Computer problems and/or advice 2013

[shelagh]

Wonder if any of you boffins can help me.  I have received an email from Manchester Airport re parking there which is 2/3 pages long and includes an important bar code. However when I attempt to print it (and I have tried several times) only about a 1/3rd of it prints.  Is there any way I can save this as a word document and print it from that, and if so how do I go about it?

[ashley]

Shelagh,  you don't say what format the file is in but I presume pdf and don't know what the problem is (printer??).  However if you're using Windows and it's just part of the file you need (e.g. the bar code) then you could simply use the snipping tool to cut & paste into a Word doc for printing.

• Open the document and expand the bit you want on the screen.
• Click on the Windows logo at bottom left of your screen, then go to All programs/Accessories/Snipping tool.
• In Snipping Tool window click New (top left) then use the cursor to capture your bar code or whatever you want from the doc.
• Still in the Snipping Tool window click Edit/Copy, then open a new Word doc & right-click to Paste.  Finally print.

Hey presto!  Much longer to describe than to do

 

[Roma]

Does anyone know if there is a problem with wordpress.com?  I have been trying unsuccessfully to access Henrik Zetterlund's blog and also that of patient gardener.

[Alan_b]

It took a few moments but I was able to load http://patientgardener.wordpress.com/ .

This web site http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ will tell you if everyone else is having the same problem loading any web page you specify.

[Maggi Young]

I can access Henrik's blog  - though no new page since 6th July.

This morning I did have a very hard time getting Ebay to open pages.

[Diane Clement]

This morning I did have a very hard time getting Ebay to open pages.

And me, I think there must have been a problem on the Ebay server.  I bid for a couple of things that I now realise didn't register. 

[Roma]

Thank you ,Alan.  Maybe I am just being too impatient

[Anthony Darby]

Decided to take up Microsoft's offer of 32gb Surface and keyboard for NZ$372. Fired it up and it has messed up my PC display and keyboard. My PC keyboard is a UK one and the Surface has an Australian (read American) one. This means that when I press " I get @ and when I press the GBP sign I get #, and when I press @ I get ". # becomes \, but \ is also \  and the squiggly line is now |. It even changed the background colour of my display on the PC to what I'd set my on surface. I wonder if I can stop this nonsense and revert to what I had? 

[Alan_b]

Anthony, I don't even understand what you were trying to do.  You had a PC.  You bought a new tablet computer.  What caused them to interact?

Anyway, System Restore on your PC should set it back to the way it was before. 

[Alan_b]

This morning I did have a very hard time getting Ebay to open pages.

Ebay say this was due to maintenance activity on 23rd.

[Yann]

All you need to do is opening the configuration panel, then search for regional option, then keyboard where can choose the main language.
You can also try to press the FN key and hold. then  press num lock once, your keyboard should be back.

[Anthony Darby]

My keyboard doesn't have an FN key and my antivirus won't allow me to use system restore. Windows 8 is doing my head in. I don't understand why my Microsoft settings on one computer can change the settings on another and reconfigure my keyboard!

[Anthony Darby]

Managed to sort out the keyboard language setting. Proof of the pudding will be when I check the "Surface".

[Yann]

 

[David Nicholson]

I seem to have an Internet Explorer version 9 problem.

I don't use IE very much (much prefer Google Chrome) but the lady of the house doesn't like Chrome and prefers IE. When she tried to access the Internet today by clicking on the IE icon on the desktop (we have the system set to single click for everything) nothing happened and I was summoned. I found that indeed nothing appeared to be happening. Looking a little further into the problem I found that if I clicked on the IE icon on the Task Bar (left hand side) a whole series of thumbnails of our home page (the number of thumbnails matching the number of time we had hopefully clicked on the IE desktop icon) If I then clicked on any one thumbnail the whole series disappeared. The alternative way of getting rid of the thumbnails one by one was to click on the mini red X of each of them and they disappeared. As they disappeared there was a very fleeting look of a larger version shooting off the edge of the scree on the right hand side. I tried right clicking the task bar icon but had no success in improving things; I also tried right clicking the thumbnails again with no improvement.

The thing was working perfectly yesterday and Google Chrome is working perfectly too. Can any one help please???