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Am I being lazy?.

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Fred (“\(*-*)/”)

Fred (“\(*-*)/”) Report 3 Mar 2006 13:44

as all the urls on the message boards have to amended to take out the brackets, just created a macro in Word to do it for me. I paste the url into Word , run the macro and it replaces the (.) with a . Also have another to replace the . with (.) when I want to post a url on the message boards. Fred

MarionfromScotland

MarionfromScotland Report 3 Mar 2006 14:32

I think I will stick putting * sounds complicated to me lol Marion

Merry

Merry Report 3 Mar 2006 14:36

You don't sound lazy to me..........sounds too difficult for most of us!!! Do wish peeps wouldn't go crazy with bracketing EVERY dot, though!! (I used to do that too, so shouldn't complain really!) Merry

Jess Bow Bag

Jess Bow Bag Report 3 Mar 2006 15:11

cant really (.) see why it (.) is so difficult ( .) to put a (.) in a (bracket) as and when (.) you want it. if you are going to (.) type it anyway. if you (.) cant be bothered ( .) with (brackets) Just put * instead

Merry

Merry Report 3 Mar 2006 15:21

Get back to that packing Jess.........Do you need any skis for easy transportation?? (Sorry Fred, please ignore me!) Merry

Merry

Merry Report 3 Mar 2006 16:24

url just means a website address..... I think it stands for universal resource locator, or something like that! Merry