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PWA Task assignment Question Microsoft Project

PWA Task assignment Question

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 03:51 PM PST

Dale,
Thanks so much for your quick reply. I can now move on to other issues.

Thanks
Gary

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Saving Views to global.mpt via Organizer

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 02:43 PM PST

No problem. Glad I could clear this up.

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Changing % complete for a task that passed its finish date

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 01:13 PM PST

Hello Samantha,
Have you tried to add any Remaining duration in the Update tasks dialog box
?
Tools / Tracking / Update Tasks...

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret


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Customizing Field Formats

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 01:03 PM PST

Hello Ryan,
Have you tried :
Tools / Options / Views / Curency Symbol : $

Hope this helps,

Gérard Ducouret


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Timescale Format

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 12:07 PM PST

Hi Ryan,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

No - sorry :(

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



Ryan F wrote: 

Font for Baseline Schedule Task Bar

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 11:27 AM PST

Hi Ryan,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

This is not built into Project. A way round it is to have, say, text to the
right of the bar for the baseline and Text to the left for the task for the
actual task bar. Then format the Left text differently from the right.

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



Ryan F wrote: 

Using VBA to export to Excel

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 09:33 AM PST

Hi fxs,

Try posting on the developer newsgroup. Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project
Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information
can be seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.

Mike Glen
Project MVP





fxs wrote: 

Custom fields in reports....

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 07:23 AM PST

In article <IcTEd.403$ntli.net>,
"Asolepius" <lesrose***@ntlworld***.com> wrote:
 

Asolepius,
You can't get a timescaled custom field (i.e. monthly invoiced cost)
displayed directly in a report or view in Project. That is because
Project does not know how to timescale the custom values values. It
might be linear and it might not.

You are right in that only a single row of field data is displayed in
the crosstab report. That shows one of the limitations with the built-in
reports. When I need to create a timescaled or other custom report, I
always use VBA. Although the utility "analyze timescaled data in Excel"
will export basic timescaled data from Project to Excel, nothing beats a
custom macro to get exactly the data you want in exactly the format you
want. Using VBA you can also generate timescaled data for your custom
cost. All you need to do is define how the custom cost is spread and
then let the VBA code create it.

BTW, what's a "top post"?

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Cost control

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 07:21 AM PST

Yes you can do calculated fields but how do you handle something like a task
that has expenses for travel, hotels, meals, car rental, etc, etc yet
there's only one "fixed cost" field for non-resource attributable items like
that? I suggest using Excel to compute the actual total for the various
non-resource costs of the task and then link that back into the Project
fixed cost field where it then can be summed with the resource costs to come
up with the total cost for the task of interest.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs

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Benefits over other project software

Posted: 11 Jan 2005 01:19 AM PST

Steve,
Good to know that your advice to your students about Project is better
than you taste in beer! :)

Gantt Chart View

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 04:07 PM PST

I follow you now, Jan. When I hide a column, I never use the shortcut,
because it deletes the column for some reason. Have never figured out
why it's called "Hide". I always just click and drag the column divider
to the left over to the adjacent column divider. Of course, that really
"hides" the column, doesn't delete it. Do it from the menu often
enough, and you'll have no columns left!
In fact, both methods work, just a difference in style.

Headers

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 03:53 PM PST

Kai,

You might find that in this forum, top-posting is the standard and needs no
correction.
The reasons for this are obvious given enough thinking about the issue.
This is not your father's usenet.

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Earned Value - Tracked by Month

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 02:33 PM PST

The problem may be in entering the actual cost as an aggregate. You need to
put in the actual cost for each task on the dates that the costs were
accrued. If I have a 5 days task running Monday thru Friday, 8 hours a
days, resource getting $10/hr, displaying the work row would show 8 hours
each day and the cost row in the resource usage view should show Actual Cost
of $80 on Mon, same for Tue, same for Wed, thu Fri. Let Project calculate
the total by month based on your entry of the figures on the dates the work
was performed. ACWP is a calculated value based on the progress of the work
for the most part. Actual Cost Work Performed
Steve House [MVP]

"liz217" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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add multiple start/finish dates in a single task

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 12:41 PM PST

Had a thought - you could adapt the user-defined fields that are usually
used for interim plans. [Start] and [Finish] would then be the actual task
schedule, [Start1] and [Finish1] could be used for the Objective start and
finish, and [Start2] and [Finish2] could hold the Threshold start and
finish. You could then create new bar styles for the Gantt chart to display
task bars for each entry on the same line as the scheduled start and finish
is now. But my comments in my previous reply still stand - it looks like
you're getting very inventive with regard to what the task start and finish
dates and durations signify and that usually results in a very misleading
plan. One can call a turnip an apple if one likes, but the resulting recipe
usually makes for a very strange tasting pie <grin>.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Barry" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Project Server Spooler Error

Posted: 10 Jan 2005 09:12 AM PST

Cindy --

The error indicates that you have a local resource in your project. A local
resource is any resource you typed into the Resource Sheet view and which
you did not add to the project team using Tools - Build Team from
Enterprise. To eliminate this problem, do the following:

1. Open the project
2. Click View - Resource Sheet
3. Double-click the local resource
4. Set the Workgroup value to None
5. Click OK
6. Save the project
7. Click Collaborate - Publish - All Information

Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


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Microsoft Word - Microsoft Program with labels

Microsoft Word - Microsoft Program with labels

Microsoft Program with labels

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 02:12 PM PST

Which micro soft program has labels

 

Find & Replace Long Blocks of Text (Microsoft Word)

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 01:41 PM PST

I understand that the "^c" tag, when placed in the "Replace" entry point in "Find & Replace" can replace whatever is copied into the Clipboard.  This is a great feature, however the same "^c" does not work when placed into the "Find" entry point.  Can this please be fixed, or has this limitation already been addressed?

 

I have many documents that have exceeding long and repetitive, multi-line text in them which lengthens the document by over 50%.  I really want to use Find & Replace to eliminate these strings.  I understand there is a macro out there which affords a Find & Replace providing the strings are stored in separate documents; however, I do not need to go to any strings longer than about 255 characters.

 

It appears Word 2010 is so close to being able to do this, all that is needed is to affect the "^c" tag to function in the "Find" entry point.  Is this the correct way to achieve my goal or is there another way?  I run into this situation almost daily, and a solution would be extremely helpful.  I'm sure there are others who would benefit from a multi-line Find & Replace capability.  What's up with that, Microsoft?  Please assist.

 

P.S. Clarification:  Typically, I would be replacing a long block of text from the clipboard with "' "(nothing", NOT replacing one long block with another.  I hope this helps.

Creating brackets in WORD

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 01:36 PM PST

How can I create brackets in WORD ?

I have what is in effect a 3-column table, but many of the entries are bracketed together in the manuscript.  How can I duplicate this in WORD?  Or Excel, it it's easier?

Microsoft Word 2013 version

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 12:59 PM PST

This screen comes up when I try to open Word programs that says: we are sorry, but Word has run into an error that's preventing it from working correctly.  Then is says: would you like to repair?  I click yes, then I quick repaired it, online repaired it and reported to Microsoft.  It still continues to give this message every time I attempt to open the program.  Also, running a diagnostic it says: incompatible.  This is weird that it is the 2013 version, Windows 8.1 and its been working for the last 6 months.  I also, uninstalled and re-installed.  While, Excel, Power Point and One note are fine.  I have the Office student and home.  How can I fix the issue? Thanks for your helpful feedback! 

Spell check not working Word 2013 (screenshot provided)

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 10:41 AM PST

How can I get spell check to check the part of my document that comes after a static text conversion? I am in the midst of typing a manuscript for professional publication. I have accumulated over 60 references. One day while working on the document I found that Word 2013 was no longer performing live spell check, and would also not catch any spelling errors if I ran a manual spell check. Spell check worked fine for the beginning of my document, but after a certain point, it stopped working. After some investigation I traced it back to THE FOLLOWING STEPS THAT CAN BE TAKEN TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM:

1) Open new word document.
2) Create a new source by clicking "references" on the ribbon and then "manage sources"
3) name the source test for simplicity and pick a random date.
4) click "insert citation" and place it into the document.
5) convert the inserted reference to static text by clicking the citation, then clicking the dropdown arrow for "citation options." Under these options click "convert citation to static text."
6)Upon completion, you can be assured that Word 2013 will no longer spell check for the REST OF THE DOCUMENT.

How is this desirable? I spent an hour on the phone with Office Support and they said that the only way to avoid this was to not convert to static text (not an option), or insert citation, type a couple of words then go back and convert to static text (ok, but what if I forget to do this? is there a way to go back and tell word I want to spell check everything after the static text conversion? I am told by Office Support "no, it is too late at that point." Microsoft will not admit a flaw in the software. How is this desirable operation? I am also told "as a workaround" that I can select the entire document, copy, then paste into a notepad document, then open a new word document, paste it, change all formatting (as it will have reverted to default). Very quickly does one realize what a mess this can create when you have several pages written and over 60 sources cited. The manager by the name of "J" with Microsoft Office Support says these are my only options. How is this desirable operation?

Please refer to the screenshot below... You can see that everything after the static text conversion is not spell checked.

Word has detected a problem with the existing normal.dotm -- Does anyone know what to do about this?

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 09:38 AM PST

All of a sudden, when trying to open a word document I get the above response.  Then I am asked something to the effect of whether I want to create a new normal.dotm.

I tried clicking "yes" but this did not help.  Since the info in various online forms said to click "yes" I tried it several more times.  Now when I try to open Word it no longer asks me that; instead it asks whether I want to open word in "protected mode."

The only other thing I tried to do to fix the issue --- also based on a tip from an online forum --- was to delete all "normal.dotm" files.  That has not fixed the problem.

I noticed that most people writing about this issue use Word 2007 or earlier.  I use Word 2013.

Please: can anyone help with this issue?

Many Thanks,

Robert 

Linking _to_ the Table of Contents _from_ section headings

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 09:30 AM PST

I have a document with a Table of Contents linked to about three dozen different section headings and I want to link the section headings back to the Table of Contents, so that whenever the reader is done reading a section they can click the heading to go back to the TOC.

 

I've searched online but all I can find is help for creating TOCs, which is not what I need.  All the section headings are in the Heading 1 style but I can't find a way to modify the style to include the hyperlink.  Selecting all the instances of Heading 1 greys out the Ribbon button for hyperlinks so I can't do that either.

 

I'm thinking there simply has to be an easy way to do this for all the headings at once.  If it matters any the headings are also all Level 1 in Outline view.

"There is not enough memory or disk space to run Word"

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 09:03 AM PST

I tried to download a Microsoft Word file onto my computer and a message popped up saying "There is not enough memory or disk space to run Word". How can I resolve this?

Bought the wrong program. Can I redeem it?

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 07:58 AM PST

I'm using Mac. I tried to install Word into my Mac. But, unfortunately, I bought the wrong program. I actually MUST buy Word for Mac, but I accidentally bought Word for Office. Can I redeem it? What should I do?

Word 2013 limits

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 05:34 AM PST

I'm very new to Word, have been working in WordPerfect 6 recently, and I'm trying to format a digital book for Amazon (Kindle).  The Word Tabs and Ribbons are very different than in WP.  I'm having troubles finding things.  I must apologize for the length of this question, but I'm in a bind.

 

Is there a way to change the character, or color, of the flashing cursor in Word?  That skinny, black thing is often very hard to locate.

 

Another problem I have is with definitions.  For instance, what is a Section?  What is it for?  The Help entries simply tell what to do without telling why.  For a new guy, this is not as helpful as it might be.  Is there somewhere which defines stuff?

 

A very strange conversion (from WP to Word) item is that my Bibliography numbering was changed to Roman Numerals, of all things.  How can I change that?  In my Bibliography, I right-click on a number and try to reset Numbering Values, but there are no choices other than Roman Numerals. 

 

Another very serious problem is with the footnotes.  The conversion took my 200+ footnotes and broke them into sections.  The first 44 footnotes seemed to keep my WP formatting (superscript number and indented entry), but the rest have been changed (no superscript and no indents).  Also the numbering of the rest has been broken into groups, starting again at 1 several times, sometimes as often as incrementing only 4 to 5 numbers before recycling to 1. 

 

I though this might have something to do with those mysterious Sections, so I removed all the coded references to Sections (confirmed by Searching for the Special Character for sections) and tried to renumber the footnotes Continuously throughout the document, but it doesn't work!  Is there something there which is preventing this, or is this an unresolved glitch? 

 

And how does one reformat footnotes?  Apparently, one can only place and delete footnotes.

 

Another very serious glitch is with my Images.  Several problems occur here, some related to the no-undo-button issue.  After several attempts at Inserting images and adding Captions, I now have unfilled captions which I cannot delete placed within the text in places I never placed them.  I set page-breaks to help me Insert accurately and to size them consistently and add captions, then tried to delete the page breaks to keep the smallish images scrolling neatly, and they overlap, lose their associated captions and don't stay at the Positions I set.  And, of course, I can't undo the page-break deletions.  There has got to be a better way.  Can anyone help?

 

I have many other problems, but I attribute them to my unfamiliarity with Word so I won't list them all.

Document title problem

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 03:06 AM PST

Word 2007. I like to have the document filename in the footer of each document so I can easily find it on my computer. I also like to have the name of the document in the header of each succeeding page. I have set up Normal.doc as follows: The Title field at the top of the document and in the header of succeeding pages; the FileName field in the footer. Then when I save, Word inserts the value in Title into the document name. This has been working well for some time but I've had to reconfigure a new Normal.dot to resolve a problem I was having with Normal.dot. Now however, when I save a document, Word inserts Title into the filename as it should, but then it clears it from the document. I have to retype the name into Title. What can be causing Word to clear Title?

copying from one word document to another

Posted: 16 Nov 2013 01:47 AM PST

I cannot copy and paste from one word document to another. When I paste on to a new document all that is printed is a black blob. I have no difficulty copying and pasting within the same document. What should I do please ?

How to Duplicate a page in same workbook

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 10:25 PM PST

I need to make clones of one page in a same work book in Microsoft word document. Please advise the possible solution . 

Office 2013

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 10:11 PM PST

I have to reset my preferences each time I open Word. I always click 'save changes', but it doesn't take. I know there is a way to permanently change the defaults by 
using command prompt, but I need the actual commands. Can anyone help me out here? Thank you, in advance.

Converting a 2010 file into a DOCX or a DOC file

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 08:58 PM PST

I have 2010 and need to have my manuscript in a DOC or a DOCX file however there are no options to do this.

 

I have gone into advanced - compatibility and changed it to save as a 2007 file but when I go save as - there is still not option to save either as a 2007 or a doc or docx file.

 

What do I do please

Microsoft Office Word - Printing Problem (Not match to the Preview)

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 08:36 PM PST

Hello Microsoft Community;

I had a problem on printing using Office Word 2013. When I printing the printout is not centered anymore unlike the preview. Here's all the information http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printing-Issues-Troubleshooting/HP-Deskjet-Ink-Advantage-2515-My-preview-in-Office-Word-2013/td-p/3106343 . At first I don't know where is the problem cause but we found out that the Word is problem. I tried wordpad, excel, powerpoint and different office and it works well but I wanna use MS Word of course. :)

I'm running Widows 8.1 Single Language and I'm using HP Deskjet 2515 Ink Advantage PRINTER.

Good Day & Goodluck :D
Thanks !!!

Recently Opened items fail to open from taskbar, Office 2013 applications only.

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 08:26 PM PST

I'm running Windows 8.1 on a new computer, into which I have restored all my documents from my dead Windows 7 computer.


After working properly for a few days, now there is a failure to recognize recently opened files in the taskbar list, for MS Word 2013, or any other MS Office 2013 application in the taskbar.


Upon clicking a recently opened filename above a MSOffice2013 item in my taskbar, I consistenly receive the message, "The item you selected is unavailable. It might have been moved, renamed, or removed. Do you want to remove it from the list?"  The Office application itself does not open, after this message.


If I open the office application first (from the taskbar is okay), I can click on anything in >its< list of recently opened files, and the file opens properly.


-------

When I try to open a recently opened file from the taskbar icon for a NON-Microsoft Office application (Corel WordPerfect, for example) the file opens properly.

Word stops working on attempt to save

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 12:40 PM PST

when i use the microsoft worrdoffice and try's to saves a document  the program immideatly stops working. what can i do?

Can I install Office XP Standard for Students on two computers? - Microsoft Office forums

Can I install Office XP Standard for Students on two computers? - Microsoft Office forums

Can I install Office XP Standard for Students on two computers?

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 10:32 PM PST

Office XP for Students and Teachers is licensed for installation
on only one computer. This is stated in your End User License
Agreement and at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/xp/faq.asp .

Lina wrote: 

Product Key/ Activation Help

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 06:44 PM PST

Microsoft as always claimed that if you lose your key.
The would issue a new one.

If he registered is copy with Microsoft, he should be able to get a
new key. Otherwise, he may have to fax or mail in the copy of the
cd.

This is assuming it a retail version. If it an oem with the same
computer-he needs to contact the company he bought it from. if out if
business microsoft will usually help.


Just be cause some lost the key. He should not have to buy another
program.


Greg Ro





On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 21:44:05 -0500, "Mike Peters"
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How do I activate my spanish speller in word???

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 10:05 AM PST

Hi Claudiogat,

If you're using an English language edition of MS Office it
comes with English, French and Spanish proofing tools, but
only English is installed by default.

From Add/Remove Programs in the Windows control panel choose
the Microsoft Office/Word choice and change the feature set
to have the Spanish proofing (spell & grammar) set to
'run from my computer'.

Once the proofing tools are installed be sure that the
selected text you wish to check has been set to Spanish
from Tools=>Language in Word.


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<<"claudiogat" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
I loked in I have the proofing tools, added spanish in any place I could, and
my Office 2003 Pro is original like all other programs in my laptop, and
still don't se the speller option under all spanish options. As well I
reinstalled Office after uninstall.

Thank you for your time. >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

time and date error

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 07:40 AM PST


Perhaps this the time to change the small backup battery/cell. How old
is your laptop?

Normally, you don't get a message if your system date/time is incorrect
(how does a machine know correct time?) unless you are online and trying
to syncronize the system with internet time server.

You need to scan your system to see if you have any time critical
malware trying to communicate with outside world!!

hth


Lady Reaper wrote: 

Office 2000 - install errors and all updates ?

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 04:39 PM PST

Hi JCH,

Thanks for your help. I notice from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/CD010225771033.aspx ,
there are service 'packs' and a 'service release'. Only 1 release, the
SR-1a as you mentioned, and then I assume the service pack SP-3,
includes at least SP-2.

Thanks,

Peter

Installing equation editor

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 04:19 PM PST

Thanks, That worked.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:
 

"Missing" CAB file ?

Posted: 05 Nov 2005 10:43 AM PST

I have searched both the Office CD as well as the XP Pro CD--not there. Have
also searched the Microsoft web site for any info on this file--nothing there
either. Contacted Dell (since it is a new computer) and they said it was a
Microsoft problem. Since I have an MSN account, I contacted them about the
problem--they told me it was an Outlook problem and I should check there.
Nothing at the Outlook web site.

This file is not on my computer or on the install disks. Now that I found I
could not run Excel at all (attemping to reinstall Excel fails due to lack of
this CAB file), I do not know what else to explore.

Any assistance most welcome--thanks in advance.

"Jim" wrote:
 

What type of file is best to import and export Outlook Contacts?

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 09:15 AM PST

Do NOT import a native Outlook file. SImply open it using Outlook's
File->Open->Outlook Data File. Then drag and drop the contents from your
saved .pst file to your current .pst file. Right click on the saved file
and select Close.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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

After furious head scratching, Dicka asked:

| I am trying to move a Micosoft Outlook Contacts folder between
| computers. Obviously, Contacts is not a wab folder. How should I
| save Contacts from computer A on a floppy disk, ie file extension? I
| have saved it as a pst folder, ie backup.pst. However, I have no
| idea how to import it into computer B. The warnings about opening
| pst folders are downright frightening!

Problem reinstalling Photo Editor

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 07:48 AM PST

Thank you for the link and for the explanation. Much appreciated.

"Curious1975" wrote:
 

Upgrading to 2003 from 97 on new machine

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 05:06 AM PST

Which means you better KEEP THE OLD VERSION or you won't be able to
re-install (if needed) at a later time.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

How correct Office Pr2003 install error 1402, prevent rollback?

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 01:49 PM PST

Thanks! You are right about the relevance of office 2000. Since I am
upgrading to 2003 from it, I get to have the same problems as if that were
what I was installoing it I don't haveregscan because I use XP. And I am the
sole user-administrator.

Meanwhile, this ended up causing me tyo do a full system restore, and the
partitiond were gone so it wiped both C and D. I haven't gotten back to the
level where I'm installing Office yet. I think I'll try to take advantage of
the fact that Office 2000 is gone and go straight to 2003, if it will let me.
I think maybe I can prove my eligability by inserting the Office 2000 CD when
asked, instead of actually installing it to upgrade it.

If not, the best advice I've found is to reset the permissions in regedit
(rather than mess with Keys), so I'll try that.

"ANONYMOUS" wrote:
 

Activating Office XP for Standard for Students and Teachers??

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 09:41 AM PST

The OP clearly states, "I previously had this set up on my
laptop and my desktop so this will be the third computer I'm
attempting to install this program on (Although I won't need it
on my "old" desktop once I install it on my "new" desktop)." If
you don't count the old desktop, then the OP will have the
software installed on one laptop and one new desktop, which is
twice as many computers as the EULA allows. Your suggestion was
to, "Explain to them that you have discarded the old
desktop and that you will only use this new one", which to me is
encouraging the OP to lie to Microsoft about not having the
software also installed on a laptop.

ANONYMOUS wrote: 

Win 2k Pro, Office 2k

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 06:40 AM PST

sorry not at all

it might be worth doing a repair install before going
through the complete process

good luck


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Setup for multiple users on one machine creates headaches

Posted: 27 Oct 2005 03:50 PM PDT

Thanks for the response. I looked for the TravelPaper.doc on Microsoft's web
site but it is unavailable. I will continue to search for topic in the Help
section and in the knowlege base. You have pointed me in the right
direction though. Thanks again.


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

How to modify Distro's CD? - Forums Linux

How to modify Distro's CD? - Forums Linux

How to modify Distro's CD?

Posted: 17 Apr 2005 01:32 AM PDT

On 17 Apr 2005 01:32:18 -0700 Awie <net> wrote:

| Dear Experts,
|
| I want to modify the Linux ISO file to upgrade the current kernel with
| the latest one for my project.
|
| For example, the distro I use bring kernel 2.4.22 then I need to
| upgrade to 2.4.29 to get latest driver for my device. I was success to
| update the vmlinuz and some RPMS with kernel 2.4.29. Setup worked and
| detected my device.
|
| However it could not find modules (..../lib.modules/the-new-version).
| And I found that the modified CD cannot copy vmlinuz (new version) to
| directory boot (GRUB cannot load vmlinuz).
|
| Would you tell me how to correctly do it?
|
| Your answer is very appreciated and waited for.
|
| Thanks a lot for your help and best regards.
|
| Awie

I always recompile my own kernels. Then I don't even have to worry about
modules or building initrds. The kernel is customized to my set of devices
though I do include all the devices for all my machines in each kernel so
I only need to manage one image which could be used on any machine.

If you need special device drivers just to access your hard drive, this can
be a problem. This is one reason why I always use an IDE disk, or a very
common SCSI controller, for the system, and leave more complex stuff like a
huge RAID array to purely the database by itself (the only cases where I
would have such a thing).

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| (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ |
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rpmbuild error during kernel recompile

Posted: 16 Apr 2005 02:02 PM PDT

ca wrote:
 
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Recompiling_the_Fedora_Core_kernel.html 

Try typing the command 'uname -m' without the quotes first, then
substitute the results into the command, example below;

$ uname -m
i686

$ sudo rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec

Step 7 from you link should be;

sudo make ;(combines both makes into one)
sudo make modules_install
sudo make install
sudo make rpm ;(creates a binary rpm of your work)

You should also review;
http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html


--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759

Wireless in Linux needs HELP

Posted: 16 Apr 2005 11:53 AM PDT

Trent Buck wrote: 
One thing I try to do is avoid buying parts or PC's containing parts
from vendors like Broadcomm who have no intention of even releasing
binaries for their drivers. If you're considering a Dell laptop, and
have a choice between the Dell 1300 (or whatever the ABG card is) and
the intel 2200 or 2900, I suggest going the Intel route.

Minimum hardware spec for various Linux installations?

Posted: 16 Apr 2005 10:42 AM PDT


Cuzman (com) writes: 

All distributions pull from the same pool of the kernel, utilities
and applications. They differ in philosopy and what is tossed
into the distribution. They are more alike than different.

One difference is the installation process, which may appear
to be the biggest step for the newcomer but which is a relatively
small thing compared to actually using the operating system.

And the actually installer that a distribution uses is the defining
point on what hardware it will work with. Some installers are very
bloated, so you need a massive system to do the installation. Others
use a simpler installer, and they demand much less resource to install.

But the requirements for the installer have nothing to do with the
use of that distribution. Given the same version of the actual kernel
or the applications, either they will run fine on a given speed CPU and
given ram, or not. The specific distribution has nothing to do with this.

Hence, you will see "requirements" for a distribution, and then see fine
print telling you it will actually run in a much lesser system. But you
can't install unless you have the bloated system.

In some cases, they include a non-GUI installer so you don't need a large
system to install.

Installation aside, the hardware will affect how the applications run.
But since the distributions try to compete with each other without having
much different about them, few will go to the radical step of removing
applications. So you will have a fine selection of what to use; if
this GUI is too slow, then you can switch to one of the other GUIs
that come with the distribution. If the CPU is too slow (and I'd
not call that CPU slow), then you can always switch to text based
applications rather than GUI based. But switching to another
distribution will not fix this problem, since they will be using
the same applications.

Michael

Firefox download "-x% of file" - help

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 09:16 PM PDT

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:16:47 +0300, Michael Badt wrote: 

You can use wget

$ cd /where/to/store_download
$ wget -c --passive-ftp ftp://somewhere/full_path/filename.2get

man wget for lots of options.

Can't Install DHCP Server on RedHat 9

Posted: 15 Apr 2005 07:22 PM PDT


"Davide Bianchi" <net> ?????
news:onlyforfun.net... 
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1799129/com/dhcp-3.0pl2-owl10.i3
86.rpm.html 

I see. Thanks!!

LAN icon on system tray - like 2000/XP machine

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 07:12 PM PDT

=) Joe (= wrote:
 

The newest KDE has one called knemo. You can use ksysguard to display nice
graphs. Or gkrellm. Or karamba...

--
Ruurd
..o.
...o
ooo

How to stop using Ext3?

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 06:23 PM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:23:10 -0700, Chris Carlen
<gov> wrote: 
tune2fs
 

You didn't shut down cleanly; if you were using ext2, fsck would run and
take a lot longer.


--
"I deleted a file from my PC last week and I have just realized that I
need it. If I turn my system clock back two weeks will I have my file
back again?"

pam error message

Posted: 14 Apr 2005 06:20 PM PDT

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:42:04 -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:
 

Ah Ok.

Yes the group user owned it. A simple chown root:root / fixed it.

I don't know how it happened.

Thanks


--
Tayo'y Mga Pinoy

Where did dhcp go?

Posted: 13 Apr 2005 10:30 PM PDT

Michael Hennebry <cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: 

Then there is no sshd server running on the target, or it is firewalled
from you.

I would imagine the latter. So open its firewall for you (i.e. your IP
address). Heck, open it anyway. Port 22 is meant to be accessed. That's
what it is for. DOn't leave any open passwords, and that's that.

 

Then you mean "I was not then capable", not "I cannot".

 

Then open your firewall or run sshd there. End. You can ping it fine,
so there is nothing wrong with your network setup, which dhcp is meant
to configure, and evidently has configured, satisfactorily.

Peter

smartctl's "Non-medium error count" (SCSI drives)

Posted: 13 Apr 2005 06:05 PM PDT

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:04:09 -0700, prg wrote: 

Now that's interesting. I tried copying one of the affected files from the
drive, which died with an I/O error - suggesting that the block couldn't
be read at all. Yet smartctl output is only showing non-medium events and
nothing under read/write events...

That suggests cabling to me, but it's funny how the other drive on the bus
has been fine (I'm well used to SCSI so I've seen some pretty odd things
happen though!). Maybe there's a problem at the drive connector to that
specific drive - I'll have a look.

Oddly enough, an hour after I posted, the problem had gone away again,
which is rather spooky. Nothing on the system was scheduled to kick in
around the time of the problems, nor were any big inductive loads nearby
active (!) or anything like that. I hate random glitches :-(
 

Will do - thanks. I'll probably copy all the data off the drive, wipe it
and do a destructive test/rebuild of the filesystem just to see if
that throws up any bad blocks. I'll double-check cabling first though
:-)

cheers

Jules

mdadm -A (1.7.0) segfaults; md raid device not started on boot

Posted: 13 Apr 2005 02:00 PM PDT

Walter Mautner wrote: 


I didn't post after "Mounted root" because there's no further mention of
md. The entire dmesg output is below, for completeness.

How does the kernel know to load the raid module when I invoke mdadm,
but isn't able to do this in the boot process? I'd like to be able to
get this working *without* having to recompile the kernel, if it's
possible. The root filesystem is ext3 on a normal hd device, and it's
already mounted by the time we want to start up the raid device, so in
my mind we should be able to load the raid1 module at this stage.

Would it be easier to add raid1 to initrd, or to just recompile the kernel?

Thanks,
Alistair.


[dmesg output, after boot has stopped when filesystem on md device can't
be mounted. This is *all* of the output.]

Linux version 2.6.8.1-12mdk (mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version
3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)) #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000c000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
192MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 49152
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 45056 pages, LIFO batch:11
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.0 present.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 98 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Built 1 zonelists
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes)
Detected 233.365 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 190952k/196608k available (1859k kernel code, 5000k reserved,
578k data, 200k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 458.75 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
init init/main.c:689
init init/main.c:702
init init/main.c:707
do_pre_smp_initcalls init/main.c:653
do_pre_smp_initcalls init/main.c:659
init init/main.c:711
init init/main.c:714
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
...... CPU clock speed is 233.0314 MHz.
...... host bus clock speed is 66.0660 MHz.
init init/main.c:716
init init/main.c:718
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an
initrd
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!
Freeing initrd memory: 184k freed
init init/main.c:724
do_basic_setup init/main.c:634
do_basic_setup init/main.c:636
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9cc, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:07.0
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1113597246.4294966468:0): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc90-0xfc97, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc98-0xfc9f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MPD3173AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6202B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 33793232 sectors (17302 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=33525/16/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63,
UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
hdd: max request size: 1024KiB
hdd: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63,
UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 3 devices found
init init/main.c:726
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: considering hdd1 ...
md: adding hdd1 ...
md: adding hdb1 ...
md: created md0
md: bind<hdb1>
md: bind<hdd1>
md: running: <hdd1><hdb1>
md: personality 3 is not loaded!
md :do_md_run() returned -22
md: md0 stopped.
md: unbind<hdd1>
md: export_rdev(hdd1)
md: unbind<hdb1>
md: export_rdev(hdb1)
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:07.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 5, io base 0000fca0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Adding 1124508k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440LX Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 150M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000

how to remove the application installed with "configure"?

Posted: 13 Apr 2005 09:40 AM PDT

Thanks all of u.

Mail Server / MX record

Posted: 12 Apr 2005 09:57 AM PDT

Richard Horton wrote: 

As long as the second machine is configured to forward to the
exchange machine, they can have the same priority and you'd get some
load balancing.

Better yet, pull the exchange box behind your firewall and let one or
more postfix (for example) machines front-end it; that way you can drop
most of your spam & garbage before it gets to exchange, plus you're not
hanging an MS 'hack me please' Exchange target directly out there. I
use a setup like this, with postfix + amavisd, and it cuts down a *LOT*
of traffic from ever getting to the exchange box.

The real crunch is going to come in if you really expect the Linux
host to be able to take over in case the exchange machine melts down. I
am not personally familiar with any open source exchange replacement
that can do this transparently (which is not to say there isn't one.) I
suppose the long hard ugly way would be to duplicate all your user
accounts on a Linux host with IMAP or POP or some such configured, and
then have all the users reconfigure their mail clients in case of
emergency. *YUK!*

Assuming you use Active Directory, a slightly less painful
alternative might be to set up a machine with winbind. You would still
have the mail client reconfig to contend with, but at least you wouldn't
have to futz with accounts and passwords...

If that all seems too complicated, there's another wonderful disaster
recovery technology you might want to look into, called 'backup
tapes'... *grin, wink!* :-)

Getting a CMI8738-based audio setup to work...

Posted: 11 Apr 2005 03:09 PM PDT

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:09:42 +0000, Jules wrote:
 

Argh. User error on my part :-) When I got the machine the
on-board audio in the BIOS was disabled, so I'd enabled that.

Luckily after I had problems getting the audio to work
post-install, I went back to the BIOS to see if there were any
other audio-related settings that might be messing things up. And
I found that the audio hardware was *still* disabled! How that happened
I'm not sure - maybe I hit "exit discarding changes" instead of "exit
saving changes" by mistake...

Still, all working now!

cheers

Jules (slightly red-faced ;)
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