| 6ixStringJack: I want to make sure that you can find the single good version of your book and that you can still open it as you were used to doing and we'll go from there. |
| 6ixStringJack: We need to go back to pure basics now and start over. The only thing I want you to do now is to find your book that you know is your good and latest version. Then simply open it in Microsoft Word as you always would have when you were working on it. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't know if we need to undefault anything just yet, and I fear that is going to be far too complex to try to convey in the taglog if we can't do a simple attachment file save if it is necessary, so I don't think we want to open that can of worms yet. The fact that you use Google Chrome as your browser and Gmail as your email isn't making things easier either, since I've rarely used either of them and things are just a tad different than they would be if you used Firefox as your browser and Hotmail/Outlook for your email like I do. I think you really would have had to go out of your way to change the default program that gets opened when you double click on a Word Doc to open it instead in Google Docs, which would require not just opening the file there, but uploading it there first via the internet before it opened. |
| Brenda: I wondered if opening her google docs would screw up something on my computer. |
| Brenda: Okay then how do I undefault it? You will have to send the message several times. I am going to work tomorrow and won't be able to do anything in the morning. |
| Brenda: Tried downloading into desktop with opening the download in email but it didn't work. It showed it as Edge instead of Chrome. |
| Brenda: Tried downloading into desktop with opening the download in email but it didn't work. It showed it as Edge instead of Chrome. |
| 6ixStringJack: If it doesn't ask you where you want to download it to, then it probably will default to your "Downloads" folder, which you can also easily get to from the left-hand side of any File Explorer window (in the list with the Desktop and Documents folder, among others). |
| 6ixStringJack: Try these instructions (The Gmail portion): [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: I kind of don't understand how you've been able to manipulate that file all these years and write the book but I can't seem to put the right words together to get you to do basic file copying and saving that you probably already have been doing all this time. Maybe Sigs can explain it to you in a less complicated way and I'm making it too complicated for you. This is about as basic as basic gets. |
| Brenda: In the subject line I once used the title on another one I used the title and book. No, the file went into the body of the email. It doesn't say copy but in file title I get docx. |
| 6ixStringJack: Right click on the document in the email you sent to yourself and click "Save As". |
| Brenda: In the subject line I once used the title on another one I used the title and book. No, the file went into the body of the email. It doesn't say copy but in file title I get docx. |
| 6ixStringJack: Horrible news for Democrats as far as the Senate and Presidency is concerned too... The Hill: Minnesota’s burgeoning scandals could have national implications [go to link]/ Dems might have to find 54 electoral votes in 2028, and they may end up losing 2 senate seats in November if Klobuchar runs for Governor too. |
| 6ixStringJack: I floated a theory here months ago that Walz might have a few Somali Muslims living in his house 24/7 with a gun pointed at one of his family members. Not only am I really starting to wonder if perhaps I was right, but for the first time yesterday I've heard voices far larger than mine pose that question out loud. Are there people that Tim cares about being held hostage??? |
| 6ixStringJack: Governor Walz is going to find himself in Gitmo if he doesn't back down. What are you Democrats doing??? This is truly the end of the Democratic Party. |
| 6ixStringJack: I haven't used Google's Word equvalent all that much since I do most of my writing now on a much simpler program called Notepad++ these days, and I only ever use MS Word if I'm doing something that needs to have a professional look to it. But I use Google Sheets nearly every day and after I got used to a few differences that annoyed me at first I never looked back. I won't say it's superior to Microsoft Excel, but it does everything that I need, it's free, and it's super convenient for me to be able to load up a spreadsheet on any of my devices, or from anywhere else if I'm not sitting at home. I still don't trust them enough to put anything personal with names and addresses and all the info that always gets stolen and leaked, but it's perfect for what I need it for. I think when you go to use Google and get used to it for writing documents you'll find that it's pretty much the same after you learn to navigate the minor differences. |
| 6ixStringJack: Once we get this all squared away, you should probably teach yourself to use those Google Docs instead of MS word too. Now that Windows 10 is gone, most old versions of MS Word don't work on Windows 11 anymore. Your next computer is likely going to have Windows 11. The only version I know that works for sure in Windows 11 without doing some hacking is their Microsoft Office 365, which is a subscription based model that you have to pay a monthly/yearly fee to use. Your current computer could last you another 5 years, but eventually you're going to have to learn to do something different than what you're doing now. It would probably be a good idea this year to start trying to use both just so you can get a handle on the free Google Docs rather than try to figure out how you'd pay for a MS subscription without being able to pay for things online. |
| 6ixStringJack: Once we get this all squared away, you should probably teach yourself to use those Google Docs instead of MS word too. Now that Windows 10 is gone, most old versions of MS Word don't work on Windows 11 anymore. Your next computer is likely going to have Windows 11. The only version I know that works for sure in Windows 11 without doing some hacking is their Microsoft Office 365, which is a subscription based model that you have to pay a monthly/yearly fee to use. Your current computer could last you another 5 years, but eventually you're going to have to learn to do something different than what you're doing now. It would probably be a good idea this year to start trying to use both just so you can get a handle on the free Google Docs rather than try to figure out how you'd pay for a MS subscription without being able to pay for things online. |
| 6ixStringJack: I just thought too that it's possible that you might have accidentally changed the default program for your documents to Google Docs instead of Word too. If you double click on your book that you know is good, does it open it in Microsoft Word, or does it open it in Google Docs? If you can't get any doc to open in MS Word and they all open in Google Docs, we need to change back your default program for Word Docs back to MS Word. |