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I won't be getting into what I've been doing this week just yet because Second reads everything we post in here and throws it in other threads at random.

It's been stressful, and it's something I've actually been dreading in the back of my mind for a couple of years now.

I'm making headway though and I've had a few positive signs today that this might just end up going my way in the end.

I'll let you know what it was and how it turned out when it's done. I don't need the dipshit's POV on this one.



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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Apparently the rain that's predicted for us is the tail end of a large storm... another atmospheric river... heading towards Sacramento.


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I won't be getting into what I've been doing this week just yet because Second reads everything we post in here and throws it in other threads at random.

It's been stressful, and it's something I've actually been dreading in the back of my mind for a couple of years now.

I'm making headway though and I've had a few positive signs today that this might just end up going my way in the end.

I'll let you know what it was and how it turned out when it's done. I don't need the dipshit's POV on this one.



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I hear ya. SECOND is just a nasty troll who delights in other people's problems. He's such a loser.

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Amazingly, a little more rain predicted for the end of the month. That's usually it for our rainy season by then, but this has been such a weird season I've given up making predictions for now!

I managed to get out my trusty weed whacker and whacked weeds until I ran out of string. Going to refill the whacker and keep whacking until all the weeds are gone. That's just to keep them from going to seed and spreading seeds all over, then it's back to digging. But this year, I have a plan! It's called sheet mulching and it's supposed to work better than landscape fabric (which isn't saying much) so after I dig up the worst of the weeds/grasses and re-gradebthe front yard (some idiot sloped the dirt towards the house, not the other way around) and dig up one defunct irrigation line and install another, I'll be good to go

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I won't be getting into what I've been doing this week just yet because Second reads everything we post in here and throws it in other threads at random.

It's been stressful, and it's something I've actually been dreading in the back of my mind for a couple of years now.

I'm making headway though and I've had a few positive signs today that this might just end up going my way in the end.

I'll let you know what it was and how it turned out when it's done. I don't need the dipshit's POV on this one.



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I hear ya. SECOND is just a nasty troll who delights in other people's problems. He's such a loser.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Thanks SIX.

Hey, maybe you can answer a question for me. I need to write out an email for my poet friend to check but I need to include about 25 pages of my book. How with Google Chrome do I add to an email just the pages that I need?

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Thanks SIX.

Hey, maybe you can answer a question for me. I need to write out an email for my poet friend to check but I need to include about 25 pages of my book. How with Google Chrome do I add to an email just the pages that I need?

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Which email do you use? (Gmail, hotmail/outlook, yahoo mail, etc)

What program are you using for your writing?


Whatever program you used, you should have an option when Printing a file in Windows 10 to "Microsoft Print to PDF" in the "Destination" box on the top right of your print dialog box (after you select "File" then "Print" from the dropdown box). This will save it to a file instead of giving output to a printer.

I just tested this in my Firefox browsing session and I can do it from there, so you can probably do it from any program that allows you to print to a printer.

While your in that Print dialog box, there is also a Box for "Pages" a little bit down from the Destination box.

If you wanted to put the first 25 pages in the PDF file, click on the box where it says "All" and pick the bottom option "Custom". A new box will appear underneath where you should type in "1-25" without the quotes.

Here's a picture:

Disregard the warning that you can only print page 1 to 3. It's only saying that because when trying to print from this page in Firefox there are only 3 pages to print. Your limits will be the amount of pages of your full book.

If you wanted to skip any pages in the beginning like a table of contents or blank pages or whatever, you can type in something like "8-33" instead. You get the idea.



After you save that PDF file, no matter which email client you use you should be able to just drag and drop it into your email to the poet from an Explorer window.

Let me know if you have any questions.



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Originally posted by Brenda:
I use Gmail for email and write in Word doc.

I'm not printing anything just sending the poet an email with what I need to do for the publisher.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Hey SIX. Had a look last night and what you posted doesn't seem to line up with what Word looks like for me. I will admit that I was doing it in a rush. So will have a better look at it this afternoon.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
It's 2007 and I also went into my library to speak to the internet people there. Not helpful. The lady was all full of destroying my document and I can't do that.

The poet and her husband are trying to help from her end. But again I'm not sure.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It just occured to me...

You ARE using Widows 10 as your operating system, right Brenda?

If you aren't, the "Microsoft Print to PDF" feature isn't available. (It may be in Windows 11, but anything before 10 didn't have that feature).


If that's the case, open up 2 documents in Word 2007. One is your book, the other is a blank document.

Select all of the text you want to send to your friend.

The easiest way to do this is put the cursor right at the beginning of the text you want to send, then scroll down to the page you want to stop at. Hold down the SHIFT key and click the left mouse button at the end of the text you want to send.

That will highlight all of the text you want to send.

Right click anywhere on the highlighted text and a drop down box will appear. Click "Copy" on that drop down box.


Now go to your blank document and right click anywhere on the page and click on "Paste" when the drop down box appears.


Now you can save your selection in the new document. Feel free to make any fixes/alterations to make it appear the way you want to if you'd like and save it again.

Make sure to save it on your desktop and when you open your email just drop it in and it should attach for you to send it.



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Originally posted by Brenda:
The operating system on the desk top is Windows 10 and that makes sense because what you are telling me isn't showing up at all.

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The operating system on the desk top is Windows 10 and that makes sense because what you are telling me isn't showing up at all.

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No. If you have Windows 10 than it should show up. Not just in word, but every program with a print function.

Can you get to the Print menu? Do you have a printer? Have you ever printed anything off your computer before?

If you've printed and gotten to the print menu, one of the things on the print menu that you probably never touch is a box that shows your printer as the device to print to. You need to click on that box and a dropdown menu with other options will show up. One of them is "Microsoft Print to PDF".

You can do this in any program that allows you to print on Windows 10. Try it in your current web browser that you're using to talk to me now. Click "File" on the top left and select "Print" from the dropdown menu. From there you will have the option to select the device you want to print to and you can choose to print to a PDF file instead of sending the document to your printer. The process will be more or less the same in Word 2007, just with more options than in your browser.




If you can't do that for whatever reason, use the 2nd method I posted above and copy the 25 pages from your book to a blank document, save that new document with the stuff you copied from your book to your desktop and then drag and drop it into your email that you're sending to your friend.



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A third option would be to save your book with a 2nd name to your desktop. Then delete everything that you don't want to send. Save that. Then drop it into the email you're sending to your friend.

Just make sure that you're deleting the stuff from the new document that you saved with a different name on your desktop and not your original. Especially if you don't have the book backed up in like 5 different places like you should.

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Thousands were under evacuation orders Sunday in two small central California towns -- Alpaugh and Allensworth -- as officials worried roads could become impassable and isolate residents, according to the Tulare County Sheriff's Office. First responders from dozens of agencies, including the California National Guard, were out Sunday afternoon helping residents evacuate -- a sight that has become familiar in the flood-ravaged state this winter season.

"The devastation is indescribable," Tulare County farmer Brandon Mendonsa told CNN affiliate KFSN. "The water is still coming -- this is far from being done."

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The next atmospheric river, mainly taking aim at southern California, is expected to be colder than the last and arrive Tuesday with high winds, heavy rain, mountain snow and the threat of more floods. ... Though not forecast to be as potent as the atmospheric rivers of previous weeks, the system is expected to bring 1-3 inches of rain across the lower elevations and 2-4 inches across the foothills of Southern California through Thursday. Arizona could also see up to 3 inches of rainfall.

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This winter, California was hit with 11 different atmospheric rivers [not counting this one]

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Last week's atmospheric river alone shattered daily rainfall records in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Maria.

There's been so much rain that the Southern California water board called off emergency drought conservation measures for over 7 million people.
Severe drought in California was cut in half from the previous week, now covering only 8% of the state -- down from 80.6% just three months ago, according to the US Drought Monitor.

"Moderate to exceptional drought coverage across the U.S. is at its lowest since August 2020 and is likely to continue improving, or end entirely, across much of California and the Great Basin," NOAA forecasters said.

As the snowpack melts in the coming months, it's expected to further improve drought conditions across much of the western US, according to NOAA. But, that could also mean more floods.

"Approximately 44% of the U.S. is at risk for flooding this spring," said Ed Clark, director of NOAA's National Water Center. "California's historic snowpack, coupled with spring rain, is heightening the potential for spring floods."

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Now, I'm confused. Don't think I see a print menu and I have a printer but it is not hooked into this desktop.

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There's a print menu in every program that has a print function, regardless of whether or not you have a printer set up. The computer I use to talk here doesn't have Word 2007 installed or a printer, but I can print to PDF from any program that has a print feature.

Do this (follow the numbered steps on the first image, then follow the numbered steps on the second image):


After following the 3 steps in the first image, it will bring up the Print menu for you.



If the images above are too small for you to read here, right click on them and open the image in a new tab for the full size.

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I'll have to do the second method you talked about.

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It just occurred to me now to ask... Are you sending this to your friend to make edits, or just to see what they think? If you are intending for them to make edits, a PDF file won't work and you will have to use the 2nd/3rd method. I prefer always printing files to PDF before I send them so nobody can edit them after I've created them.

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I'll get it done.

Appreciate the help.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hard to believe but just a few states away you're getting so much rain, SIX.

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I really agree with backing up your book, The one thing you DON'T want is to have one copy and have it garbled somehow. If nothing else, save it under a couple of different names ... [booktitle_backupcopy1, _backupcopy2 etc] which will save you if your original is accidentally] deleted or the file gets corrupted.

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Better yet would be to save a copy on another storage device. If you have a removable drive or a second hard drive, store a copy on that. Or if you have a thumb drive ("USB stick") or flash drive, store it there. All you need for a USB stick is another USB port, like the one that (probably) connects your keyboard and PC and the stick itself. The software will figure out the rest for you. If you want to try that and run into trouble, just ask us.
Well, ask SIX.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I really agree with backing up your book, The one thing you DON'T want is to have one copy and have it garbled somehow. If nothing else, save it under a couple of different names ... [booktitle_backupcopy1, _backupcopy2 etc] which will save you if your original is accidentally] deleted or the file gets corrupted.

Better yet would be to save a copy on another storage device. If you have a removable drive or a second hard drive, store a copy on that. Or if you have a thumb drive ("USB stick") or flash drive, store it there. All you need for a USB stick is another USB port, like the one that (probably) connects your keyboard and PC and the stick itself. The software will figure out the rest for you. If you want to try that and run into trouble, just ask us.
Well, ask SIX.

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Now, I'm confused. Don't think I see a print menu and I have a printer but it is not hooked into this desktop.

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There's a print menu in every program that has a print function, regardless of whether or not you have a printer set up. The computer I use to talk here doesn't have Word 2007 installed or a printer, but I can print to PDF from any program that has a print feature.

Do this (follow the numbered steps on the first image, then follow the numbered steps on the second image):


After following the 3 steps in the first image, it will bring up the Print menu for you.



If the images above are too small for you to read here, right click on them and open the image in a new tab for the full size.

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I'll have to do the second method you talked about.

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It just occurred to me now to ask... Are you sending this to your friend to make edits, or just to see what they think? If you are intending for them to make edits, a PDF file won't work and you will have to use the 2nd/3rd method. I prefer always printing files to PDF before I send them so nobody can edit them after I've created them.

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I'll get it done.

Appreciate the help.

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Seeing this diagram, now I follow what you are saying.

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Good. It's what I should have done in the first place, but because I never bothered installing word on this PC since I'd never use it here, I couldn't make screen grab images to show you. So I finally did some Google image searches and found the pictures I needed to make those images for you.

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She could be making edits. It depends on what she thinks when she reads my draft submission.

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Seeing this diagram, now I follow what you are saying.

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Good. It's what I should have done in the first place, but because I never bothered installing word on this PC since I'd never use it here, I couldn't make screen grab images to show you. So I finally did some Google image searches and found the pictures I needed to make those images for you.

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She could be making edits. It depends on what she thinks when she reads my draft submission.

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Okay... well if that's the case we probably don't want to do the print to PDF file anyhow.

After you've made several backups of your book on the other computer and a thumb drive, do option 2 or option 3 and send her just a second word document that only has the 25 or so pages you want in it so she can make edits.

You REALLY want to have as many backups as possible of that thing as you can because it would be a travesty to lose all that work you've done. (Ask me how I know!) And every time you edit it here on out keep making those backups.


Actually. As soon as you read this you should send it to yourself in an email. Open up Gmail and put your own email address as the recipient, then drag and drop your Word Document into the email and hit send.

That way, even if an EMP went off in your area and ruined everybody's hard drives, you'd still be able to go somewhere that you can access your email and download it to a new thumb drive.



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Originally posted by Brenda:
No worries. I know I love my tech but I can be a bit of dummy about it.

It is something to think about for sure.

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