Yay!

[annathepiper]

The weird behavior I had noticed, answering LJ comments in email and not getting the expected "Your comment was successfully posted" type message popping up in a browser window, was apparently neither the fault of LJ nor of SP2. It was the fault of my installing Office 2000 and then Outlook 2002 on this new box--apparently I needed to install the latest Office service pack to fix a known bug with Outlook 2002 not properly handling HTML content. I found the issue by doing, of all things, a search in the "Help and Support" engine right off the Start Menu in XP. The amazing things you discover when you actually read the documentation. ;)

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[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

that's why RTFM is the standard cuss out given to folks when things were spelled out in black'n'white (often by IT folks who can't be bothered w/ the nuisance members of the company!)... :)
been on BOTH ends of THAT particular invective! :)

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[annathepiper]

I've done politer versions of RTFM myself--but I have a devil of a time remembering to apply that advice to my very own self. That said, whenever I do actually remember to use the search engine off the Start Menu, I can often find answers to questions I've got about Windows functionality. Go fig! ;)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

yeah, my win functionality queries fall into 2 categories:
RTFM?!
&
OMGWTF?!

as in, well documented & i was a git
or
you can't do that! so how did you MANAGE to get THAT error?

hehe! :)

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[annathepiper]

*snicker* I hear ya. :)