns should suddenly burst forth in the sky it would be like the light of that exalted one (text is from the translation of Franklin Edgerton, The Bhagavad Gita, Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1944) From a site of Hindu sloka (religious
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