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Microsoft Mail Merge

Posted: 02 May 2013 12:39 PM PDT

I am using Microsoft Word and Access to do a mail merge.   Microsoft Word Mail Merge does not recognize my query in access.  

Numbering. Right-align numbers before paragraphs.

Posted: 02 May 2013 09:52 AM PDT

This question is actually for all versions of Word 97-2013 on any operating system.

I would like the numbers for numbered paragraphs to be right-aligned before the paragraph, I would get:

  8. Paragraph 8
  9. Paragraph 9
10. Paragraph 10

I haven't figured out a way to do this with automatic numbering.

What I get instead is:

8.   Paragraph 8
9.   Paragraph 9
10. Paragraph 10

I am probably missing something fairly simple but this has puzzled me for years and I simply gave up.

Microsoft Word: can't do body text navigation thru mouse

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:21 PM PDT

My cursor does not navigate the body text using my mouse. It can only navigate through the use of the arrow keys. 

Please help me troubleshoot.

Thanks.

New SuSE 9.1 installation and grub - Forums Linux

New SuSE 9.1 installation and grub - Forums Linux


New SuSE 9.1 installation and grub

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 03:16 AM PDT

Bernard Peek wrote:
 
What do you mean? Is there no optio to start linux? If so, you have to
configure your loader to load your kernel + initrd. Alex

Which comp best for Linux?

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 03:30 PM PDT

AUWG <net> wrote in message news:<net>... 

Probably the only problem Linux will present with a brand new computer
will be hardware, that is, not the processor itself, but devices
attached to it. Very new hardware sometimes is not supported by any
distribution of Linux, because no one has written drivers for it yet.
The various distros (RedHat, Suse, ...) have lists of hardware that
are known to work with their distro. Also, unusual hardware is
sometimes not supported. Laptops might give more trouble in this
regard than desktop models, although Linux works well on many laptops.

In the past I have bought Dell computers and installed Linux, but
several times I had trouble with a new video card that wasn't yet
supported. I haven't done this in recent years, but I hear that there
are issues with Linux and currently popular video cards (nvidia, ati),
and personally I would research this question before investing in a
new video card and/or monitor.

A special issue is modems. So-called winmodems are modems with some
of the usual hardware functions taken over by software, thus these are
cheaper than modems that do everything in hardware. Moreover, the
software that runs winmodems is proprietary and only works on Windows,
hence winmodems are a bad idea in Linux (although I've heard that
lately some Linux support for winmodems is available). If I were
buying a new computer today that needed a modem, I'd research the
modem question carefully before investing my money.

I'll bet that if you bought a second hand computer, 1-2 years old,
you'd find that you could install almost any distro of Linux and it
would work fine, apart from problems with winmodems.

Another thing, you probably want at least 512MB RAM if you're going to
run the standard desktops (KDE or Gnome).

---Nessuno

Fedora 2

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 11:26 AM PDT

Jainesh Jogia wrote: 
Have you tried the fedora FAQ,there is an article on that issue in it.
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#diskspace

Need help installing SuSE beside Fedora and XP

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 04:05 AM PDT

ObsessiveMathsFreak wrote:
 

.... choose expert partitioning
..
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CD-ROM Partitions?

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 08:31 PM PDT

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
 

Actually, CDs have track. One. Finding a position along the track other
than by reading the whole thing or seeking to an approximate position and
then reading along to the desired point is problematical. 

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

SRPMS

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 06:00 PM PDT

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:17:07 +0000, Bill Unruh wrote:
 

There are kernel-module files for i586 and i686. I am running a Dell 8600
Inspiron, but don't know which of the two I need. Can you help?

Thanks for the response. I appreciate the help.

Install kernel source problem

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 09:27 AM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup Thana <com> suggested: 

You installed the package used to rebuild the kernel rpm, look in
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and /usr/src/redhat/SPECS. Anyway you can
query an uninstall-ed rpm:

rpm -qilp kernel-2.4.9-e.3.src.rpm

Should give you info and files contained. 'man rpm' for more
info. What you want is probably the kernel-source-<version>.rpm
package.

Good luck
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Where to Install Acrobat Reader 5.09 and Netscape 7.1?

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 02:02 AM PDT

Jean-David Beyer wrote: 
Have you tried "http://www.rpmseek.com/" for a rpm-Version of it?
Kind Regards

Allowing user to mount / umount file space using Samba?

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 02:31 AM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:42:18 +0200 (CEST), starwars staggered into the
Black Sun and said: 

Heh, I've had the same problem with SMB filesystems and umount before.
The workaround I found was to use "smbumount /mountpoint", which worked,
but putting "users" in the fstab line is a better solution! You learn
something new every day....
 

No problem. HTH,

--
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X installation got blank screen on eMachines M6807 x86_64 64bit ATI Radeon 9600

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 10:22 PM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.gentoo. - DO NOT CROSSPOST!]
TCMa enlightened us with: 

Then start some terminals.
 

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will.

Sybren
--
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

Groups problems administration

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 04:06 PM PDT

Michael Heiming wrote: 
I get the same result.

I can't stop to think that this is too much strange, it must probably be
a stupid thing, but I can't imagine what it is.

About the groups administration, this is defined basically in
'/etc/group', '/etc/passwd', isn't it?

$ cat /etc/group | grep rick
rick::500:rick


$ cat /etc/passwd | grep rick
rick:x:500:500::/home/rick:/bin/bash

Could be a problem with the number of uid and gid? It is a bad number,
my system hates that number?? :-) .


Regards,
Bye.
--
Ricardo Catalinas Jimenez th1nk3r(at)server01(dot)org
Madrid, Spain.

slackware 9.1 and XFree86 Problems

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 07:19 AM PDT

Dave Uhring <com> wrote in message news:<com>... 

Tried that. Didn't work.
Blanked the screen. Hung the box. Didn't create the file.

ISOLINUX 2.08 2003-12-12 isolinux: Disk Error 01, AX=4271, 9F

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 02:10 AM PDT

Hi John,

you have been really exaustive.
I'll try to follow your suggestions, then I'll let you know the result
thanks a lot

Valerio

John Thompson <os2.dhs.org> wrote in message news:<os2.dhs.org>... 

How can I troubleshoot a memory stick on Linux?

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 09:34 PM PDT

usenet.us.com wrote: 

I thought the RedHat 7.3 was the first Linux box that I used, but I tried
yesterday, and it doesn't work there. So my two Linux success stories are
both RedHat 9.

--
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2.6.7 and sym53c8xx module

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 10:33 AM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup Greg Sumner <com> suggested: 
 

You did run the included script to generate /etc/modprobe.conf
(There should be some doc coming with it pointing it out), anyway
you need the new init tools, or your new initrd won't work at all.

[..] 
 

Yep, but through BIOS access, enabling to load initrd into RAM,
the boot-loader knows the absolute disk position of kernel/initrd.
 

That won't probably work out.

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RH7.1: Switching libc.so.6 from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 can't login now

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 10:16 AM PDT

Michael Heiming <michael+heiming.de> wrote in
news:heiming.de:
 

If I had such a thing. Continuing my idiocy, I googled for the answer and
got it. Type 'linux single' at the boot: prompt allowed me to fix the
symbolic link. All better now, sorry for the dumb question.

--
- Mark ->
--

HELP with kernel compile

Posted: 06 Jul 2004 04:28 PM PDT

Micha? Kosmulski wrote:
 

That isn't quite true either.
You might have to uncomment
#export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
in the top Makefile, but that is all.

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Linux wiped out my Windows

Posted: 06 Jul 2004 06:25 AM PDT

I had the same problem. I have two hard drives and told it not to touch the
one with "Win XP", but it still went ahead and took over the drive. I never
even got the option to boot from that OS ("Win XP").

All in all, I had to format my hard drive, and trowed Linux in the bin.

"tim wunder" <net> wrote in message
news:TYyGc.10$abs.net... 
setup 
reinstalling 
up 


Samba Question

Posted: 05 Jul 2004 08:44 AM PDT

Nick LaBrie wrote: 

Oh, and thanks for the help, btw...

nl

Unable to print on network between Win Vista and WinXP Microsoft Office for Mac

Unable to print on network between Win Vista and WinXP Microsoft Office for Mac


Unable to print on network between Win Vista and WinXP

Posted: 04 Nov 2007 08:09 AM PST

Ha
Oh dear- I thought these were Windows groups & I'm in the wrong place then!
This shows that I have problems working with computers. Anyway thanks for
this hint and I will go & search a more appropriate group to post to. Best
wishes to you and "mac"
--
RPD


"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:
 

Office X compatible with Leopard?

Posted: 03 Nov 2007 04:09 PM PDT

On 11/3/07 9:08 PM, in article
C35293E2.144DA%entourage.mvps.org, "Diane"
<entourage.mvps.org> wrote:

For more details visit Microsoft's Super Suite Deal.

<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/supersuitedeal/>

That should be Sweet not Suite. Duh!!!

I claim old age and senility.

--
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2 Imacs and Microsoft Office

Posted: 03 Nov 2007 06:14 AM PDT

taussigm wrote*: 

This is due to a locked file by the Office Daemon. To resolve that, copy all
your files by using your target iMac in the " Target Mode "...

Best Regards,
Dominique.


Re-Installing Office 2004 Without Original CD

Posted: 02 Nov 2007 04:36 PM PDT

On Nov 2, 4:18 pm, JE McGimpsey <org> wrote: 



Thanks.

Problem with OS X 10.5 and Office 2004

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 05:56 PM PDT

In article <googlegroups.com>,
Meku <com> wrote:
 

Does this happen in a new user account?

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News: Mac BU sweetens Office 2008 upgrade deal (Updated)

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 02:29 PM PDT

Hi Andre:

Not any more, according to my rumours. They are apparently intending to do
an upgrade release of VBA in Office PC. I understand that the death of VBA
is one of those about which reports have been "greatly exaggerated".

I would expect a migration to VBA.NET at some point in the future, but not
the abandonment of VBA.

I can't think of any "open standard" language that would simultaneously be
compatible with AppleScript and with the Microsoft Office object model.

The architectures are completely different.

I know there were some anti-VBA zealots in Microsoft on the PC side that
"wanted" to get rid of VBA. But the Fortune 500 companies all picked up the
phone to Bill Gates in unison and said "no". And some of them were not
especially polite. It won't happen. Not in Steve Ballmer's lifetime :-)

I also believe that if the Mac business community can make enough noise (and
maybe resist buying Office 2008) that VBA will re-appear in a future version
of Mac Office.

The bottom line is that an Office suite without automation is simply not
useful in modern business. And no corporation can afford to develop and
maintain two versions of the automation code. Read my lips: this is not
going to happen :-) Corporate automation is not simple stuff that can be
"recorded" from a few keystrokes or assembled from Automator Actions. Some
of these things are major development projects that may occupy three or four
developers for a year or more.

So: Unless Macs start to out-sell PCs in corporate business, the automation
will be written in VBA, and until Mac Office learns to speak VBA again, it
simply isn't "Office". It's just not "useful" in business.

That's why you are "hearing" a stunned silence from the Mac community.
Sure, the Mac Macs and the home users are rabbiting on at great length. But
they are easily impressed by the reality distortion field large software
companies can create.

The rest of us are looking at this thing with dawning horror, and wondering
how on earth we are going to get our work done in an Office 2008 world.

Abandoning our Macs is not going to happen :-) VBA.NET is a possibility, if
we get the promised "automatic upgrade" from VBA.

There are other possibilities that I am sure Microsoft would rather we did
not speculate about :-)

Cheers

On 5/11/07 9:22 AM, in article phx.gbl, "Andre
Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <com> wrote:
 

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Word/Newsletter question

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 01:33 PM PDT

On 11/4/07 6:14 PM, in article
vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, "Jolly
Roger" <com> wrote:
 
 

No. a Talk list is via a subscription and email. You can receive individual
messages or a digest. There is usually a list mom that moderates the list.

Good talk lists rarely need moderation and rules are there to make the list
friendly to all. Besides the Entourage talk list, there are two general Mac
lists that I recommend.

Mac-L (moderated list....includes both OS 9 and X.) and OSX talk (moderated
list. just for OS X.). Both good places to learn and ask about any Mac
problems. Both require plain text only email and that messages be snipped
for clarity.

<http://www.listmoms.net/lists/>
<http://osxlist.com/>

How to subscribe to the Microsoft Entourage talk list:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/subtalk.html>
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Upgrading to OS X Leopard

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 09:21 AM PDT

You know something? This group is here to help people who don't know what
to do.

So it would follow that heaping scorn on the people who come here for help,
just because they do not know something, would be a tad self-defeating, no?

Then again, if you couldn't even work THAT out for yourself, I guess I
shouldn't be scornful to you, now should I?

So I won't say it.

But can you guess what I'm thinking?


On 2/11/07 2:36 AM, in article 011120071006455469%techline.com,
"Mr. Strat" <techline.com> wrote:

In article <googlegroups.com>,
<com> wrote:
 

What does the word "erase" mean to you? DOH!

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Trouble upgrading from Office X to Office 2004

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 06:51 AM PDT

On Nov 1, 10:39 am, JE McGimpsey <org> wrote: 

Thanks for the tip. While the link was for an Intel mac & I've got a
G4 PPC, I followed the directions anyway.
I reapplyed the 10.4.10 combo update, prebinding, and the Quicktime
7.2 update. I even went thru the daily, weekly, & monthly maintenance
routines.
None of this worked.

I finally solved the problem by updating office on the OS 10.3.9
startup disk. Then, using Tiger's Migration Assistant, I brought
Office 2004 to the 10.4.10 disk where its working perfectly.

Office 2001 settings migration

Posted: 31 Oct 2007 11:08 AM PDT

Hi Lucas:

If you are familiar with the product, it takes a little over 60 seconds to
re-create the settings most users have. A new user may take up to five
minutes: although most of the settings are in exactly the same places as
they were in Office 2001.

As a network administrator, you can build an installed image of the software
and move that out to the users, with many of the settings pre-configured (as
described in the Office 2004 Resource Kit on the Microsoft website).

I suspect your faculty has a severe case of "Fear of Change". It wouldn't
be the first company I have met in that condition :-)

Cheers

On 1/11/07 3:38 AM, in article
com, "Lucas"
<microsoft.com> wrote:

Good morning
Is there a way to migrate the settings from Office 2001, to Office 2004?

One our faculty is adamant that recreating the Office settings in 2004 will
take an exorbitant amount of time, and it would be much easier to migrate
the
settings.

I have searched for a migrations method, or settings location on the Net and
have not been able to locate anything to help.

thanks much

take care



Lucas Friedrichsen, ITC
OSU Computer Helpdesk
Oregon State University

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upgrading to leopard: office not working

Posted: 31 Oct 2007 02:33 AM PDT

 

Michael,

I did a clean install of Office 2004 (then updated it 11.3.5 -thru- 11.3.8)
and it's working perfectly. I'd suggest that that's your "nuclear" option if
all else fails.

Paul




Office:Mac 2004

Posted: 30 Oct 2007 11:13 AM PDT

As Daiya says, do not delete it - It's supposed to be there.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 10/30/07 2:13 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "net"
<net> wrote:

I did a complete clean install on my Mac first to Tiger, then an
upgrade to Leopard. I then installed all my applications. Everything
seems to work; however, in my Applications Folder, Microsoft Office
2004, Office Folder I have an English Dictionary and an English
Dictionary 2. How did that happen? Can I delete the "2" safely?


Office 2008 extension

Posted: 30 Oct 2007 06:01 AM PDT

And to further add to John¹s comments, the extension never mattered to any
office program on the Mac or PC. The extension is ONLY a means for the
operating system to associate a file with a program. ANY Office program (I
don¹t know about 2008) could open any file it knew how to process buy using
the application¹s File-Open menu command. The extension did not matter at
all. You could name an Excel file with a .ppt (or .doc or .xyz) extension,
and as long as you used File-Open, it would open and be fine.

--
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bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom


Streets and Trips 2008 with GPS

Posted: 29 Oct 2007 10:52 AM PDT

Well, I don't use Streets and Trips, but I do use a GPS receiver.

It can take up to three minutes for a GPS receiver to "acquire" enough
satellites to begin computing a position.

It depends on how long the receiver has been turned off: if it is more than
12 hours, it loses its predictive satellite map, and has to search for and
register all the satellites individually.

If the receiver has been turned off for only an hour or so, it can acquire
almost instantly if the satellites are all in the positions it expected them
to be in :-)

The acquisition period will be fastest if the receiver is stationary, with a
clear view of the sky and no car roofs or tall buildings in the way, until
it has acquired. Driving down a congested city street surrounded by tall
buildings, it may "never" acquire.

I would take your laptop and GPS receiver out to the middle of a park and
sit still there for five minutes. If it hasn't acquired by then, I suggest
it's bad, take it back to the shop and swap it out with a new receiver to
prove it.

Hope this helps


On 30/10/07 3:22 AM, in article
com, "W"
<microsoft.com> wrote:

I couldnt find a specific group from that long list.

Anyway, most, but not all of the time, all I get when using the GPS
tracking feature is that it is "receiving data" but it stays stuck in that
mode with 0 sats.

This happens even when driving down major highways in large cities with the
laptop on the front seat near the window, or even when clipped to the front
window.

People tell me they can connect in seconds.

When connected to the laptop, the gps receiver glows blue, so it is getting
power.

What is the problem? How can I tell if the receiver itself is defective?
thanks

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