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Ask Virginia Ironside – The Oldie's Agony Aunt

Features | By Virginia Ironside


Please email me your problems at problempage@theoldie.co.uk; I will answer every email – and let me know if you’d like your dilemma to be confidential.

Computer says no Q A year ago, when I was 70, I was a whizz at computers. I could make new documents, cut and paste, and find documents that seemed to be hidden. Now, however, after sepsis and delusions, and being pretty ill for a few months, all my skills seem to have left me. I need to be able to do the basics for the little bit of work I still have got to do. But when I try, I just get into the most awful muddle. And lose most of the work I’ve done. Can you help? H S, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire A The two rules should be: always save your work, if you can remember how to do that; and print it out, just to be on the safe side. I suspect (and hope) that the skills will return. But it would be worth paying an expert to...


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