Mercury turned direct at 12:25 a.m. this morning!<\/strong><\/p>\nThis year\u2019s second Mercury retrograde began on July 26, at 1:02 AM EDT, at 23 degrees Leo. As of today, August 5, we\u2019re only 10 days into it.\u00a0 The retro ends on August 19, at 12: 25 AM EDT – or if you live in a PDT zone, it ends on August 18, at 9:25 PM, at 11 degrees Leo. I include this info so you have a sense of the length of these retros.<\/p>\n
So, my retro story, 2 weeks in. Back in June, my 7-year iMac computer was limping along on its last legs. Nothing worked well anymore and it was obvious the computer was really tired and bit by bit, stuff stopped working. I decided to buy a new computer before Mercury turned retro in July. I updated my iMac and was delighted to find that the storage on the new models was 1 TB – which means it has the capacity to hold a trillion bytes. I figured this was large enough to hold all the files I\u2019d created since 2011, all the photos I\u2019ve taken, my astrology programs, word processing programs etc.<\/p>\n
The bad news was that I had to buy Word 2016, so I could move my Word 2011 documents to the new computer. The night after I bought the program, my blogging friend Adele Aldridge suggested I try Pages, Mac\u2019s answer to Word, which came with the computer. I did and I love it! It\u2019s a clean program, easy to use, with all the features I enjoyed in Word 2011 and then some. Compared to Word 2016, Pages was a breeze. I was able to convert the novel I\u2019ve been writing in Word 2011 to Pages with just a click.
\nI quickly learned, though, that the reverse isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
About a week after I\u2019d bought the new computer, I submitted a short file to someone in Pages and the person couldn\u2019t open it. It was easy to remedy because the document was short. I copied and pasted from Pages to Word 2016. Today, I finished my novel in Pages and decided I should probably have a copy of it in Word 2016, too. I put the novel into an efile in Pages, copied and pasted several hundred pages into a Word document, and discovered the word count was different. I repeated the copying and pasting several times but the end result was the same. Different word count.<\/p>\n
After several hours of fiddling around with this, I did what I should have done from the start – Googled it. Oh duh, you sneaky Mercury retro thing. So for anyone who doesn\u2019t know how to do this, it\u2019s actually easy!<\/p>\n
Open up Pages, go to File, export to, and click on Word. Within a few minutes, my novel was converted to Word without endless copying and pasting. I\u2019m not sure why I didn\u2019t initially just Google it. But perhaps when Mercury – ruler of communication, the conscious mind – is retrograde, the mind doesn\u2019t work quite as quickly. It fusses and debates, gets mired in details that really have nothing to do with whatever you\u2019re trying to accomplish, and the end result is frustration.<\/p>\n
However, the discrepancy in word count still exists. Pages has my manuscript\u2019s word count at 86, 264. Word 2016 has it about 400 words shorter. Short of printing out both versions and going through each of them word by word, I\u2019m attributing it to Merc retro and will figure it today!<\/p>\n
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