My husband told me this today so it MUST be true! NOT!!! I will be the first to admit that I'm no genius. Any smarts I do have are probably best attributed to perseverance, curiosity, and determination (some might call this stubbornness).
What led to my husband's statement was the fact that our scanner has been acting funny and I fixed it. Whenever we tried to scan anything larger than a postcard, the image captured was, well, the size of a postcard! So he was trying to scan something for work to send to a client but only a small corner of the document scanned. Now, he's been working on this for hours and having problems with his laptop. And then the scanner doesn't work! I knew I had to do something or be stuck listening to my husband grumble under his breath for the next two hours.
So, even though I'm no expert on the scanner, I thought I would face this most formidable foe. This is how I fix things on the computer: press a button and see what happens. I did this with the scanner. I started pressing buttons -- Reduce/Enlarge, Quality, and Options seemed like the best choices. AHA!!! The sub menu under the Options button had the selection Original Size. Guess what the original size was set at. 3 x 5 inches! Yes, the size of a postcard! Actually, smaller.
I don't know how, after having the scanner some ten years, that setting got changed to 3 x 5. (Probably happened when I was scanning pictures and pressing buttons, but that's another story.) But I changed the setting to Auto Detect and the scanner is working again and my husband was able to scan and send the document to the client. WHEW!
Like I said, I'm really no genius. But I do have a big brain...
A hui hou
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