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...ramble ramble I left the tool tips /tip of the day option on when I reloaded office - and the tip of the day today was: (and I quote...)
"You can hurt yourself if you run with scissors"
Did someone else do this to my computer ?(which makes me wonder what I could add to cow-workers' tooltips tee hee!) and if so, how? or did someone at Microsoft just have a funny day?
(Yeah, it's not THAT funny, but it took me by suprise and made me laugh while my guard was down)
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and "It is never too late to learn to play the piano" refers to spelling right?
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quote:Originally posted by snopes: The "Don't run with scissors" tip?
Somebody once told me (seriously) that it meant to be careful when using the "cut" option.
- snopes
Nope. I worked for Microsoft when Word 6.0 came out. It was common knowledge then that someone put a few jokes into the tips window. Another fun one was about wearing stripes and polka dots not making a positive fashion statement, or something like that.
Despite the fun nature of these messages, people would call in absolutely pissed about them. They would demand to know "the meaning behind this."
There was another outrage at the time. Try this: Open a new Word document and type in "NYC." Change the font to Wingdings. People saw this as proof positive that Bill Gates was anti-Semetic.
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Of course they have a sense of humour! Didn't they call that user-unfriendly, clunky suite of software "Microsoft Works"?
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A little off-topic, but what's the point of Wingdings? They're completely incomprehensible without changing the font.
-Trowa
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quote:Originally posted by Trowa:
quote:Change the font to Wingdings.
A little off-topic, but what's the point of Wingdings? They're completely incomprehensible without changing the font.
-Trowa
It's not for typing English sentences. It's just a means of adding in non-keyboard symbols into documents. I mean, haven't you ever needed to express a plan flying into two rectangles in Word before?
quote:Originally posted by tdn: Another fun one was about wearing stripes and polka dots not making a positive fashion statement, or something like that.
Plaid, it was about plaid.
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I used windings for my screen saver Set to 3d text with the 3d text set to clock and the font changed to windings
You get a constantly changing pattern that just tugs at the mind you think that you should be able see what the pattern is
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