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Post by Ally on Jul 22, 2011 10:44:18 GMT
I've been doing that with my drafts, and have found that it means I keep repeating myself. I like being able to skip backwards and forwards to see what I'm doing. Plus, it's very psychologically helpful to be able to see the whole word count all at once. (On that subject, I've done 1% of my thesis, guys! ;D)
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jul 22, 2011 14:54:00 GMT
I guess I can be the google monkey this time. Have a link. The gist is you have to configure the endnotes to appear at the end of a section and put in section breaks between chapters. I tested this in Word 2007 and it worked fine.
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Post by Ally on Jul 22, 2011 21:55:13 GMT
Thanks X!
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Post by Ally on Aug 2, 2011 11:43:29 GMT
Hmm, just did that and it didn't work. Any other suggestions?
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Post by X'o'Lore on Aug 3, 2011 5:04:24 GMT
Well I can't really say much else. I don't know what version of Word you have or if you are using the correct section break. I know it took me a bit to find an actual section break rather than a page break or some other sort of break.
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Post by Ally on Aug 3, 2011 9:18:34 GMT
Yeah, I'm definitely using a section break...don't know what's causing it. I think I'm using Word 2003.
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Post by Ally on Sept 2, 2011 18:12:23 GMT
One question that bugs me on and off is, why do shops only sell savoury sandwiches? I've never seen a jam or marmalade sandwich for sale in Tesco or wherever.
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Post by Emily on Sept 2, 2011 19:41:56 GMT
or NUTELLA...
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Post by Ally on Sept 3, 2011 9:14:02 GMT
Naw, with Nutella they just need to sell the jar and a spoon...
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Post by Lu on Sept 3, 2011 12:41:42 GMT
at a guess i'd say it may be because these are water based substances, so it would soak into bread quicker giving a reduced shelf life quality wise. On savoury Sandwiches they can used Mayo as a barrier which stops the soggy affect for longer.
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Post by Emily on Sept 3, 2011 16:52:08 GMT
thus spake the food wizard!
(for those not in the know- Lu's job is inventing supermarket foods)
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Post by X'o'Lore on Sept 3, 2011 20:45:00 GMT
As someone who has eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that had been sitting in a sealed container in a warmish location for as long as 2 days after being made, I understand this. I can tell you, while they are still edible and even still taste vaguely like peanut butter and jelly, they have all the texture of slimy cardboard and don't look too pretty either.
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Post by Ally on Sept 5, 2011 8:21:31 GMT
That makes sense - guess it would only work if it was a shop that made them to order.
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Post by Animae on Sept 16, 2011 16:38:39 GMT
Yeah. I remember peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in grade school and the jelly always soaked through the bread before lunch time.
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Post by Ally on Sept 29, 2011 15:01:11 GMT
I've noticed that whenever I have my headphones on, I find it harder to breathe (and my breathing is louder). Is there any reason for this?
(No, I haven't stuck the earbuds up my nose by mistake.)
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Post by Emily on Sept 29, 2011 16:40:30 GMT
thats pretty wacky, I *suppose* it could be pressure differences seeing as the ear is connected to the throat?
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Post by Emily on Oct 4, 2011 7:44:44 GMT
Here's one for ally; Have any books of merit (and by this I mean not creepy fanfiction or choose your own adventure books) ever been written in the second person singular perspective?
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Post by Ally on Oct 4, 2011 17:19:17 GMT
There is one that I've heard about, haven't read but really want to (I've written down the title somewhere, but probably a notebook ago...) It's a sci-fi novel, which, as you read it, you realise is a message to someone living in the future who has got bored of it and hooked themselves up to a Matrix-like machine that has put them in a simulated version our time - eventually it reveals that it's meant to be a trigger to snap the person ("you") out of "your" self-induced dream, and the tone gets more and more frantic as you read on. Have no idea if the book itself is any good, but the premise sounds brilliant (and terrifying).
Edit: Just checked TV Tropes where I found it - Reality Check by David Brin. 'The tone becomes increasingly urgent as you demonstrate yourself "unable or unwilling to scan the text for embedded code with the scanner in the blind spot of your left eye." ' Brrrrr...
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Post by Emily on Oct 4, 2011 20:05:15 GMT
omg sounds amaaaaaaazing. want to read it.
I've been pondering this, as I sift through the "heartbreaking" (translates as pornographic and full of melodrama) and "fantastically written" (incredibly badly written and horrifyingly pyschologically damaging) fanfiction one of my teen students is making me read so I will stop being horrified by her favourite ship. IT IS NOT CONVINCING ME, the second person perspective is just the icing on the cake of awfulness and self-loathing that I feel as I read.
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Post by Emily on Oct 4, 2011 21:38:02 GMT
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