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Microsoft Works - Additional Spelling Dictionaries


Additional Spelling Dictionaries

Posted: 15 Nov 2005 04:56 AM PST

Hi Milso74,

Yes, I understood what you meant :-)

Here's a further link to (French) dictionaries:
http://www.allvirtualware.com/languages/slink.htm

http://www.spellcheckanywhere.com/home/langauge/french.asp

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





"milso74" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com...
| thank you but I mean in different language (French)
|
| "milso74" wrote:
|
| > is it possible to add spelling dictionaries to works 7.0 word ?


How do I add holidays in Works 8 in Windows?

Posted: 13 Nov 2005 07:22 PM PST

Hi Samer,

To import an ICS file;

Select and download the required "Holiday" .ics file
from: http://icalshare.com/index.php?topic=holidays

Start Works Calendar

Select File>Import from the menu.

Browse to, select and open the downloaded *.ics file.

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





"Samer" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com...
| Thank you, but how do I import the file?
|
| "Kevin James - MSMVP Works" wrote:
|
| > Hi Samer.
| >
| > Perhaps these help:
| >
| > How to manually add recurring holidays to the Works Calendar
| > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=840983
| >
| > http://icalshare.com/top.php
| > Note:
| > The Works Calendar may stop responding when you import
| > an ICalender *.ics file
| > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=886556
| >
| > HTH,
| > --
| > Kevin James.
| > Tua'r Goleuni
| > Microsoft MVP (Works & Word) 1999-2006
| > Works Help & KB Links:
http://www.btinternet.com/~kevin.james1/WorksFAQ.htm
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > "Samer" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:com...
| > |I have always wanted to add holidays in Works 8 in Windows, but am not
sure
| > | how. I have looked in edit, but all it has is birthdays and appointments
and
| > | events.
| >
| >
| >


(Re)activating works suite 2004

Posted: 11 Nov 2005 08:15 AM PST

Thanks for letting us know you were able to resolve the problem.

Ken

"s_m_b" <com> wrote in message
news:46.248.16...
| "Ken" <ne> wrote in
| news:#phx.gbl:
|
| > You might try running the cleanup utility...
| >
| > See this website for typical cleanup utility information.
| >
| > http://support.gateway.com/s/SOFTWARE/MICROSOF/sHARED/7513181faq24.shtm
| > l
| >
|
| Thanks - that did the trick! Works Cleanup, then Windows Cleanup, then
| reinstall. It's still moaning about 'unable to check for updates due to
| missing MSP files', but I can live with that, as Word now works (no pun
| intended!)
|
|


Uninstalling Word

Posted: 08 Nov 2005 06:15 PM PST


I am not surprised that it did not work. Using ones d*** only increases
problems. Population goes up, std increases, VD increases etc etc.

You will be wise to use Microsoft's cleanup utility for office 2000 to
see if that works. Don't insert anything in your floppy - not even your
d***.

hth


Juan in need wrote: 

Street and Trips / GPS

Posted: 08 Nov 2005 08:43 AM PST

Essentials S&T 2006, like 2005 before it, has GPS support.

Essentials does not have Driver guidance funtionality.

This button, which is present, announces that the feature is
unavailable in the Essentials version, and then offers links to
www.microsoft.com/streets or www.microsoft.com/autoroute
to learn how to upgrade to the full version of this product

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





"studiosdallas" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com...
| There is a version of Streets and Trips that comes with USB GPS hardware. If
| I were to purchase a USB GPS antenna and Works Suite 2006, would the GPS
| features work with Streets and Trips Essentials 2006?



"For Sale" template?

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 05:35 PM PST

Thanks Ken, I am in an Internet Cafe so this would explain it.
I will create an Outlook Express account on my Laptop when I get home.

Regards

John


"Ken" wrote:
 

Backing up Portfolio

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 03:11 PM PST

Thank you.
....
Censored comment on Microsoft help files here

Kevin James- Question on answer of "Database Merges???" posted 9-0

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 11:58 PM PST

Hi Kevin,
What a relief! Thank you for clarifing this for me. I was planning on
building a functional office program, for use at home and on a laptop, based
on the "Expanding Database" theory.(Theory for me.)
I have Windows 95 with Works 4.5, and Word 97, and I have another new
computer with Windows XP and Works 8, with some version of Word, and a 60 day
trial for Office 2005, or 2003. Anyway, I'm still using 95 because I never
really completely set-up the XP computer yet. And I never went that far with
Works 4.5 either, as far as making a functional "Office Program" with it, but
the need arises, so I'm back trying to combine tasks. The "Note-it" feature
in 4.5 is real nice, and sorely missed in Works 8.
Thank you again!
Bill
--
Laws are nothing more than restrictions on the freedoms of individuals.


"Kevin James - MSMVP Works" wrote:
 

Out of memory with works 4.0

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 05:10 PM PST

Make sure that when she is pasting, it is to a single cell, and let the
commas or tabs and the line returns fill in the chart.



"ChuckM" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com...
My wife takes online classes and has to cut and paste from her e-mail to
Works. Several months ago I downloaded a security upgate from MS that
caused
problems, I don't recall which one it was. Since I got that resolved, the
wife cannot cut and paste into Works, gets an out of memory error when she
tries. I have not found a way to fix this and she needs this option. Aany
suggestion would be welcome..................Chuck


Cute PDF

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 07:58 AM PST

If you haven't been to the Primopdf site in a while, there is a new version
that produces smaller files that the last. They have also added
encryption...nice little freebie.

DavidF

"The Six Million Dollar Man" <"$$$$$$"@HugeBucks.com> wrote in message
news:net... 
converts 
has 


Shortcuts

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 06:15 AM PST

Ken wrote: 

Another way is to right-click on the shortcut in the Start Menu, drag it
to the desktop, let go of the right button and select copy.
 


--
Insert witty comment here.

M.S. Work's 7.0

Posted: 05 Nov 2005 01:38 PM PST

Thanks for your quick response Kevin, i did what you suggested and that did
not work either. I think my card is going out so I will have to replace that
soon too I'm sure. thanks again Kevin for all toyr help. have a good day.


Kevin P
--
Kevin p.


"Kevin James - MSMVP Works" wrote:
 

Saved word documents are not listed in history

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 01:07 PM PST

Perhaps because it hasn't been opened enough times. Microsoft History
features, in general, tend to need 2 or more openings (hits) before they get
on the history ladder. Then they also need to be within the top 20 for
example. So if your new doc is opened once, as opposed to the top doc that
has been opened 100 times for example, it will take a while for you to see it
on the history list. This is the case with windows START menu (pin) feature,
so I guess it could be applying to Works
etc.

Regards

John

opening 'inaccessible' Word-saved documents in Works 5

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 07:51 AM PST

You're welcome.


--
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
some support
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm



"winner5+63" <snakehips> wrote in message
news:e%phx.gbl...
| Thank you Jim! Your advice seems to be working. It's
good see my ruler and
| old wps files again. Question? I see a save option for
Works 6. How is
| that?, since I'm running Works 5. I did not reinstall the
converter(wp2k
| rtf.exe---download). Things just went whiz, bang when I
popped the
| installation cd into the drive. I'll be on the lookout for
trouble though.
| Thank you, again.
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| -----------------------------------------------
| "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote
in message
| news:phx.gbl...
| > The converters use the program, in other words, the
program
| > (WORKS) calls the converter into action.
| > Reinstall WORKS and then reinstall the converters. If
you
| > buy a newer version of WORKS [perhaps a WORKS Suite,
which
| > includes the full version of WORD) it should then all
work.
| >
| >
| > --
| > The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
| > But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
| > some support
| > http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm
| >
| >
| >
| > "winner5+63" <snakehips> wrote in
message
| > news:OmX9$phx.gbl...
| > |I have Windows 98se os. I would like to know how to
open
| > documents that I
| > | saved as Word 6 documents. I have Works 5 with some
Works
| > 6 files on my
| > | computer(updated?) I saved most of my Works documents
on
| > cd. Had
| > | uninstalled Works because of loss of ruler and find
word
| > functions and
| > | memory use of Works. I believe I downloaded the
converter
| > file---would I be
| > | able to use it in anyway?
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|


File converters don't appear to be working

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 10:40 PM PST

Hi Bill,

"All files (*.*)" and "Recover text from any file (*.*)" in the "Files of
type" dropdown both display all files for the Look in folder. The
difference is with "All files (*.*)" when opening a file in which there is
no converter installed gibberish is displayed. However, using "Recover text
from any file (*.*)" will display all the text in that file.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;156573

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q290946

Ken

"Bill Clemens" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com...
| Yes, it is there. And it is possible it was there before but I missed it.
I'm
| not clear exactly what the functional difference is between "All files
(*.*)"
| and "Recover text from any file (*.*)" in the "Files of type" dropdown.
|
| "Ken" wrote:
|
| > Hi Bill,
| >
| > With your SUCCESS AT LAST!!! in locating a copy of the Office 2000
Converter
| > Pack. Do you now have "Recover Text from Any File (*.*) available?
| >
| > Ken
| >
| >
| > "Bill Clemens" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:com...
| >
| > Thanks, Ken. In my installation of Word 2000, File/Open has an "any file
| > (*.*)" selection in the "show files of type" dropdown; but I did not see
a
| > "Recover Text from Any File." Could this be Word version-specific?
| >
| >
| >


a file needed to run Windows is missing

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 12:32 PM PST

Also, found to help is:

1) Click on Start-> Run -> and type Regedit in the box

2) Double click on:
Hkey_Local_Machine >System >CurrentControlSet >Services >Vxd

3).Right click on Vshinit.vxd folder and delete it.

4) Close the registry editor.

5). Re-boot the computer

6) Windows should now be fine again.

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





"Kevin James - MSMVP Works" <org> wrote in message news:...
| Hi kristen10ten,
|
| Perhaps a re-install of McAffee AV if you use it.
|
| Check the McAffee website for assistance with '"vshinit.vxd'.
|
| HTH,
| --
| Kevin James.
| Tua'r Goleuni
| Microsoft MVP (Works & Word) 1999-2006
| Works Help & KB Links: http://www.btinternet.com/~kevin.james1/WorksFAQ.htm
|
|
|
|
|
| "kristen10ten" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:com...
|| Every time I turn on my computer there is a black screen with white writing
|| on it. It says that a SYSTEM.INI file needed to run Windows is missing or
|| has been deleted. Then it tells me that the file
|| C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\vshinit.vxd could not be found and needs to be replaced.
| I
|| don't know where to find this file or how to reinstall it(replace it).
|| Please help. Thank you.
|
|


MS Works for Win 98

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 08:42 AM PST

Stevie wrote: 


But c|net says Works Suite 2004 is ok for Windows 98 (first ed.) so I
assume that's correct.

Works 7 Calendar Export

Posted: 01 Nov 2005 12:18 PM PST

No that doesn't and won't work to solve the problem. Nothing has been change
in the calendar.???????What now????


"Kevin James - MSMVP Works" wrote:
 

specific version of ASYCFILT.DLL

Posted: 01 Nov 2005 10:04 AM PST

Kevin, thanks a bunch. With the link you gave for where that file is located
in various sources, I was able to find it in the named .CAB file on the Works
Suite 2005 CD1, extract it, replace the file in Windows\System, and install
Word 2002. I'm not sure why the installation process didn't extract and
replace it originally, but all's well that ends well. Thanks again.

rossf

"Kevin James - MSMVP Works" wrote:
 

How to count characters in M.Works?

Posted: 01 Nov 2005 08:01 AM PST

I have yet to find a quicker route to archive
my hobby of Philatelic Newsgroup posts with
appended images.
The old MSWorks WP has it done in seconds.

gov





"Ken" <ne> wrote in message news:O5wx$phx.gbl...
| I also enjoy the simplicity of Works Word Processor, suspect more then 90%
| of my word processing activity is accomplished using it.
|
| Ken
|
| "Rodney" <com.au> wrote in message
| news:ONg1Yo%phx.gbl...
| | Yes Ken,
| | I use Word to sort text in Works via the same route.
| | I cannot imagine <not> having Word, I would have thought it
| | mandatory software for any computer.
| | Even so, I very rarely use it apart from the above, the Works
| | WP loads blindingly fast for my old banger, and I like the
| | advantage of always having the "software suite triplet" at the fingertips.
| |
| |
| | gov
| |
| |
| |
| | "Ken" <ne> wrote in message
| news:phx.gbl...
| | | Hi Rodney,
| | |
| | | Suspect he will paste his document to Word when he purchases it or
| downloads
| | | free Office Suite http://www.openoffice.org/index.html from Open
| Office.org.
| | |
| | | Ken
| | |
| | | "Rodney" <com.au> wrote in message
| | | news:phx.gbl...
| | | | As they are siblings, why not just paste the Wks doc to word for a
| | | | quik count of characters?
| | | |
| | | |
| | | | | > When clicking Word Count it returns, Pages, Words, Characters (no
| | | spaces),
| | | | | > Characters (with spaces), Paragraphs and Lines. It also has a
| check
| | | box to
| | | | | > include footnotes and endnotes.
| | | | | > When I open Works Word Processor which is also included with the
| Works
| | | | | > Suite, Word Count retunes only the number of words in the
| document.
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| | |
| | |
| |
| |
|
|


works database transfer

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 08:18 PM PST

Did you use the built-in WAB address book or create a data base?

The WAB file format is supported by Outlook Express and can be directly
opened by just double clicking the WAB file.

If you made a custom Works data base, then you'll need a version of
Works to open the file and do a Save Sa to another format that you
handle with your current software.

--

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


"dmhallas" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Stuck in an envelope

Posted: 31 Oct 2005 07:23 PM PST

Thank you gentlemen for your prompt responses. I'll give those ideas a try
tomorrow when I can get at that computer. Will post back to this thread.

Curt
"Homer J Simpson" <com> wrote in message
news:xBN9f.96525$.. 


Microsoft Word - Drop down menu in Word, select the display option but have the value populate

Microsoft Word - Drop down menu in Word, select the display option but have the value populate


Drop down menu in Word, select the display option but have the value populate

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 02:09 PM PDT

Hello,

 

I would like to ask if anyone knows how to have a drop down menu in Word populate a secondary value.  Example:  I would like to have a drop down menu of animal names.  When a person selects 'dog' the text that populates is in Spanish, or 'perro').   The idea is that this will be used as a template and someone that does not speak Spanish will be able to customize a letter by selecting the correct English word necessary and it will populate in Spanish for printing. Any help would be appreciated!

 

Thanks!

Mail Merge

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 02:08 PM PDT

I'm using Word 2010 and have a unique situation:  I need to mail merge about 1700 letters using an Excel database.  I've set up the letters already; the unique part is this:  Each customer is identified by a number (1234-08), then a product (ABC-1).  The problem:  Each product is on a different line in Excel.  Example:

 

Cust. #            Prod

1234-08          ABC-1

1234-08          DEF-2

1234-08          GHI-3

 

Anyone know of a way I can tell Word to grab all the products customer 1234-08 has and put them in one letter addressed to customer 1234-08?  Some of them have over 100 products; I really don't want to have to create individual letters.

BUG: Source Manager dialog preview pane word-wraps unnecessarily in narrow column 4 characters wide.

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:29 PM PDT

When looking at sources in source manager, the citation in the preview pane is only 4 characters wide. See image.

This is not a problem in Word 2007.

BUG: Update Citations and Bibliography Crashes - Word in Office 365, same issue as in Word 2007

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:10 PM PDT

I have a large document with approximately 900 references/sources.

Every time I try to update Citations and Bibliography, it crashes.

eventviewer shows:
Faulting application winword.exe, version 15.0.4517.1505, stamp 51bfe4f8, faulting module mso.dll, version 15.0.4517.1508, stamp 51dc5c12, debug? 0, fault address 0x00fedd9a.

Based on my previous research, the problem stems from the way the citations engine generates a HUGE UNDO STACK. You can watch the winword process take up ever more memory, over the course of about 4 hours, until at about 1.6 to 1.8Gb it falls over. Of course it never commits, so when the document is recovered it is as it was before.

I'm running win7 64bit on a i5 processor, 6Gb RAM, approx 240Gb free disk. Word has minimal add-ins and Physical Memory is only about 50% used when it fails. I don't think it's a disk space / RAM amount Issue. Since it fails when there is apparently plenty of free memory and disk, there must be some other internal limit.

This problem has existed since Word 2007 - see my previous discussion here and here.

I paid the money and upgraded to Office 365 in the hope it would alleviate the problem I have been having with Word 2007. But it didn't.

A work-around would be to switch off the Undo function temporarily, but there appears to be no way to do that.

This is a pretty terminal bug - I can't feasibly update my citations manually. Consequently the citations numbers in my document don't necessarily match the citations in the bibliography - rendering the entire citation idea useless. I hope someone at Microsoft will pay attention to Word citations which seems to have been the poor relation of the MS Word project.


Bug in word 2013

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:34 PM PDT

Hi, I have found a really annoying bug in word 2013 x64
Consider this:
I have a page full of images, they are all set up with Tight Text wrapping, and their position is fixed on the page.
I want to insert another page, so I double click at the end of page 1 to create a new page.
It creates a new page, but when I click in the new page, Word Crashes.
However, If I use the arrow keys to navigate to the page, word does not crash! 


Dell Inspiron 1545
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
4GB RAM

EDIT: This document has no characters. The word count is empty, (I am on page 1, line 1)

Removing the anchor in word

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 12:13 PM PDT

I have scanned a document (.pdf) and converted it to Word using Expert PDF 7.  I now wish to edit it but find that the text is in a box, which will not allow me to edit the text.  I have searched in help and have found lots of how to lock but nothing on how to remove the lock.   Help!

Problem with Collapsing Headings

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 11:31 AM PDT

Hi,

I am working on a document with a multilevel list; there are 3 levels and each level is based on a heading style so that it is collapsible. I've recently encountered a strange problem that doesn't seem to happen with any regularity: Occasionally, collapsing one heading will cause the following heading of the same level to indent to the next level and collapse as well. For example:

Two sections with the same heading style:

A) Heading name
Content
B) Heading name
Content

Collapsed, it looks like this:

A) Heading name
    B) Heading name


I really can't figure out why it is doing this. As I said, it doesn't do this with any apparent regularity... there are many other parts of my document that have the same format and the headings collapse just fine. Any insight would be appreciated. Hopefully I explained this well enough.


footnotes multiple citations separator

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 11:21 AM PDT

With multiple citations at the same spot in the text, Word 2007 has no separation between the different footnote numbers.  Do I need to manually add a superscripted comma (or other separator)  at each point?  Or is there some easier method to specify the separator that I am overlooking?

how do I type standard text over images

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:53 AM PDT

Hey everyone I'm taking notes for my online school, and I copied and pasted an image from my class(a study guide) and I'm trying to type over it(they only provide images of the study guide for some reason), how can I type over an image in Word 2013?

HOW CAN I REPAIR THE SLOW RESPONCE PROBLEM THAT I HAVE WHEN WRITING AND BACKSPACING IN WORD TABLES OF OFFICE 2013?

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:51 AM PDT

Hi everyone, I made some tables in Microsoft Word 2013 to write some census data and I have a slow response problem when writing and backspacing. It is time consuming because I have to wait some seconds to see the display of words and the same occurs when eraising a word with backspace. I uninstalled and reinstalled Microsoft Office Professional Plus and activate but the issue was not resolved. I own a new Gateway notebook with 64bits Windows 8 operational system. 

when i click on any microsoft application it says something went wrong we ran into a problem

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 09:16 AM PDT

I have Microsoft 2013, it used to work but all of the sudden when I click on any Microsoft: word, powerpoint ect... it says something went wrong, sorry we have run into a problem, go online to find help

adjust watermark to page width (beyond page margins)

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:43 AM PDT

Hi,

I've inserted a watermark into a page, but it's cut by the page margins. But if I set the page margins to 0 in order to make my watermark occupy the whole page width, the text on the page will become wider too. Is there a solution to this problem?

Merging into the Header

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 07:04 AM PDT


 I am doing a Word merge from a Progress program. (Progress is a database

language).  The merge I am doing is a Catalog/Directory.


When I put a merge variable in the heading, the merge does not put a value in it.

The merge variables in the body work fine.

 

It seems that this problem is confined to the Catalog/Directory type of merge.

 Funny thing is, if I bring up the same document and run the merge just from Word,

the variable in the header gets its value just fine. From the Progress program, it

skips the variable in the heading but does the variables in the body.

 

Someone else tried the same thing using the Visual Basic (Visual Studio 2010

Express).  Their results were the same as mine, the header did not get merge

values.

 

I cannot be the only person in the world with this problem.  What can anyone tell

me?  Thanks.

 

Word 2007
Windows 7.

Microsoft Word has stopped working

Posted: 10 Sep 2013 01:28 AM PDT

Hi,
just got new Win 8 system with Office pre-installed. Worked fine initially but Word will not run now. Starts up OK but any attempt to open a file gives the above message. Since it is a new machine I have been installing various programs (or is it 'apps' these days) but not sure when the problem started.

Event log:

Faulting application name: WINWORD.EXE, version: 15.0.4517.1505, time stamp: 0x51bfe4f8
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0029ca90
Faulting process ID: 0x774
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceadfc2d50ac94
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\WINWORD.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report ID: 71bd1c6c-19ef-11e3-be8a-94de807b234d
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 


and Windows Error reporting:

Fault bucket -486620166, type 5
Event Name: BEX
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: WINWORD.EXE
P2: 15.0.4517.1505
P3: 51bfe4f8
P4: unknown
P5: 0.0.0.0
P6: 00000000
P7: 0029ca90
P8: c0000005
P9: 00000008
P10: 

Attached files:
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Temp\1212127.cvr
C:\Users\Martin\Downloads\Autumn 2013 Rota - version 3.doc
C:\Users\Martin\Documents\My Dropbox\Personal\words.doc
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Temp\CVR5456.tmp.cvr
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Temp\WER8065.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_WINWORD.EXE_b839ae796beafd3f451f985d64a9481a34cb66f0_18d293c6

Analysis symbol: 
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report ID: 71bd1c6c-19ef-11e3-be8a-94de807b234d
Report Status: 0
Hashed bucket: d108fd387ce881ca76a2ed04e552ecab



Hopefully this may mean something to somebody. Any suggestions gratefully received. I guess System Restore is still available on Win8 - just need to find it :)

Thanks,

Problem with syles not updating (MS Word 2013)

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 11:11 PM PDT

I have a very large document (dissertation) with over 700 footnotes.  Some of the text in the footnotes has been placed into the documents from a citation manager (Zotero) and although they assure me it does not import a font/style it arrives in a different font to the surrounding text.
Even though I have styles defined and applied to a text selection (with 'update automatically' checked), the fonts won't update - perhaps because there is more than one font in the selection?  How can I force the whole selection (all footnotes) to update to the defined style?

Can cross-references be preserved in converting from Word 2010 to PDF?

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 08:47 PM PDT

I run Word 2010 under Windows 7. I often have need to make PDFs from Word documents and find that the Save as PDF function is, to say the very least, not an improvement over using Adobe Acrobat plug-ins in earlier versions of Word. Word's insistence on degrading images, even when it mendaciously claims to be producing a file suited for printing, is widely known and lamented. But I have another problem that is even more significant in many cases: Word's failure to preserve cross-references in converting to PDF. Specifically, (1) the links in the Table of Contents and Table of Figures are lost. (2) The links to footnotes and endnotes are lost. (3) Manually inserted cross-reference links are lost. 

I suppose it's a forlorn hope, but I wonder whether anyone knows of a way to preserve the functionality of cross-references in converting to PDF – something short of manually inserting hundreds of individual links in the PDF file itself.

Multiple horizontal lines in Word 2013

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 08:23 PM PDT

 I have documents that have been created from Nuance PDF convertor to Word 2013. I want to increase the font size but there are lots of horizontal lines in the document and when the font is increased the lines are in the wrong place. How can I easily delete the lines or make sure that when I increase the font size they move in line with the increase?

 

I will need to do this often so your help would be really appreciated.

Margins in Word 2003

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 04:23 PM PDT

I am writing a book for submission to CreateSpace, which requires left and right margins that are a minimum of .75 inches (for a book longer than 150 pages).  As near as I can tell, Word 2003 has only increments of .1 (i.e. .7 or .8.).  Does anyone know if that is correct? 

Office 2010 Save/Save as box comes up solid blue; can't save anything.

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 03:56 PM PDT

Office 2010: Save/Save as box comes up solid blue and blank, so I can save any document to any device.

Installing Windows with Linux already installed - Forums Linux

Installing Windows with Linux already installed - Forums Linux


Installing Windows with Linux already installed

Posted: 16 Dec 2004 07:23 AM PST

James Willmore wrote:
 

I don't fully get the gist of what is happening.
May be you need to boot up with a Knoppix or Mepis LiveCD, run QtParted
and look at the partition tables. Save the menu.lst file.
After that, you can format the first partition to fat32 from QtParted.
Then reboot machine under windopes and install windopes on that first
partition. That should work. But at this stage, your grub boot will be
lost. You can put grub back if you know command line, or
with the installer in Mepis LiveCD. After that, restore the menu.lst
file to include the windopes boot and you are done.
LiveCDs at this url.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Problem with symlinks and shell

Posted: 16 Dec 2004 01:08 AM PST

Laurenz Albe wrote: 

Good stuff, Laurenz.


Andreas:

Try 'ls ../../link' after issuing the change directory.

You say your command actually works on some systems? Could you go into more
detail. I am most curious. ----- Things to try on those systems:

From the directory where you do 'ls -l link', try typing in 'find .' or some
such command, so we can see the whole directory tree. Also, after the
change directory, try typing pwd to see if your current path is different
than what you would expect (as per Laurenz's hypothesis). You didn't say
you were doing it on multiple shells on the other environments, so maybe
you could try checking for aliases?

Jon.

-- * Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker?
(fr. Sabriel) * --

what are binaries? not in index of "Running Linux"

Posted: 15 Dec 2004 04:10 PM PST

Jer wrote:
 

two things: binaries can be non-executable
files that are NOT text - they contain
binary data; for example, a database file
could be binary.

part two: a binary is usu meant to mean
that it is an executable, either as a
pure executable program or supporting
library, etc
 

a binary distribution is one in which
everything that gets installed are the
final, binary (executable) files. of
course there is MORE to a binary
distribution than just executable files.

in contrast, there are SOURCE distributions,
whereby you BUILD (compile) everything
from scratch to arrive at a binary

--
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We don't know who discovered water, but we're
certain it wasn't a fish.

Permissions

Posted: 15 Dec 2004 10:52 AM PST

Enzo's Dad wrote:
 

Sometimes its not just permissions but ownership of files
that can get you into trouble. You may need to do a chown
on the files.
You can find out more using man command

man chmod
man chown

Upgrading from Redhat 8 to 9 from ISOs

Posted: 15 Dec 2004 09:57 AM PST

Conner Destron wrote: 

I am not sure about that. Red Hat Linux 9 is past the end-of-life stage
and is no longer supported either. If you wish to be a Red Hat Customer,
your course of action would be to get Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, probably
the WS version for the desktops and the ES or AS version for the servers.
This is quite expensive.

I believe you can get "White Box Linux" or something like that for a
dollor or two per disk (RHEL 3 comes on 9 CD-ROMs).

Alternatively, you may find that Fedora Core 3 is the way to go.

And of course there are other distributions, but as I have never tried
them, I will not attempt to advise about them. 

To install a Red Hat distribution, normally you stick the first CD-ROM
into the CD-ROM drive and reboot the system. It takes you all the way
through, and asks for another CD from time-to-time. You tell it if you
want to upgrade or do a fresh install.

There is a way to install from a hard drive, but I never did it.

The RHL 9 manual says:

3.6. Installing from a Hard Drive

Note: Hard drive installations only work from ext2, ext3, or FAT file
systems. If you have a file system other than those listed here,you will
not be able to perform a hard drive installation.

Hard drive installation require the use of the ISO (or CD-ROM) images. An
ISO image is a file containing an exact copy of a CD-ROM disk image.
Because Red Hat Linux has so many packages included with its distribution,
there are several ISO images available. After placing the required ISO
images (the Binary Red Hat Linux CD-ROMs) in a directory, choose to
install from the hard drive. You will then point the installation program
at that directory to perform the installation. 

Why not burn the CD-ROMs? One of them can be used as a rescue disk, and
the others are a nice backup, especially of the stuff you did not install
that you later may want. 

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running windows application on linux, advice.

Posted: 15 Dec 2004 07:48 AM PST

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:37:49 -0600, mjt wrote: 

There's another interesting factoid about running XP Pro in VMWare 4.x
and its ability to build a very generic platform...

No more guesses :)

--
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org | http://www.lnxpowered.org

Sharing partitions between distros

Posted: 14 Dec 2004 05:44 PM PST

Bit Twister wrote: 

Good point.
 

True.
 

I already do. Booting from a System Commander boot diskette allows System
Commander to take over again no matter who writes their record in the mbr.
Once System Commander takes over again it immediately figures out what other
OSs are installed and where, and presents the user with an appropriate
graphical menu to choose what to boot into.. Needless to say System
Commander allows any mix of Windows, Linux, and nearly any other
micro-computer OS on the same machine. I am sure the Linux multi-booters are
good but System Commander is exceptional from my experience.
 

I get the idea.
 

Will do.
 

I agree but if the installation can not understand a common swap partition
on another drive, then I need to point to it after I am booted in. I am sure
there must be a way to do this as Linux is very flexible.

Thanks for your help.


Problems with fsck

Posted: 14 Dec 2004 03:57 PM PST

Gernot Fink wrote: 
Once 
-n" 
in 
clean. 

I'm using "-n" so I am not changing any data, so the command is safe.
There is nowhere in the fsck manual any mention that running fsck -n on
a mounted system would give you wrong results. They say that it is
dangerous to run fsck without -n on a mounted file system, but I'm not
doing that.

I also did an extensive google search and found nothing to explain the
behavior. I'm not surprised of what I'm finding out from your response,
but I could not confirm this without asking.

I was probably asking the wrong question. The right question would be:
if I am running "fsck -n -f" on a mounted file system, can I get a
reliable diagnosis and find out if the file system is OK or corrupted?
Apparently the answer is no. Correct?

Thanks,

Dan

p.s. Someone asked why would I want to do that. Our product is a box
with a custom front panel. Attaching a VGA monitor keyboard and mouse
is optional, and most of our customers use the box without any
attachments. If we run fsck from rc.sysinit and it finds a problem and
it drops into repair disk mode, the user will have no way of knowing
without a monitor attached. The box would just sit there forever
partially started.

The way we do updates for our product is that the customer connects a
Mac or PC with an Ethernet cable and using samba they mount a portion
of the hard drive and copy an rpm to a specific folder. Then, they
press a button on the front panel.

I was hoping that we can check the integrity of the file systems
including the root file system during the %pre section of the rpm and
do not perform the update if there is a problem. We can use umount on
the two other partitions, but not on the root partition.

VNC server

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 11:25 PM PST

Kojot wrote:
 

You are not giving out enough information.

Anyway, one way to check is to check from your own machine if everything
is OK.

Open a console window, and in that type:
vncserver :2 -geometry 1024x768

and afterwards run up RDesktop on that same PC and see if you can connect.
Enter the following for remote desktop address:
127.0.0.1:2

You should now be connecting to a vnc session if all is OK.

You can termintate the vnc session with the following command:
vncserver -kill :2


Fedora Core 2

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 09:56 PM PST

AM wrote: 

Use system-config-packages, it will ask you for the necessary CDs to
install the packages you select.
 

rpm is equivalent to the dpkg command in Debian (or so I'm told, I'm not
a Debian user).
 

Yes. See e.g http://freshrpms.net/apt/
 

No.

--
Markku Kolkka
fi

removing grub

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 06:53 PM PST

Stephen wrote:
 


.... use one of the BART bootdisks:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/
http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/
--
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So, what's with this guy Gideon, anyway?
And why can't he ever remember his Bible?

Booting Multiple Versions of Linux? How?

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 12:53 PM PST

In article <L8Dvd.65953$columbus.rr.com>,
R S Prigan <rr.com> wrote:
 

Why, does the Fedora Linux kernel need a special bootloader? Otherwise
why not just boot it directlyw ith grub?

What are the main differences between 2.4.18 and 2.4.28???

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 12:34 PM PST

com said: 

For the differences between these, really changelogs are the best source
of information.
 

I'm ready to trust 2.6 series, but note that changing from 2.4 to 2.6
is such an undertaking that it's recommended to upgrade your base
platform (distribution) to a more recent version.

As for main advantages, I think the most significant are advances in
scheduler and memory management. For laptops there are improvements
in handling power management and other laptop-specific hardware issues.
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Setup multi-boot system

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 11:18 AM PST

Steve Greenfield wrote:
 

Sent a bit earlier on another thread...
I've got more than 10 distros working on one PC.
The way I do it is each distro gets its own partition.
Any shared data is left in a partition of its own.

Notes
-----
1. I use grub to do up the booting. I used Mepis LiveCD
distros that install grub from the LiveCD.
I just maintain one /boot/grub/menu.lst file for all
the distros that I boot up. I use QtParted to do all the work
usually the Knoppix one
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

2. Remember you can only have 4 primary partitions on a hard disk.
Make one of those swap.
Make one those an extended partition.
Then you are left with 2 primary partitions to play with.
Inside the extended partition
you can have as many logical partitions as you want,
but with the caveat that if one logical partition's partition
data is destroyed by some accident, then further logical
partitions down the chain are lost.

3. You can install and boot up windopes as well - I normally
put that in the first partition and format it fat32.
The commands to boot windopey stuff from grub's menu.lst file is

title Windopes ExPeehee at hda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
savedefault

You can install into the same partition several versions of windopes
and have the one boot entry in menu.lst which loads up
the windopes loader which will show the multiple windopes
versions you have installed.
You find when doing this kind of stuff windopes takes up all your
time, as it generally fscks up your hard disk no end.
So to minimise that, put GNU/Linux in second or further partition
down the ladder and update the menu.lst file like above to boot windopes.
You can boot GNU/Linux from LiveCD to get acess to linux partitions
and install Grub after windopes wipes it.

4. Once up and running with multiple distros,
you can zip up and back up entire partitions

change to /mnt/hda1 or whatever your hard disk is..
to zip up into one file*** tar -cfzv <filename.gz> .

likewise when restoring go to the correct drive like /mnt/hda1 or whatever,
and then to unzip the files** tar -zpvf <filename.gz>

Tape drive problem

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 06:54 AM PST


Ian Young wrote: 
functioality 
-f 

md5sum : command problem? Output graphics ascii. (Also, re. alternate md5 solutions.)

Posted: 13 Dec 2004 02:25 AM PST

Sorta Anonymous wrote: 

Heh. I shall think about that. *resists urge to spout philosophical
babble*.

Jon.

-- * Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker?
(fr. Sabriel) * --

Linux is the OS of terror, made by Al Qaeda !!!

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 11:28 PM PST

Jean-David Beyer wrote: 

ROTFL!!!

--
Post prandium stabis, post coenam ambulabis.

RRB

How to make room for / partition to install/upgrade Kernel?

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 11:14 PM PST



"Ant", I realized I messed up your name in my post. Sorry about that.

Jon.

-- * Does the walker choose the path, or does the path choose the walker?
(fr. Sabriel) * --

NIC speed?

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 06:10 PM PST

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 02:28:20 GMT, IANAL_VISTA wrote: 

Well, there you are, your transmitter is running 100base full duplex.

passwd file

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 03:34 PM PST

>>I have a password file that looks like so. 

This is exactly the info I needed. I was able to export my database to a
report then with a script parse it and create a passwd file. Saved me a lot
of typing.

Thanks.

Matthew

 


Knoppix is real slow!!

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 01:40 PM PST

william olga wrote:
 
can use 
fledged 

Underpowered? I've got two Duron 750MHZ boxes--old Compaq
Presarios--with a gig of RAM split between them. One runs WinXP, the
other runs (and has run since 2001) Debian, with GNOME. Both boxes run
just fine. I've run everything from KDE to GNOME to XFCE on my Debian
box, and performance has been fine under all three.

I wouldn't say no to a faster system, but all the games I've run work
fine on that level machine. (RTCW (on Linux), SimCity 4 (on XP), Diablo
2(on XP), plus a lot of older, less demanding games. (Debian's got
hundreds of great games. I keep a local-disk package mirror, so it's a
snap to add and remove anything I'm in the mood for.)

As for the original post...If he's having trouble running Knoppix
quickly on a 3GHz box, then there's definately something wrong. He
might have a couple failed memory modules, and is stuck with a lot of
swapping, for instance.

Installing using a USB Keyboard and mouse

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 12:43 PM PST

Andreas Janssen wrote: 

Thanks ! I will give it a try.


can't boot up

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 08:03 AM PST

And... in fact, the keyboard doesn't light up as well.... hm, so I
think it's not the problem of the monitor... but I'm not sure if it's
the hardware or software problem...

Knoppix live installer - how to use?

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 04:35 AM PST

Error log for Sun, 12 Dec 2004 04:35:29 -0800: Steve North caused a Page
Fault at address <google.com>,
details...
 

Once Knoppix is installed to hdd, then for all practical purposes it is
the same as any other DEB based distro. You use the same tools that you
would for a Debian system...

To update the package list
apt-get update

To upgrade the installed packages
apt-get dist-upgrade

To install a single deb package
dpkg -i <package>

You can also take advantage of advanced tools and frontends for
maintaining and upgrading your system like KPackage (gui) and aptitude
(cli).

HTH

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Someone is speaking well of you.

Newbie two homed question.

Posted: 12 Dec 2004 03:33 AM PST

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:59:30 GMT, Larry Lindstrom wrote: 

No wonder. Binary install is faster. :)
 

Remember, I am running Mandrakelinux 10.1 Oficial.
Shorewall is installed out of the box. Here is the
firewall screen shot during install
http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux/100/en/Starter.html/tinyfirewall.html

I used webmin to play with the rules then edited the files with an editor.

If you look at the gray box settings at
http://www.shorewall.net/two-interface.htm
you can get a feel for what the webmin web pages will look like from
your LAN boxes.

All the firewall stuff you find will be gui front ends for the iptables
netfilter packet filter.

For NAT, set net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 in /etc/sysctl.conf
and you place masquerading rules in the firewall.
Since you want to run text mode, the CLI iptable commands will be
something like

iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -s 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 -o eth+ -j MASQUERADE
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

which is not a complete firewall set.