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Additional observations: I created the bibliography from the list of sources applet in Word. There are two kinds of items which might be linked. One is the “retrieved from” item when the source is on the Internet. Web addresses are linked automatically in the body of a document, but not in the list of references. The other is the title of a book or the like, which is not inherently a hyperlink but which could be linked to an author’s Web site, a retailer or the like. In any of the hidden hyperlinks, I could manually change the font color and ad an underline, but that won’t enable the change to “followed hyperlink” color after clicking onthe lin. Any thoughts about this? If I select a different style for the references, might that resolve the problem? Or do I have to save the file as PDF and insert hyperlinks manually, or something like that? If I save as a Web page, the table of contents appears in hyperlink colors but the cross references do not. What a pain!

After closing and re-opening the file, the citations that threw errors now work, but still hyperlinked cross-references dont’ show in color, and citations to the bibliography don’t hyperlink at all. I don’t see a checkbox for “insert as hyperlink” when I go to insert a citation.

And now I have a couple of cross-references to items in the bibliography which turned up as Error, reference not found, while other such cross- references are still active. “Reference” does not appear in the list of types of items available for cross-referencing. What is this?

Thanks for thinking outside the box. I’ll check on that possibility.

Is the problem maybe that I am using the built-in “caption” style elsewhere in the document? I used that style, modifying it, for captions of a number of images. These captions aren’t linked to the images. I am only using the style to define the appearance of the text. Perhaps if I selected another style for these? And, related question: can I have multilevel captioning that will show up in a table of figures, the way that different heading levels do in the table of contents? Some of my Figures consist of a series of images labeled A, B, C etc. I can have only one table of contents and I want to keep the table of figures separate.

I tried again. I can create the caption, which reads “Figure 1”, but still can’t enter anything in the “Caption” pane at the top of the dialog box. I could create the “Figure 1” using the dialog box and then type following that in the body of the document, but would that give me the functionality I want? Seems to me that if there’s a pane in the dilog box I should be able to use it.

I have a similar problem with video editing suite Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12 but in this case it occurs after the software has been running normally for a while: volume is muted for the application only, and the volume mixer slider for the application is taken down to zero. I think that Pinnacle initiates this, as it is in other ways quite buggy. It took me a while to figure out where the problem was occurring because its occurring only *with* the app suggested that it was *in* the app and that restarting it would solve the problem. My system has no less than four different volume adjustments active: one in the application, one in the Realtek audio hardware management applet accessible through the Control Panel, then the universal volume control, then the one that appears upon opening up the mixer. This kind of redundancy, and without any roadmap to the audio signal’s pipeline, or unified control panel (excuse mixed metaphor) is a usability nightmare…

Thanks.

Another question. If I use the format ?/???? of # ?/????, but the fraction doesn’t have that many places in the denominator, I’ve seen the fraction center in a cell as if those places were occupied — that is, it will be left of center. How do I overcome this without having to format to the exact number of places in the denominator and run the risk that an inaccurate result will be displayed if the input changes and requires more places in the denominator?

And here’s another question, though: is there a custom format which will make Excel display an improper fraction (numerator more than the denominator), such as 3/2 or 187/186?

Ah, I didn’t know that Excel would calculate a fraction with more than 3 digits in the deonominator using a custom format. That feature was not well documented. Thanks.

As to the calculation diarrhea issue, gear ratios are one of few applications of mathematics in which the input numbers are exact, and so the result also can be exact. For purposes of calculating the rolling distance of a bicycle per turn of the wheel, you are correct, three digits after the decimal point are ample. That is all I offer in the table I provide for use in calibrating digital odometers or calculating drive ratios. Variations in tire pressure and load reduce precision more than that. However, for the purpose of checking calculations, it is helpful to compare the result as a reduced fraction against the decimal value, and so more precision is to advantage. In any case, Excel offers such precision for free.

Also it is an interesting point that the particular bicycle hub I am examining generates some very complicated fractional ratios. Such ratios, and the precision they can achieve, have other applications as well. One is in the Hammond Organ, whose genius was in very closely approximating the 12 ratios of the equal-tempered musical scale using gearing, and driving the gearworks with a synchronous electric clock motor, avoiding the need for tuning. In musical scales, great precision is important because out-of-tune-ness is audible as small differences between large numbers. Similar issues arise when using digital frequency dividers to generate musical scales — only the problems are even thornier because frequencies can only be divided, not added, subtracted or changed by an integer ratio as with gearing. High clock frequency is desirable in that application!

Ah yes, I did that but some of the letters were missing from the alphabetical list even though no drive used those letters, *and* I had restarted the computer. Now after disconnecting the drives, then reconnecting them one by one in alphabetical order with restarts between each one, I got the drive letters back as they were before. One eSATA drive wasn’t recognized when I turned it on with the computer already running but was recognized when I restarted.

So, now I disconnected all but one drive, which the computer assigned to drive G but I want it to be drive F. The letter F does appear now in the list and I go to change the drive letter. The drive is churning away and then after a few minutes I get the message that the letter G is already in use and will not be usable again until I restart the computer. More churning. Finally, the drive is assigned to F. Probably I will have to do this for the other three drives. I think the trick to aovid these problems may be to reinstall drives one at a time in alphabetical order.

I found the answer elsewhere: the tags are all stored in the photo if it is a JPEG (which can store EXIF information) and also in a database. See http://www.happydigitalphotos.com/windows-live-photo-gallery. So, photos will carry their metadata with them when migrated or copied. Some of the metadata is in a proprietary format, though.

On reopening Firefox (but in a different tab, not the one displaying the Web page that is stored on my own computer), the dialog box finally worked as intended. It went to the dialog box in the attached image.

I think this is an Adobe problem. Adobe had a warning online about issues with the new version of Flash Player.

I also think that behavior of the dialog box may be different for Web pages stored on the user’s computer and ones accessed over the Internet.

OK, so the GUI function was moved into Windows Explorer. The article explains this, and says The actual search filters you’ll see listed vary depending on the type of drive, folder or file that’s currently selected in the Explorer window.

But I tired this on a folder where the Details view shows name, date modified, type, size and length (the files are videos). The search only has the options of date and size.

Which leaves me with the command-line option if I need to search on anything else — most usually, filenames and types.

Is there a way actually to select the available options?