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Microsoft Works - Text Character Limitation

Text Character Limitation

Posted: 27 Nov 2005 02:33 PM PST

Thank you for replying, Michael.

I am using Works 7.0. I have a spreadsheet with about 500 rows that I use
to upload inventory to Amazon.com. One of the columns is "Notes". Amazon
allows 1000 characters from this column.

Technically, they only support Excel. I have been using Works and it seems
to be OK except that in my last upload, all rows in the Notes column
truncated at around 255 characters.

The glitch seems to be early on. The operation starts with me downloading a
text file from Amazon listing my current items. I open this file with Works
7.0 and, at that point, it reads fine. But when I save the file to .xls to
work on it, it only seems to save 255 characters in each cell.

If I use Excel, it works fine. But I'm trying to avoid Excel as I'm using a
trial copy and I'd hate to buy one just for this one feature in that Works
seems to do the job in all other aspects. I used Lotus for years (I don't
have that program on this machine) and I find Works closer to Lotus (and
therefore easier for me to handle) than Excel.

Fred



"Michael Santovec" <ne
t> wrote in message news:phx.gbl... 

Works 2000/Unable to load graphics conversion...

Posted: 27 Nov 2005 11:12 AM PST

Yes, but the OP also wrote "A GoogleGroups search showed downloads that
convert PDF to Wordpad" which is what gave me pause. But I am sure you are
correct. ;-)

DavidF

"The Six Million Dollar Man" <"$$$$$$"@HugeBucks.com> wrote in message
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the 
have it 

Microsoft Word/Office

Posted: 26 Nov 2005 08:02 AM PST

Hi Bev,

When the Spellchecker for OE is lost?
The Spelling command in Outlook Express 6 is no
longer available after you install Works 7.0
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832537

Solutions :
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/spellcheck.htm

In particular, see this:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952

Word, Excel and Access are all part of the Office program suite
and are trial downloadable from here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx

BTW, Works 8, is upgrade eligible to obtain Office at a discounted-price:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/professional.mspx

Here's information regarding exchange of files between Works and Word.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/more/worktogether.mspx

HTH,
--
Kevin James.
Tua'r Goleuni
Microsoft MVP (Works & Word) 1999-2006
Works Help & KB Links: http://www.btinternet.com/~kevin.james1/WorksFAQ.htm





"Bev" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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|I have just bought a new Windows XP computer which came with Microsoft Works
| 8. I haven't been able to get spell checker on Outlook Express. It says to
| download Word but how do you find a version of Word to download. I would
like
| to be able to download Excel and Access also. Is there any way i can do
this?
| I am currently doing an ECDL course and need to be able to open files which
| Works sometimes won't let me do.

Works 8 column width

Posted: 25 Nov 2005 12:25 PM PST

Go here
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.works.win?hl=en&lr=&safe=off
type in "column widths" in the lower box

There are squillions of solutions for this common problem
(well, at least 108)



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"WilsonMurphy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| The width of colums for reports keeps changing. It doesn't matter what column
| width is set and saved. The next time the report is viewed, the column width
| is different. How do you maintain the set width for report columns?

Outlook

Posted: 23 Nov 2005 04:08 PM PST

I have a different version of Works then yours, but under Tasks, E-mail
& Internet is the option "E-mail, Specify Services". Do you have that
option? In mine it lets me specify the mail program to use.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Dragon Rider" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Streets & Trip in Works 2002 - not launching?

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 02:56 PM PST

Hi Kevin-

I am using a Peer-to-peer network with only two computers, and it is setup
as an "Adminstrator", not sure what I need to do here?

D. Morales

"Kevin James - MSMVP Works" wrote:
 

Internet Explorer Programs

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 02:31 PM PST

Thanks...found it......The useless internet shop I was at didn't display the
page. I saw it now I am at home on my laptop.

Regards

John

Outlook Express Contacts

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 09:46 AM PST

Kevin,

I finally got mail merge to work by accessing an Excel file to which I
exported the Outlook Express Contacts, avoiding the Works Address Book.

Still curious why Works Address Book can't get all of the Outlook Express
Contact data, but I guess I'll just have to live with that mystery. . .

Thanks for the helping hand.

jaykay

"Kevin James - MSMVP Works" wrote:
 

update check ms works 4.0

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 08:12 AM PST

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:23:17 -0500, "Ken" <ne>
wrote:
 
....and it would be Works 4.5 - the best ever!

Blessed be, for sure...

Works 7.0 crash

Posted: 16 Nov 2005 10:29 AM PST

I had the same problem. Now I use Microsoft Word. I'm very curious about the
cause of these crashes. Is this something that Microsoft is aware of, and I
wonder if they are trying to create a patch for it. Does anyone out there in
cyberland know? It seems like a rather horrendous defect, especially if you
lose several hours of work each time it happens. It seems to occur when I
hold down some keys for a long length of time as I'm contemplating my next
group of words. I can never remember which set of keys are involved, but I
think the shift key might be one of them.

"Ken" wrote:
 

word?????????

Posted: 16 Nov 2005 06:14 AM PST

My Dell, purchased 2 mos. ago, came with Works Suite and Word 2002 is
included with my Works Suite. Did you look in Start-All Programs for
Microsoft Word??

Word can be used to create a form with drop down boxes. Use the "Forms"
toolbar (View-Toolbars-Forms). When you get to the point of your form where
you need a drop down box, click on the drop down box button in the Forms
toolbar. Then right click on the gray box that appears and select
Properties. You can type in all of the items you want in your drop down box.

Don't forget to lock (protect) the form when you are done if you don't want
anyone to change anything on your form. This way only the drop down boxes
can be accessed. You can lock (protect) the form with or without password
protection.


"karen" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Double line spacing in WordPad

Posted: 15 Nov 2005 03:05 AM PST

Thank you very much. Sorry to be so long replying but this is just what I
wanted.

Wow, that webpage is quite hard to decipher, I will experiment with \pard as an
off switch.

Thanks again,
ern.

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