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[quote]Gitte Hovedskov Hansen wrote:
(what does OP stand for????? I see it used here so often but have been unable to figure out what it means, except that I gather it is the person who
Note that this too is a free e-mail address provider, like Yahoo! and Gmail, though being perhaps less well known, is more likely to pass for a 'real' domain name.
I wonder if, as part<
[quote]Thayenga wrote:
Accepting an assignment from a private client can turn out very successfully. I've accepted projects from private individuals and was paid cash the next day.
[quote]Thayenga wrote:
Quite frankly, it did surprise me that the JobsConnect platform was used as a market place to sell third party software.
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Indeed — and I assume you
[quote]Jo Macdonald wrote:
Please correct me if I'm wrong but it sounds like the agency started off in good faith, thinking they'd paid, maybe there was a problem with the accounts dept
This company has been discussed before in this scams forum.
Always, when working for a new company, it's essential to do a bit of research first; if you had searched for the name here
I don't know if this is exactly what you need, but under Help, it says:
Turn text AutoFit on or off
Turning AutoFit on or off for body text also turns it on or off for text in the note
It's great to make everyone as aware as possible of the activities of these dishonest people, who as we know all too well work across many different platforms.
I know nothing whatever about using Studio with PPTs, but even editing PPTs manually, I have noticed this sort of 'shifting sands' behaviour, and eventually discovered it was due to the fa
There are many clues in the way it is worded, phrases that crop up time and again.
Just one thing though: they mention 'the job posted must be closed'; was this a job that was advertise
That is great, I'm a non-technical person too!
First of all, whatever you do, DON'T save anything else now (to the same disk drive); this will make possible file recovery easier!
Do
[quote]Trudy Peters wrote:
How did gmail get such a bad rap? [/quote]
It's not hard to see, Trudy: 99% of all the scams reported here and elsewhere come from Gmail-type addresses
[quote]Yaotl Altan wrote:
I am referring to those notifications via a Hotmail account linked to the MSN account.
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OK, well in that case, I don't know the solution, though
I wasn't aware of the existence of a possibility to have ProZ.com notifications sent out via MSN?
Are you perhaps referring to notifications coming in via a Hotmail account linked to yo
What is most important for you is going to be the capacity rating, usualy expressed in Ah (= ampère-hours), which means in essence how long you can draw how much power from it.
I someh
[quote]Marie-Helene Dubois wrote:
This discussion has come up many times before and I must say that I see nothing wrong with free tests. To me it's a marketing expense and a very ef
[quote]Trine B wrote:
Today I got a reply - thank you, but I had not replied to the email asking me to do the test.
I wrote back that yes I did, and as the email was in my outmail, som
[quote]accents_ie wrote:
Just do not do any free tests. Agree, but say that company must pay for it.
That is all you need to do.
V [/quote]
As a matter of principle, this tends
I have experienced a similar problem in the earlier Word XP; I found that once I had pasted the too-wide table, even changing the page layout to 'landscape' didn't bring back the missing p
I was having exactly the same problem as you a few years back (and still do, occasionally). I got very worried about my ability to carry on working, and that stress only added to the probl
Here's one that DID make it into the real world — in German:
MAIMED (a medical supplies company) — of course in DE Mai + Med is fine; but in EN, the word it makes 'maimed' is NOT!!
It just means you have made some changes that will be saved in the 'normal.dotm' template, which is the big 'umbrella' template for all your settings etc.
It may be you have made some c
Have just been assaulted with publicity for the 'Google drives' feature; don't know if it would be any good for this prupose, but thought it was at least worth including in the thread.
I find FTP to be a good solution, and in the past have been very satisfied with CuteFTP (paying).
Of course, you need to have an FTP hosting location, but if your customer hasn't al
[quote]Russell Jones wrote:
It does not prohibit linguistically based comments or disagreements. [/quote]
I wonder if you are maybe misreading W/A's comment, which was not about 'disag
I did find back one of the old files, which came through as winmail.dat
I changed the extension to .pdf (what it should have been), but when I tried to open it using Acrobat, it came ba
[quote]Gudrun Wolfrath wrote:
In my case it is a French client who tells me that, but I suppose it does not matter where the client is located, does it?[/quote]
I shouldn't imagine s
I too have encountered this, though not even with an Excel file, but with files of all sorts of formats, including .doc, .pdf, and .jpg.
It has only ever happened (I think) with one par
It is specifically stated that the role of moderators is not to be "linguistic judges", and so it would be inappropriate for moderators to intervene in such matters. Just because one is a<
[quote]Miguel Carmona wrote:
It is not unsafe because it can be copied and pasted.
It is unsafe simply because it can be read, even if it cannot be copied and pasted.
As long as
[quote]Jane Proctor wrote:
One simple suggestion, for starters, would be to advise everyone downloading their cvs, to do so in pdf format. I, naively, uploaded mine in .docx format
I too have encountered similar issues in the past, but have never quite got to the bottom of it.
You do sometimes notice characters like this in documents, and I have always put it down
What exactly are you trying to count? If it is words or characters, then the blank lines won't make any difference.
Perhaps it is lines you are trying to count? I know that is the pract
Just received a contact request on Skype from a B***n J******n, written in very poor English; when I accepted, I got this long message, again poorly written, inviting me to join the tema o
I wouldn't know about Word 2011, but I assume it must offer at least the same features as earlier versions!
I'd create a style containing all the parameters I need, make sure I save tha
[quote]Woodstock wrote:
My email settings don't allow people not registered or logged in to ProZ to contact me, and that has been the single most effective action I've taken so far. I h
[quote]Josephine Cassar wrote:
So why didn't he send any money yet? [/quote]
As soon as he realized you were on to him, he would drop you, as there's no point wasting his time with y
I regularly have to deal with this situation, and what I usually do is (working in a copy of the source file) simply translate as normal in what is supposed to be the source column, then a
This sounds like another of those 'identity phishing' scams; I wouldn't be surprised if you'd soon find your credentials being quoted on their website in order to make their team of outsou
This has already been discussed a great deal in other threads.
I too find Abbyy to be far and away the best at doing this job; however, I did find that the paid version was pretty expen
One might safely assume that once the spreadsheet has got to the translation stage, all elements of calculation will be finished, and so the best solution to the problem might well be to c
If you are lucky, and the figures are for example all in the same columns (etc.), then you couls imply do the search-&-replace, but first select the columns, rows, or blocks in which to do
One day, I was constantly harangued by a gentleman with a thick foreign accent, who kept calling my mobile and INSISTING I should get off the line as it was his wife's phone!
They were
It is not very reassuring to be offered so little information from the outset; I would certainly tread cautiously here, and follow all the risk-management processes suggested.
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Hi Jessie!
By all means feel free to send me your image through (or the entire document with it in if necessary) and I'll see what I can do to help...
If you want to, send me an e-ma
Could you try entering your apostrophes using the Alt+ Num code? Alt + 0146 gives you a normal closing single quote / apostrophe ’, while Alt + 0145 gives you an opening quote ‘. Can't
[quote]José Henrique Lamensdorf wrote:
It IS a scam
...
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I think we are getting confused by the two separate issues here.
Yes, the original message posted by the thread
This is a standard message that PayPal send out; the key clue is if they addressed you correctly by your name, as registered with PayPal? This is one way they ensure it is a genuine messag
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