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New SuSE 9.1 installation and grub

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 03:16 AM PDT

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

Which comp best for Linux?

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 03:30 PM PDT

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

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

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

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

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

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

---Nessuno

Fedora 2

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 11:26 AM PDT

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

Need help installing SuSE beside Fedora and XP

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 04:05 AM PDT

ObsessiveMathsFreak wrote:
 

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

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 08:31 PM PDT

Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
 

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

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SRPMS

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 06:00 PM PDT

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

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

Thanks for the response. I appreciate the help.

Install kernel source problem

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 09:27 AM PDT

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

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

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

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

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

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 02:02 AM PDT

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

Allowing user to mount / umount file space using Samba?

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 02:31 AM PDT

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

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

No problem. HTH,

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

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 10:22 PM PDT

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

Then start some terminals.
 

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace will.

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

Groups problems administration

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 04:06 PM PDT

Michael Heiming wrote: 
I get the same result.

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

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

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


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

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


Regards,
Bye.
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Madrid, Spain.

slackware 9.1 and XFree86 Problems

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 07:19 AM PDT

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

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

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

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 02:10 AM PDT

Hi John,

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

Valerio

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

How can I troubleshoot a memory stick on Linux?

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 09:34 PM PDT

usenet.us.com wrote: 

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

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2.6.7 and sym53c8xx module

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 10:33 AM PDT

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

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

[..] 
 

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

That won't probably work out.

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

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 10:16 AM PDT

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

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

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HELP with kernel compile

Posted: 06 Jul 2004 04:28 PM PDT

Micha? Kosmulski wrote:
 

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

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Linux wiped out my Windows

Posted: 06 Jul 2004 06:25 AM PDT

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

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

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

Samba Question

Posted: 05 Jul 2004 08:44 AM PDT

Nick LaBrie wrote: 

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

nl

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

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

Unable to print on network between Win Vista and WinXP

Posted: 04 Nov 2007 08:09 AM PST

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

Office X compatible with Leopard?

Posted: 03 Nov 2007 04:09 PM PDT

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

For more details visit Microsoft's Super Suite Deal.

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

That should be Sweet not Suite. Duh!!!

I claim old age and senility.

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2 Imacs and Microsoft Office

Posted: 03 Nov 2007 06:14 AM PDT

taussigm wrote*: 

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

Best Regards,
Dominique.

Re-Installing Office 2004 Without Original CD

Posted: 02 Nov 2007 04:36 PM PDT

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



Thanks.

Problem with OS X 10.5 and Office 2004

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 05:56 PM PDT

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

Does this happen in a new user account?

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

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 02:29 PM PDT

Hi Andre:

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

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

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

The architectures are completely different.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers

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

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Word/Newsletter question

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 01:33 PM PDT

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

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

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

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

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

How to subscribe to the Microsoft Entourage talk list:

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

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 09:21 AM PDT

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

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

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

So I won't say it.

But can you guess what I'm thinking?


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

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

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

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Trouble upgrading from Office X to Office 2004

Posted: 01 Nov 2007 06:51 AM PDT

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

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

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

Office 2001 settings migration

Posted: 31 Oct 2007 11:08 AM PDT

Hi Lucas:

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

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

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

Cheers

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

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

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

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

thanks much

take care



Lucas Friedrichsen, ITC
OSU Computer Helpdesk
Oregon State University

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upgrading to leopard: office not working

Posted: 31 Oct 2007 02:33 AM PDT

 

Michael,

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

Paul

Office:Mac 2004

Posted: 30 Oct 2007 11:13 AM PDT

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

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



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

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

Office 2008 extension

Posted: 30 Oct 2007 06:01 AM PDT

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

--
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Streets and Trips 2008 with GPS

Posted: 29 Oct 2007 10:52 AM PDT

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hope this helps


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

I couldnt find a specific group from that long list.

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

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

People tell me they can connect in seconds.

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

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

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Microsoft Word - how do I avoid getting a summary printed out after I print a document

Microsoft Word - how do I avoid getting a summary printed out after I print a document

how do I avoid getting a summary printed out after I print a document

Posted: 02 May 2013 01:44 PM PDT

After I print a document, another page follows with a summary, eg. Document1, Template, author, creation date, etc.

 

word 2007 table autofit

Posted: 02 May 2013 08:19 AM PDT

Hello,

I use word 2007, when creating a new table from insert->table->insert table there is an item called AutoFit Behavior under which there is three selections: (Fixed column width, AutoFit to content, AutoFit to window). After creating the table, when you right click the table or a cell you find that there is also an item called AutoFit that opens three selections: (AutoFit to contents, AutoFit to window, Fixed column width). what is the function of every item and what is the difference between them?

any help will be greatly appreciated.

thank you

Automatically update style?

Posted: 02 May 2013 04:12 AM PDT

Hi everyone,
I'd like to ask a question in MOS Word expert,, so the question is :" change line spacing of style HEADING 1 into exactly 12 pt and then apply to all Heading 1 style".
So I just modify the HEADING 1 style, and then check the box " Automatically update". So is it true or false?
Because, when I do it again at home, although I don't check the box "Automatically update" but all texts that have the same style "HEADING 1" in the document still change into new.
So what is the difference between check and not check the box "Automatically update" when I modify the style?
Thank you so much.

Citations & Bibliography greyed out

Posted: 01 May 2013 04:55 PM PDT

Hi, I'm using Office 2013 Pro Plus on Win 7 Pro (32 bit)

My problem is that I cannot access the Citations & Bibliography group under the REFERENCES ribbon. Its greyed out. All other features are active and working fine. Other applications are also working fine such as Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc.

Note: I have already tried the repair option.

Your assistance will be highly appreciated.

How can I keep a graphic from printing? Word 2013

Posted: 01 May 2013 04:29 PM PDT

I've got a hold-out. They want to fill in fields on top of a form they've got pre-printed. I recall I could set Word not to print any graphics. Perhaps I recall wrong. Regardless, I don't want the graphic to print, but I want the form fields to print.

Thanks in advance for your help!

after updating open office to 3.4.1 I can't open MS office files

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:54 PM PDT

I have MS office 2007 and I had OOo 3.4.  I updated the OO.o (Open Office) to 3.4.1 and now all of the icons on my docx and xlsx documents have disappeared and was replaced with OO.o icons. I tried downloading an associator application but that didn't work. I tried going in to file types and adding new file types because the office file types were missing and that didn't work. I have since removed OO.o but that didn't help either. Can anyone tell me how to restore my my MS office to it's previous state?

 

Les

Opening a folder created problems

Posted: 01 May 2013 01:21 PM PDT

I was trying to save a folder that I copied from one of our computers to another. The file would not open in Excel (it was created in Excel) and it gave me the box to choose another program to open it in.  I tried to open it in Word and whatever I did changed most of the programs on my computer to a Word format and all that I get when I click on my icons is a Word box. I was able to get help with my UPS Worldship program and get it changed to the original settings, but it changed all of the programs that were affected by what I did to UPS and that particular program opens each time you click any of the icons. I know this is confusing but if anyone can understand what my problem is I would greatly appreciate an answer. Thank you

Change format of certain numbers in outline list OR Sequential numbering between 2 levels

Posted: 01 May 2013 09:11 AM PDT

I have a numbered list that must contain certain numbers in bold and others in normal formatting, like this:

1. This is section 1 and the number should be bold
2. This is section 2 and the number should not be bold
3. This is section 3 and the number should not be bold
4. This is section 4 and the number should be bold
...

I tried 2 different ways to go about it, however I am stuck in both.

Attempt #1: Changing the format of certain numbers only
I have found a way to change the color of certain numbers by changing the color of the paragraph symbol ¶, however the same property matching does not seem to work for bold formatting.

Attempt #2: Sequential numbering between 2 levels of the same list
This more convoluted workaround was to basically setup a list in which the first 2 levels are identical in formatting except for the bold/not bold. The problem with this is that in order to keep sequential numbering I would have to sometimes set the values manually: in a list that goes 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., I must set the starting value of Level 2 (non-bold) to 3, then set the value of Level 1 (bold) to 4 (to skip 3.), then set the Level 2 value to 5., etc.... All this manual input cancels the advantage of using an automatic list and I could end up with duplicate numbers (or skipped numbers).

I hope I was clear enough in my description of the issues at hand and would of course be glad to have a solution to either (or a brand new idea that would solve the problem too!).

Thank you in advance.

Word 2013 Save As File Name Inconsistency

Posted: 01 May 2013 06:26 AM PDT

In Word 2013, and it appears only in 2013, I am finding an inconsistency with what file name is auto generated in the Save As Dialog. Can anyone point me to a hotfix or upcoming fix for this?

Steps:

Create new blank Word document.

Go to File – Show all Properties

Set "Title" field to "Jennifer"

Go to Save As – Browse

File name set to "Doc1"

Click X out of Browse

Click Browse again

File name set to "Jennifer"

We are trying to set the title so that the file name is prepopulated for the user when they do a save as on one of our documents. Thanks for any help!

-Jennifer

Office templates

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 08:42 AM PDT

Hi, we have recently installed a server running Windows server 2012 Standard Edition. Connected to this are a collection of PC's running Vista SP2 and MS Office 2007, 2003 or even both. I have the job of setting up the user accounts, which according to the hardware installers require user profiles on each PC as Vista doesn't support roaming profiles (but that's a different topic). My question concerns templates mainly for Word and PowerPoint which allow us to run macros on forms we use. I was wondering if I have to put these templates in each user profile on each PC, or is there a more admin friendly option such as accessing the templates from the server?

Sorry for the convoluted question, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am probably obviously new to this network admin game, but seem to have become lumbered.

Word won't save documents

Posted: 27 Apr 2013 12:43 PM PDT

Word will not save my documents. When I started with Word, I made some changes to a document, but when I tried to save it, it locked up and wouldn't do anything else - it won't even shut down when I click the red X. It just shows the hour glass cursor until I go to Task Manager and end the task. I tried it a few more times, and now I have three "recovered documents", but when I try to save them, it locks up again. I've done disk cleanup and defrag, but they didn't help. Thank you for any suggestions.  :)

import gantt chart from MS project2000 to MS excel2000 Microsoft Project

import gantt chart from MS project2000 to MS excel2000 Microsoft Project

import gantt chart from MS project2000 to MS excel2000

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 11:15 PM PDT

That one is not possible to do. You can send them the Gantt chart as an
image as Rob suggested but it's just that, a picture of the Gantt chart, and
not the Gantt itself. If team members need to update the project
information, and the only way to modify the Gantt is to change the
information it's based on, they need to have access to the actual project
file that contains that information and a license for MS Project or you need
to setup Project Server and Web Access. That's what those products are for.
FYI - the Gantt chart is not the end all and be all of project management
and simply generating Gantt charts is not what MS Project is all about. The
Gantt is simply a view - you could think of it as a report if you like - of
the underlaying project plan. Creating and managing the actual plan is what
Project is for and "modify gantt chart" falls under that umbrella.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Nor" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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don't familliar with MS project. 

How to Keep Resources???

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 01:11 PM PDT

Hi Mike:

Look up Resource Pools in help and the book you have. What you want to do
is common practice. In short, you create a project file that contains all
your resource information but usually no task information. You also have a
file for each project that contains the task information but usually no
resources. With *both* files open simultaneously and the tasks file the
current window, go to the Tools menu, Resource Sharing, and link the two
files together. Now the resource information from your resource pool file
will appear on the resource sheet of the tasks file.

How are things along the Wasatch these days? Lived in SLC downtown on East
2nd and then down in Holladay from '85 until '95. Did a lot of programming
work for Kennecott back in those days.


--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs





"Mike Haddon" <gov> wrote in message
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Subproject title in master project

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 12:43 PM PDT

Hi Rob,

I'm sorry to say, but through all versions I've been using, this is an
oddity.
For instance, setting the title property throughVBA doesn't work at all, you
have to set the name of the project summary task.
In many instances, manually as well, this is generally more "powerful" than
Title property.

Greetings,


--
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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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32-495-300 620
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Working back from Finish Date

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 10:18 AM PDT

Hi,

You do absolutely nothing special, input your project scheduled from start,
all links as usual.
Then show Latest Start and Latest Finish instead of Start and Finish.
HTH

--
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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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32-495-300 620
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Overallocate resources - calendar = 8 hours, why are they over at

Posted: 12 Jul 2004 08:57 AM PDT

Go to the Tools Options settings, View tab, and select a date format that
include the time


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MS Project Trainer/Consultant
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"Brian McCune" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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assigned by time of day? I can only see that they are assigned for a day -
not the hours of the day that they are working on them. How do I do that? 
work on one task for .8 hours? 
connected to the network (not storing it into an MS Project Server
database). 
4 
100%, 
scheduled 
that 
days 
2.5, 
work - 

Analyze Timescaled Data in Excel

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 07:15 PM PDT

Apparently all downloads for the 2000 version have been removed.

Sarah

My work week starts on Saturday Why won't Project do the same?

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 06:22 AM PDT

IMHO, the working time calendar designated as the Project Calendar does NOT
necessarily reflect the total hours that your business is in operation. The
Project Calendar governs the placement of tasks when resources have not been
assigned to them (either you haven't done it yet or won't be doing it for
some reason) and no task calendar (exception calendar) has been designated
for it. But that's not the whole story. Tasks only proceed when the
resource is present to work on it so when resources are assigned the task
moves in the calendar to follow the resource's availability. But a fully
detailed WBS breaks the project work down to the level of each task = 1
resource's work. So what does that mean? If "waxing widgets" is going to
take 24 hours of duration to complete, it is NOT going to proceed 24 hours
continuously, even if our company works 24/5. The company (drilling
platform, etc) may be running 24 hours solid, but the ONE GUY or ONE TEAM
that is *working together* on that single task will come to work at some
time, work for an 8 hour shift, go home, come back the next day and work on
it another 8 hours, go home, come back the next day and work the final 8
hours on it. If we has put that task in the project starting monday at 8am
and said its duration is 24 hours, the plan would show it finishing Tuesday
at 8am if the Project Calendar is the 24 hour calendar. But that's not what
is going to actually happen. What is really going to happen is the task
will get interrupted for the period the ONE GUY working on it is home
sleeping and it will really finish Wednesday at 5pm, not Tuesday at 8am and
that's the way I like to see it show up in the plan before I get around to
assigning resources. IF I actually need it to finish Tuesday I can assign a
resource on Day shift, then add another on Swing shift, and another on
Graveyard giving each of them 8 man-hours of work and 100% effort and
although its duration will not change, the combination of the resources
working hours will move its completion up to the required Tuesday morning.


--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Azer Nazair" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Adding resource changes task dates: WHY?

Posted: 11 Jul 2004 03:09 AM PDT

Thank you Mr. House. That fixed the problem and now I
understand how it works.

I am going to ask another question but in a new email so
everyone could read it.

Thank you again.

-Azer
 
typed listed there as 
listed for them in the 
the one you have 
Information menu? If I'm 
the resource column 
I've never understand 
Options entry, 
to "Automatically add new 
dates 
field. 
are 
FAQs 
books 
is 

Work Breakdown wizard

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 12:05 PM PDT

Thanks for your help, and the site.
 
chart from 
infomation as you want in a 
message 
when 
toolbar. 
of 
resources 

Printing Utility

Posted: 10 Jul 2004 11:32 AM PDT


Itzik,
Wow, binder, I haven't heard that term for quite a while. Don't know if
MS Binder will work with Project, did you try it?

It's not real clear what you mean by printing all 70 files in the same
view. Do you mean print all 70 files as one big file or do you mean
print each of the 70 files in the Gantt Chart view for example? If you
want to do the former, build a consolidated master by going to
Insert/Project and select all 70 files in the Insert Project Window. If
you want each file to print starting on its own page, just put a manual
page break at the beginning of each inserted file. If you simply want to
print each file separately, you could create a simple VBA macro to
automate opening each file, setting the view and printing. If all the
files are in one folder, you should be able to simply code in the folder
path and have the macro open all the files in that folder in succession.

These are just a couple of ideas. There may be other methods also.

Hope this helps.
John

Permanently change Current Date Line

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 10:38 AM PDT

John,
Thanks for the help. That's just what I've been doing, is running that
macro as I open each file when I work on it. Was just hoping to find
an easier way, as always. I hate doing repetitive tasks, thought that
was what I got the computer and the software for in the first place!
At least it's just a single click of a button.

David G. Bellamy
Bellamy Consulting

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Finish to Start Dependancies

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 08:34 AM PDT

Thanks Rob & Steve,

With your help I fixed the problem. I think that in some
moment as a mistake I typed -Crtl F9- and this change to
the calculation option from automatically to manually
without any notice.

I realize this when I follow the instructions from Rob to
press F9 to calculate so in that moment the bars were to
the right position either all the informaion from the
duration and start and finish dates.

Probably it was so obvious but never before I have had
this trouble and I didn't know that you can change the
automatic calculation to manually.

Thanks again.

Lou

 
chance manually enter 
instead of just 
ever, enter dates 
intend to establish 
entering a finish date 
you typed. This 
etc, that should push 
they finish later 
if constraints have 
of the task names 
there. If there are, 
the tool bar, go to 
constraint entry 
times in the start and 
you sure the 
start and finish 
something other than 
weeks or months 
Calculation tab, 
entered as 1 day 
page is set to 8, the 
hours of work 8-12 
are absolutely 
days duration over 
recalculation. 
from 
10 
the 
line 
dependencies 
of 
inadvertently 
move 
are 
finish 
there 
day 

Milestone only 0 day duration?

Posted: 09 Jul 2004 07:17 AM PDT

Hi,

I'm afraid this simply isn't true.
When you marka task as minestone throught Task Information, Advanced,
Project does not change the duration of the task. It simply does NOT. Start
and finish do not change.
It changes the graphical representation of the task to a lozenge but that is
just the graphical one and it can be changed through Bar Styles.

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Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
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Project Center Tasks

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 01:28 PM PDT

Dale,

I discovered that I was using 'proposed' instead
of 'committed' as the booking type in my resource profile
after I corrected that I could then log onto Web
Access/Project Center, click on 'Taskings' and find the
tasks that I'd assigned myself to. Sorry if my original
email wasn't clear. 
only a single line 
project. 
message 
showing 

Problems with Office Assistant

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 01:12 PM PDT

I have some great ideas about things to do with the Office Assistant,
but I can't publish them in a restricted newsgroup.

Dave Bellamy


"Ryan" <manhattan.ks.us> wrote in message news:<phx.gbl>... 

Is Project 2003 compatible with Outlook 2003?

Posted: 08 Jul 2004 01:11 PM PDT

Not automatically, and it is a one-way path from Project to Outlook. The PM
can use the Workgroup tools to email task assignments from Project to a
resource's Outlook mailbox. Once accepted, the tasks are added to the
Outlook to-do list. The PM can request status updates but a resource simply
checking off a task as partially or fully complete in their Outlook task
list will not in itself generate an update back to Project. Instead, the
resource gets an email from Project via the PM that says essentially "You
were scheduled over the last <timeframe> to spend XXX hours doing YYY. How
many hours did you spend and how long do you estimate before it's done?" and
the PM then triggers an update to Project after reviewing the resource's
reply.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer/Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



"Sherry" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Why levelling move start date ?

Posted: 07 Jul 2004 07:01 AM PDT

Maybe you have a resource unavailable until after the start date of the project.

David G. Bellamy
Bellamy Consulting

"Mike Glen" <glenATmvps.org> wrote in message news:<phx.gbl>... 

Microsoft Word - created a word document with screen saver shots and now looks like code or gibberish

Microsoft Word - created a word document with screen saver shots and now looks like code or gibberish

created a word document with screen saver shots and now looks like code or gibberish

Posted: 01 May 2013 12:28 PM PDT

I created a document for my online class using screen saved shots.  It looks great when I do it but when I submit it, it looks like gibberish.  Funny characters have replaced my work.  I resubmitted it a second time thinking it looked okay but when I opened it up it was all distorted and no screen shots were there.

Help me!

Cate

transfer autocorrect from 2007 to 2010

Posted: 01 May 2013 08:26 AM PDT

How do I transf autocorrect file from desktop on Vista/Word 2007 to laptop on Windows 7 ProfessionalWord 2010 

Change Word defaults (capitalization)

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 07:01 PM PDT

I am sick of Word changing the first character on a new line to a captial letter.  How do I turn off this foolish feature?

I've lost one-half of my document!

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 12:40 PM PDT

I am using Office 2010.  In adding text to my ten-page document, suddenly the last half of the document disappeared.  After the last good page of text I have a series of rectangular boxes that are blank.  I have looked in the Recycle Bin, and I have done a search for the doument, but I only come up with the corrupted copy.

 

If I do a System Restore to an earlier period, will that only reflect Windows files?  If so, does Word maintain periodic backups of documents in progress, if I knew where to look for them?

 

Most frustrating.

 

Gordon

Houston, TX

Word Shuts Down

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 09:20 AM PDT

Hi, I have an approximately 5 year old Dell Inspiron 1521 running Vista.  I purchased and installed Office Professional Plus 2010.  Ever since original install I get an error stating I need to enter the disk as if it were the original install.  I've done all it asks many times, but it says "the file I need is not on the disk".  Yesterday it was asking for DATA1, but my search produced no results.  However if I just click it off, everything has worked fine.

 

Until now.  When I open Word, I can open a document and start updating, and after a few seconds it just vanishes--the program shuts down, none of my work is autosaved, it's all just gone.  I have reopened and started over, only to have the number of seconds decrease each time. 

 

Although I don't claim to be an advanced user, have been a Word/Excel user since I helped with usability testing in the conversion from Word for DOS to Word for Windows.  I don't think this is a user error.

 

Any help is appreciated. 

Unable to download MS Office files from email attachments

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 09:04 AM PDT

Hi:
I am unable to download MS Word, Exel files from email attachments because I am getting an error. When I try again, a prompt appears and it tells me that I have to repair. Has anybody here had any problems similar to this? I am also having problems with Mathtype equation editor and it is also crashing Office365. It seems to be incompatible with O365 for some reason or the other. Mathtype tells me that their product is more stable with the desktop version O365 rather than the downloaded version of O365 Anyone had any issues with this as well?

My 2010 Word 64bit crashes on opening after trying to open a PC created docx but revised on a Mac machine.

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 07:53 AM PDT

My 2010 Word 64bit crashes on opening after trying to open a docx created on my PC but with comments and corrections made by revewer on a Mac machine. Both document and revision are very important.
The archive opens, but the program crashes when I press the "allow editions" (don't know exactly the name of the button on english version) button on the yellow info stripe. After that, Word 2010 crashes on opening every time I try to open any docx, restoring functionality only if the registry is fixed.
How can I rescue the document without loose the changes/revision made without going mad?

What is the little backwards P that shows up every time I open a Word document?

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 04:49 AM PDT

Every time I open a word document a little backwards P shows up. Sometimes it is all over the place. Does it mean "post" or "paste"? It does show up every time I click on "Paste". It is very annoying. This started to happen all of a sudden. I do not remember it always being like that. How do I get rid of it, or should I worry about it. It does not show up in the finished product. ?????

Thank you,

    TomS

 

The combinational keys don't work

Posted: 30 Apr 2013 12:04 AM PDT

Hi

I've recently got a problem with my Word 2010. and the thing is that the combinational keys don't work in it. and what I mean by the combinational keys, are the keys that are related to Crtl and Alt. for example I cannot select all of the text by pushing Crtl+a or copy by Crtl+c and etc.

I'm a reporter and my main work is by Word and this trouble slows me down too much. thank you for your help.
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