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I have found that, if I use:
the center function, and don't put a couple of spaces before, and after the thing I want centered
:o
or if I go back and edit a post that has the center function used, and don't re-add the spaces, I will get:
:o
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Hmmm. I never noticed the problem, but I always put a space, sometimes several, between the words and smilies.
As for the "center" thingy, I didn't realise that it was the same thing as a "centre" thingy, but I usually just use the space bar when I want something sorta centred.
In fact, I don't use most of the buttons in that row of options, only - B, i, u, occasionally the "font colour" (nice to see it spelled correctly, by the way) and very seldom, the "font size" option.
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doctorwayne Wrote:Hmmm. I never noticed the problem, but I always put a space, sometimes several, between the words and smilies.
As for the "center" thingy, I didn't realise that it was the same thing as a "centre" thingy, but I usually just use the space bar when I want something sorta centred.
In fact, I don't use most of the buttons in that row of options, only - B, i, u, occasionally the "font colour" (nice to see it spelled correctly, by the way) and very seldom, the "font size" option.
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Hey, we like to think that we're an intercontinental diverse forum, but even my spell checker says that it isn't spelled right.
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Everybody knows you spell colour, colar!
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The preceding and following spaces are mandatory as of a few updates ago any smiley uses the :colons: to trigger the changeover to:
As shown by Don, if you don't put the spaces before and after the graphic you confuse the software and we all know that's a bad thing!!!!
Also, something that plagues me when I post Birthday messages.. If you put the space before the graphic, it "stays" when you edit the post. But the following space disappears So when editing a post you have to be sure to re-insert the space.... And no - it's a text editor vs software thing, it's just something we have to live with
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Sumpter250 Wrote:ngauger Wrote:if you don't put the spaces before and after the graphic you confuse the software and we all know that's a bad thing!!!!
I LOVE to confuse the software !!
It pleases me to know that the guy who wrote it didn't ask " what if " enough times before releasing it !!
Technical people sometimes design with blinders on that means engineers as well as programmers.
"Now, if you push buttons A, B and C in that order, you will get the desired results", says the engineer.
"But, I pushed A, C, D then B and there was this puff of smoke from inside :?, why?"
"No, no, you pushed them all wrong, the system wasn't designed for that...... you confused it and it's all your fault for not reading the 650 page instruction manual that I wrote "
Yup, seen it happen many times.
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On one of the machines I used to maintain, there was a " key stroke ", two keys, that if pushed at the same time, would format the hard drive of the on-board computer!
That was not a "glitch", That was disaster !! :o , because it wiped out all the customer's programs that were loaded into the printer.
It's the "W's" - - Why, and What If, that absolutely, positively, MUST be asked and answered. ALWAYS !
If they aren't? - - - - Welcome, to the Twilight Zone.
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