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From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Rotating Firefox?
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:50:16 -0400
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The hardest computer problems to solve are the ones that happen
intermittently. I do believe the problem is with the FTDNA GAP, not
our browsers, because I do not have this kind of problem with any
other web site - and it never happened to me with the old GAP, only
the new one.

With regard to copying a row of data off the web and placing it in
Excel...

Using Firefox (v. 3.6.2), I can Copy a row from an FTDNA data table,
then right-click in a cell of an Excel (2010) worksheet, choose the
text menu item "Paste Special..." (not the icon), then choose "Paste:
text," and hit OK. The data are entered in a single, horizontal row.

What I don't know how to do is stop Excel from turning the multi-value
cells into dates. Yes, I know how to convert them, afterwards, but
it's a PITA. Anyone?

Diana


> From: Kenneth Nordtvedt
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 3:32 PM
>
> > From: Diana Gale Matthiesen
> >
> > This glitch refusing to take you to a Member's
> > page when you click on their kit# has been a
> > long-standing problem with the "new" GAP. We
> > all need to keep complaining about it to FTDNA.
> >
> > I have been able to get around it by logging out,
> > then logging back in.
>
> While there have been many replies on this thread
> about the GAP glitch, I can't say that two people
> had the same explanation of what went wrong and
> what are proven remedies.
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