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How do you compile all this?
This would actually be a fun thing to practice Access stuff on at work.
(Cuz lord knows the stuff I actually work with isn't any fun.)I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"
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Usually I just drag across the text of the new posts, ^C, switch to my Word doc, Paste Special:Unformatted, and then clean out the extra stuff, and paste in the date for Yesterday/Today so an entry looks like this:
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I'll Be That Girl - Barenaked Ladies
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#5024 09-28-2010, 08:49 AM
BookstoreEscapee I'll Be That Girl - Barenaked Ladies
Insert a column F in the new entries filled with 'x' and then sort the whole thing by Artist, Title, Post. Search by column for x in column F and change the 'x's to blank or abcd... if the Artist/Title has already been posted.
A few months ago I noticed that the post # was three more than the current post number, so last month I captured them all: Selected Quick Links: Edit Options and scrolled down to Thread Display Options and set Number of Posts to Show per Page to 40.Last edited by dalesys; 09-28-2010, 05:37 PM.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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Holy crow, Dalesys... that's a lot of work!
Thanks for doing it, too. I like looking back to see if a song I'm planning on listing has been used before."Kamala the Ugandan Giant" 1950-2020 • "Bullet" Bob Armstrong 1939-2020 • "Road Warrior Animal" 1960-2020 • "Zeus" Tiny Lister Jr. 1958-2020 • "Hacksaw" Butch Reed 1954-2021 • "New Jack" Jerome Young 1963-2021 • "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff 1949-2021 • "Beautiful" Bobby Eaton 1958-2021 • Daffney 1975-2021
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