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  1. jayzzz

    jayzzz Registered Member

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    I tried to add one additional line saying "Don't litter! Spay or neuter your pets," to my signature...several times. The site software tells me I'm not permitted to exceed 300 characters!? I could add much more w/o exceeding 300 characters... Is there something else relevant I don't know that explains this? :)
     
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  2. Paul Wilders

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    Like it is now? No problems in changing at all.
     
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  3. LowWaterMark

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    FYI - Color codes, fonts, bolding and all format characters count in the 300 total character limit. At this moment your signature is 297 characters. (I'm showing the [ ] chrs as { } show they display in quote block):

     
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  4. jayzzz

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    Wow! I had no idea all that code counted as characters. I just looked at the letters and thought, "no way is that 300 letters and spaces!"

    Thank you, Paul. That's close, though I was picturing two lines in small text. Apparently the coding to make text smaller makes it bigger in terms of characters. With as close to the line as LWM says I am now, it's no wonder it wouldn't do it for me...perhaps I should re-evaluate the importance of dark slate gray over black and/or eliminate colour in the "mj" part to use those spaces for making "Don't litter!" red. <laughing at myself>

    I'm grateful to both of you for your help & advice. :)
     
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  5. Paul Wilders

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    Our pleasure ;) .

    regards,

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    Did you count?

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  7. LowWaterMark

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    I had Pixel do that for me. *puppy*
     
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    what did you seriously use? did you copy the text to word and run word count?

    Jimbob
     
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  9. LowWaterMark

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    It depends on what I have open at the time. Word certainly can do it, but I find Word a little heavy on my main system. If I have a shell window open, I paste it into pico and get a quick count from there. If nothings open, I may just throw it in a file and check the properties for the byte count.
     
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