Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2021 October 20

= October 20 =

How can I make the bullets and brackets white in this dark background?
I want to make all the bullets and brackets white in class=darkbackground used here:
 * http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/User:Timeshifter/Sandbox23

I have used class=darkbackground in various parts of this wiki for awhile, and recently noticed the problem with the bullet points and "edit" brackets. --Timeshifter (talk) 13:05, 20 October 2021 (UTC)


 * These changes would be made in the CSS.
 * Currently,  specifies , a dark grey circle. You could remove it, if possible, or override it with   to change it back to the default, which uses the same colour as the text.
 * The brackets around "edit" are getting their colour from  in  . Again, you can remove that, if possible, or override it with   to make them use the same colour as the rest of the text. --116.86.4.41 (talk) 15:29, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks! This worked in http://cannabis.shoutwiki.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css
 * --Timeshifter (talk) 17:56, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I just realised I left an extraneous part in after copying. I have now corrected it, above. --116.86.4.41 (talk) 08:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! I was wondering about that. Funny thing is that it works with or without that added part. I removed it from my previous comment. --Timeshifter (talk) 13:23, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I just realised I left an extraneous part in after copying. I have now corrected it, above. --116.86.4.41 (talk) 08:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! I was wondering about that. Funny thing is that it works with or without that added part. I removed it from my previous comment. --Timeshifter (talk) 13:23, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Read-Only Open of Files from Internet?
Both of the computers in question are running Windows 10 with what I think is Office 365.

If I create or edit a Word document on my desktop computer, and then save it to a flash drive, and then open it on my laptop computer, it tells me that files from the Internet will normally be opened read-only, and it opens the document read-only, although it allows me to override and go to enable editing. This does not happen with files that I save on the laptop computer and then open on the desktop computer. Is there a flag that controls this behavior, either in Word on my desktop computer, or in Word on my laptop computer, or in Windows 10 on either computer? How can I prevent having the laptop computer think that the files were from the Internet? (Or how can I specify to trust files from the Internet after I have scanned them?) Robert McClenon (talk) 20:06, 20 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Microsoft Word and Office used to be a vector of macro virus / worm infection from attached files that Microsoft implemented a policy called "protected view" that turned off all macros and made the file read-only if it determined that it did not come from a "trusted source".


 * You can manage which directories are considered "trusted" by going into MS Office / File / Options, then Trusted Center / Trusted Center Settings. You should see a choice called "trusted locations". Add directories that you want to trust WITHOUT QUESTION (this can be dangerous, be VERY sure).


 * You can also add individual files to trust by going to "trusted documents" instead.


 * For more details, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/what-is-protected-view-d6f09ac7-e6b9-4495-8e43-2bbcdbcb6653


 * Kschang77 (talk) 23:27, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I know about the macro viruses. In the late 1990s my employer had problems with the Concept virus, which was the first of the known Word macro viruses, and appeared to have been another Frankenstein monster in the sense that it was created in the lab and escaped from the lab (like nVir on the Mac even earlier).  Thank you.  Robert McClenon (talk) 03:51, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Journaling File Updates from the C: drive to the F: drive
A few weeks ago, I think I saw an option in Windows 10 so that I can maintain a journal that backs up files that I save to the C: drive onto an external drive. I forget what the option was. Can someone please direct me? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:06, 20 October 2021 (UTC)


 * You may be thinking of, which is described better in this article. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 22:54, 20 October 2021 (UTC)