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davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2005-04-05 13:03:00    I wondered whether to bother with writing reports on a template and copying since the valuable change that stops others seeing them until you're ready. I've kept to the template out of habit and am I glad? The site's in a bad mood today. When I try to go to the second page of a report on the Borders, it won't let me and expunges all I've written! If I hadn't got it elsewhere, I'd be foaming at the mouth! Cheers, David --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx   mistybleu Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 53340 Posts: 245 Posted: 2005-04-05 19:26:00    I completely agree with you; for whatever reason - the computer going down or the website, it takes all the frustration away. On another note, I uploaded two reports which I haven't even found the time to edit before posting, if I had done it using the word processor, I'm sure I would have found published it by now. Sometimes you just can't win... Misty --- "So many places, so little time" ((*_*)) Reply    Reply with quote    Contact mistybleu   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2005-04-08 10:35:00    Oh David I had that once and since then I have writen first in 'Word'and do the copy and paste trick. Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne   davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2005-04-08 11:01:00    It's been pretty important recently. The site is having a moody attitude towards movement between pages at the moment. BTW have you noticed that anything which exactly complies with the character limit in word just fails on the site. I wonder what they count differently - but not enough to spend much time finding out! Cheers, David --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx   marianne Premium account Joined: Sep 03 Points: 20248 Posts: 349 Posted: 2005-04-08 15:09:00    David, Yes I noticed the diffferent word count, and usually have to delete some words. Marianne --- “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson Reply    Reply with quote    Contact marianne   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2005-04-08 17:02:00    Hi David I had some failures by uploading too but writing off-line has its advantages that the text can never be lost on the web. Try add the long web-links later and perhaps at the bottom of the page. That seemed to help me a lot. See also "Too long characters": http://www.globosapiens.net/topic-error-with-travel-reports_37_1199_0000.html Curious members, for more info on this topic see also: http://www.globosapiens.net/topic-creating-reports-hints-and-tips_34_1284_0000.html --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan   britman Premium account Joined: Apr 04 Points: 17984 Posts: 83 Posted: 2005-04-08 17:48:00    I have in fact got a "WORD" template already made out. It follows the GLOBO report headings and notes the number of characters allowed by GLOBO. I then add my pictures to the draft report and can and do edit it in WORD before just cutting and pasting the written bits into GLOBO. I save them and if I need to re-edit at a later stage I again refer to the template - so if the GLOBO report module is "playing up" and I lose everything on re-edit mode then I still have the original copy saved on my hard disc and also backed up!! ;-) --- Cheers! Reply    Reply with quote    Contact britman   rangutan Premium account Joined: Aug 04 Points: 34752 Posts: 1044 Posted: 2005-04-08 18:06:00    Problem found? 1) David, above I mean the amount of characters in-a-row, not for the paragraph. Words or links longer than (I think) 40 will cause problems. 2) Brit, one should not add PICTURES to the DRAFT report but upload them seperately after the text. By copying, these might be forced to be included with/as text which then confuses the GLOBO system. The pictures in the MS-Word document are only understood on your PC or within that document as a whole. 3) Also, links in text to some competing travel sites of GLOBO will cause problems 4) unusual characters from language fonts like in german, russian and scandanavian script etc. might cause problems by the copy-and-paste method. Rudi [ This Message was edited by: rangutan on 2005-04-08 18:24 ] --- Rudolf "Rangutan" Graspointner Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rangutan