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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM
DUMB
It can save in Microsoft Office formats.
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Zzzzzzzzzz
If it can't save as a .txt,.doc. or .rtf, it's freaking broken. Those are old, bog-standard, basic formats.
edited 8th Oct '11 9:21:07 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
DUMB
Lessee... it can save in rtf and txt too. Or html, or a couple other formats I don't recognize. Should be fine. And you can export as pdf, too.
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Open Office isn't downloading. Hmm.
Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.
Open Office or its new fork Libre Office are what you want.
As far as I know, as of version 3.2, Open Office Writer can save in .DOC, .RTF, and even .PDF formats. Its native default is .ODT but that doesn't mean it's limited to that.
It can read .DOC and .DOCX, but cannot save as .DOCX.
What do you mean Wordpad won't let you upload?
You can also change the default save format. One of the first things I do when installing a new copy of OO.O is change the default format to .doc because nobody accepts .odt
And then I set ctrl+2 to double-spaced lines.
edited 8th Oct '11 12:51:24 PM by TParadox
Fresh-eyed movie blog
I changed accounts.
Space Wizard
[[strike:Text goes here.]]
ends up as
Text goes here.
Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.
I changed accounts.
Oh.
I was trying [[strikthrough: some text here]] and it, naturally, didn't work.
How foolish of me.
Edit: Sweet. 
edited 8th Oct '11 5:25:24 PM by USAF713
I am now known as Flyboy.
Is the "Bottle Dance" from Fiddler On The Roof based on or suspiciously similar to anything else? I just know i've heard it before.
Pages Needing Images
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Is there something that's like Image Pickin' but for page quotes? I see a lot of pages with awful quotes.
Anyone who assigns themselves loads of character tropes is someone to be worried about.
I made a Steam account, but when I try to log in, it gives me an error message (it says that the account name or password is incorrect, or to visit their site, where it says my account is logged in in other computer). Any ideas?
EDIT: Nevermind, fixed it.
edited 8th Oct '11 9:29:47 PM by NLK
Likes many underrated webcomics
*hrrrrrk*
If your egg sinks to the bottom but stands upright, what does that mean?
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
It probably means there's an air bubble in the pointy end, I guess.
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*hrrrrrk*
So... is it alright to eat today, if it was packed on August 30? I've heard things like "eat by 5 weeks of pack date" but other things like "I keep them around for months and they're still okay".
edited 9th Oct '11 9:48:37 AM by Merlo
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
How to delete my account?
Is there anyway for all my posts to be gone and blanking my posts? I heard that there's troll posts.
edited 9th Oct '11 10:19:10 AM by dracosketch
someone
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
There isn't a way to do that.
Also, deleting your account actually makes it possible for someone to recreate your account and impersonate you, so I would advise against using that. Just change your password into something else without looking when you type or something.
edited 9th Oct '11 10:32:05 AM by ThatHuman
something
DUMB
You can just leave without salting the earth.
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Is there a way to be permabanned without doing a bad post?
someone
@Draco: Why would you need that? Can't you just go with my suggestion on making a new password without looking? The password change page doesn't have a "retype new password" requirement, by the way.
edited 9th Oct '11 10:38:26 AM by ThatHuman
something
You can blank the questionable posts yourself and put a notice in your signature or something that states "This account is no longer used".
Now using Trivialis handle.
Formerly G.G.
It just seems like most of the candidates in X Factor just exist to get dissed, its not they don't try but they try fail on top o it. Are there really judges like Simon? It just seems that he picks people apart.
"Eratoeir is a Gangsta."
edit: Wait, apparently it can read other formats.
Although I'm not sure how many of those formats it can actually write in.
edited 8th Oct '11 8:37:25 AM by ThatHuman
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