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Son Goku
05-08-05, 08:21 PM
OK, I'm down at school (my printer at home is sorta AWOL). Sensei emailed the list she had on the computer listing what assignments are done/got forgot throughout the semester, so I can finish them...

Lets just say that the list is presented to the class, but the list grew legs and walked away, so no one else could see it :D The bad part apperently, that was her master list she passed around, and all the stuff recently added to it might not have got entered in the computer... There were a coupla things I know she had seen which I had done...

Then again, it isn't uncommon... Another classmate turned in a homework assignment, the teacher graded it and handed it back. When she asked about it, and the teacher was uncertain, the student walked out, noticed it in the trash can, and someone else wrote "BAD!!!" on top before throwing it out. :o She asked the teacher if it was really that bad, and the teacher was "no it's fine. I wouldn't have written that..."

Anyhow, it was copied from an Excel sheet I'm gathering, and is an html email. Don't think I want to download my emails to the lab comp (though they do have web mail), and if I wanted to create a table...I feel kinda lazy right now wrt just writting it all down by hand...

Is there any way to get IE or Firefox to treat it as a new page (aka not truncate text) when it is too long on the horizontal scroll bar? It treats new lines (vertical scroll bar) as a new page, but doesn't seem to break the lines up and treat each as a new frame. I know some software (AutoCAD and Visio for instance will do this). A straight up "select all", "copy", and then paste into word also resulted (although it took it as a graphic), in everything too big to fit on the page in landscape orientation being truncated in the print preview as well... Formatting is absolutely important, and colums must remain alligned (aka no text copy to word) or I won't be able to use it to see which assignments still need doing...

I did several print screens with it alligned in the window, but is kinda hard to read. Couldn't seem to find a better way to get it all to print, formated all "as is" in the email however...

bknblk
05-15-05, 02:26 AM
OK, I'm down at school (my printer at home is sorta AWOL). Sensei emailed the list she had on the computer listing what assignments are done/got forgot throughout the semester, so I can finish them...

Lets just say that the list is presented to the class, but the list grew legs and walked away, so no one else could see it :D The bad part apperently, that was her master list she passed around, and all the stuff recently added to it might not have got entered in the computer... There were a coupla things I know she had seen which I had done...

Then again, it isn't uncommon... Another classmate turned in a homework assignment, the teacher graded it and handed it back. When she asked about it, and the teacher was uncertain, the student walked out, noticed it in the trash can, and someone else wrote "BAD!!!" on top before throwing it out. :o She asked the teacher if it was really that bad, and the teacher was "no it's fine. I wouldn't have written that..."

Anyhow, it was copied from an Excel sheet I'm gathering, and is an html email. Don't think I want to download my emails to the lab comp (though they do have web mail), and if I wanted to create a table...I feel kinda lazy right now wrt just writting it all down by hand...

Is there any way to get IE or Firefox to treat it as a new page (aka not truncate text) when it is too long on the horizontal scroll bar? It treats new lines (vertical scroll bar) as a new page, but doesn't seem to break the lines up and treat each as a new frame. I know some software (AutoCAD and Visio for instance will do this). A straight up "select all", "copy", and then paste into word also resulted (although it took it as a graphic), in everything too big to fit on the page in landscape orientation being truncated in the print preview as well... Formatting is absolutely important, and colums must remain alligned (aka no text copy to word) or I won't be able to use it to see which assignments still need doing...

I did several print screens with it alligned in the window, but is kinda hard to read. Couldn't seem to find a better way to get it all to print, formated all "as is" in the email however...


No Acrobat installed on the school computer?

Son Goku
05-15-05, 02:53 PM
Well, to the best of my knowledge, they just have Acrobat reader on them (I've seen some tie the printers up as they've printed entire PDF files), but I don't think they have Acrobat itself...

thx though... I was able to use the print out I got, though the font size from the screen captures was a bit small to read.