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Breaking tables and other nondestructive tips
Broken tables. Frozen panes. Split screens. This is not debris from a crime spree. These are names of techniques used to manage documents.
To carry forward the heading of a table that’s flowed on to the next page, apply the word processing command to repeat the table heading.
Similarly, to cement the heading of a spreadsheet row and still be able to read row 100, apply the spreadsheet command to freeze rows.
Moving right along, to view and compare two areas of the same document, use the split screen tool.
And finally, to prevent someone else from messing with your workbook, use protection.
I’m not making up these names.
Pomp and Circumstance
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Commencement speakers are honoured and humbled to be here this day. Gathered guests are thanked for their supporting role. The speaker fervently relates the mechanism by which she/he overcame personal obstacles (while you ponder your own not-so-different circumstance). The encouraging family member, insightful teacher, and/or divine being are acknowledged. Family and friends couldn’t be more proud. The day is filled with photos, embraces and unbridled optimism.
All graduations are pretty much the same – cheering sections, flowers, unpredictable weather, caps and gowns.
On this day we repeatedly tell grads to believe they can do anything they set their sights on. But belief is not enough. We must also remind them to have a plan to make it so.
Comma me this
Hearing that educated women have fewer healthier children seems questionable sure, but the reporter understood the subject’s context. This Q&A is from an article in Rotman Magazine, an interview with economist, Michael Spence.
Q Why is it so important for developing countries to focus on educating young girls and integrating them into the labour force as a way to break intergenerational cycles of poverty:
A Educated women have fewer, healthier children; they have them later in life…
The comma means ‘and’; fewer and healthier children, no question.
Report style v Q&A style
The Global Health Council addresses the same subject in a report on Girls’ Education: A Self-Sustaining Investment in Children’s and Women’s Health.
Educated girls:
- Delay marriage and first pregnancy
- Have fewer low-birthweight babies and healthier newborns
- Have smaller families
Same issue. Different presentation style. Know the context. Say it right.