Ask A Deathlister

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.

You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?

[Deathray 2,940]

 

Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.

You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?

 

 

235 to be exact, with each one containing a search term from the spreadsheet database in the address bar or even better already searched?

 

I know there's an extension for chrome that allows you to open more than one tab at a time but that's not quite what I'm looking for.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

 

Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.

You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?

 

 

235 to be exact, with each one containing a search term from the spreadsheet database in the address bar or even better already searched?

 

I know there's an extension for chrome that allows you to open more than one tab at a time but that's not quite what I'm looking for.

 

You need to read this my friend:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LfkGcfiE__w

[Deathray 2,940]

 

 

 

Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.

You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?

 

 

235 to be exact, with each one containing a search term from the spreadsheet database in the address bar or even better already searched?

 

I know there's an extension for chrome that allows you to open more than one tab at a time but that's not quite what I'm looking for.

 

You need to read this my friend:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LfkGcfiE__w

 

 

Okay, would it be possible to do the spreadsheet thing in firefox or ie? (preferably firefox if ie can be avoided)?

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

 

 

 

Do any of the computer whizzes on here know if you can set up a spreadsheet to google the entries in the first column individually and open them up in separate chrome tabs? I just feel like this could be a life-save for those of us running deadpools. If you know of a way you can then get the spreadsheet to pluck their date of death from wikipedia/the news section on google and convert it into the number of days there's been in the year, subsequently adding it to boxes of a certain colour in that row that would be even more useful! Thanks in advance. By the way I'm using openoffice calc because I'm a miser.

You want simultaneously to open up a multitude of Google Chrome tabs?

 

 

235 to be exact, with each one containing a search term from the spreadsheet database in the address bar or even better already searched?

 

I know there's an extension for chrome that allows you to open more than one tab at a time but that's not quite what I'm looking for.

 

You need to read this my friend:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/LfkGcfiE__w

 

 

Okay, would it be possible to do the spreadsheet thing in firefox or ie? (preferably firefox if ie can be avoided)?

 

I'll PM you.

[En Passant 3,741]

I.E. is always to be avoided.. IE6 is a particular hate icon for web 'artistes'. IE11 is ok, but it's a bit 'locking the door after the horse has bolted'.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

Subject of office debate today:

 

There's a major upsurge in suicides amongst the young in the UK, especially men. There's also a demographic meaning that anxiety, depression and suicide are markedly rising in 16-25 year olds (and stay fairly high until the age demographic reaches the early 30s).

 

So, is part of the reason for this the fact that many of these people find time for positive, fulfilling hobbies, you know; like dead pooling!

[Deathray 2,940]

It's the economy, stupid.

 

16-25 year olds are experiencing lower standards of living than pensioners for the first time in generations, on the extreme margins you'll get more jumpers.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

It's the economy, stupid.

 

16-25 year olds are experiencing lower standards of living than pensioners for the first time in generations, on the extreme margins you'll get more jumpers.

 

 

Yeah but...

 

They're young, raging with hormones, capable of monumental sexual athleticism and provided with computer games and other levels of entertainment (including freely available weed at - relatively - affordable prices). Who wants a job?

[Deathray 2,940]

 

 

It's the economy, stupid.

 

16-25 year olds are experiencing lower standards of living than pensioners for the first time in generations, on the extreme margins you'll get more jumpers.

 

Yeah but...

 

They're young, raging with hormones, capable of monumental sexual athleticism and provided with computer games and other levels of entertainment (including freely available weed at - relatively - affordable prices). Who wants a job?

a) those games consoles are often utilised to obssessive

 

it's hard to be happy with any percieved sexual athletism you may have when the main beneficiary is a kleenex tissue

 

c) you still need a job to pay for that weed and like anything the consumer percieves enjoyment from (alcohol, sport, spending hours online, eating) it'll have serious long term health effects.

 

d) The society we live in these days doesn't enforce socialisation the way the pre internet era which makes easier to withdraw into borderline hermitship. Which is fine if you can accept thats how you like it but dangerous if you can't.

 

Then there's the people aren't prepared for the real world schtick which holds some weight.

[Guest baby boomer Death clock]

Subject of office debate today:

 

There's a major upsurge in suicides amongst the young in the UK, especially men. There's also a demographic meaning that anxiety, depression and suicide are markedly rising in 16-25 year olds (and stay fairly high until the age demographic reaches the early 30s).

 

So, is part of the reason for this the fact that many of these people find time for positive, fulfilling hobbies, you know; like dead pooling!

Baby boomers, those born between 1946-1964, at least in the USA had recently been the fastest growing age-group of people committing suicide. For them it is the economy. Losing a job at age 57-62 is the kiss of deàth. Very hard to Get work at that age. The depression starting in 2008 has ruined their savings, many lost their homes, jobs, status. People Ages 16-25 have usually been the group with the highest suicide rate, I guess things are getting back to normal, at least in the UK.

[maryportfuncity 10,647]

 

Subject of office debate today:

 

There's a major upsurge in suicides amongst the young in the UK, especially men. There's also a demographic meaning that anxiety, depression and suicide are markedly rising in 16-25 year olds (and stay fairly high until the age demographic reaches the early 30s).

 

So, is part of the reason for this the fact that many of these people find time for positive, fulfilling hobbies, you know; like dead pooling!

Baby boomers, those born between 1946-1964, at least in the USA had recently been the fastest growing age-group of people committing suicide. For them it is the economy. Losing a job at age 57-62 is the kiss of deàth. Very hard to Get work at that age. The depression starting in 2008 has ruined their savings, many lost their homes, jobs, status. People Ages 16-25 have usually been the group with the highest suicide rate, I guess things are getting back to normal, at least in the UK.

 

 

 

So, not everything's better in the US, then. Baby boomers here can't move for youthful suicide, but once they've stepped over the bodies in the street there's more elbow room on buses and the like.

[charon 4,943]

The rise of Isis maybe the cause for the rise in yooffool suicides

[Dr. Zorders 1,271]

 

It's the economy, stupid.

16-25 year olds are experiencing lower standards of living than pensioners for the first time in generations, on the extreme margins you'll get more jumpers.

 

 

Yeah but...

 

They're young, raging with hormones, capable of monumental sexual athleticism and provided with computer games and other levels of entertainment (including freely available weed at - relatively - affordable prices). Who wants a job?

 

 

Dunno how you managed to do that Deathers but you had a conversation there with someone who's stuck in February 2008.... did you invent time travel, or doing some mad sorcering of some kind? Well whatever it was, very well done.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

I know nothing about Powerpoint and I really should. Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

You want to circulate the contents of a PowerPoint presentation to colleagues by email. However, you know that some colleagues don’t have access to PowerPoint software. The presentation contains some graphics which you want your colleagues to see. In PowerPoint you should save the presentation as:

Select one:

A. Design Template (*.pot)

B. Device Independent Bitmap (*.bmp)

C. Presentation (*.ppt)

D. PowerPoint Show (*.pps)

 

 

[time 8,618]

 

I know nothing about Powerpoint and I really should. Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

You want to circulate the contents of a PowerPoint presentation to colleagues by email. However, you know that some colleagues don’t have access to PowerPoint software. The presentation contains some graphics which you want your colleagues to see. In PowerPoint you should save the presentation as:

Select one:

A. Design Template (*.pot)

B. Device Independent Bitmap (*.bmp)

C. Presentation (*.ppt)

D. PowerPoint Show (*.pps)

 

 

 

Is this an exam or test question or is it a 'real-life' problem that you're trying to solve?

 

Either way, I don't know how anyone can access a powerpoint show without any Powerpoint software, be it .pot, .ppt or .pps. Also, afaik, you can't save a Powerpoint presentations as a .bmp. file (in the version I've used anyway).

 

There is a free Powerpoint viewer (available from MS) that enables viewing (but not editing) a presentation, seems to like .ppt files.

 

Don't know if this helps, but that's the extent of my Powerpoint knowledge.

 

You could try Dave Gorman!

[Deathray 2,940]

 

I know nothing about Powerpoint and I really should. Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

 

You want to circulate the contents of a PowerPoint presentation to colleagues by email. However, you know that some colleagues dont have access to PowerPoint software. The presentation contains some graphics which you want your colleagues to see. In PowerPoint you should save the presentation as:

 

Select one:

 

A. Design Template (*.pot)

B. Device Independent Bitmap (*.bmp)

C. Presentation (*.ppt)

D. PowerPoint Show (*.pps)

 

 

 

Any - then upload it to google drive. Your colleagues have spent the morning watching cats on youtube so probably have gmail.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

 

 

I know nothing about Powerpoint and I really should. Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

You want to circulate the contents of a PowerPoint presentation to colleagues by email. However, you know that some colleagues don’t have access to PowerPoint software. The presentation contains some graphics which you want your colleagues to see. In PowerPoint you should save the presentation as:

Select one:

A. Design Template (*.pot)

B. Device Independent Bitmap (*.bmp)

C. Presentation (*.ppt)

D. PowerPoint Show (*.pps)

 

 

 

Is this an exam or test question or is it a 'real-life' problem that you're trying to solve?

 

Either way, I don't know how anyone can access a powerpoint show without any Powerpoint software, be it .pot, .ppt or .pps. Also, afaik, you can't save a Powerpoint presentations as a .bmp. file (in the version I've used anyway).

 

There is a free Powerpoint viewer (available from MS) that enables viewing (but not editing) a presentation, seems to like .ppt files.

 

Don't know if this helps, but that's the extent of my Powerpoint knowledge.

 

You could try Dave Gorman!

 

 

Cheers. Apparently the answer was 'D' - it was for some strange online quiz set by my work. We all need to demonstrate our digital competency, for reasons I haven't yet fathomed. Before undertaking the quiz I was supposed to read some gazillion page e-learning thingy, but I started to glaze over after the introduction. Anyway, I managed to scrape a pass in the end. (Thanks to Mrs DDT who basically did it all for me)

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Ok seeking real DP advice. In 2 days I can swoop and scoop up a name to add to my team, and the two names I am kicking around are Oliver Sacks or Daevid Allen (only two 'sure' 2015 bets who are available). Which would you choose and am I missing someone altogether perhaps---mind you there are 86 teams so finding a name not selected already is rather tough. If you don't want the world to know a name you would have me consider cuz you play on a league here, PM me it's our secret.

Thank you in advance.

Sir C.

[Rotten Ali 600]

Allen was given a prognosis of 6 months to live in February. Sacks has been told he has only a few months to live. Read into that two to three month...

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Allen was given a prognosis of 6 months to live in February. Sacks has been told he has only a few months to live. Read into that two to three month...

Robert Carradine just changed everything

SC

[deadsox 894]

 

Allen was given a prognosis of 6 months to live in February. Sacks has been told he has only a few months to live. Read into that two to three month...

Robert Carradine just changed everything

SC

 

 

Since Allen is dead go with Sacks.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

 

 

Allen was given a prognosis of 6 months to live in February. Sacks has been told he has only a few months to live. Read into that two to three month...

 

Robert Carradine just changed everything

SC

Since Allen is dead go with Sacks.

Yeah that conundrum worked itself out eh? What the Reaper taketh away the Reaper giveth.

SC

[Guest Dr T.]

Hi everyone, Dr T here from my iPad so hence not logged in. Does anyone have any experience with transporting human ashes into the UK? A bridge partner of mine who was originally from Leeds died recently and his family would like his ashes repatriated to the UK (from Australia). Any thoughts?

[YoungWillz 21,057]

Advice generally is to abide by the laws of the outgoing and incoming country. Contact the British consulate, embassy or high commission of the country in which the cremation took place and the appropriate advice and paperwork can be sorted from there.