| 6ixStringJack: Politico: President Trump will get a third term even if he doesn’t want one: [go to link] Written by a very obvious, long-time Trump hater, this is one of the best articles I've ever seen come out of Politico. Because it's all True. And The Truth is all we demand and what we deserve from our Media. And the only way that our relationship with the Media will ever be fixed. |
6ixStringJack: Hey Ted and Second... Are you guys more or less chill without this place to argue everyday? I'm just wondering if the 10 years you've been telling us that the sky was falling everyday when it never was is sinking in right now for you or not. Things are looking good and they're about to look a whole lot better. 2026 is going to be a great year.  |
| 6ixStringJack: All you need to do this way is select your USB stick once you figure out which drive letter it is, then click on the Save button and you should have a copy saved to your USB stick. |
| 6ixStringJack: If you have a CD/DVD drive on this computer, The DVD is probably the "D:\" drive. If you have more than one CD/DVD drive on your computer they are probably "D:\" and "E:\". We don't want to save there. Your USB drive will most likely take the next available letter after your DVD/CD drive. So if you have only one DVD/CD drive, the most likely letter for your USB stick is going to be "E:\". It might even say something like "SanDisk" in the name of the drive which will make that even easier to spot on the left hand side of the "Save As" window. |
| 6ixStringJack: If the answer is Yes, the next step will be to insert your USB drive into your computer. Then double click your new copy of the book that is on your "Desktop". Then I want you to "Save As", and on the left side instead of looking for the "Documents" folder, (Scroll down a bit if you need to) and find the USB stick. |
| 6ixStringJack: Okay. But now you have a copy of the book you want on your "Desktop", correct?
I think it's best that we abandon the email idea for now. Since Google and Microsoft are direct competitors that offer similar products, it's possible that GMAIL is doing something with the Word Doc by default that we don't want it to do, and I don't want to open that can of worms. If you don't have any other email to try that's not Gmail, let's abandon that. You should now have two copies. The original one which I believe is in your "Documents" folder, and the other which is now on your "Desktop". Correct??? |
| 6ixStringJack: Okay. But now you have a copy of the book you want on your "Desktop", correct?
I think it's best that we abandon the email idea for now. Since Google and Microsoft are direct competitors that offer similar products, it's possible that GMAIL is doing something with the Word Doc by default that we don't want it to do, and I don't want to open that can of worms. If you don't have any other email to try that's not Gmail, let's abandon that. You should now have two copies. The original one which I believe is in your "Documents" folder, and the other which is now on your "Desktop". Correct??? |
| Brenda: It still won't come word with emailing it to myself. Still google docs, even though your suggestion worked. |
| Brenda: I just tried what you said and it worked. I am going to see if that works emailing it to myself. |
| Brenda: I just ran a test myself by tying in word this is a test. Saved it as I normally would and it came under both this PC and desktop. I opened it another files like my book and biography and both came out Word. As I originally wrote them. But when I tried to email my book to myself again, I am back to google docs. Aaaargh! |
| 6ixStringJack: Let's try it this way and "Reverse Engineer" things a bit...
When you open your book and you're confident that it is your newest version (and/or the version you want to continue working on), I want you to click on "File" at the top left of Microsoft Word. Then I want you to click on "Save As". Not just "Save" it will pop up that mini-"File Explorer" window asking you where you want to save it. Then I want you to click on the "Desktop" in the left pane. Then Click on "Save". That should make an exact copy of your desired book right on your Desktop for you. If you can do this, it will make everything else a lot easier. Let me know how that goes. |
| Brenda: SIX, I appreciate all your help. I know it's not gone but on the flipside. Different publishers want different things. So, I may have to redo parts of it anyways. Which means splitting out certain number of pages. So, those I could easily retype for sending. |
| Brenda: No, I've never used downloads to work on my book. |
| Brenda: Okay. I will take a closer look at the "Desktop" folder when I get in today. Stuff to do. Always stuff to do. |
| Brenda: It's possible. Like I might have said I know the original guy, who this other friend spoke to him and he got me the computer. |
| Brenda: Yes, I can get the "Documents" to come up under "Desktop". But the last time I tried that I still got Google docs. |
| Brenda: Okay when the start box comes up and if I were going to turn this off. I put my cursor over the on icon and another menu comes down. It starts with me, pictures, documents, setting and power. That is where I can go into and get my version of my book that I did on Word. |
| second: Brenda, "Everything" is a program that locates files and folders by name instantly. I use "Everything" constantly. [go to link]/ |
| 6ixStringJack: These are all "for instances". That book could in theory be in one of 50,000 places on your computer, but the likelihood of most of those places is basically NIL. I would think the two most likely places that your actual book document is located is either directly on your "Desktop", or in your "Documents" folder. The third place I would think it could be located would be your "Downloads" folder, but I don't believe that you've been working off of your book from there, since it sounds like you've never made edits off of any version of the book that somebody else made edits to. |
| 6ixStringJack: Or, perhaps, you're just double-clicking on the book directly from your "Desktop"? If that's the case, you aren't even using your Documents folder at all and you are saving the book directly to the "Desktop". |