When making a header on a MS Excel spreadsheet, I cannot get the “&” sign to print. Example… Abbot Smith & Jones Company. All I get on preview and when printing is “Abbot Smith Jones Company”
Help. This has been bugging me for weeks.
OK, that seems more viable (although I’d like to see the cost/benefit breakdown of it).
However, Britain’s generally moving away from the idea that a traffic-light junction is there just for cars. There’s a consistent increase in the building or adaptation of crossings to included a full pedestrian phase. And I don’t see how it’s possible to have left-on-red on any such crossing. Basically, left-on-red would contradict everything that’s been done in the past decade or two.
Your monkey is right, sir.
Being mostly British software developers, and needing an alternative to the cookie system we introduced biscuits which acted like cookies to the front end but were handled differently.
The trouble with the ampersand is because Excel uses it as an escape character. But there’s a workaround - If you type ‘&&’, it’ll print ‘&’.
Thank you GorillaMan . Now I train monkeys and learn from gorillas? 
Absolutely. You going to try training a fully-grown gorilla?
in the desert, you can remember your name-who knows-you might remember the name of the horse, too.
Unless it’s that Trivial Pursuit question about the name of Dudley Dooright’s horse, which was Horse, of course, unless the horse was the famous Mr. Ed.
The actual command will depend on the version of Word you’re using. For example, it may just be Format > Style. Also, if you go to View > Toolbars, you should see an entry for “Formatting”. On the Formatting toolbar, there should be a drop-down list to the left of the font-selector dropdown–that list on the left has styles in it.
Note that the easiest way to get screwy styles like in your case (MizQuirk, not Shodan, that is) is to be careless with copying & pasting in Word. Word carries a lot of formatting information in paragraph marks, so when you’re copying & pasting you should take care not to select the paragraph mark in the source doc unless you’re really certain you also want to copy the formatting. When I do c&p, I’ll often throw in a couple of new paragraph marks in my target doc, hit ctrl-S to save the doc juuust in case, paste in the text, verify that the formatting didn’t get hosed, then clean up the extraneous paragraph marks. If you’re feeling really paranoid, you can do Paste > Special, then select “Unformatted text”.
Note: If you can’t see the paragraph marks in Normal View, launch the Tools > Options dialog, click on the View tab, then select the items you want to have displayed. (Dunno what Normal View is? Look for the little bitty buttons at the lower left of the window. Hover over them to get the tooltip labels.)
Oh so THAT’s where the codes are! What a great thing to know. Thanks for all your help, Hunter.
First off: Thanks, everyone–especially those who posted info on U-turns. I am far less ignorant on the subject now.
As long as we’re talking about MS Word…Why is it that whenever I “save as” with a document, it makes me save it again when I try to close the window?
Did you change anything? My little doggy does that to me too, but only if i went back and edited. Even one space seems to catch the mutt’s attention.
Humans can eat raw meat. It’s called steak tartar.
Yes, I changed something. That’s why I have to “save as” for the floppy disk to be updated. I just can’t see why I have to “save as” twice. maybe I’m trying to close too fast…?
Dangit, that oughta be “Edit > Paste Special”. My proofreading skills have been shot to hell the past couple of weeks.