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Microsoft Works - Scanning text to works

Scanning text to works

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 09:09 PM PST



There is no problem!

Simply scan the document, at the point it loads into notepad
just copy/paste into MSWorks

easy / peasy surely?


"mtndad1" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Microsoft Works 2000 Toolbar

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 08:25 AM PST

Hi Deb,

Have you tried the MS cleanup utilities designed for use in such cases?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816273/

Alternatively,

Uninstall Works
Delete the Works folder
Reinstall.

HTH,
--
Kevin James.
Tua'r Goleuni


"DEBNC" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| For some reason my toolbar on my Microsoft Works Calendar has vanished and I
| cannot get it back. I even did a restore to no avail, an uninstall of all
| Works programs and reinstalled. I even tried
| http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=309466, I tried clean boots,
| etc. Nothing works. Any ideas?
| --
| In His Service,
| Debra A. Snipes
| www.In-His-Service.org
|
|
|

Microsoft Doesn't Works 2000

Posted: 13 Nov 2006 06:01 AM PST

You said this was a fresh install. If you uninstalled it and reinstalled it,
you have to delete the works folder out of the program files or you get those
"unable to read..." messages.

"Homer J Simpson" wrote:
 

problems reading back-up files from floppy

Posted: 12 Nov 2006 05:57 AM PST

Floppies are not reliable backup. Spend about $10-30 and
get a USB thumb drive.

For portability use an RTF format.



<com> wrote in message
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|I am using Works 7.0, and a Dell PC with XP.
|
| I have many, many recipes that have been typed on this
Dell PC, using
| the Works Word Processor. Each recipe is a file, and
these files are
| stored in a folder called "recipe". This folder is kept
in "My
| Documents".
|
| The files all have names ending with the extension
..wps
|
| Like......... cake.wps or pie.wps
|
| I've downloaded this "recipe" folder to floppy. I can
then take
| this floppy, ON MY DELL, and access each individual
recipe......each
| file. It's perfectly readable and usable, etc.
Functions
| perfectly. Seems to be a good backup.
|
| However, if I take this floppy and try to read an
individual recipe on
| _ANY_ other PC, it doesn't work. All that appears on
the monitor
| screen is gibberish, funny little squares and other odd
characters.
| 100% unreadable and unusable. These other PC's have XP
for OS, and
| have Works installed, and that's what is used to open the
folder.
| On these other PC's we've also tried opening and reading
these
| recipes using Word. Same result. I've tried this on
several other
| PC's, all with the same result.
|
| I have tried using different floppies. Same result.
|
| What am I overlooking here? Why can't I put my "recipe"
floppy
| in another PC and read my recipes?
|
| Thank you..... Lee Carkenord
|

Out of Memory????

Posted: 10 Nov 2006 06:48 AM PST

Yes, but my HP is very old.

It probably has nothing to do with your issue, but if you happen to be
running Norton AV, disable the office plug ins, and see if per chance that
helps.

DavidF

"MZB" <prudigy.net> wrote in message
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Getting Works to work

Posted: 10 Nov 2006 04:44 AM PST


Ron,

Perhaps article provides guidance on things to check:


Works: How to Troubleshoot Setup Hanging and Error Messages
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279625/en-us

Good luck,
--
Kevin James.
Tua'r Goleuni


"Homer J Simpson" <com> wrote in message
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|
| "Ron" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:com...
|
| > The cd opens fine in my laptop. Other cd's work okay in my desktop drive.
|
| Look in the message archive (Google) for a pointer to a cleanup utility for
| Works.
|
|
|
|
|

My report doesn't save changes

Posted: 09 Nov 2006 03:32 AM PST

Thank u very much!!
Your suggestion is working well, now the report is ok!
Regards
Andrea

Michel Maman ha scritto:
 

works 8 and office word

Posted: 06 Nov 2006 08:49 PM PST


"BillW50" <kom> wrote in message
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No with Works 8 you can get only Works 8 or Works 8 suite which contains
Word, streets, money, some picture editor and some other stuff. With the
Works suite Word works with Works, in other words if you write a letter, use
mail merge, stuff like this Works will open Word. With Works 8 only it
comes with a very generic word editor and uses that for letters mail merge
etc.

With older versions of Works there was an Word add on that would tell Works
that Word is installed. I am wondering if there is a add on version for
Works 8 that I can download to get the 2 programs to work together.

I don't really want to pay the price of the suite to also get Word when I
have MS Office that already has Word and would also cause less issues not
having two Word programs installed.

The Works Suite disc may have the word add that I need and thats what I
would also like to know. Would be nice if Microsoft had this on there
website to download but have not found it yet.

Robert

comma format won't merge from database to word processor

Posted: 06 Nov 2006 02:46 PM PST

Hi Jim,

There is a Microsoft Knowledge Base article that acknowledges this:

Works: Mail Merge Fields Printed Without Numeric Formatting
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246066

HTH,
--
Kevin James.
Tua'r Goleuni


"Jim Howard" <Jim microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| When I merge number formated fields with 4 or more digits and 2 decimal
| places (ie 1,000) the comma won't merge. In the merged document it comes out
| 1000.00. How do I force the comma to merge?
|
| I am using works for windows 7 and am merging from the works 7 database to
| the works 7 word processor.

Customize toolbar?

Posted: 06 Nov 2006 09:07 AM PST

In that 8.5 "update", besides the toolbar customizations being nixed,the
formatting dialogue is now more like the excell dialogue. The borders tab and
fonts tabs are almost identical to excell, except if you format as a number
with 2 digits it defaults to showing negative numbers as (40) instead of -40.
You have to uncheck that pesky box every time. Also the new version doesn't
reduce fractions just like excell. In excell it's bad enough to have to go to
each cell and change from 4th's to halves so it will show 1/2 instead of 4/8,
but in the new and improved works 8.5 the whole column is one or the other,
with no way to distinguish. I went back to 8.0, works fine, lasts long time!
The print preview also works more like excell, except you can't drag the
margins around like in excell. The only thing about the new print preview was
you couldn't zoom in like in 8.0.

"Kevin James" wrote:
 

Normal.dot problem

Posted: 04 Nov 2006 08:48 AM PST

Thanks for the suggestions. Unchecking the "Enable Office Plug-in" in
Norton Antivirus seemed to do the trick and everything appears to be
working correctly.....for now!

Thanks again.
pk

Adding holidays to Works 8.5 Calendar

Posted: 29 Oct 2006 09:10 PM PST

Certainly,

Here's a few!

Right-click on the Download Calendar link on the Holiday subject
of your choice.

For instance, here is 'US Federal Holidays for 2005-2010'
http://ical.mac.com/davidtepper/U.S.32Federal32Holidays.ics

Found on page 26.
http://icalshare.com/index.php?topic=holidays&page=26

Save this to your computer.

Load into Works Calendar as instructed earlier.

HTH,
--
Kevin James.
Tua'r Goleuni


"Weepodge" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Thanks. My biggest headache is finding a calendar with various holidays that
| I can import to the Works calendar. I found a couple, but one requires a Mac
| and the other was the wrong format. Is there a site for PC calendars with
| holidays and events I can download.
| --
| Weepodge
|
|
| "Kevin James" wrote:
|
| > Hi Weepodge,
| >
| > Full details here, in the final sections:
| >
| > http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/more/calendar.mspx
| >
| > HTH,
| > --
| > Kevin James.
| > Tua'r Goleuni
| >
| >
| > "Weepodge" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:com...
| > | Help in Calendar says it supports iCalendar format, and to "download an
| > | iCalendar file listing national holidays." I downloaded iCalendar 2.1.0,
but
| > | it doesn't appear to have a holiday insertion function either. Is anyone
| > | familiar with doing this; if so, what iCalendar should I download, and
how
| > do
| > | I sync it with the Works calendar?
| > | --
| > | Weepodge
| >
| >
| >

Error Report

Posted: 29 Oct 2006 02:13 PM PST

Hi John,

In the case of Works Calendar going askew, the two prime suspects
I would suspect are MDAC and MSWksCal.wcd file damage/corruption.

Error message when you try to start the Works Calendar: "Works
cannot access one or more files it needs to run the Calendar."
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303858

It may help to delete the file CalMRU found in the folder, especially if
it is shown with size of 0 bytes :
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Works

Where all else has failed, a clean up can help.

These instructions were provided by Bharadwaj Subramaniam:

=====
Step 1: Show hidden files, folders and extensions
=====
- Double click "My Computer" on the Desktop.
- On the Tools menu, click Folder Options...
- On the View tab, choose Show all files under Hidden Files, clear the
check in front of Hide extensions for known file types and then click OK
to close the window.

Result: Done

=====
Step 2: Back up the original mswkscal.wcd file
=====
2.1 Search for the file:
- On the Windows Start menu, point to Search, and click "All files or
folders".
- In the "All or part of the file named" box, type "mswkscal.wcd"
(without the quotation marks).
- Click Find Now to search for the file.
The default location of the file is: <C>:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Works
2.2 Copy the found file to the Desktop for backup.

Result: Done

=====
Step 3: Uninstall Works 8
=====
1. Uninstall Works 8.0 from the Start menu / Control Panel / Add or
Remove Programs
Note: If you have performed this step, please ignore this step and
continue with the next steps.

Result: Done


=====
Step 4: Copy the Works Clean-up Utility and Windows Install Clean-up
Utility
=====
4.1 Insert the program installation disc for Works 8 (disc 1 of Works
Suite) into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. Press and hold down the SHIFT
key when you insert the disc to prevent the program from starting
automatically.
4.2 Browse to the "MSWorks\PSS" folder on the installation disc.
4.3 Open the "MSWorks\PSS" folder and copy the file "wks8xp.EXE" for
the Works 8.0 Clean Up Utility to the Desktop
(Right click on the file "wks8xp.EXE", and select "Copy". Return to the
Desktop, right click on the Desktop and select Paste)
4.4 Take out the installation disc from the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

Result: Done

=====
Step 5: Run the Windows CleanUp Utility
=====
5.1. Download the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, msicuu2.exe, Frm:
[url]http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/9/D/E9D80355-7AB4-45B8-80E8-983[/url]
A48D5E1BD/msicuu2.exe
5.2. Save the file to the desktop.
5.3. Double click the downloaded file to install the Windows Installer
CleanUp Utility.
5.4. Go to Start-> All Programs and click on "Windows Install Clean
Up".
(If it is not listed then the msicuu2.exe program was probably not
installed properly. Try double-clicking on msicuu2.exe to run the
install again.)
You may find more than one Works item, please remove them all.

Result: Done

=====
Step 6: Run the Works Clean-up Utility
=====
Double click the "wks8xp.EXE" file on the Desktop to run it.

Result: Done

=====
Step 7: Remove all the entries Manually
=====
- Delete folder all the folder related to works in C:\Program File\Microsoft
Woks
- Delete folder all the folder related to works in C:\Program File\Microsoft
Woks
Suite 2005
- Delete folder all the folder related to works in D:\Documents and
Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Works
- Delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Works
- Delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Works Suite
- Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Works
- Delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Works Suite

Result: Done

=====
Step 8: Clean Boot your computer and reinstall Works 8.0
=====
8.1 Clean Boot Windows XP:
- Click the Start menu and choose Run.
- Enter msconfig into the open box and click OK.
- On the Startup page, click Disable All.
- On the Services page, mark the checkbox before "Hide All Microsoft
Services" and then click Disable All.
- Click Apply and click OK.
- Restart the computer.
8.2 Reinstall Works 8.0.
8.3 Return to Normal Mode:
- Click the Start menu and choose Run.
- Enter msconfig into the open box and click OK.
- Under the General tab, choose Normal Startup and click OK to reboot
the computer.

=====
Step 9: Start work / Works Calendar
=====

HTH,
--
Kevin James.
Tua'r Goleuni


"John Persico" <nospam> wrote in message
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|I did this, but unfortunately it still is giving me the error message.
| Any other ideas?
|
| "Kevin James" <com> wrote in message
| news:%23Rn8SAG$phx.gbl...
| > Hi John,
| >
| > Perhaps this helps:
| >
| > You receive the "Microsoft Works has encountered a problem and needs to
| > close" error message when you try to start the Works Task Launcher
| >
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888949
| >
| > HTH,
| > --
| > Kevin James.
| > Tua'r Goleuni
| >
| >
| > "John Persico" <nospam> wrote in message
| > news:%23xwqsd6%phx.gbl...
| > | Works Version 6.0
| > |
| > | I just started getting a dialog box pop up every time I start my
| > computer.
| > | It's one of those error reports (Send Error Report, Don't Send) and it's
| > | being caused by the Calendar: Microsoft Works Calendar has encountered
| > a
| > | problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
| > |
| > | Why is this happening all of a sudden?
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
| >
|
|