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swap partition in RAM? Can it be done?

Posted: 13 May 2004 06:20 AM PDT

mjt <ru> wrote in message news:<GcToc.19046$news.pas.earthlink.net>... 

Because of a requirement to not have sensitive data passed through
non-volatile memory in an embedded system.

I have a system handling sensitive data using Linux. Memory size is
not open ended and I am not sure that the amount of RAM could be
sufficient to operate without a swap partition. If the OS and
applications reach RAM capacity in such a situation, no swap, no
performance - maybe even the system freezes?

Correct me if I am wrong, but this is what I am trying to work around
to get the system to avoid a lock-up if there is no swap partition.

If swap can be in RAM, then maybe I can limit RAM usage for
applications and stay within reqs. Its only an idea at this point on
how to approach the problem.

Question About Setting Up Linux Workstation

Posted: 12 May 2004 09:59 PM PDT

Don Parris <org> writes:

]I've been using Linux as a multi-purpose OS on a single PC. I now have
]several PCs that I need to setup in a client-server setting. Once I've
]setup the server with file/print services, how should I approach setting
]up the clients? I plan to use CD-ROMs for the install process on all
]machines (only about four).

]My thinking is that if the server has apps, like OpenOffice.org, in
]/us/local, and that is exported as an NFS share, then when I install
]Linux on the workstations, I shouldn't have to install all the
]programs. I should merely have to setup the clients to access the
]server's /usr/local directory, and thus the apps located therein. Is
]that correct? Or am I dreaming?

An NFS mounted disk is in all ways (excep speed) the same as a disk
mounted from the machine itself. The only thing that differentiates it
is that if the net is down so is the disk. Or if the remote computer is
shut off, so is the partition.
Ie, you are not dreaming-- it is easy. Just remember that if you put
crucial programs on the nfs disk , they will not be accessible until
after the nfs mounting is done. Eg putting the kernel on an nfs mounted
disk is a very bad idea, since nfs mounting does not occur until after
the kernel is loaded.

setting up redhat fedora project

Posted: 12 May 2004 12:54 PM PDT

com (mehul) wrote in message news:<google.com>... 

Yes, 9.3Gb is fine. Simply follow the on-screen prompts to install.
Its very, very, very easy. Give it a go and if you have a specific
thing you get stuck with, have a look on the Fedora site, then do a
quick google. If you can't find anythere after you've tried that, then
try here.

Installing suitable linux distro on Dell Inspiron 5100!

Posted: 12 May 2004 09:22 AM PDT

Thanks for the info. Now, I found "Network install" from a minimal CD
on debian.org. Hopefully the ppp connection stays up!

raqueeb hassan
congo

help with replicating configuration/disk/software to many machines - need food for thoughts

Posted: 12 May 2004 06:31 AM PDT

"Theophanis Kontogiannis" <gr> wrote in message news:<c7t93f$h2q$aegean.gr>... 

I manage 30 servers running slackware and redhat but my methods sould
be esaily scalable to 200. I use rsync and ssh to install and update
software on multiple servers. Sometimes you can rsync the binaries
with no problems, other times you have to rsync the tar ball plus a
script and then use rsh "/path/to/script" to install.

I also use these commands to set the time, check for disk space, etc..

Backups are easy. See the rsync section of
http://barry.hrp.com/backups.html

Other things I do include, checking that services are running and
sending a mail or pager message if there's a problem.

I'd be happy to post some of my scripts if you think they would be
helpful. Let me know.

Best of luck.

Bazzz

Module loading during debian install

Posted: 12 May 2004 05:57 AM PDT

Still struggling with this.

What I trying to do is install Debian on a machine that has mirrored IDE
raid disks, using Promise FastTrak100 controller and it's this I'm having
trouble with.

Booting from Woody install Cd, and bf24 option, it doesn't see the hard
disks.
I've built another machine to compile the drivers on using the said CD. I'm
just doing a 'make' on the FastTrak driver, no doing kernel build, so is the
set 'EXTRAVERSION to -bf2.4' relevent?

But the exact error that I'm getting is 'The loading has failed' when trying
to load the module. At this stage of install is any more info going to be
available?

Thanks for any help on the matter

GC

"Andreas Janssen" <com> wrote in message
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Garbled Graphics on reboot (Suse) - Shuttle SN41G2 (and no Ethernet....)

Posted: 12 May 2004 02:48 AM PDT

com (Phil) wrote in message news:<google.com>... 

What is your graphics card? What does your XF86Config look like?
 

How is your network configured?

File sharing between W's and Mandrake

Posted: 11 May 2004 08:55 AM PDT

"wavelength" <net> wrote in message news:<supernews.com>... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXT3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32

is there a sensitive disk repair for Mandrake 9.2 ?

Posted: 11 May 2004 08:36 AM PDT

Hi,

I don't know if it is too late now, but if you can recover the system,
have a google search on Mondo tool, it's a super 5 star backup tool
which does exactly what you want, but you have to back up the system
before.... so at least next time it won't happen!!!

good luck
frank


"Ryan@NIH" <nih.gov> wrote in message news:<qq6oc.242$net.nih.gov>... 

Problems installing kernel 2.6.6 on Fedora Core 1

Posted: 11 May 2004 06:46 AM PDT

In the meantime I had nearly everything else working...including the
internal ipw2100 wireless nic!

Suspend/resume is a bit unreliable though.
 

Thanks a lot, now everything works!
 

Thank you for the information but no than you ;-)
--
Jean-Louis Leroy
Sound Object Logic
http://www.soundobjectlogic.com

What unix do you prefer ?

Posted: 10 May 2004 11:04 PM PDT

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Primarily because I wouldn't put it first or second when given those
three choices.

Debian is a well-designed general distribution, with little or no 'fluff'.

RedHat is a well-marketed general distribution that many business and
personal users have settled on. It has a fair amount of 'fluff', but the
'fluff' doesn't intefere too much with its use.

Mandrake is a well-marketed home-user/clueless-newbie distribution that
many personal users have settled on. It has a great deal of 'fluff', and
(judging by the traffic in alt.os.linux.mandrake) that fluff is either
confusing to it's userbase, or inteferes with it's user base.

- --

Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Enterprise Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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Solaris, Linux, Win Server 2003 disk part blues..

Posted: 10 May 2004 12:59 PM PDT

On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:59:55 -0400, "Sarah Tanembaum" <com>
wrote:
 

Dave Uhring has already told you how to do this with fdisk. If you are
more comfortable with resizing, rather than deleting and recreating, use
some tool to resize the extended partition, and then create a new primary
with ID 82. Resize the extended partiton to fit the space within it that
is already allocated as logical paritions. A decent partiton manager won't
let you pick a size that is too small.

I use the partitioning tools in the (non-free) System Commander, but it
looks like any of the parted flavors should happily resize and create what
you need.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

Bill
--
--------------------------------------------
William D Waddington
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
com
--------------------------------------------
"Even bugs...are unexpected signposts on
the long road of creativity..." - Ken Burtch

Raid problems

Posted: 10 May 2004 03:25 AM PDT

> I'd check first if the RAID has already finished syncing 'cat 

Thank you. I let the machine syncing now. Speed is about 15 MB/sec, that
seems fast enough to me. How often does this sync process take place?


Thomas

11.3.5 Installer won't update Microsoft Office for Mac

11.3.5 Installer won't update Microsoft Office for Mac

11.3.5 Installer won't update

Posted: 04 Jul 2007 02:18 PM PDT

I think I've figured it out. And, I belong in the Word group -- where the
problems are. Thanks anyway.

"dc1999" wrote:
 

License issue

Posted: 03 Jul 2007 08:29 AM PDT

Yeah I thought so too.
Not too sure about the network setup.
But thanks for your comments!

Custom context menu (right-click) in Word 2007?

Posted: 02 Jul 2007 06:00 AM PDT

Gah. When I posted this I wasn't in the mac group. Sorry.

--
Big Dave UK x


"CyberTaz" wrote:
 

Open Office Suite

Posted: 01 Jul 2007 07:40 AM PDT

Quoting from "JE McGimpsey" <org>, in article
microsoft.com, on [DATE:
 

When I install OpenOffice after installing Microsoft Office, then Open
Office changes the file associations of Word, Excel and PowerPoint over to
OpenOffice. It does this without asking and I can't stop it from happening.
I would expect it to do so for OpenDoc format, but not for other product's
file formats. Worse, if I manually reset all the associations back to Word,
Excel and PowerPoint using Finder and "Change ALL" then the next time I use
OpenOffice it changes them back to OpenOffice again without asking and
without recourse. This is extremely bad behavior and is totally
unacceptable.
 

Arial, Times, just about every font. Make a presentation in PowerPoint and
see how it looks in OpenOffice. Same thing with Word. OpenOffice opens the
documents, OK but they look very different from how they were created.
 

Sun released the source code, true. But it is such a convoluted, tangled,
impenetrable mess that only one or two of the developers working on the code
are people who do not work for Sun Microssystems. That's hardly a
"community."

It takes a lot of money (or call it time, organization, commitment,
motivation, enthusiasm or whatever) to make large projects successful.
OpenOffice seems to have exceeded the upper limit as to the kinds of
projects that can be successful using an open source model. Relatively easy
projects such as web browsers and mail clients lend themselves to the open
source model. Hard to do stuff (meaning expensive to make) like office
applications, calendars, and Active-X languish and starve for resources.

Even large enterprises that use OpenOffice such as IBM and the government of
China, loaded with money and talent, are loathe to devote resources to
OpenOffice and other open source projects. The price vs quality equation
evaluates to price for these folks. If they pitch in, that tips the equation
back to commercial software. But it sure sounds good in the press when they
say they "support" open source by using free products.

-Jim
--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

new mac book, installed office mac but not completely working

Posted: 30 Jun 2007 08:08 AM PDT

On 6/30/07 12:12 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "rr.com"
<rr.com> wrote:
 

If you can use ³Remove Office² to get rid of the test drive, you should be
able to copy over your Microsoft preferences to the new computer. It will
contain your invisible CD Key.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

Office 2004 not working after migrating all files from iBook to Mac Book Pro

Posted: 29 Jun 2007 05:29 PM PDT

Thank you for your reply. I will uninstall Office and reinstall it
when I get home. Yes, it's a very stupid way of doing things and you'd
think MSFT and Apple would have sorted it out by now.

On Jun 29, 11:48 pm, John McGhie <name> wrote: 

Use Office v. X on new MacBook Pro?

Posted: 29 Jun 2007 03:29 PM PDT

Hmmm... Well, we are all speculating here. Those who know when Office 2008
is coming out are not allowed to tell us. Those who tell us, don't know.

I agree with Bob that we have no clear indication of when Office 2008 will
come out, and some of us believe it is running late.

I also agree that Office 2004 runs better on later versions of OS X.
Although the difference is not great. Not enough to persuade me to buy it
when the new version is coming in less than a year.

To save upgrade worries going into the future, at some point you need to
upgrade to the Full version. I would do that at the time that you change to
Office 2008.

For the first time, Office X/2004 and Office 2008 will be almost totally
unrelated. Office 2008 is a very major change indeed. In auto terms, it's
as if they jacked up the hood and drove a new car underneath! There's not
much of the old code left. Although, of course, I don't "know" that, and I
didn't "say" that -- right? :-)

So while I think we can depend on it having a liberal supply of bugs (every
large and complex piece of software has, including OS X...) these will be
brand new made-for-leopard bugs. The old bugs we know and love will all be
replaced by new, upgraded bugs.

The same bugs will hit us whether we upgrade from Office 2001 or Office X or
Office 2004, or if we have never installed Office before. So it's false
logic to waste money on Office 2004 now hoping to get fewer bugs in Office
2008 when it arrives. You won't, you will get just the same bugs. And the
upgrade price is the same, regardless of which version you upgrade "from".
You either have a qualifying previous version, or you don't. Same price.

On the other hand, when we do get Office 2008, it will be wise to allow
Office 2008 to convert all the files we have into its new format. Office X
does not have some of the features of Office 2004. So its files are very
slightly simpler. And that means they will be slightly easier to convert,
and may thus produce slightly less trouble when you do convert them.

Let me hasten to add that you do not HAVE to convert files to use them in
Office 2008. (Well: Office 2008 can only work in the new format, so it
will convert them anyway, but it will save them back to the old format when
you quit, if you so insist.)

You can continue to use the old file formats: but that would be silly. The
main advantage of Office 2008 is that the new file format is very much more
reliable than the old one.

The only time you might choose not to convert is if you have some
non-Microsoft application that can read only the old formats: this is not
likely to be an issue except in large corporations.

Hope this helps


On 30/6/07 10:53 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name

Entourage formatting

Posted: 28 Jun 2007 07:06 AM PDT

On 1/7/07 10:07 AM, in article C2AD2D66.4D25%name, "John McGhie"
<name> wrote:

<snip>
 
In Acrobat: Select with selection tool, copy; in Word, Edit menu => Paste
Special (or a keyboard shortcut for this most used of all my editing
actions). Not difficult if you have Acrobat (you don't, John? I shall speed
to you a licensed recent version by Australia Post as a token of my
esteem...).

Clive Huggan
============

previously functional Office 2004 now won't launch after Mac OS updates

Posted: 27 Jun 2007 01:02 PM PDT

On 7/2/07 1:00 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "com"
<com> wrote:
 

An ³Archive & Install² isn¹t bad. If you select to "Preserve User and
Network Settings", it¹s pretty painless.

As Bob suggested, try the combo updater first.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>

New Macbook - reinstalled and now only a trial version of Office

Posted: 27 Jun 2007 10:27 AM PDT

Another possibility I'm reading into your quandary:

If the previous owner legitimately owned a license to the Office software on
the system he should have either a) removed Office from the Mac before
transferring ownership if he intended to continue using that copy of the
product, or b) handed over the disks along with the Mac & the key. As you
can see, the key does you no good if you have to reinstall the software -
the software is on the disks. You can install from any copy of the same
version using your key, but you'll still be left in the same boat if
something similar occurs in the future.

Contact the other party for the disks or invest in a copy of Office to call
your own:)

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

"Googler" <net> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

Microsoft Office Product License

Posted: 26 Jun 2007 07:53 PM PDT

Might be *your* Macbook, but it *isn't* your software... It's licensed to
one & only one individual. Since what you (and your friend) have done is a
violation of the license agreement I wouldn't complain too loudly... Let
alone in public. If your sanity is truly at stake, follow John's advice &
purchase a legitimately licensed copy... It may also salvage your integrity
as well as your conscience;)

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



On 6/26/07 10:53 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Installation problem Office Mac

Posted: 24 Jun 2007 04:50 PM PDT

Either the CD is dirty, or your drive is dirty.

Put in a different CD. If that works OK, then you need to clean your Office
CD.

Wipe the non-printed side with window-cleaner and a soft cloth and try
again.


On 25/6/07 9:20 AM, in article
googlegroups.com, "edu"
<edu> wrote:
 

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Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name

Multiple users accessing single mailbox - Microsoft Exchange

Multiple users accessing single mailbox - Microsoft Exchange

Multiple users accessing single mailbox

Posted: 04 Aug 2004 10:34 AM PDT

I tried that through the Mailbox Permissions button on the Exchange Advanced
tab in Active Directory but it did not seem to allow those users to access
the mailbox. What exaclty do the permission in that Exchange Advanced tab
do?

"Chris Ahlers [MSFT]" <Microsoft.Com> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl... 
Security 
do 
configure 
================================================== ========================== 
rights. 
================================================== ========================== 
but 
I 
somewhere 

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 842801 - MSExchangeTransport

Posted: 03 Aug 2004 05:18 PM PDT

Thank you for you help 
KB article, you 
px 
name.<domain>>, 

what type of virus protection is best for exchange

Posted: 03 Aug 2004 01:43 PM PDT

This is, of course, independent of how you do a file scan of the Exchange
box. When you do install a client, be sure that you do not do a file scan of
the Exchange directories, especially the ones with the database and log
files. If NAV finds an infection, it might quarantine or, even worse, delete
the "infected" file. This can have catastrophic consequences to Exchange.
Post back if you need help in identifying what directories to exclude.

Also, consider carefully whether or not you want Real Time Protection
enabled. In general, it's not a good idea (IMHO) to have it enabled on a
server. If I enable it on a server, it's restricted to directories that a
user has write access to. In most cases it will just slow down the
performance of a server for no real advantage. Be sure, though, to schedule
at least daily scans of the server as well as Live Updates.

--
Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Hank Arnold" <com> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl... 
on 
using?

unable to telnet to exchange server lan nor wan

Posted: 03 Aug 2004 12:03 PM PDT

That wouldn't explain why he can't connect to the SMTP server from the
server itself, though....


microsoft.com wrote: 

How to: Notify that the email address has changed

Posted: 03 Aug 2004 07:23 AM PDT

Javier Villegas wrote: 

Why not just make sure your recipient policy is set up for both address
formats and make the new one the default - and then you can get mail sent to
either address in the same mailbox? any replies will come from the 'new'
address - you can also put an Outlook signature in that states something
like "Please note that my new email address is ____"
 

Why not just make sure your recipient policy is set up for both address
formats and make the new one the default - and then you can get mail sent to
either address in the same mailbox? any replies will come from the 'new'
address - you can also put an Outlook signature in that states something
like "Please note that my new email address is ____"

OWA SSL quit working

Posted: 03 Aug 2004 05:52 AM PDT

When you change to 444, the system works perfectly, and
then when you do portqry -n <servername> -e 443, it still
say's https service listening.
 
port 443? 
anything like that? 
working, 
on 
on 
server. 
may 
like 
What 

Group Schedules & OWA

Posted: 03 Aug 2004 02:43 AM PDT

Yes, but can not have a calender to each person, considered using Group Schedule in Public folders but again doesn't appear to be available in OWA



"PES" wrote:
 

e-mail with attachments not arriving.

Posted: 03 Aug 2004 02:39 AM PDT

Ah, I thought you meant the problem was with OE6 clients *receiving*
attachments.
Are they connecting to your server at all? Or do they have their own?

Steve Foreshore wrote: 

xp pro upgrade

Posted: 02 Aug 2004 10:47 PM PDT

The xp pro disc should be fine. Just pop-in the CD and click on upgrade. You will have to run all the windowsupdates after the xp pro installation.

"com" wrote:
 

OWA on Exchange 5.5

Posted: 02 Aug 2004 03:55 PM PDT

These are the things that I have found will prevent a user from gaining access to OWA:

Using an AOL or Google toolbar - if this is the case have your user remain online but minimize the toolbar and open Internet Explorer toolbar instead.

Firewall - If he's using XP and has the firewall enabled, or is using another type of personal firewall, he will need to change his settings to allow access to OWA.

Cookies - if cookies is disabled, or if his internet security it too high, that will prevent access too, he may just need to re-adjust his settings.

Hope this is helpful.

Joann

"Matthew Tisdel" wrote:
 

Migration from Outlook pst using POP3/SMTP to Exchange 2003

Posted: 01 Aug 2004 09:00 AM PDT

Thanks to all for great feedback. C

"Clementius" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:eUoJ8C%phx.gbl... 

Making XP look & feel like Win98

Posted: 31 Jul 2004 11:16 AM PDT

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:16:25 -0700, "Peter Withey"
<net> wrote in microsoft.public.exchange.misc:
 

Control Panel/Display/Theme: Windows Classic?

--
Michael Bednarek http://mbednarek.com/ "POST NO BILLS"

Catchall Sinks

Posted: 30 Jul 2004 12:45 PM PDT

Glad to help!

microsoft.com wrote: 

Exchange 2003 Test Recovery

Posted: 29 Jul 2004 02:21 PM PDT

Can you explain the 'Recover Storage Group' and 'backing up to a file rather
than tape' in more detail? How are they used and created or set up? Is
there a document or book out there that would help me?

Thanks,

~Jaye

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <org> wrote in message
news:com... 
server. 
databases 
and 
backup 
perform 

Duplicate E Mails

Posted: 29 Jul 2004 03:16 AM PDT

Hi Richard,

Even if you may not have this issue, this is a good fix to install
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=835734

--

Niclas Holmkvist
Microsoft Exchange Support
---
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Richard" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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OWA 2003 in a DMZ

Posted: 28 Jul 2004 03:58 PM PDT

Thanks for the response. I was hoping for an answer like
that :). Aside from using the IIS Lockdown tool from
Microsoft, Is there anything else running on Win
2003/Exchange 2000 by default that I should be worried
about? Do you know of any good articles that address this
or list out the min. Services that need to be running on a
Front-End OWA Server?

Thanks again,
-Elkan

 
I've 
server 
firewall? 
secure it within an 
to its internal IP. 
ports between DMZ and 
effectively render the DMZ 
with 
registry 
Domain 
open 
communication, and yes, 

Message recall

Posted: 28 Jul 2004 02:09 PM PDT

I was actually looking for information as far as it working over an x.400 connection. we have multiple sites and it seems to not work between sites but does (to some degree :-)) within the same site. We really don't depend on it, I would just like to clarify whether or not it is "supposed" to work between sites or not. Exch 5.5 sp4 by the way. Thanks.

"Martin Blackstone [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
 

Move Exchange 5.5 to new hard ware and keep the same server name.

Posted: 28 Jul 2004 09:52 AM PDT

Thank You !!!!
 
another 
us;q155216 

Exchange 2003 - Native Mode vs. Mixed Mode

Posted: 27 Jul 2004 02:42 PM PDT

Hi Mark,

I knew there was some mystical powers in Exchange! Anyway, can I change to
Native mode anytime or is it best to do that sort of change off hours?

Thanks,

~Jaye

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <org> wrote in message
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2003 
is 
and 
the 
has 

Microsoft Word - Unknown glitch in using word/office

Microsoft Word - Unknown glitch in using word/office

Unknown glitch in using word/office

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 10:08 AM PST

I am unable to type a word document w/o message: "There is a problem with one or more installed help files. Pls. repair your office installation and try again".
I have no idea what to do and any document I produce contains a parapgrph symbol before each entry and a dot between each word, making it totally unusable.
I need help and I am not a techie so I need simple, step-by-step instructions to correct.
Thanks.
Dorrie F.

Office 2013 copy and paste

Posted: 06 Mar 2013 07:10 AM PST

How can I copy and paste a document to a blank document? The first bit is easy but I can't bring up a blank document

Saving a Document as PDF corrupts no matter software I use. (Text from top repeating at bottom right corner)

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 03:33 PM PST

When saving a DocX or Doc to PDF the formatting seems to corrupt at the bottom right corner of the document. I have tried to copy and paste to a enw document. I have saved the original word document to the older .doc extension and retried saving to pdf. I have even uploaded the doc to google documents and the exact same thing happens. Obviously this all points to the issue being from within the word document formatting. But where is it?

I have gone through all view modes of the document to see if there is a clue there. None at all.


Suggestions?

Word adds a 2 inch tab after inserting a blank page

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 03:09 PM PST

The syntax of the subject of this post is questionable. What I mean is that after I insert a blank page, the previous page has a giant 2 inch tab at the bottom. If I try to remove it, the page break or inserted page merges with the previous page. Has anyone else encountered this issue or figured out how to fix it?

WinWord 2003 is treated like an orphan on new Win7 computer

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 02:52 PM PST

WinWord 2003 is treated like an orphan on my new Win7 computer. A generic Icon appears on desktop and taskbar, Outlook won't use it as an e-mail editor and each time I open WinWord, I am quizzed about letting this program make changes to my computer. I reinstalled it with the same result. Other parts of Office work normally.  Does ayone know what is going on?

 

StanN

I am creating a table using mail merge - how do you get the records to go down then across to the next column instead of to the column on the right then down the the column on the left?

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 12:57 PM PST

Hi

 

I am creating a table with multiple rows and 3 columns.  Right now, when mail merge is complete, the records go from the first cell in the column on the far left to the same row in the middle column then to the right column before it goes down to the next row.  How can I get it to stay in the column until all the rows are full then go to the next column until all those rows are filled?

Page n of total doesn't seem to work within sections

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PST

I have a Word 2010 document that contains 3 sections, a title page, a table of contents and the document body.  Each section break begins on a new page and I have broken the link to previous sections.  Section 1 should have no footer (no number), section 2 should have a footer with roman numerals as the page numbers appearing at the right margin, section 3 should have the date at the left margin and Page 1 of <total pages for section 3> at the right margin.  Each of the footers with page numbers have the Page Number Format set to begin at 1.  There are currently 21 pages in section 3.  The last page of section 3 shows "page 21 of 24".  It has obviously counted the title page and the two pages of Table of Contents.  There are indeed 24 pages in the document, but only 21 pages in section 3.  It certainly appears that this is not possible with Word 2010.  Can anyone else make this work?

 

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Word auto doc open

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 05:23 AM PST



This is the error message i receive when i click on a Word doc icon.

I had to re-install Office recently. Now i have 2 bugs that were not there before.

My main concern is Word. It will no longer automatically open a Word icon. I have to 'detach' the icon to desktop, start word and then click on the icon to open the doc.

I need help formatting numbers in a mail merge

Posted: 05 Mar 2013 02:51 AM PST

The numbers are an ID number and I need to format them so that they look like this:

XXXX XXXX XXXX

Where the first two or three numbers are zeros, and there is a space separating each group of numbers. I know there are numerous ways to seperate these in the data source, and, using a custom number format, in the data source the numbers are displayed correctly, it just but when the info is in the mail merge the numbers look like one long one, with no leading zeros. Messing with the data source further (e.g. seperating the numbers into different columns) is not an option.

I have spent the last four days Googling for a solution on my own time, but so far nothing has worked.

My workplace uses Office 2007, and we're on Windows XP.

I use Windows 8 & Office 2010 Recent upgrade from WP & Office 2000. Word docs loan as PDF only and lose functionality

Posted: 04 Mar 2013 04:11 PM PST

Recently moved word documents from Office 2000 on XP to Windows 8 & Office 2010.

Word docs open in a PDF form and lose some functions. Originally had calculations but no longer. Documents open on a black screen with no Word formatting tool bars or ribbons showing. I am a little better than a novice operator only so not too technical please.

Word 2010 randomly deletes text in my document and eventually beomes unresponsive and crashes but not before losing all my work!

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 01:05 PM PST

I got a new laptop and installed MS Office 2010 2 months ago.  On several occasions while I'm typing my paper for my thesis Word will just start deleting/back spacing my text and I'm unable to stop it - the program becomes unresponsive and eventually crashes.  Fortunately I save my work often but the last time the auto-save saved the document with the deleted text!! I now power down the laptop when this happens to stop the auto-save.

I don't have any other problems with other software just - Word. There's no options in Control Panel other than to un-install.  Can anyone help??  I have Toshiba Satellite U840 running Windows 7 Home Premium.

Word, Windows 8, a tablet and a Signature... Help Please

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 08:40 AM PST

I have created a "fill in the text box" form in Word.  I want to make it a template and allow it to be downloaded onto a tablet with Windows 8 so customers can actually sign the form using a stylus. How can this be accomplished without leaving the actual form unprotected?

 

when i start the word file and want to write something then i am getting error that saying "this modification is not allowed because the selection is locked. please help me how to solve this problem..

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:16 PM PST

when i start the word file and want to write something then i am getting error that saying "this modification is not allowed because the selection is locked. please help me how to solve this problem.. 

When in Word & accessing 'Help' how can I make the text larger, so when I print out the answer I can read it?

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 08:53 PM PST

I Just typed a letter & needed  to use 'Help'...but I find the text is so small, having a great problem reading it. Is there any way I can make this text larger? If not, why not.....This seems to be an ongoing trend with a lot of stuff to do with computers.......and it's not a problem confined to old people, even some young people have trouble reading & have to wear glasses....how about Microsoft giving us a good go @ trying to stay up to date?Even this is a bit small......I'm using Firefox & yes I have zoomed in....
BTW, my system is Windows XP Pro v 5.1.2600 SP 3.0 32bit.
Thanks in anticipation
Sylvia....

Customizing a legend Microsoft Project

Customizing a legend Microsoft Project

Customizing a legend

Posted: 01 Jun 2004 08:33 AM PDT

Hi Chuck

Look as http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm

Faq 33. What the Gantt Chart legend shows

HTH

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Automatic completion of the Actual work field

Posted: 01 Jun 2004 02:20 AM PDT

Hi,

That is a function, but it is not automatic.
You have to go to Tools, Tracking, Update Project, to find it.
To do it you can also use a button on the tracking toolbar.
But again, that is not automatic, at least not in Project Standard or
Professional
Are you using Project Server?
Do you fill it in manually from sheets or is there a program doing that? I
once wrote such a program for a customer and it indeed put all past work
into Actual Work (but that was progrmamed by me in VBA, it is not an MSP
function).

HTH
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work/duration

Posted: 31 May 2004 12:41 PM PDT

Hi,

My advice is to call it a 4 hours duration task, thus assigning the resource
at 100%. Project will propose a start date as soon as possible but you can
set a deadline and show "Latest Finish" - the task then has to be done
between Start and LKate Finish, and work is not split at all.
HTH

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the 4 hours over a 5 day period which i do not want to happen. I want the
resource to know they have 5 days to complete the task, therefore they can
work on it for 4 hours on one day or 1 hour a day...etc... Is there a
setting where MS does not divide the hours over the duration

task predecessor setting dates

Posted: 31 May 2004 09:21 AM PDT

Hi Mark,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

What you can do is to create a milestone FS between the two tasks. Now
create a special calendar for working hours from, say, 0800 to 0801 only
every work day. Now assign that as a task calendar to the milestone which
can only be scheduled for that one minute per day, thus ensuring that the 8
hr task starts the next full day. If you're unsure of how to do any of
this, please repost.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Mark Etheridge wrote: 

maximum of 5 units produced at any one time

Posted: 31 May 2004 08:47 AM PDT

Hi Rod

this is currently being tracked in excel - the main limitation there is that
a change in one thing doesn't automatically result in a change in everything
else and this, of course, is one of project's strengths. Also if the guy
who is currently managing the excel spreadsheet is asked a question along
the lines of, we've tendered for 5 pulleys and it looks like its going ahead
when could they be delivered given a starting date of july 1 he's got no way
of simulating / producing this information from his excel spreadsheet.

i've proposed a solution along the lines of - each pulley is a separate
project file with the processes required for its manufacture (including
resources and predessors), additionally there is a tender process file and a
post production process file. There is also a resource pool file and the
resources for each part of the process are taken from the resource pool.
I've created a resource called workshop with a maximum availability of 500%.

when a new tender comes in a new project file is created for the order with
the tender process as one phase, each pulley that the order is for as
another phase and at the end the post production phase (these are copied and
pasted in from the "template" files) - so an order with 1 pulley has three
phases and order with 5 pulleys has seven (whether or not the pulley's are
the same type or not). Links are created between the first phase and each
of the pulleys and then end of each pulley and the post production phase and
the file is saved under the tender number.

This new tender file is then inserted into a master file along with the
other tenders & orders-in-progress ... the file is then levelled and all is
well :) when changes are made the project is re-levelled etc.

i feel that this will, for a start, provide a better solution than they
currently have - i am now looking at using VBA to automate the "setting up
phase" where they can choose the type & number of pulleys in each new tender
& project automatically inserts (copies & pastes) the information in with
the tender & post process phase, saves the files & inserts it into the
master - haven't got very far with this as i've not done any serious
programming with project before and i've only spent about 1/2 hr today
playing with vba - hopefully i will get some time over the next couple of
days to do this.

The main "outstanding" issue that i then see is that of the "ramping up"
concept ... i'm wondering if again using VBA i can automate the master file
that when the workshop resource reaches 300% that the working time for the
workshop increases to the 10hrs from the 8hrs automatically until the
resource useage drops below 300% ???

any comments / advice / warnings would be appreciated.

Cheers
JulieD



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fixing the columns in the project view

Posted: 31 May 2004 03:51 AM PDT

If you are using project 2003, you can restrict this by not giving the "manage views" permission to the user whom you dont want to do this.I dont know if this option is available in other versions of project.

Enterprise Global dimmed

Posted: 29 May 2004 09:38 AM PDT

Ahmed --

Refer to the Resolution section of the following link for the directions on
how to set up your login account in Microsoft Project Professional:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Project%20Server%20FAQs/pubnonenterprise.htm

Hope this helps.

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Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
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Custom Field Calc

Posted: 28 May 2004 02:10 PM PDT


Cota,
I better understand what you are trying to do. However, I don't know of
any way to reassign resources without being proactive. One way or
another you will have to address each task whose profile needs to be
changed. No simple formula in a custom field can do that.

The only alternate approach I can see is to develop an algorithm that
emulates the decision process for changing resource assignments. For
example, resource 2 is a premiumn resource that is only needed to
perform tasks that have certain parameters and resource 2 is only
available if a quota of X number of units is met in a certain time
frame. It can get pretty hairy but it is feasible. However, the only
practical way to accomplish this is through VBA and that may turn out to
be more effort than making the assignment adjustments manually.

Not sure if this helps.

John

How to recover a corrupt MS Project 2000 file

Posted: 28 May 2004 11:46 AM PDT

There is a knowledge base article with some help:

318438 PRJ: How to Troubleshoot Corrupted .MPP Project
Files

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318438

 

redundant or nested predecessor links.

Posted: 28 May 2004 10:47 AM PDT

Which fully supports my position (as shown in the second sentence of my
answer).

On Sat, 29 May 2004 21:00:38 -0400, Mark Durrenberger <com>
wrote:
 

export timeline

Posted: 28 May 2004 08:53 AM PDT

Hi liquidgolf ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP

liquidgolf wrote: 

Shift Calendar

Posted: 28 May 2004 08:26 AM PDT

Hi Kay,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

You might also like to have a look at my series of Microsoft Project lessons
in the TechTrax ezine, particularly the bit on Shifts in Lesson 12 - Working
Patterns at this site: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc (Perhaps you'd care to rate
it before leaving the site, :) Thanks.)

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: <http://www.mvps.org/project/>

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Kay wrote: 

Resource Group Balance Graph

Posted: 27 May 2004 11:29 PM PDT

Hi Conrad,

Double-click in the graphical part to show Bar Styles.
You can choose the representation of overallocated work and select
availability to be shown.
HTH

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displaying the Work value on the bottom line of the chart. Is there a way
to modify the Graph to add a second value line showing the Overallocation
values or a third line showing the Availability values? 
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