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Maggie Document
What does it mean to Maggie a document? When would you do this?
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Who might Maggie be? I suspect someone who works in your organization or
used to work there. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "PreciousIvy" wrote in message ... What does it mean to Maggie a document? When would you do this? |
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I belive this means to copy an entire document except for the final
paragraph mark and paste into a new document; the purpose is to keep as much formatting as possible but get rid of possible corruption (stored in the final paragraph mark). I really don't know what the name comes from, though. My guess would be that it refers to MVP Margaret Aldis. -- Stefan Blom "PreciousIvy" wrote in message ... What does it mean to Maggie a document? When would you do this? |
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Yes. Not Margaret Aldis, though. Word Heretic uses it (and John McGhie?), I
think he said once it comes from a woman on a techwriter email list a while back who frequently gave that advice. Older than the MVP program, was the impression I got. DM On 12/9/04 7:14 AM, "Stefan Blom" wrote: I belive this means to copy an entire document except for the final paragraph mark and paste into a new document; the purpose is to keep as much formatting as possible but get rid of possible corruption (stored in the final paragraph mark). I really don't know what the name comes from, though. My guess would be that it refers to MVP Margaret Aldis. |
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Learn something new? every day! Thanks.
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... I belive this means to copy an entire document except for the final paragraph mark and paste into a new document; the purpose is to keep as much formatting as possible but get rid of possible corruption (stored in the final paragraph mark). I really don't know what the name comes from, though. My guess would be that it refers to MVP Margaret Aldis. -- Stefan Blom "PreciousIvy" wrote in message ... What does it mean to Maggie a document? When would you do this? |
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... I belive this means to copy an entire document except for the final paragraph mark and paste into a new document; the purpose is to keep as much formatting as possible but get rid of possible corruption (stored in the final paragraph mark). Right so far I really don't know what the name comes from, though. My guess would be that it refers to MVP Margaret Aldis. Not me - I have a feeling it started on techwr-l or another tech writing forum. Maggie Secara? Steve Hudson may know. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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"Margaret Aldis" wrote:
"Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... I belive this means to copy an entire document except for the final paragraph mark and paste into a new document; the purpose is to keep as much formatting as possible but get rid of possible corruption (stored in the final paragraph mark). Right so far I really don't know what the name comes from, though. My guess would be that it refers to MVP Margaret Aldis. Not me OK. Thank you for responding! - I have a feeling it started on techwr-l or another tech writing forum. Maggie Secara? Steve Hudson may know. I suppose all we can do is wait and see if Steve or someone else who knows sees this thread... -- Stefan Blom |
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hudson Many many chortles The only bit that is missing from the story is when M$ FINALLY stole it (I posted a notice here natch) they didn't use the word Maggie anywhere. *******s. http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;211634 is their take on an "extended Maggie". Steve Hudson -----Original Message----- From: Secara, Maggie At the time the word was coined (I've never been a verb before) the real joke was that all too often poor Steve would have spent hours working out an elaborate scheme (usually involving VBA) to solve whatever problem had been posed, then I'd pipe up and say, oh gee, have you tried this! And it would be the answer. Not always of course, but often enough. Then there was the time I made Steve's day completely by coming up with a whole new problem, begging for help, to which he replied "have you tried a maggie" and of course, it fixed everything. It's not always the answer, true. But it IS magic. ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.") And it's a place to start, it's got a great beat, but you can't dance to it. :-) -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... "Margaret Aldis" wrote: "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... I belive this means to copy an entire document except for the final paragraph mark and paste into a new document; the purpose is to keep as much formatting as possible but get rid of possible corruption (stored in the final paragraph mark). Right so far I really don't know what the name comes from, though. My guess would be that it refers to MVP Margaret Aldis. Not me OK. Thank you for responding! - I have a feeling it started on techwr-l or another tech writing forum. Maggie Secara? Steve Hudson may know. I suppose all we can do is wait and see if Steve or someone else who knows sees this thread... -- Stefan Blom |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers: -----Original Message----- From: Steve Hudson Many many chortles The only bit that is missing from the story is when M$ FINALLY stole it (I posted a notice here natch) they didn't use the word Maggie anywhere. *******s. http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;211634 is their take on an "extended Maggie". Steve Hudson -----Original Message----- From: Secara, Maggie At the time the word was coined (I've never been a verb before) the real joke was that all too often poor Steve would have spent hours working out an elaborate scheme (usually involving VBA) to solve whatever problem had been posed, then I'd pipe up and say, oh gee, have you tried this! And it would be the answer. Not always of course, but often enough. Then there was the time I made Steve's day completely by coming up with a whole new problem, begging for help, to which he replied "have you tried a maggie" and of course, it fixed everything. It's not always the answer, true. But it IS magic. ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.") And it's a place to start, it's got a great beat, but you can't dance to it. :-) Try submitting this to The Jargon File - however they are not very ZvpebFbsg-friendly there ;-) Current maintainer is Eric Raymond - esr at thyrsus dot com -- Amedee Van Gasse using XanaNews 1.16.5.2 If it has an "X" in the name, it must be Linux? |
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