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Actually, it can be done or at least it could be before the word limit was extended (haven't tried it since) because I did it in order to get all my comments in. I simply clicked on the already highlighted area and it produced another comment box. Take care. Vern
Interesting. I stand corrected 
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SolN wrote:Oh, that I don't think can be done - selecting a word or section "twice", but Sol will be the best person to confirm whether it's a site or chrome thing. JR
This cannot be done. You can't select text twice.
Actually, it can be done or at least it could be before the word limit was extended (haven't tried it since) because I did it in order to get all my comments in. I simply clicked on the already highlighted area and it produced another comment box. Take care. Vern
Heya Vern, what you are referring to can be done - i.e. you can add additional comments to the original selection by "clicking" on the highlighted text again. But this is different to what I'm referring to and I think the original query was about. And since I've only been using regular reviews, I've checked just to be sure. And what I've tried to do before, still can't be done.
For example if I'm reviewing the following sentence:
Vern has super powers becuse he can select text twice on TNBW.
Now I select "becuse" (only the single word) and leave a comment that it should be because. If I want to leave another comment, I can just click on the highlighted "becuse" and leave another comment. So far so good.
But now I realise I want to suggest a change to the sentence structure as a whole. If I try to select all the words of the whole sentence "Vern has super powers becuse he can select text twice on TNBW.", I get the following error message:
Bad selection
An annotation cannot contain another annotation.
So that means I now have to get creative to explain what I'm trying to say by either adding a second comment to "becuse" or by selecting a part of the sentence that doesn't contain "becuse".
This is as clear as I can make it. Last try with other words!!!
Two guesses who the test case was! 
JR
vern wrote:SolN wrote:This cannot be done. You can't select text twice.
Actually, it can be done or at least it could be before the word limit was extended (haven't tried it since) because I did it in order to get all my comments in. I simply clicked on the already highlighted area and it produced another comment box. Take care. Vern
Heya Vern, what you are referring to can be done - i.e. you can add additional comments to the original selection by "clicking" on the highlighted text again. But this is different to what I'm referring to and I think the original query was about. And since I've only been using regular reviews, I've checked just to be sure. And what I've tried to do before, still can't be done.
For example if I'm reviewing the following sentence:
Vern has super powers becuse he can select text twice on TNBW.
Now I select "becuse" (only the single word) and leave a comment that it should be because. If I want to leave another comment, I can just click on the highlighted "becuse" and leave another comment. So far so good.
But now I realise I want to suggest a change to the sentence structure as a whole. If I try to select all the words of the whole sentence "Vern has super powers becuse he can select text twice on TNBW.", I get the following error message:
Bad selection
An annotation cannot contain another annotation.So that means I now have to get creative to explain what I'm trying to say by either adding a second comment to "becuse" or by selecting a part of the sentence that doesn't contain "becuse".
This is as clear as I can make it. Last try with other words!!!
Two guesses who the test case was!
JR
Quick answer because I don't have time right now to explore the possibilities, but a quick solution might be to do the procedure backward. Select the sentence and comment. Then click on the highlight for a second comment box and then just type the single word and comment on it; you can type a single word about as fast as you can highlight it or faster. Got to run. Good luck. Take care. Vern
Quick answer because I don't have time right now to explore the possibilities, but a quick solution might be to do the procedure backward. Select the sentence and comment. Then click on the highlight for a second comment box and then just type the single word and comment on it; you can type a single word about as fast as you can highlight it or faster. Got to run. Good luck. Take care. Vern
This only works though if you realise that you want to comment on the whole sentence or paragraph before you comment on a single word! Paragraphs are the bigger issue as you can imagine. It's not ideal, but for most of it, you can make it work! Thanks Janet
vern wrote:Quick answer because I don't have time right now to explore the possibilities, but a quick solution might be to do the procedure backward. Select the sentence and comment. Then click on the highlight for a second comment box and then just type the single word and comment on it; you can type a single word about as fast as you can highlight it or faster. Got to run. Good luck. Take care. Vern
This only works though if you realise that you want to comment on the whole sentence or paragraph before you comment on a single word! Paragraphs are the bigger issue as you can imagine. It's not ideal, but for most of it, you can make it work! Thanks Janet
That's true, but you can always get the new box and copy and paste the sentence/para on those hopefully rare occasions you comment on a single word first. I'll do some more experimenting and should I come up with another "solution" I'll let you know. Take care. Vern
I just read an inline review by Wilma Bailey of Amy_s's I Yell a Lot. Words not involved in the review were turned into links with a tooltip that looked like what an ad-word processor produces. In this case, the words Certificates, Computer, and Register got the treatment. I've sent you a screencap with the debugger open on it.
njc, thank you so much for pointing out the highlighted and capitalized words that have been popping up in my reviews. I thought this was a virus in my computer. I'm about to take it in to be scrubbed. This annoying tooltip problem began two days ago.
@Sol:
If you navigate to my profile and click the Rocket Baby story, you'll discover that you get the wrong landing page version. You may correct this by selecting the correct chapter-version from the dropdown list. However clicking "next" brings you to the incorrect chapter 2 version.
Question: Is this because I haven't deleted/disabled the prior versions? I would want them to be accessible so reviewers can compare past reviews to see if particular changes were a step forward or not... but perhaps the site is not designed this way.
On the chance that it is a bug, I must add that I don't find it a huge issue... just something to consider while you're working on the versioning system
-K
Hey Sol!
Just did my first inline review on my android phone. Worked wonderfully! Love it! Thanks!
Bimmy
Vern, I pointed out another comment box. I think what folks are talking about might be, if you click on one sentence to comment and get the whole paragraph highlighted, you can't click on, say the last sentence of the paragraph separately. Like you, I just use the next comment box.
Wilma, njc,
Do these problems occur only with Google Chrome usage or with other browsers as well? I had this happening with Chrome, only. I uninstalled and re-installed Chrome and now it doesn't happen. Also, download malwarebytes and run it. You can get if free for a trial of two weeks, but I went ahead and bought the year's subscription, which can be placed on 3 devices, only $29.95 & worth every cent.
I just noticed the highlighted, capitalized words popping up on my Home page in the contests area -- the word Prize and Amazon with the link button attached.
I'm seeing it with both Chrome and IE. Hold your mouse pointer over it and you should get a tooltips-like popup.
I just checked on the Android. The problem occurs with both Chrome and the OS-supplied browser.
Tried to do a search on author Amy S. Tried with and without caps, with space and with underscore, nothing found. Is there a problem with searching for authors with spaces in the name?
I'm seeing it with both Chrome and IE. Hold your mouse pointer over it and you should get a tooltips-like popup.
Let me know if I can help you reproduce it.
I just checked on the Android. The problem occurs with both Chrome and the OS-supplied browser.
Some service providers (like YOU, Optimum Online) insert ad overlays into other people's web pages as they pass through, especially when you are using wifi hotspots. If you can't find any other explanation, it would be interesting to bring up the page via https to see whether the problem still occurs when no service provider can poison the html.
Minor nits:
The tooltip that comes up when the mouse pointer hovers over The Next Big Writer label says "The next Big Writer". It should probably say something like "Go to Home Page".
Also, many of the buttons change color slightly when you hover over them (good!). Is it possible to do the same when someone hovers over the aforementioned label?
Both of these are just to help new users. I don't think they're a problem for anyone else.
Regards,
Dirk
Sol, you're probably already aware of this, but just in case ... when I go to send a private message, the drop down list is cut off at the bottom. even when I've scrolled all the way down the list. I usually can't select the latest connection(s). Not sure if there's a workaround, although I haven't found one.
Win 7 PC with latest Google Chrome.
Thanks.
Dirk
Somehow, the site has kicked me out of a couple of my groups. I don't know exactly how long ago it happened, but I typically glance at my groups list on the right of the Home page daily looking for recent forum posts. Today, I added the new Queries, Blurbs, and Synopsis group to my list of groups, then noticed that Old Forums and Dew Drops Readers were no longer there. I was able to add Old Forums back to my list. I didn't add Dew Drops Readers back in since the author is posting elsewhere as well. I was well under my 10 group limit when this happened.
Win 7 PC with latest Google Chrome.
Thanks.
Dirk
A couple of little nits from me also: When I first come to the site, the top of the page says "Login". Clicking that produces the drop-down labeled "Login", but the button we press after entering username/password is labeled "Sign in". The next button below that is labeled 'Join", which is not a problem.
My activity drop-down in the upper right corner will automatically drop down on mouse hover in some cases, but not all. In the forums, for example, I have to actually click the button to get the drop-down. It will change color to show the mouse activated it, but not drop down automatically. I can live with it either way, but it should be consistent.
Tom
Sol, you're probably already aware of this, but just in case ... when I go to send a private message, the drop down list is cut off at the bottom. even when I've scrolled all the way down the list. I usually can't select the latest connection(s). Not sure if there's a workaround, although I haven't found one.
Win 7 PC with latest Google Chrome.
I see what you mean. Will get this fixed asap.
Somehow, the site has kicked me out of a couple of my groups. I don't know exactly how long ago it happened, but I typically glance at my groups list on the right of the Home page daily looking for recent forum posts. Today, I added the new Queries, Blurbs, and Synopsis group to my list of groups, then noticed that Old Forums and Dew Drops Readers were no longer there. I was able to add Old Forums back to my list. I didn't add Dew Drops Readers back in since the author is posting elsewhere as well. I was well under my 10 group limit when this happened.
Win 7 PC with latest Google Chrome.
Can you let me know if this happens again before you add it back. It sounds like some kind of bug but it's hard to track down once you've rejoined the groups. In the meantime, I will try to reproduce it.
Thanks!
I just left an inline review for Mrs Piddles's revision of her short story, "Christie's Chicken Revised." I got the points for the review, but noticed that the inline review count didn't increase for her story. It already had one regular review. WHen I accessed the story again, the inline count remained zero, and I couldn't see the original regular review. My inline review comments showed up.
I just left an inline review for Mrs Piddles's revision of her short story, "Christie's Chicken Revised." I got the points for the review, but noticed that the inline review count didn't increase for her story. It already had one regular review. WHen I accessed the story again, the inline count remained zero, and I couldn't see the original regular review. My inline review comments showed up.
Are you sure you submitted the in-line review? I only see a regular review there. Go to your In Line Reviews given box and make sure that review is not still a draft.
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