No Scroll Bars in Word 2003

I came across this problem in Word 2003. The scroll bars seem to have disappeared from the right and bottom of the screen.

After a bit of Googling I found the solution to the problem. In a blank document perform the following actions.

1. Tools Menu -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor
2. Double click on “This Document” on the left hand side of the screen.
3. Enter the following code:
   Sub Scroll()
Application.DisplayScrollBars = True
End Sub
4. Click Run -> Run Sub / User Form

Performing these actions should then show both the horizontal and vertical scroll bars in the program. This principle should extend to all Office programs. If you have any problems then please let me know in the comments.

Highly recommended film. Off to the Redpoint climbing centre tomorrow to try and replicate!

The software has been in development for several years and is now approaching its finished state with all the major functionality required now incorporated in the system. The system can be used for any two lane regattas or for head races and includes a touch screen optimised website to enable the starting of events on a mobile platform, such as an iPhone.

The public results pages have undergone a dramatic redevelopment this year, with a completely new user interface that has been designed to simplify the finding of results for specific races, events, or clubs. You can view the public results page at: results.regattaweb.co.uk.

If you would like further information on the Regattaweb system, or would like to use it at your event please get in touch.

The masters part of the course covered aspects that were more likely to be used in a real world engineering project. In some ways we were just left to get on with the project which was whilst very rewarding was stressful at the same time. The increased stress levels were due to having to prioritise the tasks whilst ensuring that the overall project would be completed on time. As with most projects the last few weeks were fairly hectic, and required juggling of revision and completion of the projects.

How does it feel now it’s all finished?

To be honest I’m not sure it’s sunk in yet that I have finished. Last week I was working pretty hard to get a new project finished, I’ll being writing about it in the next few weeks once everything is finalised. So I haven’t had much time to contemplate things; I’m having the next few days completely off, so will hopefully be able to reflect a bit more then.

So here’s the million dollar question, was the last 5 years and in excess of £30,000 worthwhile?

In general I would say it was a worthwhile experience. A lot of the knowledge gained over the cause could be learnt ‘on the job’ but it is unlikely that I would have come out with as broad a knowledge of engineering as I have got from university. This lack of breadth could have limited chances for career development in the future. Securing a job before finishing the course I think justifies the degree, and the placement year especially as it equipped me with the skills and knowledge to portray myself above a very strong field at the assessment centre.

What does the future hold?

This summer will revolve around doing some web design work, holidays and relaxing. The job in starts in early september in Bristol, so I will also have to find a base there at some point over the summer. From then onwards I will begin a new phase of my life as a working man! God help us all!!

The session started off with some pull ups supersetted with inversed rowing. There were 4 sets of 12 reps for each of the exercises. I was struggling to lift my excessive weight on the pull ups after the first set, so had to endure a fair amount of mocking!
The following exercises were bench press supersetted with dumbell flys. I seemed to manage ok with the bench press, but the flys got a bit tricky to pick up and then press on the third and forth sets.

The final round was bench pulls and tricep dips. Again I managed ok with the pulls but really struggled with the dips. So I had to endure more mocking whilst I did baby dips off a chair.

Typically the full pain following a weights session is not experienced until 2 days after the event. I knew this was going to be bad when I could hardly move my arms straight after the session! Two days after and I can hardly straighten my arms out, and curling them up is even worse. Hopefully it will get better soon.

Coming up soon, part 2 : lower body workout!

We got the rules slightly wrong, thinking that the points were up to 21 rather than 9 so having played 5 games of the best of 21 my body was understandably achey!! It was however good to release a bit of anger on a piece of rubber, and I’m looking forward to playing again soon. Hopefully next time I won’t get hit in the middle of my back! The bruise is the size of a tennis ball, although I suppose I can only blame myself for not getting out of the way quick enough.

So in conclusion I think that squash is friend rather than foe, it’s just going to take a few attempts for my muscles to become use to it. BRING IT ON!

The start of the race was quite slow, the people traffic was quite annoying. I couldn’t really get up to speed until about a mile in. After that though all felt pretty good, until I hit the 9 mile mark…

My legs just felt dead and I started to regret the amount of training that I had done the previous week. I recon in those last 4 miles I lost about 5 minutes, which was really quite annoying. Still managed to complete the course and considerably quicker than last time I attempted it (about 15 minutes!).

The challenge now is what to do next!!! I’m just going maintain my fitness by running and cycling for a while, until the end of University at least. Then who knows…..

So the big build up has been and gone. It’s taken me a while to get this up, just been so busy.

I guess my build up was a little bit too heavy… here goes;

Monday – Easy 4 miles; 4.11miles @ 8:17 min/mile avg

Tuesday – 10x400m; 5.41miles @ 8:02 min/mile avg

Thursday – Brisk 3 miles; 5miles @ 7:52 min/mile avg

Friday – Brisk 4 miles; 3.92miles @ 7:38 min/mile avg

As you can see the milage was quite a bit more than normal. I think I probably paid for this in the last bit of the race. Check out the next blog for a detailed run down of the race…