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No Console upon Boot

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 12:01 PM PST

S.Brown <net> wrote: 

If /bin/bash does not work, then you have no support for a console in
your kernel. Recompile. Anyway, run smething else as init - something
that makes a big noise. A shell script should be fine.
 

 

He doesn't exactly need a getty for a console, merely for a login
prompt. init=/bin/sh should work fine for him if his kernel is complete.

Peter

XIRCOM CARDBUS on Dell Latitude CSx Laptop

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 11:16 AM PST


"William Alencar" <com> wrote in message
news:com... 

I seem to remember using those with FC2 and the standard kernel with the
kernel-pcmcia-cs package. Although if it has reasonable horsepower, I'd
update that laptop to FC3 and see what happens.

Avoid compiling your own kernels by hand if you can avoid it for laptops:
staying up to date on the OS release is often much more helpful in getting
odd things to work.

Grub won't load any OS

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 08:32 AM PST

Thank you for all your responses. This gives me a good starting point.

Trying to get Java working on Fedora Core 3

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 07:07 AM PST

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 at 15:07 GMT, com eloquently wrote:
[...]
 
[09:58:16][work]$ rpm -qf `locate libXp.so.6`
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
[09:58:28][work]$

Install the xorg-x11-deprecated-libs rpm and you should be fine.

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Suse minimal install based on rescue - what to add to rescue to be bootable

Posted: 30 Mar 2005 01:07 AM PST


"mjt" <ru> wrote in message
news:site... 
For instance to compile and add ssh + Asterisk and get PBX, or to add Motion
and get video surveillance system. I don't want to get minimal and then
install another bunch of RPMs and come back to bloated distro...

Why SuSE? Cause I know it best, and Rescue is cute little minimal system
that will run and I'll add packages easily (when I figure out how - just cp
or can I rpm to another partition ? ) from bloated SuSE installation I
have...

So my main question is: if you have small distro, whose /boot directory is
empty - what it needs to be bootable ? I guess Kernel and Grub - but is
there anything else ?
Also how to install and configure Grub on another partition (mounted to
development bloated distro) ?

Thanks in advance for your help,

regards,


Rob.

Overview of linux?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 09:43 PM PST

com wrote:
 


The place to start is with some LiveCDs like knoppix, quantian (DVD),
mepis, kanotix and so on
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Dowload one of the CDs, burn the CD, and then
boot up from the CD (Set the bios to boot from CD
if it doesn't boot like that).

Then voila, you have GNU/Linux running on your PC.
Its completely automatically configured without
need for drivers or for you to do anything.

From there you can work out slowly everything.
by try different LiveCDs and read the documentation.
You can run up konqueror and type man:mount for example
to pull up manuals on how to set the read write permissions to disk.
man:dd for how to copy disks, man:bash for the console, etc.

Also, try installing - thats simple with LiveCDs like Mepis,
but can become challenging for others.

Runing Linux in a network with XP computers?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 08:43 PM PST

(com) scribbled:
 
 

.... yes. or, you can switch them all to Linux :)

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Updating Apache on FC3

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 02:22 PM PST

Coming from MS also and consulting in it...I am in the same boat...new and
want to accomplish similar. I know I don't have to read a 500 page book on
this, as a matter of fact, this could be summarize in a page with reference
to details - anything like it out there?

Anyone?


"Kev" <com> wrote in message
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Anything even close to Visio for Linux?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 02:11 PM PST

Spake ~./where: 

Here is a list of UML programs I collated recently.

[52]Unimodeller
Dunno, never tried it.

[53]Umbrello (KDE)
I'll write this one later. You can't export to PostScript or PDF
from the command line, only via the GUI. Therefore you can't
automate exporting with Make.

[54]Dia (GTK2)
Built as a clone of Visio (before Microsoft bought it). Klugy
interface, but a fancy GUI to edit class internals. Automated
edge placement, but it doesn't cope well if you move nodes
around. Exports to PostScript or C++ stubs (via script).

Fig / XFig (Motif?)
Yecch. Klugy, mouse-centric interface. Difficult (AFAIK) to
change placed objects. Has a lot of momentum, because it's about
the oldest vector tool around.

[55]Inkscape (GTK2)
What XFig would like to be. Fantastic interface design, but
deals with vector graphics in general rather than diagrams, so
it (currently) lacks important stuff like "attaching" edges to
nodes.

[56]Graphviz (CLI)
Graphviz is primarily a graph layout tool, but it has been
extended for in class diagrams. By far the most readable source
files, especially if you preprocess with e.g. CPP and #define
CLASS shape=.... Graphviz automatically lays out both nodes and
edges, so kluges are sometimes necessary to get a better layout.

[57]PST-UML (LaTeX)
A LaTeX package using PSTricks. Never tried it.

[58]ArgoUML (Java)
I Don't Do Java, so I've never tried it.

[59]OmniGraffle (OS X)
Commercial. Very pretty, but when I played with it I didn't like
it's UML support. Nice interface.

IBM Rational Rose (Windows)
I Don't Do Windows, so I've never tried it.

[60]Violet (Java)
I Don't Do Java, so I've never tried it.

[61]Microsoft Visio (Windows)
I Don't Do Windows, so I've never tried it. Public opinion is
that it has gone downhill since Microsoft bought it.

52. http://www.unimodeler.com/
53. http://uml.sf.net/
54. http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
55. http://inkscape.org/
56. http://graphviz.org/
57. http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-uml/
58. http://argouml.tigris.org/
59. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
60. http://www.horstmann.com/violet/
61. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010857981033.aspx

mandrake urpmi setup argh

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 10:34 AM PST

"Andy" <edu> writes:
 


The ideal is to erase your / and /usr partitions, keeping /home, and
/usr/local, and then do a fresh install of 10.1
Alternatively you can set up urpmi to point to a source for the 10.1
installation and updates and then do
urpmi --auto-select
which will replace all of the 9.1 files with the upgraded 10.1 files and
dependencies. The problem can arise when a package has changed names since
9.1 The old 9.1 will not be erased and the new one may not be installed.

I didi this upgrade and it went reasonably well. But there were a few
little issues.

install different distro's on 2 10gb drives, dual boot, no windows,xandros and vector...dazed and confused

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 09:02 AM PST

mjt wrote:
 
sorry, that's indeed what I meant :-/

and thanks much for your very clear answers :-)
 
ps- your site doesn't answer; it links to the top of 'dyndns'...(might
be intentional?)

=continues=

Unruh wrote:
 

it's a 'initial test box' for learning (or becoming more familiar with)
Linux. apps I'd like to run on it are basic: ftp, email, webbrowser, and
"the gimp" (photo editor). also want to experiment around with
"lightening" the windowmanager load on the system (maybe just use IceWM
or FXCM or whatever it's called). and some lite photo editing - my
camera generates 1.3 megapixel jpeg files (for cropping/editing). I
build 'bare bones' websites, so a text editor's good enough for that.
wouldn't in any event be placing any 'irreplaceable' jpeg's (or other
files) on the box -till- I became more adept.

shortly after the OS'es are installed, I'd start studying how to
'totally get rid' of the incomprehensible or un-needed apps, and replace
'em/install other apps, and/or update apps I use frequently (whatever
they'd turn out to be :-). basic stuff. hoping to NOT need a near
doctorate-level degree in "malware eradication & control" like I do with
winblowsXP.

Unruh wrote:
 

unruh, not at all sure I understand - pretty sure I don't. maybe I'm an
idiot - in linux-world convention, does just plain / mean "/root" (I
think? aka "assumed"). if that's correct, you're suggesting:

drive A, @ 10 gb total, partitioned as:
512 mb for /swap (shared, & glad we're in agreement on that :-)
5 gb / (I assume means /root)
4.5 gb (roughly) for /local "generic cross-mounted, for extra non-system
software"

and

drive B, @ 10 gb, partitioned as:
all 10 gb= /home "cross-mounted for personal stuff"

also not clear wether you agree or disagree on what file systems go
where (ResiserFS on all except swap? or? ext2 here or there?). also
please advise "Mr Dumbhead" here as to where OS'es install (umm, you're
not suggesting they both go IN the same 5 gb /root ? or?)

and "cross-linking" is certainly something "My Polymer" here is gonna
need to look into :->

thanks to both you guys, for my education so far :-)

tool

Fedora Core 3 + i830 = no good X11 ?

Posted: 29 Mar 2005 07:07 AM PST

Lenard <0.0.1> wrote: 
 
 

I expected a simpler solution than to rebuild the kernel.
I haven't done this yet.
I thought Intel830 and Fedora should live in piece after all :-)

Pavel
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

help w/ mandrake iso's install

Posted: 28 Mar 2005 08:47 PM PST

"Cajman" <com> writes:

 
 

It IS an intel 845. What do you mean "this did not work" What error
messages did you get?

 

YOu mean your computer and monitor completely disappeared? Come on. Nothing
gives us nothing to go on. Tell us in detail what the error conditions
were.
Do NOT use run level 5. Use run level 3, log on and then do startx 2>/tmp/X
then let us see what is in /tmp/X


 
 
 
 

Just for FUN - Enjoy =)

Posted: 28 Mar 2005 05:04 PM PST

KT wrote:
 

Priceless!

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Fedora 3 can not halt, it just restart

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 03:19 PM PST

thanks!

well, the extra blank in later mail is due to miss-typing:)

are there some alternatives rather then holding the power button to shut it
down?



"The Ghost In The Machine" <athghost7038suus.net> wrote in
message news:athghost7038suus.net... 

So how do I wipe an HD from a floppy once the HD is formatted in Reiser?

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 12:46 PM PST


"Peter T. Breuer" <it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:it.uc3m.es... 

I already pointed him to several useful tools. Give your right hand a
*rest*, Peter.

Changing Screen resolution?

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 11:22 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup Perry <com>:
 
[..]
 
 

The above is a command, you '[CTRL][ALT][F1]' to change to VT1,
login and execute it and show us the output, it's in the file
"log". If you post the output, preferable via cut&paste it should
give us some idea about the problem. Perhaps you simply have no
higher resolution configured.
 
 

A good idea starting should be:

LINUX
Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition

http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz

There's an own chapter "43. The X Window System". Dunno if FC2 is
using x.org or xfree86, anyway there's no difference if you just
want to know more about basic X server functionality. Be aware
that X it's full multiuser and network transparent, with help of
ssh even through multiple systems.

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I can not create a user

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 09:29 AM PST

Thank you!!!

I think that the problem is instalation. If I try do another command
return NOT OK with message "error loading shared libraries...".

When I installed Debian via FTP, I remember that I had troubles with
the conexion with few packages. Maybe that packages are importants!!!

Thank you for all.

The Greatest News Ever!

Posted: 26 Mar 2005 08:44 AM PST

http://www.jcil.blogspot.com << The Greatest News Ever!

cd

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 04:19 PM PST

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:41:49 -0600, mjt <ru> wrote: 
 
 

or use software that does digital playback such as xmms

Orinoco wifi driver fails load on startup but can load it manually

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 02:53 PM PST

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:30:15 -0700, Beowulf wrote:
 

Appreciate the input - I'll start digging into it.

Bill

Dual boot Win XP Pro/FC3 again

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 10:27 AM PST


"Jeff G" <net> wrote in message
news:com... 

It's OK. Just ignore Peter. He'll include 100 lines of ranting at newbies,
and one line of vague hand-waving direction, and the hand-waving is often if
not always in the wrong direction.

If your motherboard was built in this millennium, you're probably fine with
your Linux partitions anywhere you want and yoru MBR written at the
beginning of your first hard drive, typically at /dev/hda. It's fairly easy
to test and see, especially if you have a bootable floppy or CD for Windows
to reset your MBR the way you like in case you blow it up.

detect scsi scanner after boot

Posted: 24 Mar 2005 05:47 AM PST

It worked when I compiled the scsi stuff as a module!

Running Linux in Pentium2s

Posted: 23 Mar 2005 10:03 PM PST

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.]
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:02:49 GMT, Jim Dell
<net> wrote: 
You could use a browser like Elinks or Dillo, if you don't need to
access web sites that require Javascript or Flash.


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-- Douglas Hofstadter

Cant open home in KDE

Posted: 23 Mar 2005 09:04 AM PST

In article <com>,
notgiven <com> wrote:
 

If there's a problem starting an X program, a good place to look for
error messages is ~/.xsession-errors.

Any way to change which symbols appear in the legend? Microsoft Project

Any way to change which symbols appear in the legend? Microsoft Project

Any way to change which symbols appear in the legend?

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 08:52 AM PST

Colin,
To change the legend, change the "Name" field of the symbol in the Bar Style
dialog box.
If you want to hide a bar style in the legend while keeping the symbol in
the Gantt Chart, add an "*" as the first character of this "*Name"

Gérard Ducouret

"Colin Higbie" <com> a écrit dans le message de
news:%phx.gbl... 
may 
show 

Project useful for production scheduling?

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 08:31 AM PST

Thanks, Dave!

"davegb" wrote:
 

Multiple Versions of Project

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 07:15 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Steve Scott" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Steve,
Yes. I have those same three versions installed and running under
Windows XP Home for basically the same reason - so I can respond to
posts from an assortment of users on this and other newsgroups.
Generally I do not experience problems having all three versions on a
single PC.

John
Project MVP

Automated RAG Status Formula

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 07:13 AM PST

You're welcome Scott. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Steve Scott" wrote:
 

Tailored calendar view in Project

Posted: 05 Jan 2005 07:09 AM PST

Yes, sorry. About the closest thing to flagged fields is the "marked" task
choice, but you only have the choice of formatting marked tasks differently.

Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Ridgeroad" wrote:
 

How to account for 2 similar resources where one works faster than other

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 04:50 PM PST

There really is no satisfactory way to take into account slight differences
in efficiency like that. I'm not really sure it matters in a context such
as you describe anyway. When you put two resources together on a task like
that, it implies that they are working together as a unit, a team,
interacting with each other on the task. Thus the efficiency that governs
progress will be the efficiency of the team and not its individual members.
IF they are dividing up the work of the task and working on their portions
independently, so A finishes his part in 4 days while B does his is in 6,
for example, you really have two different, albeit similar, tasks and they
should be listed separately in the plan. Remember, you always should try to
have the resources you plan to put on the task in mind when you estimate the
durations in the first place.
--
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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

<com> wrote in message
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How do I get a global view of all projects in Project 2003

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 03:19 PM PST

Hi Mark,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

Try using a master file as I explained in my series on Microsoft Project in
the TechTrax ezine, particularly #17 & 18, at this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
(Perhaps you'd care to rate the article 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



Mark Peterson wrote: 

Specify different allocations % during a task?

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 02:15 PM PST

Work contours are described in the help files. One of the easiest ways to
see how they work is to set up a little experimental plan with one task,
maybe 10 days duration, put a resource on it, switch to the usage views,
apply the various contours and see how the hours get distributed. BTW, task
type matters there so if I have a task with 10 days duration that's fixed
work and apply a bell contour, the duration goes to 3 weeks. OTOH, if the
task is fixed duration and I apply the contour, the total work hours changes
while the duration remains at 10 days.

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

"fxs" <com> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl... 

Gantt Chart Wizard Formatting

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 12:55 PM PST

Hi Glenn,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

The wizard is a quick way to format, but it does not cover everything. Try
Format/Bar Styles../Text tab - it's all there for you

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

Glenn wrote: 

Undo?

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 12:17 PM PST

Nope - there is only one level of undo and it is hard-coded and there's
nothing that can be done about it except hope it will change in some future
release. Sorry about that.
--
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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Stefan Robert" <ca> wrote in message
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Custom WBS Codes

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 11:27 AM PST

In article <#phx.gbl>,
"fxs" <com> wrote:
 

fxs,
For a solution, see me response to your other post.

John

Show/Hide specific WBS Elements

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 10:55 AM PST

In article <#phx.gbl>,
"fxs" <com> wrote:
 

fxs,
To answer your basic request I kept the code as simple as possible. If
it is run a second time, the WBS prefix will get more "00s", and the
code will need to be modified to handle WBSs for added tasks.

If you have a little VBA experience, modifying the code to be more
flexible would be a good exercise. If you do not have any VBA experience
but would like to get the added functionality, write me direct and tell
me what you want the WBS to look like (i.e. default WBS, a custom WBS
structure, etc.). For example, if a task is added between existing WBSs,
should the WBS renumber from the added task on (Project default) or
should existing tasks retain their original WBS?

John

Date Calculation

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 10:49 AM PST

There're several issues to be explored here. Remember duration is the
amount of working time units designated by the calendar between when work is
first performed on a task and when it ends. It may or may not be
continuous. If a task starts Dec 07 and goes for 5 days, then is
interrupted for a few weeks (perhaps the holidays are shown as non-working
time, a 2 or 3 week stand-down) and then resumes, working for another 5 days
and then it's finished sometime in January the elapsed time is more than a
month but the duration is still only 10 days because the time off in the
middle for the holidays doesn't count.

An alarm bell is going off when you say you "edited the start and end times"
for the tasks. When you edit either one you inevitably establish
constraints on the task, constraints that are rarely justifed. If you edit
the start, you get a Start No Earlier Than constraint. If you edit the end,
you get a Finish No Earlier Than constraint. If you edit BOTH, the
constraint you get is determined by the order you do the edits. BUT, you
really shouldn't be doing either one! The whole reason Project exists is to
calculate the schedule for you - you don't tell it the dates where it should
schedule the tasks -- you tell it what needs to be done, the relationships
between the tasks, the resources you have to do them with, and how long each
should take and then it tells YOU the dates you can have them on, a whole
different paradigm.

I'd suggest you be very, very careful about using the 24 hour calendar as
you are. Doing so implies that when your 60 day task begins, work on it
never stops for over 2 months, the resources doing the work never sleeping,
never eating, never getting a day off for that entire period of time.
People simply don't work that way. The project calendar should describe the
hours during the day that work will take place on a typical task as
scheduled for a typical resource. While your company may very well work
24/7, a single person most certainly does not and the tasks should usually
describe the work done by a sigle person or a team working together as a
unit. If your "standard" shift is M-F, 8-5 that should be your project
calendar even if you really have multiple shifts working in the aggregate
24/7. If you have a task "dig a hole" and you assign that task to Joe
Dayshift, the hours that Joe works are the only one's that matter - it is
totally irrelevant that there is also Bill working Swing shift and Fred
working Graveyard, they're not digging the hole, only Joe is, and the
calendar that governs the scheduling of that task should be Joe's work
schedule and Joe's alone. The project calendar governs task placement's
until you assign resources and so, IMHO, it should be the work shift of a
typical resource, not the company as a whole.

HTH

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



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

watermark in project

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 08:19 AM PST

John

Thanks, I would rather set an empy six pack of brew on it after beating the
bushes...

"John" wrote:
 

per diem rates

Posted: 04 Jan 2005 02:19 AM PST

This is true... which is why I generally use this type of resource as a
"material" resource when tracking costs to this level. Sound advice!

Thanks,

Ian

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Update Data from Excel

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 07:11 PM PST

Glad you made it.
The later versions of project have a wizard to walk you through this
confusion.


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Microsoft Word - upgrade

Microsoft Word - upgrade

upgrade

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:23 PM PST

I did a upgrade from windows 8 to 8.1 and now office 2010 won't work and it did  under windows 8

Conditional Formatting a Word Document with Merged Fields from an Excel Document

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:02 PM PST

Hi,

I've tried to read the answers to similar questions and I don't understand all of the formatting slang so I'm asking my own question. 
 
I have a word document that includes merged fields from an Excel file.  I have used the "insert merge field" command in word to merge the appropriate fields from my Excel file.  These fields have conditional formatting in Excel as follows: if the number in the cell is 40 or higher, the cell will filled in with yellow; if the number is 10 or lower, the cell will be filled in with blue.  I would like to get the same result in my word document.  Can someone give me simple, step-by-step instructions to do this in the word document?

Thanks A LOT in advance.

Mark B.

office is busy

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:12 PM PST

I have been trying to open files in Word and Excel for the last hour and keep getting a pop up saying Office can not be used right not because we are busy or updating.  Is this normal?  Very frustrated I can't get into my files.

Which fonts were omitted from 2003 ?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:57 PM PST

I need to know the fonts that are no longer in Word 2010, because I think that caused a change in a brochure, which makes it not useable as it is.

Brochure does not open correctly in 2010

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:51 PM PST

change in font when opening trifold brochure created in Word 97-2003.  Moves all -- 3 pages now instead of 2.  Want to print from old, how do I make look the way it was?  If I ever get it right without having to redo the whole thing, will PDFing it keep it?

Using controls and conditional formatting

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:33 PM PST

This would be for Word 2010. I have a two-page letter that has one paragraph that changes per subject category and action.  I have four categories with checkboxes. I have four actions with checkboxes. Depending on which box is checked for the category and then which is checked for the action would determine the paragraph that would pop up in the letter.

 

Any idea how this can be done?

 

Thanks!

Extra paper printed

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:06 PM PST

Whenever I print a letter, which has a header and a footer, I always get an extra paper printed.  This is a waste of paper.  Also, whenever  I construct a header and a footer on a single letter head, the footer get copied to the second and third page, when I scroll down. Please help me to correct these problems.

Thanks

How do I detect if a save is manually by the user (Save button or CTL+S) or called by AutoSave?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:02 PM PST

I do not want cancel the "BeforeDocumentSave" event if an autosave.  How do I determine if it is an autosave?

Dialog box pops open when a template doc is opened.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 11:37 AM PST

Hi, 

I'm using a template document, and editing it. When I open it to edit by right clicking open, the dialog box does not come up. Once I'm happy with the .dot document and save it, I go to double click to open it as Document 1.doc, and this box pops up. 


I have no idea how to get rid of this box. 
The only thing I have done is basically retype the entire document into a brand new word window which is obviously not ideal. 
I do run Word 2007, however, I have to save as .dot / .doc as some staff uses word 2003, and it seems to work better. 

Windows 7 the exception unknown software exception (0xe0000002) occured in the application at location 0x75aec41f for Word?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:34 AM PST

I just helped a student download microsoft office 2010 to their Acer laptop. Before the installation we uninstalled the trial version of windows on his computer.

After we downloaded office he then tried to open word2010 and got the error message in the subject line:

 

the exception unknown software exception (0xe0000002) occured in the application at locatino 0x75aec41f.

 

What steps can be taken so that he can use Word 2010? Everything else works fine including: Access, powerpoint etc.

 

When I click on Word what happens is I get a "User Account Control" message asking "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes on this computer? Program name : Microsoft Word/Verified Publisher: Microsoft Corp/File Origin:Hard drive on this computer

 

I then try to open a file that was started in word and this message occurs: Microsoft word is trying to recover your information.  This might take several minutes.

 

Then I get Microsoft word has stopped working: A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How to find words marked "Do not check spelling or grammar"?

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 10:16 AM PST

There must be a way to find words you've marked "Do not check spelling or grammar" under Language | Set Proofing Language. I say "must" because such words are noted under Language in Reveal Formatting. Ordinarily you'd wait until almost your last step in laying out pages before you'd mark such words (to prevent Word from carrying a whole line over to the next page). However, revisions happen. It would be handy to be able to sweep through a file and quickly find such words.

I tried cancelling all such markings, but selecting an article and turning off "Do not check spelling or grammar" has no effect on words already so marked.

They could, I suppose, be given an unusual, visible attribute for finding and removing later.

Applying Changes / Additions to Word Styles to "Old" Documents

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:33 AM PST

I have made a lot of changes to my styles and even added and deleted other styles.  

How do I automatically/en masse apply the new/changed styles to already existing documents?  I am familiar with VBA if that helps.

TIA

boxes around each paragraph

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 09:05 AM PST

Just "upgraded" to Office 2013.  When I open a file in Compatibility Mode, the document displays normally.  If someone sends me a file that was (presumably) created not in Compatibility Mode, every paragraph has a squiggly border.  How do I get rid of that border once and for all? 

'Find and Replace' Font question.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 08:45 AM PST

Hi I wonder if anybody can help.
I use Word Starter 2010.
I translate using a specialist font 'Gardiner' which uses two characters (U+A723 and U+A725) that do not appear in most fonts such as Ariel. Before uploading what I've done I have to do a mass 'find and replace' to replace these symbols with others. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to change the font used in Microsoft's 'Find and replace' dialogue which means that I cannot use that dialogue to find and replace them - is it possible to change the font used in this dialogue? I havealready tried changing teh font in the normal template.
Ned

Desktop shortcut icons for Word files

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:58 AM PST

I have created desktop shortcut items for several of my files. Suddenly, the other day, they stopped working, and the files won't open from them. Also, I can no longer move the icons around on the desktop; they will not respond to the mouse at all. I don't know what I did or how to undo it.

Equations

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:24 AM PST

Hi!
my office (2010) is crashes whenever I use the equation editor of the word.
For example, I opened it (alt+=) and just wrote "=", and it was crashed. I don't know what to do as it worked before and since this week it doesn't...
Perhaps it is related to the Windows 8.1 I installed (instead of windows 8)?
What can I do?

Thanks,
Neta

Microsoft Word suddenly stopped working and close when i start to use it.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 07:22 AM PST

When i trying to open microsft word or excel is appearing a dialog box with the following message "Microsoft stopped working" A problem cause the program to stopworking correctly windows will close the program and notify if you solution is available. I would appreciate your assistance in how can i resolve this matter

Source manager in Word 2013

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:43 AM PST

Hello

Please could someone explain why the source added to the document via Add a Placeholder route and then Edit the source doesn't appear on the Master List in the Source Manager?

By default, all sources cited/created (using Add a new source) are showing automatically both in the Master and Current list so there is never any need to copy any sources from the current list to the master list as all sources are already there. The source created via add placeholder seem to be an exception. I have read numerous tutorials on bibliographies and citations/sources but none of them states what is the reason for such source not appearing in the Master list. They all mention that it is possible to copy sources from current to master list and the other way round but the explanation is never provided.

Would be very grateful for the response.

Thanks

Anna

Open a File

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:29 AM PST

I'm am curious if there is a way to turn off the open file feature in Word 10? It has a ridiculous amount of clicks to get to a file when all I want to do is open another doc quickly from a different file and/or drive. This feature has you clicking almost five times before you can get the dialogue box open. I used to be able to go straight to the dialogue box with the shortcut key or with two clicks (File>Open), which must have changed since it's not opening this simply now, or I have a setting that needs to be changed?

 

Thanks

Toolbar missing when opening documents containing tracked changes through interop

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 06:21 AM PST

The problem is that anytime a word document containing tracked changes is opened through the help of Interop the toolbar goes missing. All of the tabs like File are gone and there is no way to restore them. The only options available are the right click menu and minimize/maximize.

The strange thing is that if you have word running already when you open the  same document through Interop it doesnt get this problems and all the toolbars are fully visible. Same thing if you open the document without using Interop.

The shortcut commands doesnt work either (Since the toolbar isnt even there). So my question is, what could cause this problem and has anybody had any similar experiences with Interop?

Office 2013 Running Slow and Laggy

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 05:53 AM PST

I have Office 2013 installed on two machines right now. One is an old underpowered laptop, and the other is my very recently built workstation with high quality components (read: fast computer). Lately, Office has been extremely laggy on my workstation; windows take several seconds to catch up when I move them, the file menu is AWFULLY slow to respond, and Excel tends to crash when I scroll down a sheet. Even Word will hang up for a few seconds when I scroll occasionally. It's not a problem with the computer itself, because all other programs run very smoothly. What confuses me is that on my old laptop everything runs perfectly fine! No lag, no crashing, nothing. I've reinstalled Office on the desktop, disabled hardware acceleration, started programs in safe mode, and disabled add-ons to try and get things running well but I've had no luck. Things seemed to slow down around when I upgraded to Windows 8.1, but my laptop is on that as well with no problems. Does anyone have any thoughts on what may be causing this? 

MS Office Trial version

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 05:24 AM PST

On the downloaded free triql version of MS Office I can't open Word. Message  "This App can't run on your PC". Other Office elements seem OK, Excel/PPoint/Outlook. PC is new and runs Windows 8 (not sure if 8 or 8.1). This suggests a problem with Word and isn't a great advert for MS Office - what is the fix for this? 

Home 365 download

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 04:14 AM PST

I bought Office 365 Home Premium on 9/30/13 and installed it on 10/7/13. Somehow my laptop saw my download as the 30 day free trial and the software, supposedly, timed out on 11/2/13. I have my Product Key and would like some advice on getting this product downloaded correctly.

office 2013 will not start

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 03:20 AM PST

office 2013 came ready to use on my new Hp laptop (windows8). after using it successfully for a couple of times it suddenly will not open and a message saying "sorry a problem has occurred we couldn't start your program" comes up. it also suggests repairing office 2013 from the control panel but actually I cannot find it in the list of installed programs, please help.

Macro to crop all titles of Alt+PrintScreen in a Document

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 02:58 AM PST

Hello,
I've a document with a lots of screenshots of Alt+PrintScreens pasting. I want to crop the title line of the window of those screenshots .
Can it done by a Macro?
Thank You

Windows 8 / Office 13 REALLY???? !!!!

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 01:14 AM PST

Dear Microsoft - UGH.. ya know you guys always want to blame it on the end user--- "we don't know how to do things"... "we don't like change"... c'mon!!! REALLY???  - just step back for a moment and pretend you have respect for the people buying your products and writing to you ... ---  I love learning new software and am hardly afraid of trying new things and I find making mistakes to be a learning experience.  But Windows 8 is a Looooser!!!! And Office 13 is a SCAM!!! I am so very sorry I bought it and hope to heaven enough people complain so you will just get rid of it.  Stop trying to compete with Apple and be Microsoft will ya.  And YOUR Answer about Microsoft Picture manager being omitted from MS office suite was a very poor attempt to placate one of your customers, or should I say hostage - figuratively speaking!  What a crock!!  You insult us!!!! - Boy, you really have us don't you.  We have to buy the only products you put out, we have to buy your updates and we HAVE to be signed into the internet or email account so that we can use our computers.  I think you are awful people.  I will return this computer and buy one from Craig's list or something.  You should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves.. but you don't give a darn about your clients... you are making a ton of money and have partners like ... I don't know, who?? .... you tell us!  So angry - you have no idea.  Maybe APPLE IS the KEY to all this... after all, that is why you destroyed your brand.... to be more Apple like is it not???  BTW, YOU CAN be innovative and make a substantial profit without being an A _ _ !! Try it sometime. - and get the "kids" out of the decision making chair!

Help with Mailmerge to Individual Documents

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 12:39 AM PST

Hi

 

I am trying to mailmerge from an excel data file, with each record being saved as an individual document. We are running Office 2010.

 

I have downloaded the excellent add-in from Graham Mayor and all works fine, except for the filename.

 

All the documents are saved with the name NoName Record.... rather than the filename from the filename column in the data file.

 

Ive checked the format of the filename column - there are no illegal characters.

 

The filename is in the format CCC - NNCccN

 

where C is a character and N is a number.

 

I think I must be doing something obvious wrong, but don't know what!


Any help would be appreciated.

Spaces not appearing

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 11:07 PM PST

Hi all,

This has happened a couple of times now, and i managed to fix it or it fixed itself the first time but i have no idea what is happening. Recently whenever I'm typing in Word 2013 (Professional Plus) it will at some time or another stop showing spaces. When i say this i don't mean they do not show up between words, or they appear as dots, but as i come to the end of a word and hit spacebar, the cursor will stay at the end of the word and not move on a space. It does not matter how many times spacebar is pressed, the spaces will not appear until a letter key is pressed. This is really frustrating me while I am writing essays for University and I'm watching a I type because i waste so much time thinking i haven't pressed the key properly and end up double or triple spacing and having to fix it!

If anyone knows what Word is doing, or how to fix it, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Peter

Cannot Call Distributed "Fix Text" windows out

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 09:36 PM PST

Hi,

May I know how to call the fix text windows when I highlight partially or full text & click on distributed button in Ms Office 2013 or Ms Office 2010?

How to retain italics, bold when applying styles in Word 2010

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 07:00 PM PST

I understand that Word drops the character italics/bold, etc features if more than half of the paragraph appear as such. This is a real problem. I'm re-styling bibliographic references (to make them hanging indents) and most have a majority of italicized words in the lines.

Some folks suggest a workaround of subbing ALL italics to highlights, applying the new paragraph styles (which usually wipe out the italics) and then subbing italics in at all the highlighted text.

Please tell me there's a more efficient way. I've tried removing "Regular" from the font description in the paragraph style I'm using. that didn't work. and even when I took the time to apply direct formatting of the italicized words before applying the style, it was still wiped out.

very frustrating. and a waste of time. can anyone help?

Microsoft Word 2010 wont open

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 06:50 PM PST

I have issues with my Windows 2010 it wont open it was fine and now it wont open. I have Windows 7 Home 64 bit. I have tried the registry way and delete the HKEY OFFICE 2014 DATA and allow the system to rewrite it. Didn't work.  I tried to restart it in safe mode it wont open in safe mode. So I was told that a third party app may have messed with the registry. I've ran my security program didn't work still wont open. It states c://programfiles/microsoft office\office14\wwwlib.dll is either not designed to run on windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. I've tried to reinstall but my computer for some reason wont delete and reinstall it. But anyway it wont work, but excel, access, powerpoint 2010 works and can access it. Please Help.

Obtaining Names of Word Documents via VBA for a DropBox Control on a UserForm

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 06:18 PM PST

I need to obtain a list of all Word documents in a specified subfolder ("c:\letters\Boilerplate") to include each document name (using .addItem) into a Userform Dropbox control (the control is named "WhichOne").

How is this done?

TIA

MSWord 2007 crashing after saving or "saving as" a document

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 05:44 PM PST

Hello!  All of a sudden Word is crashing as soon as I try to "save as" a document.  Sometimes if I'm fast enough I can save it with a new name, but then the program crashes.  Any advice?  I'm using WINDOWS VISTA operating system.  Thanks!

Microsoft Word "Not Responding"

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 04:51 PM PST

I've been using word recently, and I have found that every so often it stops working. 
It doesn't freeze as I would expect eg showing 'Not responding'.
It just doesn't allow me to continue typing, or even click on the word document. I have to wait a minute or so for it to continue working. 
So far I haven't lost any of my work, however it's not convenient when trying to write an essay to keep stopping and waiting for it to work. 

I have windows 8 and microsoft 2013 and my laptop is under a year old, so I can't understand where the issue is coming from.

Has anyone else had this issue? Does anyone know why it is occurring or how to solve it?

Problems with DNS12.5

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 04:42 PM PST

I am running Dragon Naturally Speaking version 12.5 on a Dell laptop.  I loaded Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013.  DNS will not dictate onto a Word document unless I use a Dialogue Box.  I followed your advice to try to enable the Natspeak Addin, but whenever I try to enable it, I get the message 'No items match your search'.  
Any ideas?

Thanks

Peter

Word 2010 Organizer

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 04:23 PM PST

In 2010, when I use the Style Organizer, on the right side, it does not show all the styles in my normal.dotm It only shows Default Paragraph Font, Heading 1 thru 5, No List, Normal, Normal Indent, Table Normal.  How do I get all the styles in Normal.dotm (global template) to show up?  I've used the Style Organizer for years in 2007 and I always had all the styles showing. Thank you for your help.

external dependencies with projects in different folders Microsoft Project

external dependencies with projects in different folders Microsoft Project

external dependencies with projects in different folders

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 12:45 PM PST

Hi Dave,

Glad to know you got it worked out. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Dave Barr" wrote:
 

How do you change the default year from 2004 to 2005?

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 11:15 AM PST

You're welcome Morgan. Thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"Morgan" wrote:
 

Editing Text w/in customized column

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 11:10 AM PST

Hi Gerry,

Can you use your arrow movement keys (left arrow) instead of the backspace
key to move the cursor? The backspace key will delete text as it moves to
the left, the left and right arrow keys should just allow you to move within
the text without deleting.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need further assistance and thanks for
the feedback.

Julie

"gerry myers" wrote:
 

can't outdent inserted projects

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 09:32 AM PST

That worked Jack - thanks for your help


"JackD" <momokuri@gmail> wrote in message
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Color & Thinkness of Today's Date Line in Gantt Chart

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 07:54 AM PST

Right click on the gantt area, select gridlines and format the "current
date" line the way you want.


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Date of project

Posted: 03 Jan 2005 05:35 AM PST

Hi M,

Sorry, didn't realize you were looking for the VBA answer. I have *very*
limited knowledge of VBA, but when I recorded the steps for setting the start
date, the resulting code was:

ProjectSummaryInfo Start:="1/10/05"

Hope this helps.

Julie


"M" wrote:
 

Round bar to whole days

Posted: 02 Jan 2005 06:18 AM PST

I'll concur with Julie. When using the US English version of Pro without
Server a double-click on the selector button beside either the resource name
in the task usage view or by the task name in resource usage view brings up
the Assignment Information form and the contour field and pull-down is on
the first page of both. Is the entire field missing from the pop-up form in
your version or is the field on the form but the picklist of options is
empty?
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Peter Janssens" <com> wrote in message
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Totals when reporting by month

Posted: 01 Jan 2005 11:30 PM PST

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the clarification. I begin to understand better now your
scenario and see why you were having difficulty. The milestone report is not
a time-phased report such as the Cash Flow or Who Does What When Report which
can easily show column totals of data by month based upon the time-phased
data.
When you format the milestone report to show you milestones by month,
Project is just grouping the milestone tasks by month for display purposes.

If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to run a count by
grouping (per month)based upon your criteria and then a total for the entire
report. To the best of my knowledge, totaling by month in this type of
report is not possible within project. The only suggestion I can come up
with is an export to excel.

Perhaps there is someone else within the community who sees something I don't.

Sorry I wasn't able to assist further. I'll keep pondering and repost if an
idea strikes.

Julie

"Glenn Eldridge" wrote:
 

Project 2000 - Can I lock down cost information in Project from us

Posted: 31 Dec 2004 07:03 AM PST

Adding to my other response, I've always felt that if a user is high enough
in the organizationto have actual access to the plannig file, they were high
enough to see the cost data. If not, give them a PDF of the portion of the
information that concerns them.

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

"toast88" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Integrated MS Project 2003+BUg Tracking+Attendance management

Posted: 31 Dec 2004 02:44 AM PST

Thanks - I'll look it up

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MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"Rob Schneider" <net> wrote in message
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Managing dependcies when using Multiple Projects

Posted: 30 Dec 2004 04:59 PM PST

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Dave Barr" <com> wrote:
 

Dave,
I'm not sure why you say it was painful. That almost sounds like you
manually entered the full path for each external link. If that is the
method you used there are much easier ways. The method I have used is to
set the view to display both the source and destination tasks so they
appear on the same screen (a filter can be used if the tasks are many
lines apart). Then click and hold your mouse on the center of the source
Gantt bar and drag to the center of the destination Gantt bar. The link
will be made automatically including the path if appropriate.

John

Project keeps crashing

Posted: 30 Dec 2004 12:59 PM PST

It sounds like there are some files that Project is missing when they're not
connected to the network through their docking stations. Without knowing
the specifics of what is different in the whole package when they are in
their docking station versus when they're not it's impossible to say what is
happening. Are they connecting to the same server when they're not at the
their docking station? Are the drive mappings the same? Do they have
access to all the same folders on the server? Does the docking station
contain their network card, an additional hard drive, that sort of thing?

There's nothing in Project that prevents it from running on a laptop without
a docking station - I do it all the time. There is something about your
specific installation that changes when they're undocked that is the key to
the problem. So to track it down, find out exactly what is different.

Hmm - a thought. Go to one of the users with the problem who is able to
connect when the laptop is in the docking station. Undock the laptop.
Unplug the network cable from the docking station and plug it into the
laptop network card directly. Can it load Project or not?
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

"maryj" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Project 2000 - 1,048,000 rows in a project message.

Posted: 28 Dec 2004 06:43 PM PST

Hi Don,

If you can't open the file at all, then you have no option but to go to a
backup. Sorry


Mike Glen
Project MVP

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