The KonMarie method

drusilla

Hi Choosewisely
Have you thought about selling your ZX computer. They do have some value.

drusilla

Pooky do have a link for the China place? I have some serving dishes and a dinner service to clear.

GreyQueen

A few years ago Kid Bruv sold his old Spectrum and some games for it for £50. Might be worth trying to sell these old pooters; people buy the darndest of things in my experience.

Have just been doing the small filing pile and have removed T & Cs now rendered obsolete by the new ones, which I have read and can't see anything which will impact on me, my banking is very elementary, just salary in and dds out. I keep a close eye on it, though, and check it between the monthly statements to make sure all is as it should be.

Have removed my name and address from the covering letters and shredded and put the rest in the recycling. It helps to have an office background when managing personal paperwork.

OK, this is gonna sound really lame, but I have a list of saved docs and folders in Word and they somehow ended up listed from Z to A rather than the other way around. Dunno how I did that and can't figure out how to get them A-Z again. Anyone know how to sort this, please?

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

OK, this is gonna sound really lame, but I have a list of saved docs and folders in Word and they somehow ended up listed from Z to A rather than the other way around. Dunno how I did that and can't figure out how to get them A-Z again. Anyone know how to sort this, please?

Where it says "Name" just above the list, there is probably a small point down triangle, click on it and it will go point up and your files will re-sort A-Z.
Alternatively right click in an area away from the file names, select
"Sort by" and then "Ascending"
(although I've just remembered you're still on XP, if the above isn't close enough for you I'll fire up an XP machine and get the right instructions)
HTH

GreyQueen

nuatha wrote: »

Where it says "Name" just above the list, there is probably a small point down triangle, click on it and it will go point up and your files will re-sort A-Z.
Alternatively right click in an area away from the file names, select
"Sort by" and then "Ascending"
(although I've just remembered you're still on XP, if the above isn't close enough for you I'll fire up an XP machine and get the right instructions)
HTH

Nuatha, you are a genius! I couldn't do the arrow thing (just got a list of drives etc) but when I right-clicked into the white space and got the menu there, selected Arrange Icons By Name and it put them alphabetically.

:j Oh deep joy, Allotments to Water Purification are now in place. That's been a minor niggle of mine for more than a year.

As you're reading, do you know why bookmarks in Firefox, which have those little icons in front of them are sometimes filled in and sometimes little hollow blank squares? Doesn't seem to be influenced by whether I use the bookmark frequently or not. I'm a very visually-oriented person and it's faster for me to see and identify them that way.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

As you're reading, do you know why bookmarks in Firefox, which have those little icons in front of them are sometimes filled in and sometimes little hollow blank squares? Doesn't seem to be influenced by whether I use the bookmark frequently or not. I'm a very visually-oriented person and it's faster for me to see and identify them that way.

I presume the icon is the website's favicon, not all sites have them and this would leave a blank. I know there is/was an issue about restoring/moving favourites that lost the favicons. (apparently they aren't stored in the backup).
The latest version of Firefox appears to only use favicons on tabs rather than in the address bar. If you load one of your favourites that currently shows an empty box and there's an icon in the tab. When you leave the website does it put the icon back in your favourites list?

GreyQueen

Aha! Just loaded a series of non-iconed websites off my Bookmarks and they have no icons on the tab and a grey/white ball in the address bar just before the web address and when you hover the pointer over it you get This website does not supply identity information.

Does that mean you don't get a little colourful icon or does it mean something else entirely? Sorry to ask what are probably very daft questions but I genuinely puzzle about such things.:o

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

Aha! Just loaded a series of non-iconed websites off my Bookmarks and they have no icons on the tab and a grey/white ball in the address bar just before the web address and when you hover the pointer over it you get This website does not supply identity information.

Does that mean you don't get a little colourful icon or does it mean something else entirely? Sorry to ask what are probably very daft questions but I genuinely puzzle about such things.:o

The grey/white ball and the hover message aren't related to the favicon. Its a warning you'll see on any site that uses either third party hosting for images or possibly adverts that aren't covered by the SSL certificate of the main site - the connection/address should show as https or the address bar shows http. (its a warning - though not of something particularly dangerous.)
The colourful favicon is an extra advert that some web designers (unfortunately not all) add to the root of websites so you get a colourful reminder in your bookmarks or when you have lots of tabs open. I currently have 30 tabs open, 7 of them show a dog eared page as they don't have favicons.

HTH

GreyQueen

nuatha wrote: »

The grey/white ball and the hover message aren't related to the favicon. Its a warning you'll see on any site that uses either third party hosting for images or possibly adverts that aren't covered by the SSL certificate of the main site - the connection/address should show as https or the address bar shows http. (its a warning - though not of something particularly dangerous.)
The colourful favicon is an extra advert that some web designers (unfortunately not all) add to the root of websites so you get a colourful reminder in your bookmarks or when you have lots of tabs open. I currently have 30 tabs open, 7 of them show a dog eared page as they don't have favicons.

HTH

It does, thank you. I have now looked up 'favicon' on wiki and have learned something new. Interestingly, when you have this site open on the tab, you get Martin as a favicon but when you do to the forum page, you have the grey/white ball.

Have been up and about and retrieved a small glass bottle which I spotted yesterday on my way out of the block on the pushbike and which I could see getting broken and ending up in my tyres. Remembered it after dark, and it is now in the recycling bins. If you can head a problem off at the pass, by all means, do so.

Today's plans are fluid as we've had rain overnight and the clouds are still roiling so I will wait and see which way the weather goes. Depending on levels of precipitation, I may stay here instead of heading lottie-wards and get into some paperwork. I do go through it regularly but it's amazing what can move categories from keeper to discard over time.

Righty, first job of the day, after de-bottling, must be to drink a gallon of tea. Onwards!

Pooky

If you have a google for china buying then you'll get a few come up - they all carry different lines so it depends what you have as to who might want what.

I had a "too good to turn down" offer on my China via a local FB selling page - will save me the hassle of having to pack and ship it all (and I'm making over a 400% profit on the price I originally paid for it )