[lace-chat] Spider Raffle

2005-11-11 Thread Pauline
Dear friends, I am just reminding you that the raffle is open to all of you anywhere in the world, and it is a beautiful, and 'humungusly' (love that slang word), large silver coloured spider pin/broach, with crystal like stones making it sparkle 'like' diamonds, all over it's body and the

[lace-chat] Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Laceandbits
A friend of mine has sent me an SOS for some computer help. Why she thinks I'll know the answer I don't know, but I'm sure one of you will. She is trying to print a page from a web site with no printer-friendly page option. She has found it is cutting off the last word and a bit from the RH

RE: [lace-chat] Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Avital
That's very common if one is trying to print on A4 paper from Web sites that think the entire world uses American 'letter size' paper. ;-) Or it might just be incompetent Web design. There are a number of ways to do this, but this is the simplest. 1. In the browser, choose Page Setup from the

[lace-chat] Printing wide pages - a solution

2005-11-11 Thread Laceandbits
Many thanks to Candida for suggesting printing on landscape format; my friend's comment was Not economic with paper but great on my nerves. She has yet to try print to fit page (thank you Margaret) but now it has been pointed out, we realise the problem may be that in the UK we are all set up

[lace-chat] Wether, Weather, Whether

2005-11-11 Thread David Collyer
Dear Tamara, You can now add this Australian version to your repertoire :) Going through the dictionary I just spotted another word pronounced the same way, but which she never mentioned: wether... Whether the wether is shorn, Depends on the length of his wool. Whatever the weather, He'll

Re: [lace-chat] Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Jacquie Have you tried View - source and then copy and paste into your own html editor and print from that? What's the URL and I'll have a go. Brenda On 11 Nov 2005, at 12:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine has sent me an SOS for some computer help. Why she thinks I'll

[lace-chat] thread help please

2005-11-11 Thread Anne Nicholas
Hi, I would like to make one of the snowflakes from the Lace magazine but am not sure about what thread to use. Could someone please tell me what thread is equivelent to DMC 30 ? My lace class is tomorrow and I would like to start it then so any help is much appreciated !! Brenda's thread book

Re: [lace-chat] thread help please

2005-11-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Anne If it's the one on page 26 with beads added, then she means DMC Broder Machine 30. Venne Colcoton 70/2, Brok 36/2, are the nearest 2 plies. Amann Coats Sylko 50 - the regular cotton sewing machine thread which is readily available from many retail outlets is the same thickness,

Re: [lace-chat] Junk Mail and Telemarketers

2005-11-11 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Not sure if number 2 would work in the UK (hitting the # key), but I certainly do all the rest in David's email. My best result for number (1) Hold on please, was when the caller rang back because we'd been cut off somehow. I told her she'd tried to waste my time, so now I was wasting hers,

[lace-chat] Re: Printing wide pages

2005-11-11 Thread Joy Beeson
Another plan is to save the page as a file, then edit it with your word processor. If you can highlight the desired text, you can copy it, paste it into a new document, and reformat. A related problem is the page that insists on displaying the beginnings of lines to the left of the left