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Word's Formatting Palette

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 02:29 PM PST

On 10/1/08 11:12 AM, in article
microsoft.com, "JE McGimpsey"
<org> wrote:
 

And in supporting JE's comments, Leigh: re your comment "I wonder if the
developers actually use the applications they work on...", MacBU staff are
Mac enthusiasts through and through. One of the most memorable sights I've
experienced in computing is a seminar room full of MacBU people, most with
their MacBooks / MacBook Pros open, taking notes of our briefing. I don't
even see half that many at Mac User Group meetings. :-)

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

follow up to "wrong code" discussion below

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 10:39 AM PST

thanks everybody

Spell Checking in Mac Office 2008

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 08:51 AM PST

I was about to say, "yeah, but Office X was a port to OS X"--but Office
2008 is a port to Intel vs. PPC. So, yeah, I'd wait if I were you too.
It'll all be public as of the 15th, I think.

Also, the "not quite as good" tech guarantee promotion seems to be set
to last longer than the supersuite promotion, by the way, so you might
wait and still save money.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/supersuitedeal/

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/
Download Coupon to read the small print before you buy anything!

Valente wrote: 

[ANN] The Entourage Help Blog: two new articles on prices andpromotions

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 11:34 PM PST

On 1/9/08 1:22 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "Linotype"
<net> wrote:
 

For you this is a good option. For others that need VBA support they might
want both and prior to this having an updated version to work with until the
release.

Many like the option to get the Special Media edition.

I don't know how I did it, but pasting all of the info into the links I made
some mistakes and have now hopefully, cleared them all up. Getting the name,
version, price and ISBN number for the link evidently overloaded my poor ole
brain.

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac $354.99
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Student and Teacher $130.99
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Upgrade $214.99
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition $449.99

And if you are still looking to use the promotions....

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac $309.99
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Student & Teacher 129.99
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac upgrade $209.99

If you buy through the blog links, it will help support the site. Everything
on the blog is volunteer and when we need to upgrade the software it comes
out of our pocket. This is an easy way to help us keep updated.

--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>


If you use Leopard, any downside of Installing Office 2008 onOS-free partition?

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 05:37 PM PST

Thanks very much, John. This had not occurred to me.

On 1/9/08 1:42 AM, in article C3AAD418.D9BA%name, "John McGhie"
<name> wrote:
 

Password Protection doesn't interop between Office for Window andOffice for Mac 2004

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 01:29 PM PST

You're referring to the Allow Users to Edit Ranges feature. Sorry, but that
type of protection hasn't made it to the Mac version of Excel.

Although I understand your position you might take a moment to go to the
Help menu in Mac Excel & voice tour concern to MS through Send Feedback...
Nobody here has any control over such issues.

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



On 1/8/08 4:29 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Office autoupdate via proxy server?

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 03:27 AM PST

Jyrki wrote: 

AutoUpdate simply won't work through some proxies. Unfortunately, you'll
receive a "No new updates" rather than an error.

Your best option is to simply download the updaters directly from
Microsoft's website and install them manually. Be sure to start with the
11.3.5 updater since it's a combo updater. Then apply each successive
update.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>

ReInstall Office Test Drive.

Posted: 07 Jan 2008 07:57 PM PST

 

Be careful - I don't know what "2004 and 2008 working together with VBA"
means. Office 2008 does NOT support VBA, and any Office 2004 files with
macros will open, but the macros will NOT run. Can both office 2004 and 2008
be installed on the same machine and work without interfering with each
other? Probably, but we'll know for sure next week.

As far as interfacing to SQL, this is quite possible with Office 2004. Look
at: http://www.actualtechnologies.com/

--
Bob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh
bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom

How do long-time owners of Office 2004-Student-Teacher order 2008version?

Posted: 07 Jan 2008 06:08 PM PST

Thank you so very much for your thoughtful counsel!

Respectfully, Norm


On 1/7/08 8:18 PM, in article
vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, "Jolly
Roger" <com> wrote:
 

wrong code?

Posted: 07 Jan 2008 05:27 PM PST

I know this isn't what you want to hear [and I don't blame you:-)] but the
characters in the keys can be quite deceptive - it sometimes requires every
conceivable combination of l's versus 1's (that first is a letter, the
second a number) & O's versus 0's (which are less often the culprit, but can
still be a PITA).

Another possibility - where/when did you obtain the software? If someplace
like ebay or elsewhere on the web, it wouldn't be the first time somebody
stuck a CD in another's wrapper & passed it off as "new"... If it's a copy
you've had for a while is it possible it may have gotten switched with
another copy accidentally?

Did the Macbook ever have the Office 2004 Test Drive installed? If you
installed X without a complete & proper Removal of the Test Drive that could
be the cause of the problem. If so, let us know.
--
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

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PPT quits when launching slide show with Office 2004 11.3.9

Posted: 07 Jan 2008 04:27 PM PST

Whoa!! That's scary :-) I suspect the latest Apple combo update would have
accomplished the same thing.

This sounds like the buggy QuickTime update that came out a few months ago
strikes again :-)

Cheers


On 10/01/08 6:10 AM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"diskgrunt" <com> wrote:
 

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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/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name

M-I,5.P ersecution - hara ssment at w ork

Posted: 02 Jan 2008 03:20 AM PST

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-= harassment. at work -=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Once I stopped watching television and listening. to the radio at the end of
1990,. "they" had to find other ways of committing abuses. So they took what
must be for them a tried and tested route; they get. at you by subversion of
those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do. that with my family or
friends, that meant getting at people in the workplace. to be their
mouthpieces and do their dirty work for. them.

They supplied my employers in Oxford with. details from what was going on in
my private life, and what I and other people had. said at my home and
accommodation in Oxford. So people. at work repeated verbatim words which
had been said in my home,. and repeated what I'd been doing recently. Often
the. most trivial things, the ones from your domestic life, are the ones
which hurt most.. One manager in particular at Oxford continuously abused me
for ten. months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats to terminate
my employment. After ten months I was forced to seek psychiatric help. and
start taking medication, and was away from work for. two months. I spoke
later with a solicitor about what had happened at that. company; he advised
it was only. possible to take action if you had left the company as a result
of harassment, and such an action would have to be started. very soon after
leaving.

Over a. year later the same manager picked on another new worker, with even
more serious results; that employee tried. to commit suicide with an
overdose as a. result of the ill-treatment, and was forced to leave his job.
But he didn't take action against the company,. either. Abuse at work is
comparable to that elsewhere in. that tangible evidence is difficult to
produce, and the abusers will always have their. denials ready when
challenged. And even if a court accepts. what you say happened, it still
remains to. prove that abuse causes the type of breakdown I had at the end
of 1992. In a recent case before a British. court, a former member of the
Army brought a case against others who had. maltreated him ten years
previously. Although the court accepted that abuse had occurred,. it did not
agree that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied. justice to
the. plaintiff.

4373

M I.5,Persecutio n ' w ho know s abo ut it ?

Posted: 01 Jan 2008 04:01 AM PST

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-= who knows. about it? =-
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Many people know, both in the. establishment and media, and among the
general public. Despite an absence of its target from the UK for more. than
two years, the echoes of paranoia can still be heard. loud and clear from
across the water. When it started in 1990, the only people who knew. were
those in BBC television who were. spying on my home, and a few radio
broadcasters. There. were a few cases of public harassment, but very little
compared to the situation. that developed a couple of years later.

The list. today includes BBC TV staff (newsreaders such as Martyn Lewis,
Michael Buerk, Nicholas Witchell), people from. radio stations such as
Chris Tarrant of Capital and Radio 1 DJs, people in the print. media, but
also many people in the general. public. All united in a conspiracy which
breaks the laws. which the UK does have regarding harassment, and all
completely uncaring for any. semblance of decency or elementary respect
for. individual rights.

The British police (obviously) do know. the nature of the harassment and in
all probability. the identity of those behind it. Some time ago I made a
complaint to my local. police station in London, without positive result.
The. UK police are failing in their duty to see the law enforced in not
checking the. abuse.

4388

M I.5'Persecut ion ' h ow a nd w hy d id it s tart?

Posted: 01 Jan 2008 03:24 AM PST

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-= how and why. did it start? -=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

The harassment didn't start by itself, so someone must have been. there at
the outset to give it a firm push and set. the "animals" after me. It looks
as. if I was set up in June 1990, and the timing indicates someone from
university was. responsible.
 

In May or June 1990, Alan Freeman on Radio 1 read. out a letter from someone
who had known me for a few years, who wrote of the. one who "wore out his
welcome with random precision" (from the Pink. Floyd song). Freeman went on
to say to the. writer "that's a hell of a letter you wrote there". The
indication is strongly that people I had. parted from soon before nursed a
grudge against me and were trying to cause. trouble for me.

The suggestion is that Freeman. might have shown the letter to other people,
and things could have snowballed from there. Right from the. start the real
source (security services. presumed) didn't announce themselves as the
origin, but let the. "talkers", the radio DJs, believe that they were the
originators. Think about it; if. you announce, "we're MI5 and we have a
campaign against this bloke" then people might not go along. with it; but if
you say, "everyone else is getting at. this bloke because he 'deserves' it"
then people. will join in with fewer qualms.
 

It's the. classic case of hitting a cripple to prove you're stronger. Why
would the security services expend hundreds of thousands of pounds and. more
than six years of manpower to try to kill a British citizen? Because. they
are motivated. by people who knew me at university and feel personal
animosity; because they knew me to be emotionally weak, and it. is in the
nature. of bullies to prey on those known to be weak; and because they can
rely on the complicity. of the establishment, which the security services
manipulate and derive funding from. This is. England's biggest humiliation
today, and the British security services are intent. on preventing their
humiliation becoming reality. by continuing their campaign of attempted
murder to. suppress the truth from becoming public.

1958

M`I,5.Persecutio n - bugg ing a nd counter-su rveillance

Posted: 01 Jan 2008 01:10 AM PST

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-= MI5: bugging and counter-surveillance. -=
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

PO: >Did you ever look for the bugs in your house. ? If not, why not ? I mean if
PO: >I thought that was happening to. me, I'd search the place from top to bottom,
PO: >I mean I live there I would know if anything was out of place.. If I was
PO:. >really suspicious, I would call in one of those bug detection teams which
PO: >have those machines that pick up the transmitted. radio waves. This
PO: >reminds me of BUGS, that new. programme on BBC1 on

That's exactly what. we did. We went to a competent, professional detective
agency in London, paid them over 400 quid to debug our. house. They used
scanner devices which go to over 1 GHz and would pick. up any nearby
transmitter. in that range, they also checked the phones and found
nothing... but if the tap was. at the exchange, then they wouldn't find
anything,. would they?

CS: >Doesn't this suggest to you that. there are, in fact, no bugs to be found?

You can assume that they've. done this sort of thing to other people in more
"serious" cases, where they would know the targets. would suspect the
presence of electronic. surveillance. So they will have developed techniques
and devices which are not readily detectable either by visual inspection. or
by electronic means. What those techniques might be, I. couldn't guess.

In this case, the existence of bugging devices was clear. from the
beginning, and they. "rubbed it in" with what was said by the boy on the
coach.. It was almost as if they wanted counter-surveillance people to be
called in, who they knew would fail to detect. the bugging devices, causing
loss of credibility to the other things I would have to say relating to. the
harassment.

I did all the things someone in my situation would. do to try to find the
bugs.. In addition to calling in professional help using electronic
counter-surveillance, I made a close. visual inspection of electrical
equipment, plus any points where audio or video. surveillance devices might
have been concealed. Of course, I found nothing.. Normal surveillance
"mini-cameras" are quite. noticeable and require visible supporting
circuitry. It seems to me the best place to put. a small video surveillance
device would be additional to a piece of electronic equipment such as. a TV
or video. It would be necessary to physically break in to. a property to fit
such a. device.

4388

Windows 7 - More Phone Home info

Windows 7 - More Phone Home info


More Phone Home info

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 12:01 PM PST

I have not gotten this update at all. LUCKY for me. But I never run illegal
software like 1 of my friends

"SC Tom" <net> wrote in message
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New exploit technique nullifies major Windows defense

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 09:40 AM PST

The Address Space Randomization bypass only happens because 32 bits isn't
enough!
Systems running a 64 bit OS are protected.

Dave

"Spring Sprung" <an.address.net> wrote in message
news:hmosnt$fp8$aioe.org... 

Microsoft Word - Office Assistant for Word

Microsoft Word - Office Assistant for Word


Office Assistant for Word

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 12:21 PM PDT

I miss the office assistant that used to be in Windows Word. I read where MS took it out. Is there anyway to download it to my Word 2003. I tried getting it by clicking on "Help" to turn it on but pop up window said that I needed something 2.0 or greater (huh?).

 

Thanks

SkyDrive Microsoft Web App cannot open password protected Microsoft office documents

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:15 AM PDT

Hi

 

SkyDrive Microsoft Web App cannot open password protected Microsoft office documents; is there any way around this limitation?

 

Regards

I need to convert a very long list into a table

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:11 AM PDT

I need to convert a very long list into a table, I put in the separator charachters and then paragraph marks for the lines but the convert option is not available-its grayed out. Why? How can I get that option active?

efficiency

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 07:13 AM PDT

I don't know if it would be better to split these up and ask just one question per page - someone please tell me if so - but I would like to have a sense of "best practices" for doing the following. I do a lot of work from dictation by copying an earlier similar case and then modifying it on the fly. So I need ways to quickly move through the document for editing. Here are some of things I'd like to do (my hope would be to assign a keyboard shortcut to each if possible):

1. Select/delete a sentence.
2. Jump to the start of the next paragraph.
3. Jump to the end of the first line of the next paragraph.
4. Jump to the next comma.
5. Jump to the next period.
6. Delete to end of line.
7. Delete to end of paragraph.
8. Delete a whole paragraph.
9. Quickly find the Templates directory (to open or insert a template).
10. Quickly find my data directory (to open, insert, or save a document).
11. Change spacing. This would be where most of my paragraphs have only the paragraph sign at the end and a relatively small space between them and the next paragraph, instead of the old way of having two Returns after each paragraph so there's a paragraph sign on a line by itself. But then suddenly my doctor will start a numbered list--which then looks best with single spacing. I have found the menu choice of add or remove space before or after a line to manually go in and change each one, but I'm sure there must be a way to change some setting the first time I know it's going to be a list. And vice versa, by the way - sometimes the earlier copy of a document I'm starting with has a list and I no longer want the list or the single spacing. 
Maybe it would be best to simply choose the single spacing and use a double Return after each paragraph - but since the numbered lists are definitely in the minority, doing it this way would spread most of the text out unnecessarily.
12. Switch from hanging indent to no indent (or back again).

So whether these would be macros that I created and then stored and assigned a hotkey, or whether there's some simpler way than that - I'd just like to know how to be more efficient at all this.

Thanks!

How can I stop the track change feature in Word 2010 changing list numbering to grey text

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 03:31 AM PDT

I have recently gone to Word 2010 and find that when I have the Track Change feature enabled if I make changes to a numbered list the "numbering" shows in gray text.   I cannot seem to find any setting to alter this.

 

Also, if I insert multiple new paragraphs in the list the numbring repeats itself!

 

e.g.    I add a new level (a) which shows as an insertion with numbered level (a) and text in red as expected. 

Then I add a new para (b) but this shows (a) in grey striketrhough text (as if it were a deletion) followed by (b) in grey and then the text in red.

 

Any explanation or tips would be very much appreciated, its driving me nuts!

 

Thank you,

 

Donna

 

microsoft word

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 02:37 AM PDT

Continually keeps crashing with a logo stating microsoft word not responding?

numbered list

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 07:17 PM PDT

Now I"m stuck trying to get a numbered list that is flush left:

1.   xxxxx
2.   xxxxx

Every time I put the 1. and a tab everything jumps in a few spaces to look like this:

   1.   xxxxx
   2.   xxxxx

It looks to me like I'm choosing a list that will do what I want but I must not be. I can see the tabs shifting on the ruler and tried to change them back, but they won't stick once the numbers are in there.


Unable to set Table Header Row

Posted: 10 Jun 2013 02:54 PM PDT

I have a table that spans 2 pages but the Header row is not appearing on page two.  I've made the table properties reflect "Repeat as Header Row at Top of Each Page" and the contextual design tab to make sure header row is checked.  Yet, for some reason, it doesn't want to carry over to the second page.

New Word 2013 user

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 07:33 PM PDT

I just installed MS Office 2013 Home & Student on my PC at home. It's an HP running Windows 7. For some reason, when I attempt to open up some documents on a flash drive, Word 2013 will open documents labeled "Microsoft Word Document," but won't bring up documents labeled "DOC."

My system wants me to download MS Works 9 to "play" those "DOC" documents. What is the deal with Word 2013? If it can't bring up .doc documents, that seems like a big drawback to me. I've been able to bring up these DOC documents before, on my work PC running Word 2010, without any problem. Is there something wrong with my installation or...?

HARD QUESTION to answer

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 02:12 AM PDT


can i complete from last place

 i were working at  in word document

for example page 30 i was working yesterday at and today when i want tio open i want to find word offer me the place ( page 30 ) that i were working at to open and complete my work

( that is came handy when dealing with big word file )

if that not available right now add it as new feature

another thing when using format painter i want when i copy the format option told me am i want to apply all format for destination font or subset of that format


thank you very much

Re-Inst Problem - Microsoft Office forums

Re-Inst Problem - Microsoft Office forums


Re-Inst Problem

Posted: 27 Aug 2004 12:43 PM PDT

Hi Josh,

Did you try ejecting the Office 2000 CD and insert the Office 4.2 CD
when asked for a qualifying product? For Office 2000 you should be
able to use any Office 4.x edition as a qualifying product - the
editions do not have to match.

--
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/


"Josh Whitney" <net> wrote in message
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to 
have 
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Install Error Message

Posted: 27 Aug 2004 05:14 AM PDT

Pam,
Have a look at this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314810&Product=off2003
It may help.

Chris Schatte

use the Office Online web based newsreader here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities

"Pam" wrote:
 

Office 2003 OLA vs. Office 2003 personal copy

Posted: 26 Aug 2004 05:53 PM PDT

Chris,
Do I first go to the control panel and use the remove/add
program feature to remove Office 2003 and then run the
Uninstall Cleanup Utility or do I simply use the Unistall
cleanup utility without using the Add/Remove feature?
Thanks,
Joe

P.S. I have the .pst file in a separate folder on the
hard drive. Is that okay or should I move it to a jump
drive?
 
version that you 
you'll have to 
us;290301 
us/default.mspx 
own 
it 
copy? 
one 
What 

install different copy of office xp pro

Posted: 26 Aug 2004 03:44 PM PDT

Never mind, I figured out that the name on the banners can be corrected in
Options, and I guess that was the only issue. I'm not sure whether it
always displays the serial number/product id from the most recent
installation, but I don't care anymore......


How do I set up customer files in my computer with out purchasing.

Posted: 26 Aug 2004 02:55 PM PDT

not exactly very clear

"office computer set up" <office computer set microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:com... 


Need Product Key....FROM ANYONE!

Posted: 26 Aug 2004 01:43 PM PDT

Anonymous,
Correct to date on the oem difficulties for Office 2003.
Dell, from our experience has the best support via email if you provide
specific answers to questions for warranty replacement and as well being
persistent.
For oem versions of Corel sofware problems, who does the customer contact?
Would the op go thru the same channel to resolve this?

Have children to look after,

Chris Schatte

use the Office Online web based newsreader here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
In Office System 2003 applications:
Help/Assistance Pane/open Communities

"Anonymous" wrote:
 

Can't find my key

Posted: 25 Aug 2004 05:38 AM PDT

Wow thank you! I thought I was lost for sure.
 
preinstalled by 
contact your 
retail version of 
kbid=823570 "How to 
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Installing Linux "more or less from scratch" - Forums Linux

Installing Linux "more or less from scratch" - Forums Linux


Installing Linux "more or less from scratch"

Posted: 15 Aug 2004 08:00 AM PDT

Abdullah writes: 

You don't need to apply any of those patches.
--
John Hasler
gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

Mandrake10 Login

Posted: 14 Aug 2004 02:54 PM PDT

"Rich Barry" <rr.com> dedi ki:
 

I agree with other posts that a user shouldn't login to GUI as root. You
can use root privileges from within a normal user session for *most* of
the tasks. One notable exception is being able to use Konqueror file
manager in root mode, without having to open a konsole, "su -", and run
konsole from within that session. Later on I will suggest a way to
streamline this in a normal user session.

However I don't find it appropriate too, patronizing a user and hiding
root login. You can "unhide" root from within KDE Control Center (System
-> Session Management : Users tab) but I don't like the idea of exposing
root user to public. I prefer another way: From Mandrake Control Center
(drakconf) -> System -> Display Manager : Choose KDM instead of MdkKDM.
This will bring up the original KDE display manager (so your adjustments
in KDE Control Center like showing clock, font sizes etc will take effect.)
Both KDM and MdkKDM won't show the hidden root user, but KDM will have an
input field for user so that you can manually enter an arbitrary username
there. This way, both you can hide critical userids fron the public at
large, while still being able to login into them when you need it.

For using Konqueror in root mode from within normal user account: Make a
copy of the Konqueror desktop item in your desktop, right click it and get
into properties dialog, change its icon to something different, get into
the "application" tab and there click on the "advanced features" : There
you will find a "Run with a different user" option. Enable it, and set the
user to root. Now, whenever you click on this icon on your desktop, kdesu
will pop-up and ask for root password, and you will be using Konqueror in
root mode. You can also do a similar arrangement in your KDE menu.

--
Abdullah | aramazan@ |
Ramazanoglu | myrealbox |
________________| D-O-T cöm |

Mandrake Move

Posted: 14 Aug 2004 06:59 AM PDT

kellnerp <com> writes:

]Thanks.

]Would have been nice if they made that a little more obvious during startup.
]My first impression was that it was broke which would hardly lead to a
]sale. :(
There have been other posts bemoaning the non-obvious nature of feature,
and others then argued that Mandrakes wording of this feature was
sufficiently clear. Any time consumers get confused, the description is not
clear enough-- this should be an attitude of any doc writer.

]>
]> ]Mandrake move is supposed to find the USB memory stick and use user
]> ]information during second and subsequent usages. It doesn't, at least not
]> ]on the two systems I tested it on. Any thoughts?
]>
]> That is only on the ones bought from Mandrake, not the freely downloadable
]> versions.

can't install linux *sob*

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 09:17 PM PDT

george wrote:
 

.... my suspicion is this is video related, seeing
as the system 'quiets down' after a short time.
if you were to hit the <enter> key, i'll bet you
get activity again.

either do a text-mode install or try another distro
or even KNOPPIX (that RH distro is rather dated now)
..
--
<< http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >>
"I'd love to go out with you, but I have to stay home and see if I snore."

Checklist for setting up RH9 or Fedora as server

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 12:00 PM PDT

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:59:34 -0400, Michael W Cocke wrote: 

I do not agree. I have been running and hosting webservices on a
P3-600MHz system with Fedora (CR1) for a year now. It has never caused
any trouble at all. Stable as granite. I updraded to FCR2 a week ago,
so it remains to se if the stability is worse, but so far it looks
very good.
 

Not to forget Debian. Debian is the free linux distro I would choose
for a business critical webserver, simply because of the stable,
testing and unstable-system and the apt package management.

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Posted: 13 Aug 2004 06:47 AM PDT


Lots of ways, thanks. I'll try them out.
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universal "look and feel" for gnome desktop

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 03:05 AM PDT

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Joe Beanfish wrote:
[..] 

I find that I use different user accounts for different "roles," depending
on what I'm doing. thanks for the start.




Thufir Hawat

Mount exernal USB drive

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 04:12 PM PDT

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:12:57 -0700, Minh
<statgen.washington.edu> wrote: 
/dev/sda1 /external ext3 noauto,suid,rw,usrquota 1 2


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Copying files

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 03:12 PM PDT

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

The simple answer is to use a gui file manager. Drag and drop works.

The other answer is:
1. Mount it
- let's imagine it ends up on /media/cdrom
2. Make the target directory.
e.g. mkdir /home/john/cd
3. copy recursively from one to the other
cp -R -p /media/cdrom/* /home/john/cd

man cp is your friend.

There is a bit of an issue over symbolic links. Most versions of cp
will create a second copy of a file rather than a link to it. It's
normal to add -P and then create the symlinks by hand.

Another technique instead of using cp is to use tar. The idea is to
create an archive onto a pipe and then expand it again. The details
are in some instances of the man page for tar. This has often been
used to deal with the symlink issue. Something like, if memory does
not fail me:
tar cf - /media/cdrom | (cd /home/john/cd ; tar xf - )

ADSL & Switch

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 02:09 PM PDT

Ernst Schmidtmann <owl.de> dedi ki:

-8<--
 

But prpbably those modems will only have UTP ports, no BNC. Also it is
very difficult, if at all possible, to find a multi-port modem with more
than 4 ports, so you would need a regular hub/switch anyway (if not today
then tomorrow). I guess it could be more convenient to get a single-port
modem and a basic 8-port 10 Mbps hub with a BNC port, so you won't have to
change anything in your current LAN setup. Otherwise, without a BNC hub
you would either need to convert your LAN from BNC to UTP, or use yet
another hub with a BNC port to connect the BNC and UTP segments together.

P.S. Lately, some 10 Mbps hubs don't have a BNC port (as nobody uses it
they try to cut costs). But older ones all have a BNC port without
exception.

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how and where do does the jre go?

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 07:53 AM PDT

com wrote: 

Sorry, I didn't realize that wat your problem. The binary installation
I did asked where I wanted it. Alternatively, all you'd need to do is
move the files from wherever it was intstalled to wherever you want.

java jre rpm gives "not an rpm package" error

Posted: 11 Aug 2004 11:23 PM PDT

com wrote:
 

make the bin file executable:
$ chmod +x jre-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586-rpm.bin

and then execute it:
$ ./jre-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586-rpm.bin

It will present you some kind of license agreement, and will produce a real
rpm file.

Newbie - Need help learning Linux, suggestions on where to start?

Posted: 11 Aug 2004 03:22 PM PDT

On 11 Aug 2004 15:22:56 -0700, com (L) wrote:
 

The first thing you need to learn is the difference between
multiposting and crossposting. You have several answers in another
newsgroup where you multiposted this.

And the chance of getting a linux system _running_ in a week are
decent. learning what you're doing? Not likely. Think years to get
a good grasp of linux.

Mike-

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Open Office - [discuss] Request for Enhancement: WRITER


[discuss] Request for Enhancement: WRITER

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 01:10 PM PDT

I feel that the usability element of comments and revisions is better
in word in general. They balloon out of the document like natural
annotations - editable, acceptable and rejectable with a click of a
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[discuss] here's another one

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 04:34 AM PDT


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[discuss] Unethical OOo distributers

Posted: 12 Jun 2007 05:20 PM PDT

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:06:16 -0500, Trevor Farlow <org>
wrote:
 

Is usually a lot of work to police this lists, however I don't know if any
of this scam sites are on our distributor list.



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[discuss] My School

Posted: 11 Jun 2007 01:47 PM PDT

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Hei,

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 21:45 +0100, Chris Monahan wrote: 
:)

great.

That reminds me...i don't know if i'm allowed to make an official
statement, so regard this as inofficial. ;-) Just writing it because it
may be a good encouragement for others...

I never got a MSO license from my workplace, being a freelancer and
hence considered external...and created layouted documents in OOo
exporting to .doc for my company (I'm a graphics designer.).

After doing that for about a year we got a new marketing director, who
is gladly open to opensource and was familiar with OOo. From there it
was a pretty minor step to encouraging the general use of OOo for the
required documents. Just one longish eMail explaining the benefits of
the more stable layout (MSO shifted things all the time).

OOo got installed on the computers of the involved employees and the
workflow uses native ODF now.

Andr=C3=A9.


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[discuss] Introduction

Posted: 06 Jun 2007 05:37 PM PDT

James E. Pearman, P.E. wrote:
 

Thanks for your offer, helping as a tester is a good way to support the
project. In case you are interested to join OOo testing please go to the
qa.openoffice.org website. There you should find all necessary instructions.

Best regards,
Mathias

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[discuss] Vista Version of Open Office

Posted: 06 Jun 2007 05:36 PM PDT

OpenOffice should run fine on vista - some software needs explicit
'vista versions' however that probably indicates either a poor
standard of design, or a dependence upon a certain internal feature
that has been changed in vista.

From what i've heard OpenOffice is currently -compatible- with vista,
and the developers are working on enhanced vista integration in later
versions.

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[discuss] Suggestions: Locales and network printers

Posted: 06 Jun 2007 05:50 AM PDT

Christian Foerg wrote:
 

Yes, I forgot to add this: Calc behaves like Draw/Impress (accessing
printer while saving) but *additionally* accesses the printer when the
file is modified.
 

Yes, we don't read any printer information from "alien" formats.

I think most problems in this area will vanish in OOo2.3. We also plan
to add an option to ignore printer settings in documents completely but
I'm unsure whether we can implement this until feature deadline for 2.3.

Ciao,
Mathias

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[discuss] New Purchaser

Posted: 04 Jun 2007 04:33 PM PDT

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Dear Catherine

Son't give up! I am sorry you have had these problems. If you let me
have your address I will send you a copy of StarOffice 8 which you
should find will be OK

Kind Regards

Michael Johnson

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 19:13, CATHERINE TURNER wrote:
 

Michael Johnson
Director
BPEnet Limited Robin Hill Cottage Fairfield Road Eastbourne BN20 7NA
Tel: 0870 9220247


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Dear Catherine<BR>
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Son't give up! I am sorry you have had these problems. If you let me have your address I will send you a copy of StarOffice 8 which you should find will be OK<BR>
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Kind Regards<BR>
<BR>
Michael Johnson<BR>
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>I purchased this product Saturday. It never downloaded. The set up downloaded, but the product itself never downloaded. I have been trying to get in touch with ANYONE!!!.

I was sent an e-mail that said to go on: </FONT><A HREF="http://wwwOfficeBest"><U>http://wwwOfficeBest</U></A><FONT COLOR="#737373"> Deal.com/ac9811htm to download etc, etc. I attempted to so and was unable to get onto this website. I feel that this is a rip off.

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[discuss] Mac Version

Posted: 02 Jun 2007 06:13 PM PDT


On 06/06/2007, at 12:46 AM, John Orr wrote:
 
 

Well, it turns out the pre-alpha release of OpenOffice.org for the =20
Mac using native libraries is now available.
My first observations after a quick look:

* It is pre-alpha and lives up to that - it is VERY unstable (e.g. =20
hit the spellcheck on a blank document and it crashed)
* It is still matching NeoOffice for speed (very slow!). This is =20
acceptable currently as optimisation is a later issue after =20
functionality.
* The interface is fully integrated with the Mac UI and looks quite =20
nice.
* There was a small issue I believe in trying to resize the document =20
window. I had to double click to stop the mouse from resizing the =20
window?

Regards
Jonathon
 
 
 

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[discuss] double spacing for numbering

Posted: 30 May 2007 12:36 AM PDT

On 30/05/07, com <com> wrote: 

Why do people find exploring interfaces so hard...

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[discuss] Feature Report

Posted: 29 May 2007 04:49 PM PDT

> There is a general principal in ralational databases that the 

er, yeah - but the order of the data entered is persistent in the
-interface-... go make a new view and you'll see what order it is in
by default

So the designers made the decision that a particular attribute 'is not
important' it only comes to bite you in the ass every so often.
Intiutive? no....


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[discuss] Book-Fold Feature

Posted: 24 May 2007 04:07 PM PDT

This feature already exists...it is called booklet printing, and is
accomplished by treating it as a brochure.

This is a pasting from the help file in Writer...I've printed booklets from
writer using these directions:

Printing a Brochure
You can print a Writer document as a brochure or a booklet. That is, Writer
prints two pages on each side of the paper, so that when you fold the paper,
you can read the document as a book.
When you create a document that you want to print as a brochure, use
portrait orientation for the pages. Writer applies the brochure layout when
you print the document.
To Print a Brochure
1.Choose File - Print.
2.In the Print dialog, click Properties.
3.In the properties dialog for your printer, set the paper orientation to
landscape.

If your printer prints duplex, and because brochures always print in
landscape mode, you should use the "duplex - short edge" setting in your
printer setup dialog.

4.Return to Print dialog, and click Options.
5.In the Pages area of the Printer Options dialog, select Brochure.
6.For a printer that automatically prints on both sides of a page, specify
to print right pages and left pages.
7.In the Print dialog, click OK.
If you print a document in portrait on a landscape page, two opposing sides
in a brochure will be printed next to each other. If you have a printer with
double-sided printing capability, then you can create an entire brochure
from your document without having to collate the pages later. If you have a
printer that only has single-sided printing capability, then you can achieve
this effect by first printing out the front pages with the Right pages
option marked, then re-inserting the entire paper stack in your printer and
printing all the back pages with the Left pages option marked.

If OpenOffice.org prints the pages in the wrong order, open the Printer
Options dialog, select Reversed, and then print the document again.




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net
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Paul wrote: 

I think it is more like a macro that will calculate the pages printed on
both sides of a page to create a booklet/book section.

Think of it as if you take a small booklet apart. On a sheet, you could
have pages 1 and 14 printed on one side of the sheet and 2 and 13 on
the other side. The center of the page is the staple point. The next
page would print out 3,12 and 4,11.

This would be a handy macro for self publishing.


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[discuss] most disappointed!

Posted: 22 May 2007 05:12 PM PDT

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 15:21 +1000, Pierre wrote:
 

Responding to criticism is different to responding to flamebait. While
you can question the usefulness of responding to flaimbait, I didn't see
any honest criticism in the OP. Childish fools deserve to be treated as
such. Keep in mind this guy posted *once*, and asked for assistance once
less than this.
 

Hmmmm ...

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[discuss] Bug or Problem?

Posted: 22 May 2007 03:29 PM PDT

Chris Monahan wrote: 
Next time this happens, select the " I have already box" and click OK.
Hope this helps

Udub

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[discuss] Suggestions for Open Office

Posted: 17 May 2007 03:25 PM PDT

Quoting Robin Laing <gc.ca>:
 

OpenOffice.org already has their HTML editor. Just go to New > HTML Document

I do wish they have better CSS support on the stylist.
 

You can do this with making a template that include pagination with a =20
0 offset on it and make it the default.

to do this booklet options usually I preffer using OOo Draw which =20
allow you more flexibility. Word processors are awful DP tools.
 



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[discuss] Still Immoral to Support Microsoft

Posted: 14 May 2007 05:26 AM PDT

Why people keep saying about 'steal' being based of something doesn't =20
mean still. The minix developer has come to the front a couple of =20
years ago and said that Linus never stole anything from the minix =20
kernel.

Minix in itself hasn't stole anything from Unix nor BSD have stolen =20
from AT&T. They were all based of, inspired, copy the concept but not =20
the code.


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