Quote from: methodsman on May 07, 2024, 02:04:13 PM. And, no, contrary to popular belief, the growth in administrators is not the cause of most
institutions' demise.
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Quote from: apl68 on May 03, 2024, 08:06:55 AMThe Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester. As much as anything, this is a love letter to the Oxford English Dictionary. The print version of the OED, which I recall using some in grad school, is an awe-inspiring work. Multiple, vast, well-produced volumes, filled with hundreds of thousands of words, each with a painstaking etymology and numerous quotes tracing its assorted definitions and shades of meaning down through the centuries. Though the first edition was not completed until the 1920s, it was in origin a fantastically ambitious Victorian project.
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Quote from: Myword on May 10, 2024, 10:54:05 AMThose of you who use Word 2019 and newer, which document file do you use for your
papers? A list is offered, including Worddocument, Open XL and many others. What's the difference?
I ask because
I sent a paper to a editor and she said it cpntained garbage encoded nonsense,
using XL. So I had to paste the whole text and send it. Okay for now, she said.
I never saw coded nonsense in my work. I use Word365 new. PC.