Non-spiritual practical tip :)

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Especially in spiritual forums, in order to express oneself clearly, the

dictionary will be used frequently. MS has a few usable ones too, one of

them being bookshelf. However, anyone who ever tried to copy text from MS

bookshelf to an MS mail-client like Outlook, will have noticed that always

something went wrong, usually Outlook showing an unrecoverable error. This

isn't a "real" error; it is an error purposely generated by MS Outlook. The

reason is, that these days even the meaning of words is copyrighted. So the

error is sneakily generated to prevent us, customers, from using the "copy

and paste" function. For instance, looking up "Brahman" in bookshelf, one

reads:

 

Brahman

Brahman or Brahmin, member of the highest, or priestly, caste of the Hindus;

see HINDUISM.

 

If one uses "copy", then pastes to a MS Outlook message_in_the_ making, an

error will be generated, causing Outlook to abort and destroying one's work,

if it wasn't saved before "paste". However, if one pastes to MS notepad,

one will read:

 

Brahman

 

Brahman or Brahmin, member of the highest, or priestly, caste of the Hindus;

see HINDUISM.

 

The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia is licensed from Columbia University

Press. 1995 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

 

Q: But what to do, other than type out the entire text? A: find one of the

many freeware text editors like nextpad and always paste from MS (bookshelf

etc.) to nextpad first. Then, copy the text from nextpad, paste to MS

Outlook and this time, no error will show up The lesson is, never trust

commercialism )) Now who will charge MS for loosing time and money? (Don't

forget finder's fee

 

Jan

 

Nextpad: available at http:www.squirrel.com.au