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[kiwisue]

Firstly - big sigh of relief. I sent my Big Bang fic off to the mods yesterday. A rough draft she is, but I have a compass outline. Although I've decided to come clean about my target word total:



There you go. I can do it, the scenes are mapped out already... but I'm still nervous. Plot hole number one to sort (from last night's rough rereading) "but where did he get the tape?" *g*

Also I am now using Word instead of wordpad, and no matter how many times I change the settings to Aus/UK English it keeps reverting to US - 'realize' - arrgh!

Linky: batteredhaggis posted about The 1940 Chronicle a madly wonderful resource for the Battle of Britain. I do rather wish they hadn't used so much modern language reporting, but it's still a very useful site.

Work news: not counting on it, but the latest rumour about the Federal Government's implementation of Local Hospital Networks is that we will be going back to our pre-2005 boundaries. Which, if they decide to do it that way, would be a very good thing, as our old AHS was actually working quite well at the time. The emphasis on hospitals as the focus of care delivery worries me a lot though, and I'm not the only one.

It is cold, but the heating is now on, and B has volunteered to cook order pizza.

ETA: which reminds me - the TudorCook says he had a flurry of responses to his poll sometime after I posted about it - any of you lot involved with that?

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[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Yay for rough drafts and more words to come!

Hmmmm, I use Open Office and I can chose my country for grammar/spell check. I can chose just that particular doc or all docs. Don't know about Word since I haven't used it in eight years or more, but I highly rec Open Office for Windows. I use it on both my OS lappies.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

We had open office on one of our computers, but the bloke deleted it because we weren't using it. And now you're the third person on my flist who says she uses it all the time. Might have to reinstall :)

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[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting your draft in! For once I'm looking forward to the autumn almost more than I'm looking forward to August *g*

I use MSWord, and it quite happily lets me tell it I want UK English - I edited my normal.dot template to set it (probabaly using (if I remember correctly) "review" and then "proofing" and "select language") but that was so long ago I hardly remember how. I do remember that getting in to normal.dot to edit it was more of a palaver than I thought!

I often have to work on docs that someone else has generated or that have already been started, though, and then I do ctrl A for select all, then review, proofing and select language. If I don't start off with select all, though, it still thinks the previous setting is the default and goes back to it as soon as I leave the bit of text I had selected (or the point in the text where I was at the time).

Um, does that make any sense? You have to bear in mind that I am a total technosaur, and have almost certainly not found the best or simplest way!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does make sense and I'll probably use that method later. I'm pretty sure I got to change the default at some point though, and it's just reverted for some reason.

I'm certainly looking forward to September!

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Yay that you made the deadline for draft and summary! September is going to be so full of awesome!

I use Open Office all the time because my computer didn't come with Word installed and I didn't want to pay for it, being rather short of cash at the time. Open Office is brilliant, it does pretty near everything that Word does.

It's so cold on the coast here, I can only imagine how cold you are there! *shivers*

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

We had open office on one of our computers, but the bloke deleted it because we weren't using it. But I've had a couple of instances in the past month where people have sent me *.odt documents. One I converted to *.pdf via print management (at home), another I couldn't do anything with (at work).

Yes, bloody cold, we've started a run of sub-zero nights. We have a pot-bellied stove, and I rather enjoy the chopping wood thing, although I would like to switch to better insulation/more environmentally friendly heating sometime soon.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it work to tell your computer to open the .odt document with Word? I'm just asking because one manuscript I sent for submission for publication the publisher said it was okay to send .odt because I was having difficulty getting it into .rtf format. I thought they were using Word.

I like a wood fire, but I so didn't move to this country to NEED a wood fire to stay warm! lol It's not supposed to get this cold at sea level.

It's amazing how much difference it made here to replace all the original windows and seal all the gaps between wall and floor. I shudder to think how cold it would have been in here without those repairs!

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

Sorry-delayed reply.

I think if you have Open Office on your computer as well as Word, then it works, at least for the *.doc style (not so sure about *.docx).

We have a spiral staircase up to the second level of our house & have had to improvise a cover to keep the heat from escaping from the ground floor where we spend most of our time. Window replacement is something we definitely have in mind. The majority of houses and flats in coastal Australia simply aren't constructed to keep out the cold and damp.

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

No worries. I'm a bit delayed myself while I adjust to being in the work force again. *g*

I don't think I've ever tried to open a .docx file on my computer.

I love a spiral staircase but yeah, it would definitely help the heat rise. I was astounded when I first arrived here and learned that Australians consider double brick to be insulation. *blinks*

After replacing windows and countless cans of Space Invader, we've finally got this place so that it's warmer than being outside. *g*