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Walter –
As to that screen settings icon – should be easy to get rid of. Right click on your desktop and click Properties. On the Settings tab, click the Advanced button. Right under the Font Size drop-down you’ll see a checkbox that says “show settings icon on task bar”. Uncheck the box and the icon should disappear.

Hope this helps a little.

I don’t know a way to change them all at once – that’s for the macro guys. You don’t say how many text boxes are involved. If it’s not some massive document, the format painter should work nicely. Just change the first one, click the format painter, change the second one, click the format painter… next time you look up – it’s dark out.

As long as we’re getting technical – why is this thread too wide for my screen when all the others fit fine?

Nothing like that. I’m resigned to the fact that it’s gone and that I was dumb enough not to back it up (that’s the most painful part). I’d like to be able to blame it on Microsoft somehow, but I haven’t figured a way to implicate them. Right now I’m working on the joint sleepwalking/space aliens angle.

I’ve begun to try to reconstruct the data from memory. Somehow I only have 5 pages instead of the original 7. Guess I need a memory upgrade…?!?

Nope – This one was at home. No backup, no restore, no network, no one else to blame. And especially no idea what happened.

Should have mentioned this above. TClockEx can be had at:

http://users.iafrica.com/d/da/dalen/tclockex.htm%5B/url%5D

Enjoy.

No paper copy – but I thought I’d mention this little irony. I just realized that my last post was to the ‘Freebie’ board – about this great free backup software…

What a humiliation.

Thanks to everyone. I’ll be in the corner.

I still drop back into DOS once in a while to get some things done. I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Windows 3.0. I’d finally gotten the hang of things like dir *.e?e /w >prn.
One thing I DO miss about DOS – when you uninstalled something, you freaking UNINSTALLED it and nothing came back to haunt you six months down the road.

No offense taken, certainly. Wish it was that simple, but the previous update was two days prior. As a matter of fact, last month I had a hard copy of the first five pages (what I wouldn’t give…)

Thanks for all the ideas. Alas, I’m resigned to the fact that the file (most of it) is gone. I would just like to understand what Twilight Zone thing happened here.
– I KNOW that the file I’m looking at is the one and only
– I know that I updated it on 1/13/01
– I know that there were 7 pages
– I know that when I looked at it two days later, it was dated 10/8/00 and was only 2 pages long – no corruption, no bad stuff at all – just a very nice EARLIER VERSION that hasn’t existed in that form in months.

I’d like to figure out what happened – or get on the right medication.

Don’t let ’em get to ya, Flatspin. I remember DOS. The hardest part was trying to convert binary to hex …with a stick in the dirt.

In any case, My Own Backup has the option to back up with several different levels of compression – or straight copy. Given this, a manual restore in DOS is a piece of cake.

Another nice feature – drag and drop selection lets you define backup sets. Once you’re set up, you don’t even have to think anymore. Great for Mondays.

Thanks for the reminder. I’ve been using TClockEx for a few years now and it’s great. After seeing your post, I went out and found a (minor) update. Downloading now.

Nice thought, Andrew. I’m not that smart OR that lucky.

I was probably trying the notepad thing while you were writing your reply, Karen. No luck there either. (Thanks anyway, Geoff. It was an interesting angle.) I think you’re right, Karen. I’ll probably never know. Wierd.

But I WILL be listening to my own preaching from now on and doing regular backups. I’m just glad this happened at home and not at the office.

No such luck, Karen. Nothing there. (Does this mean I’m …neat?) I’ve never lost PART of a file before, especially one that actually reverted to an earlier version. I know it’s the same file because I’ve accessed it through the same desktop shortcut for months. What the heck happened here?