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Posted: 01 May 2014 02:14 PM PDT

How do you get a image to go in the background and have words on top of it?

Microsoft 2013 Is not working

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:13 PM PDT

I am trying to use Word and it is not opening any documents.  I have tried to uninstall it and it will not un istall.  I have doen virus checks and nothing has popped up.  I have done a disk defragmentation and nothing is still working.  How can I get it to work again? If I uninstall it and use the same key code when I purchased it, will it work again? Any ideas?

Creat a New Tab using a Template in Startup

Posted: 01 May 2014 12:53 PM PDT

I was given a .dotm file which I was told to put in my STARTUP directory.  When I do that, a new Tab appears in my ribbon.  When that file is deleted, the Tab disappears. 

How do I do this?  I want a template document that can be put into Startup and have this Tab appear. 

I have created a dotm file right now.  It contains 1 macro.  The macro works when I open a blank document based on this template.

I closed Word.  I put this template in the STARTUP directory.  But when Word starts, it won't pick up the template.

How do I link the Tab to the .dotm file?  and how do I tell Word to pick up this template when it starts up.  Everything works fine with the original document, I just don't know how to replicate it.

Thanks.

MM

Can you set up input fields to "tab" between each one so that you're not just tabbing inside the input field?

Posted: 01 May 2014 12:22 PM PDT

I'm trying to find out if you can set up input fields to "tab" between each one so that you're not just tabbing inside the input field?

I set up input fields in a word template and  I want to be able to just tab from one input field to another but whenever I click the tab button it just tabs over farther into the input field that I'm in.

Is this possible? Any help appreciated and thanks.

Word does not open due to an error

Posted: 01 May 2014 11:03 AM PDT

Hello there,

I'm trying to open my word 2013 on my new laptop.  At first, it was working well but a few days ago when i tried opening word, the system gives me the following message:  "we're sorry but word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly.  Word will need to be closed as a result.  Would you like us to repair it now?" and it has 3 options... Repair, (which does nothing), Help (which tries to open an internet window but keeps reloading without opening) and close.  I'm kind oof desperate since i'm on finals and cant use word, even though all my other office products open as excel, power poin and so... PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!!

How do I lower the baseline of a picture bullet?

Posted: 01 May 2014 10:05 AM PDT

I am using a picture bullet that takes up more than one vertical text line and would like to align the top of the bullet with the top of the text, or at least the middle, but have been unable to figure out a way. I've tried adding white space above the picture, but it only lowers the entire line of text where the bullet is located. Here's an example of how it looks now:

The Alpha Numeric Keypad is used for direct entry of text messages, status messages, DTMF interconnect, etc. 

Any help would be appreciated.

How ro set a numeric value in a list with more than 4 digits

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:44 AM PDT

When I try to set a New value to a list and use a number with more than 4 digits, the the program reset the number to 0.

Is it possible to assign a number with more than 4 digits in a list?

Allow cursor in MS Word Protected mode

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:23 AM PDT

I have a protected document with legacy form fields, and some sections that are editable.  There are some pages that are entirely restricted, and when they are clicked on, Word will skip to the next input.  I'd like to know if there is an option or coding that would keep this from happening.  If possible, I would also like to allow the selection of text in the restricted portions.

How do I display guidelines in Avery labels?

Posted: 01 May 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Not wanting gridlines, butGuidelines that show you where the next label begins on a sheet of labels.  These have disappeared since I upgraded to MS 2007.  Is there any way to restore this view?  Thx

[New question split by moderator from a question about Word on the Mac]

Avery labels no longer show outline, how to show outlines? - Microsoft Community

Headings in Outline Format

Posted: 01 May 2014 08:38 AM PDT

I have a very long (800 pages) existing document that has many headings in it.   I would like to use heading styles so that the headings are in numbered outline format, thus:

I.  Main Topic

    A.  Sub-topic

    B.  Another sub-topic

II. Next Main Topic

    A.  Sub-topic

    B.  Another sub-topic

And so on.  I have tried to use Styles to achieve this.  But when I tell MS Word that Heading 1 style is to be numbered with Roman numerals and Heading 2 style is to be numbered A, B, C, D, . . ., what I get is this:

I.  Main Topic

    A.  Sub-topic

    B.  Another sub-topic

II. Next Main Topic

    C.  Sub-topic

    D.  Another sub-topic

I.e., the numbering for the Heading 2s just keeps going from the last Heading 2, incorrectly ignoring the fact that there has been an intervening Heading 1.  How do I tell MS Word that I want the numbering for the headings to start over each time automatically?  This needs to work for all the heading levels.

Thanks in advance.

Alternate page designs in a Word 2013 template?

Posted: 01 May 2014 08:18 AM PDT

Hi All,

Had a look round and can't find anything that really answers my question, wondering if anyone here could help. I'm designing a new Word template to be handed over to a client for them to use when creating new documents - proposals, reports etc. My question is - is it possible to specify alternate page designs that are applied automatically?

I'm looking to effectively produce a two page spread in the template, so the user would create a new document, populate the first page with 'design option A' and when they move onto the second page, the template would apply 'design option B'. From that point on, the document would apply the designs alternately (so page 3 would be A, 4B, 5A etc.)

Am I missing something simple? Or hoping for too much out of a template?

Thanks in advance!

-Mark

something that bugs me in speech Recognition

Posted: 01 May 2014 07:42 AM PDT

My problem may come from expectations formed from using Dragon speech recognition software. I own it but it keeps crashing, and physical problems have turned me once again to the Windows alternative, where I have just encountered a familiar problem. The software quits recording my dictation. It will happen, let me make up a quick example,  in a sentence like, "I understand." I will go to edit that sentence, to insert more words, and to do it I place the cursor before the I and after the opening quotation marks, and dictate I know, with the expectation that the new sentence will read, "I know, I understand." But this dictation will not go through, and the software begins making loud ugly beeps indicating its confusion with the dictation, which interrupt my thought (I'm writing fiction, that matters). To make the software accept the dictation, I have to go make a space there, between the opening quotation marks and the first I in I understand, and then the dictation will go through. Dragon doesn't make you do this (no, its dictation just goes off the rails for other reasons!). I am hoping there is some formatting option I could select somewhere that will work. I hope there is. Frustration with this inability to dictate with the cursor 'against' another word caused me to quit using the software before, and now my arm pain is back! One inserts and edits a great deal in writing and my habit of just putting the cursor where I want to do so appears to be quite well established!

Thank you,

Janet

Chicago

Office can't (won't?) find the original documents

Posted: 01 May 2014 05:57 AM PDT

This is a relatively new company laptop running Windows 7 pro, Word & Excel 2013, and a corporate web based email system.  We send documents back and forth, modify them (it's our job!) and route them accordingly.  I just had a question that something may have been accidentaly deleted from the original and went to the first email to re-download the original to check and see.  The re-download opens with the latest modified document!  And when I check in the directory of the download folder, I see LatestDocument.docx, LatestDocument(1).docx, LatestDocument(2).docx, etc.  (file names are examples) 

Has Windows overwritten all my copies and won't let me do otherwise?  Can I not load or find OriginalDocument.docx?

how do i fix these settings??

Posted: 01 May 2014 05:52 AM PDT

I use Word 2013 on Windows 8. Recently my setting have changed and I cannot figure out how to fix it.

My margins are the default setting but when a new document is open the cursor is at the top edge of the paper. The header is set at .5 but the cursor is still above that. The page doesn't seem to break it looks to be continuous however in the setting, continuous is not selected. Any ideas?

Microsoft Word error

Posted: 01 May 2014 04:58 AM PDT

Hey I keep trying to go onto Microsoft word but it says 'oops something went wrong'.

I cant find out how to fix it or what to do can someone please help me?

thanks

Word 2013 -- Problem with autocorrect

Posted: 01 May 2014 04:26 AM PDT

I tried entering 3 hyphens to create a border line, but it's now creating 3 of them at once. It's only just started doing this.

Is there a way I can correct it?

Thanks

i have to double click on save to save my word document

Posted: 01 May 2014 04:22 AM PDT

When ever i save a word document even when im saving it as i go along and i press save it comes up with this at the bottom so i have to double click to save my document

Second multilevel list in same document

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:37 AM PDT

Hi,

 I'm having some problems trying to create a second multilevel list in a document.

I am able to create the first multilevel list without any problems: I created three styles, Head1, Head2 and Head3, then used 'Define New Multilevel list' to create my first multilevel list. Everything works as it should with this list.

I then created three more new styles, Level1, Level2 and Level3. I placed my cursor on the first line of one of the styles, and click on the 'Define New Multilevel List' option. However, when the dialog box opens, it shows the settings and styles from the first multilevel list.

I have tried changing the settings in the dialog box to link to the new styles and then giving the list a new ListNum Field List Name, but when I click 'OK' it does not apply the new list correctly and instead screws up the second set of three styles that I created.

Am I missing a step here, or is there any reason why this is happening? Do I need to create each multilevel list in a new section?

Thanks!

toc and hyperlinks, Word for Windows 2010.

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 08:54 PM PDT

I think my TOC, which seems correct in all other ways, is supposed to support hyperlinking; that is, clicking on a TOC entry should go to that section or page. But nothing  happens. What should I do to make it work? The Navigation pane does hyperlink correctly and F9 updates correctly.

Still unable to use Word2013

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 08:28 PM PDT

I have uninstalled Office 2103 and reinstalled. The reinstallation was completed and I got a message that I can use the program now but please dont go offline or restart the computer as Office is installing in the background(88% and it ramins at that % even after 1hour). I tried to use Excel2013,PowerPoint2013,  and I could use them. But when I tried using Word2013 I get  the same message as in my earlier question to you (X) We're sorry but Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly. Word will need to be closed as a result. Woud you like to repair now. [Repair now][Help][close].

Why can't I use Word2013?

Auto Populate Auto Correct Settings to be retrieved from a corrupt profile

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 07:16 PM PDT

Hi all,

I have a client here who had her roaming profile corrupted, so I have recreated her roaming profile and local profile on her dedicated machine.

Now the problem is she needs the auto populate and auto correct settings plus building blocks to be retrieved from the old profile.

Is there any way to do this, if yes please help me

Cheers

Josh

Embedded Links in Word from Excel Problem Opening and Saving?

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 05:25 PM PDT

(I have seen other posts and it seems like everyone is having this problem, but I have not seen a solution??)

I have many excel fields linked to a large word document.

Everytime I open word or save it, like many other posts, all the excel fields have to open. 

It is literally impossible to work with the document as it takes 15 minutes to open, 15 minutes to save, etc. 

I have tried to disable all the links by either setting to manual or locked and nothing works.

It DID NOT do this in Word 2007. I have searched high and low for a solution and can find nothing. 

Thought I was moving forward by upgrading to a newer version of word but this is a huge step back?

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Using Text boxes in mail merge giving unexpected results

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 04:39 PM PDT

Hi,

I'm trying to create a mail merge doc using a jpeg as my background and creating text boxes over the areas I want to add information to. Everything looks good in word, and when I print, but if I try to email it as an html I get some unexpected results. The issue seems to be that the image scales but the text does not. I keep trying to to change the settings on my text box from absolute position and size to relative to the page but the changes don't stick. Any suggestions would be welcomed, thanks.

Microsoft Word

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 04:19 PM PDT

I am unable to run Word. This message always comes up.

X We're sorry, but Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly. Word will need to be closed as a result.

Would you like us to repair now.

[Repair now]       [Help]       [Close]

I have tried the option [Repair now] but nothing happens.

I have tried to [close] and restart Word but the same message appears. Can anyone help.

Cycling through a series of check boxes in VBA

Posted: 30 Apr 2014 03:18 PM PDT

In Word 2010 VBA:

I have a user form with several check boxes, say CheckBox1 through CheckBox6.

For each check box, in the actual document, there will be two check boxes (Check1Yes and Check1No, for example). In each case, the "No" box will be selected by default.

If I select a particular check box on the user form - say CheckBox3 - then in the document, Check3Yes should be selected (X'd) and Check3No cleared.

The following code works fine, but I'd have to have an If for each check box on the user form (in actuality there are over 40 of them - not all visible at once, however).

If CheckBox3.Value = True Then
    ActiveDocument.FormFields("Check3Y").CheckBox.Value = True
    ActiveDocument.FormFields("Check3N").CheckBox.Value = False
End If

What I'd really like is a way to cycle through all the check boxes on the user form - maybe with a For loop. But since the check box identifiers (CheckBoxN) aren't in an array, I can't just increment using the array index.

I've tried string concatenation - something like:

For I =1 to 3

   If "CheckBox" & I & ".value" = True then

         ActiveDocument.FormFields("Check" & I & "Y").CheckBox.Value = True
         ActiveDocument.FormFields("Check" & I & "N").CheckBox.Value = False
End If

But this produces strange gagging sounds from VBA (actually, you get an: run-time error

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thank you!

How do I setup Office Sounds in Office Professional 2003 - Microsoft Office forums

How do I setup Office Sounds in Office Professional 2003 - Microsoft Office forums

How do I setup Office Sounds in Office Professional 2003

Posted: 16 Oct 2006 04:01 AM PDT

Thanks - you are quite right - I had already done this, but what I did not
realise was that sound was muted!! My machine has a mind of its own. Best
wishes.
--
Neville


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Office 2003 editions mix-up

Posted: 15 Oct 2006 12:10 AM PDT

Hi Bob,
thanks for the information!

It is not my purpose to install apps from two different editions. I'm just
trying to spot possible reasons for RMS not working in Outlook and working in
Excel and Word. I wondered if our admins could install only the later in Pro
edition and leave the OEM Outlook in Basic edition.
However, I was not sure how the IRM features would work in such setting.

elcia

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Office Still Disabled - Read Only Mode

Posted: 14 Oct 2006 06:11 PM PDT

I am starting to think this is a activation problem, but anyway...when I
goto HELP>ACTIVATE, nothing happens. It doesn't hang, it just does
nothing, as if I didn't select anything at all. It does the same thing
in all applications.

This is a full, legal version. It's worked since 2003, now I did a full
restore on my computer, and it wont activate. Is there a maximum # of
activations with Office 2003?

Thanks again!

Chaz

NewScience wrote: 

Installing my new Office 2003 Pro

Posted: 14 Oct 2006 06:06 PM PDT

What does CD 3 contain?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Learner asked:

| Thank you Milly,
|
| How about cd#3 that gives me the following error: "The expected
| version of the product was not found on your system". What could I
| do?
|
| Daniel
|
| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook"
| <org> wrote in message
| news:%phx.gbl...
|| No.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Learner asked:
||
||| If I do not install Outlook, do I miss updates for the other
||| applications?
|||
||| thanks
||| _________________
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
||| <org> wrote in message
||| news:%23cGyo7$phx.gbl...
||| If CD 2 is Business Contact Manager, it requires that Outlook be
||| installed first.
|||
||| --
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, Learner asked:
|||
|||| Hello,
|||| I just bought a new pc, Windows XP Pro and Office Pro 2003 (both
|||| English). I installed the first cd of Office 2003, excluding
|||| outlook without problem. I tried to install the second cd. I
|||| received a message that inclines me to think that I have to
|||| install install Outlook. Question: since I do not want to install
|||| Outlook, what else am I missing from the cd #2; because no install
|||| is possible of that second cd?
||||
|||| The second problem I have is installing the third cd. I
|||| received the following messages:
|||| "The expected version of the product was not found on your
|||| system." for the files:
|||| ONENOTE2003SP2-KB887619-FULLFILE-ENU.EXE and
|||| PTK2003SP2-KB887618-FULLFILE-ENU.EXE.
|||| and the message: "Cannot modify the French spelling settings; No
|||| Microsoft spell checker supporting the French spelling reform was
|||| found error 003." with the file FRREFORM.EXE.
||||
|||| Could someone know how to install cd 02 nad cd 03? I really
|||| need the French spelling update? I don't understand the messges
|||| from cd #3 because the 3 cds are part of the same package, how
|||| could it not recognized itself?.
||||
|||| Thank you
||||
|||| If I am in the wrong newsgroup, please tell me!
||||
|||| Daniel

Office 2007 apps won't start after installing converters

Posted: 14 Oct 2006 06:01 PM PDT

Office 2003 was not installed prior to Office 2007. If the converters are
not intended for installation into Office 2007 then the web page from where
I downloaded them, and to which I was taken by a link from Office 2007, is
extremely ambiguous. Furthermore, if they're only intended for use with
earlier versions of Office, why did the converters install on a machine on
which I had never installed any earlier version of Office. This was an
installation of Vista RC2 with Office 2007, with Office installed off the
Office 2007 beta 2 DVD and no subsequent updates.

Nick

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message news:phx.gbl... 

registry errors after Office 2003 installation

Posted: 14 Oct 2006 08:19 AM PDT

Then tell me, how else would someone learn that there are registry entries
that are not valid? Especially someone as unskilled as the OP appears to be
when it concerns the registry?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, NewScience asked:

| To Everyone (except poster):
|
| Blah, blah, blah blah!!! Yada, Yada, Yada, Yada!.
|
| Nowhere does it state in the original post that the person used any
| sort of registry cleaner.
|
| How about getting back to the poster's question.
|
| Alden24:
|
| Please repost, and insure that the pathnames are exact, e.g.,
|
| C:\ProgramFiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
| Folders\pkmres.dll,15
|
| Does the pathname actually have ProgramFiles or Program Files?
| Please watch the spaces and quotes. Especially when dealing with
| errors based on pathnames.
|
| "um:content-classes:catalog\DefaultIcon"
|
| um or urn?
|
| Does C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
| Folders\pkmres.dll file exist?
|
| "alden24" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:com...
|| After installing Ofice 2003 Professional and its SP2, I found I now
|| had 22 new registry errors of the type:
||
|| The key "um:content-classes:catalog\DefaultIcon" refers to a missing
|| icon C:\ProgramFiles\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web
|| Folders\pkmres.dll,15. All
|| refer to missing Office 2003 "Default icons" of of one sort or
|| another.
||
|| After downloading and installing available Office updates, I then
|| had 39 registry errors, the original 22 plus 17 PowerPoint "invalid
|| command entry"
|| errors.
||
|| I was unable to correct any of these errors and have no idea how to
|| debug then.
||
|| Searching the knowing base here came up with nothing.
||
|| I'm using Windows XP SP2 on an eMachines tower with plenty of speed,
|| memory
|| and disk space.

No Office Assistant character files

Posted: 13 Oct 2006 08:07 PM PDT

Open Add/Remove Programs, select Office, chose Repair or Modify.

Repair: try and fix the problem
Modify: Install/Uninstall features ... in the list (opening some of the
branches), you should come across Office Assistant. You can uninstall by
selecting the correct option.

"Angela" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Re-install Office

Posted: 13 Oct 2006 12:01 PM PDT

In theory, no. Re-install (or repair) SHOULD keep all patches and updates.

In reality, no. I have had it happened that not all checks/balances prevent
overwriting newer files with older ones.
And a lot of times, DLLs become de-registered in the registry.

"awol" <com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

Beta 2 Tech Refresh does nothing

Posted: 12 Oct 2006 02:08 PM PDT

Tried disabling AV, still nothing happens...

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
 

Additional instalation on Laptop - Office 2003

Posted: 12 Oct 2006 05:38 AM PDT

Tools->options->Email Setup->Accounts->highlight your account->more
settings->advanced tab.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| <org> wrote in message
| news:phx.gbl...
| Sets its account properties to leave copies on the server.
|
|
| Eh? Sorry Milly, I don't understand the answer!

Reg.office suite administration

Posted: 11 Oct 2006 03:46 PM PDT

Hi Rizwan,

Did you review the information in the links in the previous message for the tools and procedures for managing Office?

==========
<<"Rizwan" <com> wrote in message news:phx.gbl...
i am looking for controlling and customising the the office suite through
out the enterprise from a single management console..

Rizwan >>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office system products MVP
 

LINKS to the 2007 Office System

1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
http://microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx#booksfrommspress

2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta,
e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool:
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033

b. then visit
http://officebeta.iponet.net

Changing the start end end date of the daylight saving time - Forums Linux

Changing the start end end date of the daylight saving time - Forums Linux

Changing the start end end date of the daylight saving time

Posted: 28 Feb 2006 03:12 AM PST

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<com>, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

"MOSHEMOSHE" <com> wrote:
 

Reboot - no. The few processes that may use $TZ would be restarted, but
most processes merely ask the kernel what time it is, and it handles
the time zone changes without fuss ASSUMING you set it up with the right
information to start with, and kept that information up to date. The
"current" timezone data is at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006b.tar.gz

-rw-r--r-- 1 8800 0 149555 Feb 20 15:08 tzdata2006b.tar.gz

A number of changes in Canada and Indiana, and relatively minor stuff in
Antarctica, Asia, the mid-East, and Brazil, but that's it. Your distribution
should have an updated timezone package which is more suited to your system.
 

Except that ntp data is in UTC, and it has no concept of local timezones.
The O/P asked the same question in comp.protocols.time.ntp and
comp.unix.admin under the handle "kavsha" <com>.
 

Why would there be a three hour jump? That infers that the system wasn't
configured right in the first place. If you are physically moving the
system across timezones, then keep the system on UTC.
 

Know the feeling. We keep all of our servers on UTC simply because they
can be accessed from a lot of places. Our workstations _generally_ stay
on local time, whatever that is.

Old guy

Ubuntu-Windows

Posted: 27 Feb 2006 08:37 PM PST

com a écrit : 

OK, you have four partitions :
windows
linux
linux swap
recovery
You will get more information about your partitions by typing Douglas
Mayne's commande :
# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Can you mount your windows partition to know if your windows system has
been altered ? You can do this by the command as root
# mkdir /mnt/windows
# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

and then

# ls /mnt/windows

and you will see the content of your windows partition if it hasn't be
altered.

Panels frame in kcontrol

Posted: 27 Feb 2006 07:12 AM PST


Bob Tennent wrote: 
 

For me here on Deb 3.1r1 (Sarge) using KDE - it's
Right click blank Panel area - choose Configure Panel >> Layout >>
Appearance
"Enable Icon Zooming" -- right alongside "Tool Tips" (KDE 3.3.2)
(I guess I should've known what you meant when you used the word
"huge"...lol) -- Admittedly, I didn't realize that one could configure
'those' panel options separately from the Desktop - I'm still finding
diff configuration options, buried all over in place, using
KDE...Fonts; for example comes to mind.(styles and sizes), especially
when using Konquerer as both a file manager and a web browser.
 

The only thing that comes to mind (besides corruption) is that the User
does not have the proper permissions to change/alter it. Look at it
when logged in as root. Possible ? I had issues while I was using xdm
as the DM, instead of kdm -- I experienced some funky stuff like what
you are - plus some (most) setting changes wouldn't stick.

FWIW - I just found yet *another* _Enable tooltips_ checkbox in;
K Control Center >> Appearnace and Themes >> Style

run a perl script during system boot

Posted: 27 Feb 2006 01:11 AM PST

On 2006-02-28, Chris F.A. Johnson <com> wrote: 

Just in case Chris doesn't get to it before I do, the octothorpe is #,
not $. Adding $ at the beginning of a line in rc.local may do some very
bizarre things. :)

--keith

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Kernel upgrade 2.4 -> 2.6, makes system very slow on laptop with 1GB of memory: BIOS caching bug

Posted: 26 Feb 2006 07:06 PM PST

> Now for my system, I need them as they are. If I turn off the 

I guess if you have more than 4 Gigs of RAM in your system my comments
are not really useful... They are also irrelevant if your bios does not
have that caching bug i mentioned...

best,

mark

linux 2.6.5.1 [fedora core 2] custom build kernel reload

Posted: 25 Feb 2006 12:10 PM PST

Hi Lenard,

Thanks for the reply.
I tried the steps you mentioned but it still hangs when Grub loads
kernel [Uncompressing].
So I was curious whether it is because of processor type.

Processor type shows Pentium III in the bios, but the linux running on
machine shows
I686 now which option should I choose during the config. Is this the
cause for m/c hang.

Thanks,
Vinod.

sftp syantax to copy file from box A to box B

Posted: 25 Feb 2006 05:38 AM PST

On 25 Feb 2006 05:38:55 -0800, anymouse wrote: 

Next login to sftp try
help
 

So, you want to
get filename_here
 

No. Go back to
man sftp
and read the INTERACTIVE COMMANDS section.
 

Once you are logged in ls should work.
 

Check the INTERACTIVE COMMANDS for get/put/mget/mput
 

Hmmm, guessing, boxb does not know the node.domain.boxa
Try using sftp anymouse@boxa_ip_address_here
Then after entering anymouse's password on boxa

get pine-4.64-1.i386.rpm
bye

Intel PRO / Wireless 2200 BG listed as ethernet

Posted: 25 Feb 2006 02:11 AM PST

> Wireless IS ethernet.

Yes, of course, you're right. Sorry for the confusion, I meant a
hard-wired ethernet cable.

DosBox mouse cursor vanishes (Debian Etch)

Posted: 25 Feb 2006 01:12 AM PST

com wrote:
 

Yeah, I've tried to register twice, but it's not sending me the
confirmation emails. There seems to be plenty of activity, so maybe
it'll get sorted soon.
 

Hmmm. If it's so ancient, why does nobody release a newer version? Even
a public beta would make it into Debian Testing and be installable as a
regular package.

Still, might try the CVS thing.

CC

Linux Mandrake> VNC server settings?

Posted: 24 Feb 2006 04:54 AM PST

CBFalconer wrote: 

Because the people who have been in his newsgroups a while have killfiled
him.

2.4.30 & 2.4.32 kernel comple error

Posted: 23 Feb 2006 09:25 PM PST

Harmon Seaver wrote:
 

Ahh, it's a 486 *laptop*. Definitely time to stuff the hard drive in another
box and do the install there, using i386 software instead of i686 software.
Do you really need this old beater to stay alive, or would it be easier to
upgrade your way out of the difficulties?

Ubuntu & Partitions - Confused !!

Posted: 23 Feb 2006 12:55 PM PST


Douglas Mayne wrote: 

hi;

FWIW;
start menu | run DISKMGMT.msc

(or: for one level higher)

start menu | run COMPMGMT.msc

just trying to help shorten those l-o-n-g nasty directions to get to a
silly GUI applet :-)
(basically, on 2000 and XPoop - should be the same - though XPoop Pro
has many more choices).
 

Linux experts needed

Posted: 23 Feb 2006 11:35 AM PST


<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

Why would we replace Usenet and Google Groups with yet another advertising
driven website, especially written by someone who multi-posts and doesn't
know how to write URL's in email? And especially when the "top questions"
are distribution dependent and answered extensively on this newsgroup?

vsftpd setup question

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 11:31 PM PST

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:31:50 +0100, Frank wrote:
 

Is /bin/false listed in /etc/shells ?

--
-Menno.

firefox onto zipslack

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 06:08 PM PST

Buzzard schrieb:
 

Maybe dillo is an intermediate solution.

---<(kaimartin)>---
--
Kai-Martin Knaak
http://lilalaser.dyndns.org/blog

Grub boots from command line but not menu

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 05:46 PM PST

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:43:58 -0800, iforone wrote:
 

That's a nice variant, kind of like, "read the _fine_ manual."
WAG and SWAG:
http://www.ceri.com/q_v6n5q4.htm
 
Note: Try again with post. My adjacent response was incomplete. There is
some sort of "hair trigger" on pan's send button ;-)

Note: comment inline.

I did some testing, with results which confirm your experience. Grub
could read all of the known filesystems on the disc as soon as stage2 was
loaded. The results of my tests show that if grub menu is displayed, then
it doesn't require anything else to read the filesystems for which it has
been compiled. Also, it doesn't appear to reload stage2 when root
is issued within a grub menu.lst stanza. It appears that stage2 is the
superset of all the filesystems it knows how to read, established when
stage2 is compiled. As you thought, grub proved to be even more flexible
than I had guessed. But it was also more limited with chainloader than I
thought.

More Information

I could not duplicate the experience of the OP. grub would not
"forget" how to load a filesystem once stage2 is loaded. I tested
grub, version 0.97. The only error I could generate was if stage2
could not be loaded at all. That is, if I removed stage2 from the
grub directory, "grub error 15" is reported. I also found some problems
with grub installed at the partition are detailed below.

Specific Test Information

Several tests were performed separately using separate filesystems and
modes of operation. I tested ext2, XFS, JFS, and ReiserFS with Grub being
loaded directly from a hard disk and from a CD-R with the grub loader. I
used my project, a Slackware-based LiveCD as the base platform for
testing:
http://www.xmission.com/~ddmayne2/10.2-live/

I was using a VMWare virtual machine as the "hardware" platform.

1. A Basic boot test: this is what grub should do as a minimum.
Grub is installed on the partition, so that the loader can be setup:

# grub
grub> root (hd0,4)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

All of my tests were successful, with the exception of JFS.

Again, at this point grub can read all of the other partition types that
it knows about without extra help. Therefore, commands like these succeed
(either from menu.lst or the boot shell):

grub> kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda5

grub> kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda5

Weird result with JFS

JFS/Grub would hang before showing the menu when loaded directly from the
hard disk. But, this is strange, when booting from CD-R, and using
chainloader from the boot shell (as shown below) works fine- the menu
loads, and bootup proceeds normally:

grub> root (hd0)
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot

This error could have been due to a mistake I made, but I tried it
twice with the same results.

2. Tests with chainloader. (And a big word of caution.)

Some of the ways I had envisioned the chainloader command do not work.
For example, it is possible to link to a Windows NTFS partition with this
syntax:

grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
grub> makeactive
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot

I didn't test the above example, nor chainloading to lilo on the
partition. Chainloading to lilo may be tested at a later date.

This syntax also works with a GNU/Linux partitions which are
formatted using _ext2_. This assumes grub has been setup properly at the
target partition, using syntax similar to this:

grub> root (hd0,4)
grub> setup (hd0,4)

Then, from the grub boot shell, issue these command:

grub> rootnoverify (hd0,4)
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot

This causes grub's menu to be displayed, at least with ext2.

Other filesystems

But, this procedure _does not_ work with the more complex journaled
filesystems, XFS, JFS, ReiserFS. In fact, if the "setup" commands are
issued on an XFS partition, the partition is destroyed. Grub reports no
errors when installing on XFS, but the partition will fail to mount.
Also, grub "setup" on ReiserFS report an error. To emphasize, this is the
case where grub is installed on the partition, not loading through the
MBR. That generally works- as shown in my test 1 (above.) When I checked
grub's documentation, it reports that it can be installed on the
partitions using FFS (?) or ReiserFS:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Bootstrap-tricks.html#Bootstrap-tricks

That is not what I see in reality with ReiserFS, however. Perhaps,
grub is not intended to be installed on the partition (BPB) of advanced
filesystems. The least it could do is to "do no harm." It should really
identify XFS, and refuse to modify the BPB. But for consistency sake, it
should be possible to install the loader this way.

Conclusion

Test, don't assume something works by extrapolation. The failure of XFS
and grub really surprised me.

I took some screenshots of my tests. Perhaps, I'll try to organize and
post them.

imotgm, thanks for your input. Your "reported working" experience was
helpful for me to investigate further and to learn more about grub.

--
Douglas Mayne

Changing root filesystem from CD to USB drive

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 03:24 PM PST

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:02:12 -0800, dmly.usa wrote:
 
I thought I did, but maybe we're having trouble communicating. Please,
reread my last post and see if you can tell where we went separate
directions.

Is anything installed on the USB disc now? If not, is part of your plan
to use it as the root filesystem for a the GNU/Linux distribution of your
choice?

BTW, you need to improve your posting style. Apparently, you are
posting from google groups, and their default setting does not include any
context of the thread. This is bad form. Remember, this is Usenet not
Google Groups.

--
Douglas Mayne

Setting up a Directory that group of people could get to

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 04:52 AM PST

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co.uk wrote: 

You'd chmod the directory to prevent outsiders (users other than the
owning group) from gaining access to the contents of the directory. You
may also want to remove write access to the group to prevent
unauthorized deletion of files in the directory.

You'd have to chmod all the files in the directory as well, to prevent
write access to each file.

HTH

- --

Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Corporate Technology Solutions,
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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Yum package conflict: yum-2.4.1-1.fc4 and medley-package-config-102-1.rhfc4.at

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 06:08 PM PST

Ron Albright wrote: 

This is actually not necessarily evil: bugzilla, for example, has a big
stack of Perl dependencies that are quite harmless to the rest of your
system.
 

A small one. But for the "fedora-release" package, the related dependencies
should be minor, and even if you break the dependencies on that one it's not
evil. And this "rpm -Uvh --oldpkgs" trick will let you revert packages one
or two at a time, or in small sets of related packages.
 

Etc. Brother, you need a local mirror to deal with all of this: It should be
possible to write a small script to go through the list of "extra" packages,
and install them from a local mirror. Just make sure to be careful with
packages that have i386 and i686 versions.

Here is my tool for building a local mirror, which may help:

#!/bin/sh
#
#
#

progname=`basename $0`
LOCKDIR=/var/run/rsync
LOCKFILE=$LOCKDIR/${progname}.pid

RSYNC="rsync"
RSYNC="$RSYNC -aH"
RSYNC="$RSYNC -v"
RSYNC="$RSYNC --delete-after"
#RSYNC="$RSYNC --delete-excluded"
#RSYNC="$RSYNC --bwlimit=50"

if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 [ --dry-run ]"
exit 1
elif [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
if [ "$1" = "--dry-run" ]; then
RSYNC="$RSYNC --dry-run"
else
echo "Usage: $0 [ --dry-run ]"
exit 1
fi
else
if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
# Stolen from /etc/init.d/functions, check for lockfile
read line < $LOCKFILE
for p in $line ; do
[ -z "${p//[0-9]/}" -a -d "proc$p" ] && \
pid="$pid $p" && \
echo "$progname is already running, exiting" && \
exit 1
done
echo "Flushing old lockfile $LOCKFILE"
/bin/rm -f $LOCKFILE
echo $$ > $LOCKFILE || exit 1
fi
echo $$ > $LOCKFILE || exit 1
trap "/bin/rm -f $LOCKFILE" EXIT
fi

MIRRORDIR=/y/linux/fedora/core
if [ ! -d $MIRRORDIR/. ]; then
echo "$MIRRORDIR/. is not a directory, exiting"
exit 1
fi

#RSYNCHOST="rsync://mirror.hiwaay.net/fedora-linux-core"
#RSYNCHOST="rsync://fedora.server4you.net/fedora"
#RSYNCHOST="rsync://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/fedora/core"
RSYNCHOST="rsync://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/fedora-linux-core"
RSYNCHOST="rsync://mirror.hiwaay.net/fedora-linux-core"

#RSYNCDIRS="$RSYNCDIRS 2/i386/os/"
#RSYNCDIRS="$RSYNCDIRS 3/i386/os/"
#RSYNCDIRS="$RSYNCDIRS 4/i386/os/"
#RSYNCDIRS="$RSYNCDIRS updates/"
RSYNCDIRS="$RSYNCDIRS ./"

#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=SRPMS"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=iso"

EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=ppc"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=x86_64"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=debug"

EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=1"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=2"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=3"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=4"

EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=testing"
# test is downloaded in rsync-fedora-test.sh
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=test"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=development"

EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-DVD.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-disc1.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-disc2.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-disc3.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-disc4.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC2-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso"

EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-DVD.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-disc1.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-disc2.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-disc3.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-disc4.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso"

#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-DVD.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-disc1.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-disc2.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-disc3.iso"
#EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-disc4.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso"
EXCLUDEARGS="$EXCLUDEARGS --exclude=FC4-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso"

for rsyncdir in $RSYNCDIRS; do
echo "Getting $RSYNCHOST/$rsyncdir"
$RSYNC $EXCLUDEARGS $RSYNCHOST/$rsyncdir $MIRRORDIR/$rsyncdir
done

Setting up Ftp on Linux server

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 01:17 PM PST

Thanks everyone! I have used ssh and winscp.

How to include - in the source RPM - all the files listed in %files ?

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 11:32 PM PST

Thanks Laurenz
Bye,
Ron.

HP Tape Driver

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 11:08 PM PST

In article <P%yKf.2412$news.pas.earthlink.net>,
Levi Gruber <net> wrote:
:Does anyone know where I might find a linux driver for an HP SureStore
:DAT24(internal)? Model number is C1537A. I looked on DriverGuide.com, but no
:luck. It seems it is too old for HP to still be providing support.

Just connect the drive to your SCSI adapter. Linux will recognize it
as a generic SCSI tape drive. You'll want to have the "mt-st" package
installed to provide a command-line interface for tape positioning,
rewinding, etc.

--
Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"

logging into root of remote machine

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 09:19 PM PST

> You should log in as a regular user and su or sudo to root.

He has a good point. That is a security risk, logging in to a machine
as root remotely. Unless, this system is on a secure local network. Are
you still having trouble? Is there anything we can help with?

Slackware Server ISP change

Posted: 19 Feb 2006 11:27 PM PST

Yes. Thank you to all, i managed to fix it, and now it works perfectly.

I never said it was a Linux problem, it was my problem that i did not
know linux.

Anyway thanx everybody!!!

Problem setting up dual boot Suse10/WinXP

Posted: 19 Feb 2006 10:16 PM PST

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:29:02 +0000, imotgm wrote:
 

That did the trick. Thank you very much.
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