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Microsoft Word - My printer goes offline constantly

My printer goes offline constantly

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 03:37 PM PST

I have a HP Officejet 6600 series printer and it goes offline constantly. It is almost impossible to get it online again. Any suggestions? I have owned it for about 3 months and I hate it. It has been nothing but trouble and I am about to toss it out because it never works right. I use it wirelessly. The last one I had worked great wirelessly until something broke internally and I had to replace it. After spending over $100 to buy this new printer, it isn't worth it unless I can get it to stay online. Help!!!

Merge fields not working in Office 365

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 02:58 PM PST

I'm an instructor at a college and I often teach the same course either in following terms or following years. Because of this I use an Excel file containing the quarter, due dates etc... to merge with a Word document and produce the new syllabus without the necessity to re-type it all. Some of the variable data is contained in the header of the Word document. Always before this has merged perfectly. However, with Office 365 this appears no longer to work. Is there a fix or something for this?

booklet printing

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 02:27 PM PST

I am trying to print a booklet, allowing word to automatically resize each page, it worked yesterday morning, by yesterday afternoon it would not resize down, ie it kept the same size and spread it out over more pages, ie a 12 page booklet went to 20 pages, I can't seem to fix it...help.....

Large Caps to Small Caps in MS Word

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 02:02 PM PST

I have a large document in MS Word 2010 (Using Windows 8.1) in which there are a series of titles in all caps. Some are one word

   LIVING

and some are several words long

   LIVING WITH BEASTS.

I would like to change these expressions with a global Search and Replace into all small caps, except for the first letter, which would remain a large cap. (This question doesn't handle small caps, so I have to spell it out.) So in both the first and second examples above only the initial L would be in large caps.

   The document also has a lot of material in ordinary type, which would stay the same. Note that a Search that replaced a word beginning with a capital letter and then lower case  (Living) should not be affected, nor should single capital letters (the letter A, the numeral I) be changed to small caps. I can live with the fact that longer Roman numerals (III, XIV) would be change into sequences with initial large cap, then small caps--these are few enough for me to fix manually.

   Short of this wonderful search and replace, it would at least help if all words in all large caps were changed into words with all small caps. I can't seem to make wild-card and Match Case combinations do this.

OPENING WORD 1997-2003 DOCUMENTS IN WORD 2013

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 01:53 PM PST

Earlier this year I installed Office 2013, since when I've been unable to open older, Word 1997-2003 documents.  On attempting to, I'm immediately faced with 'word cannot start the converter WPFT532.CNV'.

The Help prompt reads 'if removing and reinstalling the converter is not successful, there may be a problem with a resource on the computer (for example, an executable file that is needed to properly register the converters on the computer has failed or stopped running). In this case, it is best to turn off the computer and start over'.

I've previously tried Microsoft Support and countless downloads without success.  Microsoft advised that Word was corrupted, but after reinstalling it, I'm no nearer a solution.

Is there a fix, or have I really lost 2 years of work?

Thank you.

"Winword.exe can't be used right now because Office is busy" message

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 01:11 PM PST

I want to know why office word 2013 isn't working.  This is the message I get when I'm trying to open a document.  Office is busy we're sorry.  Winword.exe can't be used right now because office is busy.  We're either updating or helping you add or remove some programs.

I have important work to do but don't really understand how to fix this and urgently need to get into word.


Thanks.

MODIFYING WORD DOCUMENT

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 01:02 PM PST

 I am trying to revise a word doc. Each time I try, the font appears in red and underlined. I cannot figure out how to get things back to normal in this doc. It only happens in this doc. Help!  Windows 7 or 8

We're sorry, but Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly.

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:52 AM PST

I reinstall and it works temporarily but then I get this error again. The repair option does not work. All other Office programs work fine. This started around mid-November.

 

I can't find a solution anywhere.

 

Any suggestions?

How do you use Word offline?

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:47 AM PST

Help!

I don't know what version of Word I have and I did not know I paid all that money to have an online only product.  I am not always connected to the internet and I still need to use Word offline, what do I do disconnect Word from the internet?

Janine

Mail Merge

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:47 AM PST

I am trying to do a mail Merge with word 2010 and excel 2010.  Most of the data transfers fine, except certain excel records that have two dates are being replaced with 12:00?  any suggestions?

Time stamp

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 11:19 AM PST

I wonder if there's a Date Picker Control item like the Calendar Picker Control item (under DEVELOPER / Controls) for making users to insert their desired time in a the forms you develop? 

Read-Only Documents in Word 2010

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:34 AM PST

I am working on an engineering document that is based on blocks of cells (table) that the user needs to replicate.  Some of the blocks have descriptive text which is not selected (set to) as editable.  Other cells are set to Highlight the regions I can edit.  My users need to copy and paste the block (comprised of 13 cells) below the last block on the page.  The last paragraph mark in the file is set as editable.  When I copy and paste the block of cells in the bottom paragraph mark, the 'uneditable' cells become editable and are highlighted as editable.  Is there a way this block can be copied and pasted while maintaining the editable and un-editable cells?  Have tried all the options under Paste Special and cannot get the desired results.  Can this even be done?

 

Regards - Lenny33

 

Samples below....  I need it to paste (if at all possible) as the first example and not the second.  Many thanks for comments

 

 

 

 

Mail merge ( insert merge field ) is populated by one of my addressees, how do I change it back to F1, F2 etc?

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:17 AM PST

The insert mail merge box is filled with the options of one of my addressees..... I have a brand new version of Office and could revert all .... if needed...


Is that my solution?


 Although I would like to understand how I made this happen.

WordArt displays differently...

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 09:32 AM PST

HI. I teach a Word Graphics class at a local library and our computers all have Windows 7 with Office 2010 installed. On many of the computers WordArt displays differently. Some show the old, classic version with a WordArt Tools format tab (the Ribbon has Text, WordArt Styles, Shadow Effects, 3-D effects) and others have the later version with the Drawing Tools format tab (the Ribbon has Insert Shapes, Shape Styles, WordArt Styles, Text). I can't find a way to change them so that they all display the current version.


I'd appreciate any help.


mccd

Automating Templates in MS Word 2010

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 09:17 AM PST

I've got a couple of fairly long documents that all need the same sort of automation.

These documents all have state specific information, and I'd like to automate as much as possible. Here's what I mean:

I'd like to be able select the state the document is being prepared for (in this case, let's use New Jersey). There are instances in the document where I'd like a field to automatically populate with the words "New Jersey". There are other parts of the document where I'd like it to automatically populate with "NJ". Additionally, there are other parts of the document where I would like it to populate information, such as "NJDED", "New Jersey Department of Education", or "NJDED - 877-900-6960".

I make these documents for several states, and I'd really like an option when I begin working, to select a state, or something along those lines, and the rest of the information would automatically fill itself in.

Is this even possible? I'm at a total loss on how to go about this. I'm extremely proficient in using word and have a decent understanding of programming, so I'm up for the challenge no matter what.

short and long captions

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:59 AM PST

Sometimes I want a lot of detail in figure captions but not in the table of figures.


Here is an example of a caption as I would like it to appear with its figure:

Figure 1. Schematics of open-loop geothermal systems. A. Well doublet. B. Single-well system. Solid arrows indicate water flow. Dashed arrows indicate heat flow.


Here is how I would like it to appear in the table of figures:

Figure 1. Schematics of open-loop geothermal systems.


I can type in just the short caption, create the table of figures, and go back and type in the rest of the caption, but is there a better way to accomplish this?

Microsoft Word Only

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:43 AM PST

I just got a new computer (HP 500) with Windows 8.  Office was not included which upset me, but when I loaded it I was informed that if I want to keep it I will have to pay for it.  Word is the only part of Office that I will ever use.  Can I get "Word" by itself?  This was included with XP and was surprised to see it removed.

Ref Check Boxes

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 08:38 AM PST

I have a document with two pages that are identical.  I want to be able to use checkboxes and check them on page 1 and have the second page show the check boxes as they were checked on page 1. (Basically filling out the form on page 2).   I really don't want to get into VB.  I can ref textboxes, but can't seem to figure out the checkboxes.  I seem to remember having done this previously in a different version of Word.  I'm in version 10 now. 

How do I shrink an odt document?

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:54 AM PST

Hello, I have a document I'm working on with Office Word, an .odt file with text and images, and I'd like to shrink it to half it's size so I can fit two of it on a page in landscape orientation.  Is there an easy way to do this that I'm overlooking?  I'm computer illiterate and new to the program.

Thanks!

Brian

Document variable disappears after mail merge. vba question

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:24 AM PST

I have a mail merge where upon completion of the merge, the result document is attached to a template that has 4 procedures to be run in order. The main merge document has a document variable "Stage" which is checked by these procedures to make sure they are run only once and in order. After each procedure is run, the variable is changed.

Immediately after running the merge, the variable shows as having been deleted. This throws an error in the procedures when they check for it. A different variable in the main merge document is still present in the merge result document.

I have gotten around this with an error handler that creates the variable if it is missing but am curious as to what might be happening.

Originally I had the variable set in the main merge document with a value of 0. I thought that was the problem and changed it to -1. That generates the same error.

Location of printing on mail merge lables

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 06:20 AM PST

I have set up a mail merge in Word and have allocated an appropriate label sheet to print to however all of the print is set tightly to the left and sometimes the print is to the left of the label cut.


Is there any method of formatting the print so that the print area is set, two characters to the right in order to avoid printing over the cut between the label and the backing sheet.

Date and Time field does not correspond to the system

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 04:07 AM PST

My documents containing Date and Time field were working fine, but suddenly the day of the week began to appear one day ahead, while the day of month is correct.

Copyrights

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 03:41 AM PST

How to get permission to use screenshot of the website (office) in an academic book? where can i email all the information?

uncheck multiple checkboxes at once in word 2007

Posted: 11 Dec 2013 02:58 AM PST

We have a checklist at work using word 2007 with multiple check boxes.  Is there way to uncheck all the check boxes at once?

thank you

Formatting a Mail Merge from Excel to Word Using Field Codes

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 10:15 PM PST

At work, I have a database of inventory from which I have to generate reports. My employers want me to print these reports using as little paper as possible. I tried to use Excel to format the data concisely (such as using repeating columns on the same page), but couldn't get it to work. I then decided to mail merge the data into Word, which gives me much more control of the layout and format. 

At the moment, the merged document is laid out as a Word table, displaying "Distributor," "Product Line," "Description," and "Quantity" as column headers. The layout is okay, but could use some improvement. The nuisance is the "Distributor" and "Product Line" columns are very redundant. Rather than having 20+ entries that begin with the same distributor and product line, I would like to setup these two columns as headers. For example:

Instead of...

  Distributor      Product Line       Description                Quantity
Animal Supply | Blue Basics          | Senior 24#                |...
Animal Supply | Blue Basics          | Healthy Weight 24# |...
Animal Supply | Blue Buffalo        | Chicken 30#              |... 
Animal Supply | Blue Buffalo        | Fish 30#                     |...
Central              | Natural Balance | Duck 28#                   |... 
Central              | Natural Balance | Venison 28#              |...

I'd like something more like...

Animal Supply
     Blue Basics
          Senior 24#                    Quantity
          Healthy Weight 24#     ...

     Blue Buffalo
          Chicken 30#                  ...
          Fish 30#                         ...

Central
     Natural Balance
          Duck 28#                       ...
          Venison 28#                  ...

I tried using field codes, but couldn't get them to work. I even tried following this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294686. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Benjamin

*** Email address is removed for privacy ***

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 09:05 PM PST

what is the problem was this word office?

Unable to open Word application 'Sorry, something went wrong and word was unable to start'

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 08:13 PM PST

Original title: MS Word 2013 on Windows 8       

upon starting up Word 2013, "Sorry, something went wrong and word was unable to start. (40)"  I can't start Word...period.  What is wrong?

Running Macro produces: Run-time error '5941' The requested member of the collection does not exist.

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 08:11 PM PST

I am trying to record a Macro that will build a footer for my documents.
I'm trying to insert the 12/10/2013 format from the Date and Time selection of Header and Footer Design.
I have the Macro set to go into 'Normal.dotm'.
I have Macros Enabled in the Trust Center.
When I click the Debug button on the error window the highlighted part of the macro looks like this:

Application.Templates( _
        "C:\Users\Randy\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\1033\15\Built-In Building Blocks.dotx" _
        ).BuildingBlockEntries(" Blank").Insert Where:=Selection.Range, RichText _
        :=True

Any ideas?

Printing labels in MS Word from a filtered document in MS Excel

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 07:12 PM PST

First, I looked for an answer to this question and if I missed the answer, I apologize.  This is just driving me crazy.  I have a list of names and addresses that I pulled into Excel from a another program at work.  The list had a huge amount of names/addresses that did not need labels printed so I used the filter option in Excel and deselected them.  I saved the Excel file on my desktop.  I then opened MS Word, Labels and proceeded to make labels from the filtered list.  Well, it pulls ALL names from the filtered list.  When I right-click on the Excel list and select Unhide all the names are still there; when Hide is selected, they go away.  I know I can edit the names in Label mode by unchecking the names but I have already done this in Excel.  My question is, basically, is that what I need to do, again?  Deselect the individual names that do not need labels printed?  No one at work seems to know and honestly, if I can get out if it I would love to!  My eyes will love me for it!  So, is there a way to print labels from my filtered Excel file or do I need to re-filter?  Thanks!!

Invisibly link words or phrases in main text to endnotes (Word 2010)

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 06:56 PM PST

Hello,

I'm writing a long narrative that incorporates words and short expressions that I would like to further explain by way of endnotes.  However, I don't want my main narrative to be visually interrupted by endnote symbols or numbers. 

Thus, if on page 69, the following sentence appears in the narrative:  "Henry was suffering from another episode of moon-blasted madness"...

...I would like to create the following kind of endnote:

(69) moon-blasted madness; see "Religious Musings", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796

However, there should be no indication on page 69 that an endnote is associated with any text on that page (you would have to peruse the endnotes to discover this).

Note: it's important that the page reference in the endnote be dynamic.  In other words, if by writing or editing, the original sentence no longer appears on page 69 of the main text, but on page 73, the endnote should automatically update to:

(73) moon-blasted madness; see "Religious Musings", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796

I'm aware that there is a software product called Endnotes... but it seems so strongly skewed toward academic uses that I'm afraid it is too complex for my simple needs.

Ideas, anyone?  All ideas are welcome!

Jay

Word 2007 Mailmerge won't display $ amounts correctly

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 05:58 PM PST

I cannot get a database field formatted as "Accounting" to display two digits in the cents field consistently in my Mailmerge.
Am running Office 2007 on Windows 7.

How can I make a multi-page Word 2010 document open to the end, instead of page 1?

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:25 PM PST


I make daily additions to a forty page document, always at the bottom/end and am getting tired of having to use the horizontal slider to get there. The document always opens at the top of the first page. I would like it to open at the bottom of the last page. Thank you.

Print preview showing different from the the original document in word 2010

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 04:13 PM PST

Hi There

I'm Just wondering if anybody has come across this problem ?????

The main screen shows one thing and the print preview shows text spaced  wrong. When printed, it prints what is on the print preview which is wrong ???

 

Thanks

 

Mike

Office 2003 Standard to Office 2003 Professional .. - Microsoft Office forums

Office 2003 Standard to Office 2003 Professional .. - Microsoft Office forums

Office 2003 Standard to Office 2003 Professional ..

Posted: 04 Jan 2006 08:03 AM PST

Bob Buckland ?:-) typed:
 

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again! :)

--
Nige

Admin install of Office XP now I want to add Frontpage

Posted: 04 Jan 2006 05:50 AM PST

Yep, that did it! My situation was a little unique since I am using
Zenworks 6.5 and my users are only members of the users group. I
needed to get the maintwiz.exe to run as a admin user or else it would
fail so here is what I did to get it to complete successfully.
1. Used the Custom Maintenance Wizard to create the CMW file on the
server.
2. Created an application object that did the following.
Run Options/Application - In Path to File- %my path to
maintwiz.exe%
- In Parameters- -c "%path to
..cmw file%" /qb-
Run Options/Environment - Run and Secure System User
I have no progress information but I did add a post launch script to
logoff the user so at least I know it is done.
Run Options/Launch Scripts - Run After Termination -
#c:\windows\system32\shutdown -L

Thanks for your help
Duncan

Office 2003 Error 0xc0150002

Posted: 03 Jan 2006 02:09 PM PST

That is my exact situation, except I use Windows XP Home edition.

How do I delete unnecessary Office 2000 disc 2 files?

Posted: 02 Jan 2006 10:21 AM PST


See if these two articles help:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239938/EN-US/

hth


ECW125 wrote:
 

need ms office

Posted: 02 Jan 2006 05:01 AM PST

If you don't have the CDs, you're out of luck.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"coolbeerche" <com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Office Professional 2003 (Re)installation Problems

Posted: 02 Jan 2006 01:44 AM PST

Hi Lar,

If the Local Installation Source (LIS) for Office 2003 that is stored under \MSOCache folder, then you may want to use the LISTool
utility to disable then rebuild the Cache.

The link to the tool is under Question 8 (Q8) in this article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830168/en-us?FR=1

========
<<"Lar" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
I bumbled my way through this part of the problem, after finding references
to LocalInstallation Service and Windows Installation Cleanup Utility. A
missing MSOcache is preventing installation. If I don't find a solution
myself, I'll start a new post.
--
Lar >>
--
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

Sending and Receiving faxes downloads

Posted: 01 Jan 2006 03:55 PM PST

Depending on your OS, Windows 2000 and XP include fax services.

--
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, Jody asked:

| When my microsoft program was installed they did not install sending
| and receiving fax services. I don't have the disk to install this
| now. What can I do to get this service.

Unable to Fix O XP Pro

Posted: 01 Jan 2006 01:01 PM PST

Thanks for your comments. I too, had not understood the fact that running
the msicuu2.exe file was just the installation of the clean up utility.
After actually running the utility and deleting the installer for Office XP
Pro, I was able to reinstall successfully.

Joe

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:
 

Office 2003 Student Teacher - reload

Posted: 31 Dec 2005 11:45 PM PST


For Students and Teachers versions of Office 2003, you can install it on only 3
computers for use in the household. Once you have used up all three licenses,
you can't install it on any further systems. Also, transferring on another
system is strictly not allowed.

Hope this clarifies your position.



Steven J. wrote:
 

How can I obtain a copy of my product key code if Ilost it?

Posted: 31 Dec 2005 03:00 PM PST


NO

What link are you talking about and in what connection?

Why have you deleted previous message which we can't now follow through
your query?

You should always create a new message/thread if the problem is not
related to any other already dealt with.

This link would prove very useful for you (and it works!):

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

hth


"com" wrote:
 

Switching HTM editor in I.E.

Posted: 31 Dec 2005 10:37 AM PST

Everything now OK after a custom reinstall of Office/Frontpage.

What actually happened was very peculiar. When I originally
wiped and reinstalled msOffice 2000, I had inadvertently installed
a slightly different Office 2000 bundle -- which didn't include
Frontpage. Even tho the Frontpage directory remained intact,
some of the requisite dll's never got installed.

Even tho I was able to download and replace the missing dll's,
I still was unable to successfully open Frontpage.

Thanks for helping out.

digger

Problems with uninstalling Office 2003 and installing Office XP

Posted: 30 Dec 2005 03:50 PM PST

Assuming you have used Add/Remove dialogue to uninstall o2003
Locate the OL data folder, by default;
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook.
and delete the data files, or if you actually used OL2003 save them to
another backup location.
OL2003 uses a different pst file format to OLxp, and OLxp cannot use this
format
You will have to set up OLxp again.

"KingB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 
Office 
folders. 
on 
is 
I 
problem 

Office 2003 preinstalled. I have no product key for the SetUp and.

Posted: 30 Dec 2005 01:27 PM PST

Office Basic is an OEM only installation so your product key should be with
your computer information, perhaps on the case.

--
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, DL asked:

| Are you sure it is not a trial version?
|
| "roroki" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
| news:com...
|| I received my computer with MS Office Basic Edition 2003
|| preinstalled. There is no Product Key or CD available for the Setup
|| of the program. Is there a way to get around the setup or obtain
|| the product key?

Cruel Office Situation - Forums Linux

Cruel Office Situation - Forums Linux

Cruel Office Situation

Posted: 02 Jul 2005 09:09 AM PDT

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:19:14 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
 

They still would require the motivation to make that purchase. Or perhaps
they really are so incompetent as to believe that financial reporting
requirements require data encryption.

New Thread - Linux newbie

Posted: 30 Jun 2005 09:55 PM PDT

R wrote:
 
Download and burn a couple of the various live CD's and see how the run on
your hardware.

--
faeychild

Suse 9.2 Yast Runlevel editor error

Posted: 30 Jun 2005 01:32 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup nl: 

Firstly, you are replying from google groups in its default way
which does not quote the text you are replying to. This makes it
harder for people not using google groups to help you. IIRC there
is an option to show text and then you can use the reply button
at the bottom.
 
 
 
 

There's no script called apache2 in /etc/init.d, look there for
the name. Might be "apache" or "httpd", depending on the distro.

[..]

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 365: parallel processors running perpendicular
today

Install Ubuntu without CDROM

Posted: 29 Jun 2005 10:54 AM PDT

The technique can be done with atftpd and dhcpd, along with a netboot
folder from the Ubuntu CDROM and some extensive configuration. The
thing I can't understand, however, was why can't some community effort
on sourceforge put together something a lot more smooth to handle all
of this. It would be great to simply bring up a daemon with a command
line switch to point it to the Ubuntu install, and another to tell it
the 3 part octet subnet (subnet prefix) that you want, and off you go.

Help with installation - Gentoo

Posted: 29 Jun 2005 02:24 AM PDT

No_One wrote: 

Didn't find a script, but did find a discussion of using kppp and
it did settle what protocol to use. I think I tried those, but I
will see later. Thanks.

--
Chuck F (com) (att.net)
Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> USE worldnet address!

Setting up Suse dual boot with an XP NTFS partition

Posted: 28 Jun 2005 11:17 PM PDT

Brona,
Thanks for the suggestion but being that I have 2 partitions with
data on it then completely erasing the HD is out of the question. I
already did that once, backed up my data to about 10 DVD's and I don't
think I want to do it again. -:)

What I'm going to do is delete the linux partition using DOS and
then create a create partitions with DOS fdisk and then resize the
partitions when I reinstall linux. Thanks for the help, though.

syslog severity

Posted: 28 Jun 2005 02:25 AM PDT

I've done a quick seminar with the most important syslog concepts.
Eventually, it is helpful. It's available at
http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/SeminarsOnline/Intro-Syslog.php

Rainer

Trying to build LFS 6.0 on a Red Hat 8.0 system

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 07:02 PM PDT

I am compiling on 2.4 and as far as I know the kernel-headers is not
the 2.6 version. That might of course be the problem.

When all of the code that I am compiling actually "goes live," it's
going to be running on a 2.6 kernel. (Right now I am compiling the
"toolchain" of stuff under the old compiler, in preparation for using
it to compile the new stuff in such a way that there will be no
lingering dependencies on the old environment.)

I am following section 5.8 of the instructions given at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org.

As they say, "it's educational." Boy howdy, it sure is!

how come GUI can do while command line can not

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 06:00 PM PDT


"Jean-David Beyer" <com> wrote in message
news:supernews.com... 

Yes, they work fine, if you have the security setup as standard. These
things vary from OS to OS.

Some operations done by tools in the GUI, such as opening CD drives, require
root privileges. Whether those privileges are held by the GUI or by a
command line tool depends on the software in question, but it's why "suid"
programs that run as root exist.
 

sudo is your friend. So is hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X session
and get the xdm login screen, and using the "shutdown this machine" option
iin most such login screens.

network and dsl

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 12:46 PM PDT

>>>>> "geder" == geder s dorf <gedersdorf @ despammed.com> writes:

geder> I have two computers, LINUX - XP, connected via a switch. I
geder> use static IP address set up on Linux. The network was
geder> working. Then I added a DSL modem, connecting it to the
geder> switch. I can get on the internet on the XP, but I lost
geder> the connection between the two computers. I have not set up
geder> a internet connection with LINUX. When connected to the
geder> internet the modem assigns a IP address for the XP
geder> computer. When I disable the internet connection, the
geder> connection between the computers is restored.

geder> How can get the internet connection and the two computer
geder> connection at the same time?

you probably want 'internet connection sharing' on the xp box. but
the other advice, to get a router, is also better. ics makes your xp
box into a kind of ad hoc router but without the advantages of a fully
functional separate unit. get a linksys for around $60 (or less)
online if you can afford it.

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_ics/

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004SB92/102-3488001-3826565?v=glance

i have a wireless/ethernet combo (linksys, i swear by them) and it
works great. configure it with a web browser. let it dhcp your
network. put samba on the linux box as a wins master browser and the
win machine will automatically connect to it when you need to, just
like to another win machine.

mp

--
Michael Powe org Naugatuck CT USA
Senor Castro has been accused of communist sympathies, but this means
very little since all opponents of the regime are automatically called
communists. In fact he is further to the right than General Batista.
-- "Cuba's Rightist Rebel", The Economist, April 26, 1958

Packages description

Posted: 27 Jun 2005 07:47 AM PDT

Thank you very much for your answer, but what I was meaning was : seeing
all the packages avalaible with a distribution BEFORE processing the
setup (that is : on the C.D.)



Unruh a écrit : 

need help with Debian-Sarge modules/soundcard issues

Posted: 26 Jun 2005 06:09 PM PDT

com wrote: 

It's not supposed to. You do. Then you say which driver to load.
 

Well, load the es1371 driver then!

% locate 1371 | grep module
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre18-SMP/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre18-SMP/misc/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.2.20-SMP/misc/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.16-SMP-XFS/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.17rc2-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.17rc2-SMP-XFS/misc/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP-XFS/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.19-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.20-SMP-XFS/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.20-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.22-SMP-XFS/alsa/snd-card-ens1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.4.22-SMP-XFS/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz
/lib/modules/2.6.3-SMP-pre-supermount/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.3-SMP/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-SMP/kernel/sound/oss/es1371.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-SMP/kernel/sound/pci/snd-ens1371.ko

etc. etc.
 

Choose a driver and load it.
 

Sure! Common sense, intelligence, reading, etc. Everything everyone
normally does. The Sound-HOWTO is a useful starting point.
 

Don't be silly. Nothing is there after you shutdown. You have to tell
the system to load your modules - any way you like.
 

Eh? What needs configuring about it? Soundcards just work. When sent a
few bits of data they make sounds.

Peter

Looking for a minimal boot script set

Posted: 26 Jun 2005 06:00 PM PDT

27 Jun 2005 01:00 UTC, com typed: 
 

Why not make use of the LFS/Fedora bootscripts and just remove/modify the
ones that call programmes you don't have?

--
Remember, even if you win the rat race you're still a rat.

Updating RHEL3 using CD-ROm (without up2date)

Posted: 26 Jun 2005 12:22 AM PDT


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

I've had problems with it, especially when dealing with kernels on weird
architectures. (Putting an i686 kernel accidentally on an athlon machine can
be.... interesting.)

new install login

Posted: 25 Jun 2005 04:25 PM PDT

BOB wrote: 
It's really insecure to use a distro that old. May I suggest Debian
Sarge? http://www.debian.org/

Newbie Q: Filesystem depency conflicts

Posted: 25 Jun 2005 09:55 AM PDT

 

No sweat. Grab *all* the installed RPM's into a directory, all at once or
one at a time, and do a "rpm -Uh $name --dry-run --replacepkgs" with them to
see if there are conflicts.

RedHat has a little cron job called /etc/cron.daily/rpm that puts a list of
all your installed packages, with full package names, in /var/log/rpm. I
highly recommend the widget for use elsewhere for exactly this sort of
situation.

Physical Memory Size Mismatch

Posted: 25 Jun 2005 04:33 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Rudolf Usselmann <com>: 
 
 
 

No it's not related to swap.

The corresponding line from arch/i386/mm/init.c (on i386) you
should find the same for your architecture, all use more or less
nearly the same info:

printk(KERN_INFO "Memory: %luk/%luk available (%dk kernel code,
%dk reserved, %dk data, %dk init, %ldk highmem)\n",

Haven't looked deeper into it, due to no problems. But you might
like to take a closer look? If you like, I could double-check for
similar output on some opteron next week?

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 448: vi needs to be upgraded to vii

2nd DVD drive not detected

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 01:59 PM PDT

peter smith wrote:
 

The same way the other DVD device was configured. Check your boot loader
(LILO or GRUB), do you see someting along the lines of 'hdX=ide-scsi'
if yes then do the same for the other device. Hint: read the top of
this message.

FYI: with the current cdrtools and current kernels the use of ide-scsi
emulation is not needed;

$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R6112' 'X231' Removable
CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *



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

Linux Beginner, Which Linux to install?

Posted: 23 Jun 2005 12:12 AM PDT

I have Xandros as well. In fact, I have Xandros on my laptop (dual-boot
with WinXP) and on my desktop (the desktop is Xandros-only). I got a
Zoom 3048 56k V.92/V.90 external serial modem today at Staples for the
desktop. All I had to do in order to get the modem working was go into
the console and type in "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem". That allowed
NetZero to dial out. Getting online on Xandros is muy cool. The connect
speed and overall speed (even on this old 400MHz dinosaur of a desktop
with 256MB RAM) is very good. I tried for a year to get my desktop's
winmodem to work, then I decided to just get a REAL modem...best
decision I ever made.

how use "mail" without a MTA?

Posted: 22 Jun 2005 09:06 AM PDT

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:09:00 -0700, jeff wrote:
 

That's great stuff Jeff, but that is the link for the Win32 version.
However, the Linux version is at http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtpsend/

thanks again, it's just what I want.

Larry

--
********************************
to reply via email remove "fake"
Microsoft will soon release their newest product: a vacuum cleaner.
It will be their only product which doesn't suck.

Show differences from baseline? Microsoft Project

Show differences from baseline? Microsoft Project

Show differences from baseline?

Posted: 03 Feb 2005 07:01 AM PST

You're welcome Bill. Thanks for the feedback.
Julie

"Bill Meacham" wrote:
 

Does Project 2000 have a reader?

Posted: 03 Feb 2005 06:23 AM PST

The easiest solution is to use Adobe Acrobat or a freeware pdf writer to
save selected views as a pdf file to then distribute the the users.

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

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

Why can't I display the "Duration" field in "Resource Usage" view?

Posted: 03 Feb 2005 06:13 AM PST

Hiya:

I suppose it could but I wonder what it would mean in terms of the project
metrics. Does knowing that Joe's duration is 3 days and Bill's duration is
5 help me meet the schedule requirements? Certainly it impacts the resource
work load and hence the cost but the usage views already include the work
and cost data so it seems redundent.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Jan De Messemaeker" <jandemes at prom hyphen ade dot be> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl... 

If compared to NIKU's open workbench,

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 09:25 PM PST

I haven't seen any market share numbers for scheduling software in
years. But I doubt they've changed much. At that time, Project was
between 80 and 85%. Doesn't leave much for all the others! I believe
this was U.S. numbers. Don't recall seeing any other numbers.

looking for picture that decribes *yes*.

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 06:15 PM PST

There are the traditional Happy and Sad faces. Also the red circle with a
slash through it is fairly well recognized.

--
-Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project

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

Adjust dates Macro

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 02:07 PM PST

You're welcome, 57chevy :-) and thanks for your kind words. For the benefit
of others, here's the link you mentioned: http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc or this:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP



57chevy wrote: 

Exporting tasks to Excel, but not summaries

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 01:19 PM PST

As I mentioned earlier, you should explicitly filter for summary tasks using

Summary equals no.

--
-Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project

..
"RTucker" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 
up 
no 
the 
the 
request 

Team Member updating remaining work after task completion date

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 01:03 PM PST

Stephen --

This is definitely a training and performance issue. Teach your people to
do it right and then hold them accountable for this behavior. Hope this
helps.

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


"Stephen Smith" <Stephen microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Successor task not immediately following predecessor task.

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 12:29 PM PST

Hi Tom,

Glad to have helped - however indirectly. Thanks for the feedback and let
us know if we can help again.

Julie

"Tom" wrote:
 

Exporting

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 12:06 PM PST

Hi Garry,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 16. Project Viewer.

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

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

Mike Glen
Project MVP



Garry Murry wrote: 

Update

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 09:31 AM PST

Dale,
With an user admin im Approve timesheets I save de timesheets but desapear
in updates, I cannot update project plan, how update the project plan?

can you help me?

"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
 

Task Queues

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 09:01 AM PST

Excellent! - the business implications of process decisions like that are
always best answered by someone who is intimately familiar with your current
business processes and can give you educated advice based on that in-depth
knowledge. The best we can do at a distance is generic discussions of
recommended best practices.

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


"Howard Alsdorf" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Scanned documents

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 08:15 AM PST

This group is for discussions on MS Project project managment software.
You'll have better luck getting an answer in groups devoted to Word or
imaging.


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

Lead name after delegating task

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 06:39 AM PST

Daniel --

No. Sorry.

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


"Daniel Zitter - Matan Consulting" <cc> wrote in message
news:com... 

Text wrapping in the Task Name Field

Posted: 02 Feb 2005 06:29 AM PST

Hi,

Glad to have helped and thanks for the feedback.

Julie

"sfarris7" wrote:
 

Upgrade Eligibility From Ms Office X Microsoft Office for Mac

Upgrade Eligibility From Ms Office X Microsoft Office for Mac

Upgrade Eligibility From Ms Office X

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 09:21 AM PDT

On 7/16/09 9:21 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

If you don't need Exchange you would be better off buying the Home & Student
version. $109.99 ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping

<http://tinyurl.com/4ydu2u>

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Upgrade $199.99

Any upgrade CD will require you to have the old version installed or the CD
available during the install to show proof of purchase.

The Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition is actually cheaper
than the upgrade standard version. $144.79 compared to $199.99

<http://tinyurl.com/lcv342>

Hope this helps!

--
Diane

Triple Click selection

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 04:12 AM PDT

yes J.E. and Bob, my bad.

This is happening to me in Excel and I thought I remebered it happening in Word but when I checked straight after posting it works a-ok in Word. Not working in Excel for reasons best known to MS.

It was the Human Interface Guidelines I was refering to as documentation. The "convention" is one understood by someone who has used DTP apps from MacWrite to InDesign ;)

Big problems, hope someone can help?

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 02:03 PM PDT

Well, i did the update to current version...repaired permissions and...
got the same issue that i was having
prior to the reinstall. When I choose
Print for ANY Word doc, the following is
automatically added to the body of the
text (at the end):

"Âñå, ÏÈÇÄÅÖ ! (end of document) "

I cannot get anything to print without
getting that added in -

Now that I think about it, something
may have gotten tweaked when this whole
problem was discovered (prior to reinstalling).

The initial problem that prompted the reinstall was that getting "runtime" errors with a template
and when i clicked on "debug" i think i may have deleted a line of code or whatever - in a script that appeared. Subsequently Word would not open/print ANYthing.

Is there maybe something more I need to do to
"clear out" any traces of the "old" Word that
are still in the OS before removing and reinstalling the app??

Thanks again!

Mike

List of Recent Documents

Posted: 15 Jul 2009 08:02 AM PDT

On 7/15/09 11:18 PM, in article
microsoft.com, "J.E. McGimpsey"
<org> wrote:
 

Thanks! That was interesting to check out. Totally different from the BBEdit
folder where you can actually see the files.

--
Diane

Microsoft Office 2010 Reaches Technical Preview

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 01:52 AM PDT

On 7/15/09 8:18 AM, in article
eternal-september.org, "aRKay"
<net> wrote:
 
But, the answer to your question is very simple: Yes, indeed, there is a new
version of Office for the Mac in the works. For any other information about
what it may or may not include, or when it may be available, keep checking
Mactopia. All we do know is that it will include VBA.

--
Bob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh
bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom

Keep Source Formatting

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 07:34 AM PDT

The Paste Options button appears as a Clipboard icon just below the end of
the pasted content. However, it only appears [even if enabled in prefs] if
there are options to choose from in the first place. My guess is that your
browser is putting only "Unformatted Text" on the Clipboard.

Alternatively you can use the Edit> Paste Special command to select from
what's available on the Clipboard. If there are options that dialog may
offer more than what's included in the Paste Options button menu.

As Michel mentioned, what gets put to the Clipboard when you Cut/Copy is
determined by the program you're using at the time. The receiving program
determines from what's there what it is capable of pasting.

BTW: Not to provoke my friend Michel, but the "Include formatted text..."
pref he mentioned has no bearing on your question. It determines whether
formatting of text is copied as well as the text itself when you cut/copy
*from* a Word document.

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



On 7/13/09 10:34 AM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Window Size

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 07:54 AM PDT

There are scripts that will resize a window. Download these scripts:

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/Word_set_window_size.zip

1) Open ³WindowGetSize² in the script editor.

--before running this script, make sure that the frontmost window in Word is
set in exactly the size and position you want. Also make sure the Result
pane is active in this Script Editor window
tell application "Microsoft Word"
get bounds of active window
end tell
--now copy the numbers in the Result pane into your customized script {a, b,
c, b}

2) Next open the script ³WindowSizeZoomViewSample² and insert the numbers
from the result pane.

3) Place the scripts in the Word Script Menu Items folder in the Microsoft
User Data folder

"~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Word Script Menu Items"

You can assign a shortcut to the script for easy use.

4) the third script is "ArrangeAllVertically"


Barry Wainwright provided these scripts in a previous message for Entourage,
but you should be able to use them with a slight modification with Word.

To move all windows:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to set position of windows to {75,
140}

To move just the topmost window:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to set position of window 1 to {75,
140}

To move just the new (draft) message windows:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theWindows to every window whose class is draft window
repeat with aWindow in theWindows
set position of aWindow to {75, 140}
end repeat
end tell

I posted this script in HTML so line formatting would be preserved, but the
forum strips out HTML. If you cannot correct line endings, you can view the
script correctly if you use the Entourage newsreader.

If you are not familiar with a newsreader, Entourage's basic newsreader
already has the Microsoft News server included. All you do is subscribe to
the newsgroups you want. See this article for help subscribing using the
Entourage newsreader:

<http://tinyurl.com/beds97>

Hope this helps!

--
Diane

setting an older version of office as default

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:45 AM PDT


An additional option: Control/Right-Click the file & select the preferred
app from the Open With options in the contextual menu.

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



On 7/9/09 6:54 AM, in article C67B98F5.10F40%org,
"Michel Bintener" <org> wrote:
 

Running Office 2008 for Mac on 2 Computers

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 04:14 PM PDT

On 7/10/09 7:30 PM, in article
com, "Eric Ogawa"
<ebogawaatyahoo.com> wrote:
 

The Home & Student version comes with 3 keys. It does not contain Exchange
support or include Automator actions.

Amazon pricing: $99.99 (this is the lowest I've seen the Home & Student
version)

<http://tinyurl.com/4ydu2u>

--
Diane

Office 2008 for Mac compatibility with Office 2007 for PC?

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 10:20 AM PDT

Jim Gordon MVP wrote: 

Hi again,

I forgot to put the URL of the screen shot into my message. It's
http://www.agentjim.com/WordScreen.png

It shows a complex Page Layout in Word for Mac on the left, and the same
document open in Word for Windows on the right. I chose this particular
document because it is loaded with "floating objects anchored to the
same empty paragraphs on each page" or at least I think this is the sort
of thing you're referring to. Notice that at least in terms of layout,
both versions of Word display the document identically.

I'm skeptical of claims that there is an incompatibility between Word
for Mac and Word for Windows in this regard. I don't see how there could
be, but if there is, let's bring it into the open so that something can
be done about it.

-Jim

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/welcome.htm
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