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Next version of Office for Mac Microsoft Office for Mac

Next version of Office for Mac

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 12:32 PM PDT

Justin wrote: 

Hi Justin,

There are plenty of good reasons why people plunk down money for
Microsoft and Apple products when Sun Microsystems provides OpenOffice
and Google provides Google Docs for free.

The free products offer only a subset of the features of Microsoft
Office or iWork, and the free interfaces are geeky by comparison. For
people who need only basic functionality and compatibility, the free
products may be adequate. Based on the marketplace, the vast majority of
Mac users prefer the Microsoft and Apple offerings even though they are
not free.

Right off the bat you don't get the Microsoft fonts, templates, or clip
art with the free products. Charts don't work the same way. Object
formatting is primitive by comparison. The free stuff is free, but if
you expect people to switch to the free stuff it has to be at least as
good if not better than what they have now. The free stuff is OK, but it
has a long way to go before it can compete with Microsoft and Apple
offerings.

Sometimes open source has great alternatives to commercial products.
FireFox and Audacity come to mind. I don't think OpenOffice, NeoOffice
or Google docs are competitive with Microsoft Office, which continues to
evolve for the better in many ways.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
Co-author of Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies
http://tinyurl.com/Office-2008-for-Dummies

Word crashes or hangs constantly

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 11:06 PM PDT

In this case it was just a proverbial clutch at the ever-elusive straw :-)
It launches the app in "Safe" mode bypassing your existing Preference files.
Typically a part of troubleshooting.

Sorry we couldn't do better, but at least you don't have to retype the
document. If the original isn't sensitve content you can send me a copy &
I'll try to figure out what went sour. Let me know.

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

<com> wrote in message
news:caR9absDaxw... 

Problems Installing Mac Office 2008Home/Student Over Mac Office 2008 Trial

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 04:38 PM PDT

On 10/16/09 5:08 PM, in article C6FE5917.13D0D%com,
"Diane Ross" <com> wrote:
 

In case the above link does not work:

<http://tinyurl.com/ykkcdsz>

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Diane

Can't close Word/Excel/Power Point

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 03:27 PM PDT

On 10/18/09 2:17 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:

Open System Preferences > User > Login items and remove those files. Some
applications will put them automatically in Login Items when you install.

The mdworker is associated with Spotlight so I'm not sure why it's in login
items.

Is Intego a virus software application? These are notorious for causing
problems. Personally, I don't use virus software but if you are exchanging a
lot of emails with Windows users, you might need it not to pass on a virus
to them.

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Diane

Trash Will Not Empty Office 2004 After Installation of Office 2008

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 12:17 PM PDT

> On 10/16/09 12:35 PM, in article caR9absDaxw, 

All Office programs now crash

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 10:59 AM PDT

Glad you got your problems fixed.

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Diane

i deleted the menu !

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 08:29 PM PDT

That method will certainly work, but it's a bit like throwing out the baby
with the bath water or cutting off your arm because of a hangnail :-)

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



On 10/16/09 6:49 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

having two different versions of office on same computer

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 04:47 PM PDT

On 10/16/09 12:21 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

It's a completely new folder. It does not touch the Office 2004 in
Applications. You will still need the Microsoft AutoUpdate app in
/Applications for 04 updates. The MAU is hidden for Office 2008.

Install Office 2008

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/install/install_update_2008.html>

Steps for a successful update

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/install/update_basics.html>

Steps to re-install Office (if needed in the future)

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/install/reinstall_steps.html>

Hope this helps!

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Diane

Office 2008 64 bit support?

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 09:39 AM PDT

Hey everyone,

I've been using Office with K64 enabled and it runs much better. In particular opening the programs is much faster. StatPlus also appears to work without problem. Thanks.

Microsoft Word

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:34 PM PDT

Hi colby,

In what format are the files when you email them? If they're in PDF format, the default app for opening such files on a PC is likely
to be Adobe Reader. Word can't read PDFs. If the files are in Doc format, the default app for opening such files on a PC is likely
to be Word (or another word processor), but a file association error on the PC could cause Adobe Reader to try to open them.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


<com> wrote in message news:caR9absDaxw... 

Multi-User

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Diane is right about the Home & Student Edition being the most economical
based on the circumstances you describe, but just to clarify a bit...

There is no upgrade pricing for that edition ‹ it would be an outright
purchase of Office 2008. Still cheaper than upgrading to another Edition
that includes only one license, let alone having to purchase additional
copies for the other systems.

Also, the H/S licenses are restricted to personal ("non-commercial") use,
which may be of no concern for you.

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



On 10/13/09 8:48 PM, in article C6FA6DE9.13881%com,
"Diane Ross" <com> wrote:
 

Upgrading to 2008, cannot transfer old identity

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 11:18 AM PDT

On 10/14/09 5:08 PM, in article caR9absDaxw,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

If you only have Exchange messages, then simply create a new Identity in
Entourage 2008 and enter the account info and it will sync backup. If you
have info in the folders "On My Computer" you will need to export that data
as individual files.

The -36 error is really serious. You need to immediately backup all data.
Some data will refuse to even copy when it's written on bad blocks. Try
dragging over in individual folders. When you use an automatic backup it can
get stalled when it hits the corruption and doesn't get further data.

It's possible you can run a utility on the drive and map out the bad blocks,
but I would change it out or boot from an external drive.

Good luck with your recovery.

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Diane

Upgrade from 2008 Student

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 02:54 AM PDT

See if this helps.

Install Standalone version of Entourage from Exchange Email Provider with
the Home & Student Version

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/08/install_standalone_version.html>

<http://tinyurl.com/6fx99e>


--
Diane

Microsoft Word - Setting specific formats in a WORD template

Microsoft Word - Setting specific formats in a WORD template

Setting specific formats in a WORD template

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 02:23 PM PST

1.)  Can I create formatting defaults that are specific to one document only?  And that will move with the document from one computer to another? (I'm not talking about creating a template)


2.)  Can I create formatting defaults that remain in WORD and apply to any document that I create or open with that instance of WORD on my computer?  I've looked for Normal.dot and I CANNOT FIND IT, my computer returns EVERY word document on my computer when I search for it, EXCEPT Normal.dot


Please help, thank you!

Question about tabbing numbered lists and automatic tabbing in a table cell

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 02:12 PM PST

For Microsoft Word 2013, In a TABLE CELL, when you start a NUMBERED LIST, the tab jumps to the right automatically.  I want to set my tab at position 1 next to the line of the cell and have the numbered list stay at that position and not jump several places to the right.  How can I do this?

can't find office apps

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 01:09 PM PST

I recently got my new Surface Windows RT with Office Home and Student 2013 a few weeks ago but until now I can't seem to find any of my office apps. When I first got it they were all there preinstalled for me and worked fine. I made a new outlook account to use as my main user on the surface since my old Hotmail was full of junk and I stopped using it anyways. But now I can't find any of them; I tried searching for them from swiping the right side and nothing showed up. I tried searching it on my control panel from desktop to view programs but it wasn't there. Even when I try to open an excel or word file from my email, I don't have the appropriate program to open it with and then it asks me what kind of programs were available to open it with but none of them were the  office apps. Did I accidentally uninstall it by accident when I made my new account? Do I have to buy Office 2013 again? Thanks in advance.

Office 2010 starter

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 11:50 AM PST

Purchased and downloaded Office 2013 an hour ago, and I find it to be awful. I had Office XP for years. How can I get Office 2010 starter for Win 7, my new computer. I want to return 2013 and get a refund. Thanks for any help. 

Word 2013

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 11:35 AM PST

When I start to type a new document in word. the spell check is not working. If I open a old document it works fine.??????????????????  help

Images set as "Send to Back" move to front when converting to Adobe Acrobat XI PDF

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 10:54 AM PST

Images that have been marked "Send to Back" and wrapped as "Behind Text" move to front when converting from Word 2010 to Adobe Acrobat XI.  I am on Windows 7.  Anyone experiencing this?

A picture set to "centered to line" does not actually center to the line

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 10:38 AM PST

See the attached image...the picture is anchored to the line, and vertically set to "centered" to line"...

the red line shows an extension of the center of the picture, which extends to a position between the anchored line and the line above
The blue line shows what is expected to be the "center of the line" and where the center of the picture would be aligned to.

I know i can use the absolute position and make an adjustment, but if i change the image size, it would stay centered, and i need to re-figure out the offset

Content Control "OnChange" Event. Why is Microsoft dragging it's feet?

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 08:57 AM PST

Yesterday I was tinkering in Word and my custom Document_ContentControlOnChange event

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/content_control_custom_events.html

and developed a relatively simple method to use that technique to create mutually exclusive content control checkboxes:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/mutually_exclusive_content_control_option_buttons.html


I shared it with a long-time Word MVP and his comment was "Best thing I've seen in six months. Very Nice!"


I'm just a dabbler in VBA and I certainly don't consider myself a programmer.  If I am able to cobble together things like this, I can't understand why Microsoft won't incorporate a built-in Document_ContentControlOnChange event in the application!


I consider content controls the "crown jewels" of Word.  That said, and as versatile as they are, Microsoft has left them unfinished.  I know that there has been a call for a change event since the content controls were introduced in Word 2007?  Why after two versions later is it still glaringly absent?


Hoping some moderator/MS employee will see this and forward it to the product team and that the product team will finally take long overdue action fix it or at least explain why they can't/won't.


  

Cannot open corrupted Office files

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 08:57 AM PST

Hi
I have recently lost a huge number of Microsoft Office files. When I tried to open a file, the first message I get is 'The file xxxxxxx cannot be opened because there are problems with the content'
When I click details, I get this 'The file is corrupt and cannot be opened'
When I click OK, I get another message which says ' Word found unreadable content in 'xxxxxxx' and asks me whether i want to recover the document. if I click OK. I will get back to the message which says 'The file xxxxxxx cannot be opened because there are problems with the content'
Sometimes I get the message to say that the files are corrupted and sometimes, it says invalid attributes
I have tried a number of recovery tools but nothing seems to work
Would appreciate all the helps.
Thanks
Nawi

Bibliography and Cited Works Problem

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 08:56 AM PST

I think there's a bug or at least bibliography and cited works format are incorrect.

For example:

Bibliography option (button) prints out Cited Works and Bibliography. Fine.

Cited Works option (button) also prints out Cited works and Bibliography. Incorrect. Because bibliography is what I have read and it contains no cited works.

I think bibliography and cited works are duplicate functions, with just different title.

Why do they both have the same output? 

For example:

(Works Cited, 2010) 

and 

(Bibliography, 2010)

Bibliography is what the writer has read, and it does not need to be appended in the document - not until the very end anyways (the bibliography list).

Therefore making (Bibliography, 2010) irrelevant, and redundant. 

The only ones needed to be appended in the work is references and cited works. Bibliography should have a complete different form filling function, or at least output.

Reference and works cited can have the same form filling page.

But bibliography in my opinion should have a separate one that the writer fills in but appends and update the bibliography list at the end of the document. It shouldn't append this: (Bibliography, 2010), to the sentence or paragraphs as it's redundant. Because, if that was the case then it'll be a reference or cited works, and not bibliography. They're all different meanings, but Word 2010 treat them all the same.

Or at least, have a option to disable the append option of: (Bibliography, 2010)

To conclude, the bibliography and works cited are completely different, and Microsoft Office 2010 are treating it as if they are exactly the same (with just the different title). This is completely incorrect, and lazy programming.

How to prevent my words breaking on to a new line

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 08:49 AM PST

Ok so I have Microsoft Office 2013 and on Word , when I type it tends to break line mid word and it does it time and time again on every line the word can't fit. How can I fix this?


Please Help
                 Andrew

Show tracked changes in the middle of the window?

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 08:36 AM PST

When reviewing changes made with track changes turned on, pressing the Next Change button will jump to the next change but Word only scrolls down far enough so the changes are always riding the bottom of the window. Sometimes I only see the top of an entire paragraph that was changed so I'm constantly scrolling down to see all of what was changed.

I'd like a way to have Word to center the changes in the window so it's easier to assess the change based on what's before and after it.

Microsoft Word 2013 will not download templates.

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 07:12 AM PST

When I tried to download templates from word, such as a CV, Christmas card or just a letter, I get to the screen where it allows me to "create" the template, but I keep getting an error message.  I make sure I am connected to the net at the time, I am operating Windows 8, but it still happens.  Any ideas?  Appreciate it.

QuickParts Not Updating

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 06:27 AM PST

I have been successfully using QuickParts in templates that I am building for my company, up until yesterday.  Yesterday, I was reformatting header and footer fields where the quick parts are located in forms to comply with change requests.  I've been saving the changes in a Word document until I'm satisfied to save it as a Template. However, for some reason, no matter what I've attempted, when I enter changes to Document Properties in the Document Properties Panel, the QuickPart fields are not updating in my header and footer AFTER the save.  Here is what I've tried:

- Removed and re-inserted the QuickParts from both the Header & Footer Tools Design tab and Insert tab

- Rebuilt the document from a template that does work

- Opened a new document and rebuilt

- Saved another word document that DOES work as a template, re-opened a new document and rebuilt, attaching the word document to the template (through Developer tab, Document Template).

- Entered a QuickParts field into the body of the document

 

Is there something I might have "turned off" in the process of doing my changes that I can easily reactivate?  Was there a Windows update that somehow has affected QuickParts?  Was there something in my building out the header and footers with tables that prevents an update after the save?

 

I'm not a developer so I don't know much about codes?  Any help in layman's terms would be appreciated, as soon as practically possible, so that deadlines can be met. Thanks!!!

office 2007/2013 header trrouble

Posted: 31 Dec 2013 03:53 AM PST

well my problem is that every time i edit one header the other also change to that one even if its a different style , i have used section breaks , broken the links , still i got jack, i tried it on my other pc same thing , and word 2013 same , i tried repairing, i re installed, talked to the techs at answerdesk still got nothing , 


anyone who can help ???   

chinese language

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 11:54 PM PST

Dear Sir

I have the Window 7 home premium operating system. My Microsoft office is a starter kit. If I want the full version I need to upgrade.


I want to install the Chinese language pack in word so that I can also type Chinese words. I am thinking of installing the Chinese simplified. However I am not able to install the Chinese language upgrade. I suspect this is due to the fact that my Microsoft office is only a starter kit with basic features only. If I want to have Chinese language in word, I need to pay or upgrade. Please advice me what to do so that I can have Chinese words in my Microsoft office.


I look forward to hearing from you.


Hemanta Tan

Index headings

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 10:25 PM PST

When a major category of an index, say "animals" as part of an index on say "New York," continues over several pages or columns, books often place a heading over succeeding columns, e.g. "animals-continued" to let you know that you're still in "animals." IS there a way to do this in Word such that if the index changes, the "animals-continued" will automatically be in the right place? (I don't  know how to say this more clearly.)

Help,Help,How to remove a toolbar（header） in Office Web Apps

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 09:57 PM PST


Help,How to remove a toolbar（header） in Office Web Apps,red area.

Thank you very much...

Bookmarks or links

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 08:54 PM PST

Does anybody know if there is a way to link from certain text in a Word document back to a heading number in the TOC. For example I have a long document (approx. 300 pages) in which I am in Heading: ' 2C4.3 Visual Approaches' in which I say 'refer to 2D.1.13 International Operations'. There are numerous references like this in my document and I know that I could insert a bookmark at 2C4.3 but I have at least 100 heading 1, 2, and 3 in my document that I refer to - can I somehow say that all TOC headings are bookmarks without individually going in and creating them all separately or is there some way that you can insert a 'link' to a heading???

I have 11 volumes of an operations manual all of which will be about the same size and will require links to other headings.

Numbered Heading 2 missing numbers

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 04:32 PM PST

Please help....I have a deadline and numbering is not behaving!
I'm working on a very large document using numbered headings.  I finally had everything set the way I wanted it and suddenly the numbering and font have changed on my level 2 heading.  I've tried to change it back but am not able.
I have gone through the "Adjust List Indents..." menu to "Define new multilevel list", I click on level 2 and the "Enter formatting for number" line is blank and will not recognize numbers when I try to enter the correct numbers.  I've tried to adjust the font and get the following error messages "the number must be between 1 and 600" followed by,  "the number must be between 1 and 1638".

comment balloons - highlight all?

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 04:02 PM PST

In older versions of Word, sections with comments were highlighted, by default, and you could quickly read over text and see what each comment was about without clicking on anything.  Now, for some reason comment balloons show up just fine, but I can't tell what the comment relates to unless I click on each comment.  This is very inefficient for me.  Is there any way to get all the comments to show the highlighted area by default?

Windows 8 & Office 2013 when I open word 2013, windows and word stop responding and I cannot use any of the gestures on my touch screen

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 09:39 AM PST

I have recently upgraded to windows 8.1 and since I have upgraded, when I open word 2013, windows and word stop responding and I cannot use any of the gestures on my touch screen meaning, I have to use short-cuts on my keyboard to do so. Please help. 

300 server software deployment - Forums Linux

300 server software deployment - Forums Linux

300 server software deployment

Posted: 18 Aug 2005 05:05 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup ayotunde <gatech.edu>: 
 

[..]
 

I'd use *yum* if possible, you need the software in package (rpm)
format which will in addition easily allow to automate upgrading
of all systems. Ask your app provider about packages or make your
own out of the apps. IMHO there's nothing more efficient then
using the systems package manager.

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Want to upgrade RH7.2 to Fedora

Posted: 17 Aug 2005 07:45 AM PDT


<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

Yes, barely. Fedora Core 1 and 2 have fallen off the support charts, and
Fedora Core 3 and 4 use a 2.6 kernel and expect quite a lot more disk and
CPU and RAM. So if you have to do this, I'd install only a stripped version
of the OS and start pulling out stupid things, like the ISDN and modem
utilities.

DVD writer.

Posted: 17 Aug 2005 05:23 AM PDT

"Leo (Bing) Whiteway" wrote: 

Accidentally posted to newsgroup, maybe? Posted and mailed.

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Any text based BitTorrent programs?

Posted: 17 Aug 2005 01:06 AM PDT

17 Aug 2005 18:22 UTC, Chiefy typed: 

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/

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KPPP issues

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 03:55 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.development.system Lucas Raab <com> wrote: 
 

TtyS0 is just an abbreviation for a certain IRQ and io port combination
to which the driver listens (and you can change both arbitrarily with
setserial). In the mobo bios setup screen you can similarly set any IRQ
and io port for your serial ports to talk on. You must arrange that the
two settings coincide.

In this case I assume you have left the first serial port at its normal
default, to which, likewise by default, ttyS0 is set to listen to.

But I would be encouraged by some PROOF, rather than an opinion. What
does your kernel irq and io port list show? (/proc/interrupts, etc).
Can you talk to the modem via minicom on ttyS0?
 
 

OK.

 
 

I don't understand what you mean. AT commands have nothing to do with
networking. They're the standard Hayes commands that all modems have
understood for at least fifteen, twenty years. Read your modems manual!
Or just type "AT" at it! It doesn't require knowledge. It should reply
"OK".

Then you have to read your modems manual to discover what the
appropriate initialisation string is for it. It's normally AT&F0 or
simmilar.

 
 

Well, don't do that. That's no use to man nor beast until you have
confirmed that you can talk to the modem, normally, through minicom.

 

No, that's what kppp says. Modems say no such things. They say things
like "OK" or "ERROR" or "BUSY" or "0".

 

That's possible, but you should check. In particular you should check
if it is set to produce verbose (ascii) responses, or just numeric
codes. I would have preferred an init string that established a factory
setting.
 

I don't understand what you mean. The question is perfectly
straightforward!


 
 

As I said, please don't do this. It is just plain crackers to attempt
to talk to a modem through kppp before you know if you can talk to the
modem at all!

Break out minicom and talk to the modem. See what it says.
 
 

No, that is NOT the problem. Your problem is that you HAVEN'T TRIED to
talk to your modem, yet. When you have tried and succeeded, THEN you
can tell the modem to talk to your ISP.

 

Pleasse stop this nonsense, and act like a normal human being - check
that you can talk to your modem first! What's the point in yelling into
a dead telepohone handset! I don't get it! Are you aiming for some kind
fo comedy sketch presentation?


Peter

Slackware internet

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 03:45 PM PDT

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Keith Keller wrote: 

Often, /sbin/lspci can give you a clue, and you won't have to open the case.

For instance, on one of my systems, /sbin/lspci reports
...
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
...
which, of course, is my NIC.
 

I found that the hotplugging support (a/hotplug-2004_09_23-noarch-1.tgz) can
also recognize NICs, and with it you can forgo the rc.modules / rc.netdevice
route that netconfig sets up. FWIW, netconfig simply modprobes a limited set
of drivers, watching for the first successful probe

--- snip from /sbin/netconfig ---
for card in 3c59x 82596 dgrs eepro100 e1000 epic100 hp100 lance \
ne2k-pci olympic pcnet32 rcpci 8139too 8139cp tlan tulip via-rhine \
yellowfin natsemi ; do
--- end of snip ---

If your NIC isn't supported by one of these drivers, or the modprobe succeeds
(with the incorrect driver), or even you have multiple NICs, then you are in
some way out of luck. Better to have a more comprehensive setup process (the
'sysadmin', or the hotplugging support, for instance) than to depend on netconfig.

- --
Lew Pitcher

Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | GPG public key available on request
Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.
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udev: What is it good for?

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 02:11 PM PDT

kai-martin knaak wrote:

[...] 

it creates device nodes on demand and optionally may give them permanent
aliases based on unique device information. Also recently it became rather
several other tasks that now makes it really a must in most cases.
 

It is most likely gnome-volume-manager.
 
most visible for you will probably be automounting of hotplug media (mostly
USB so far). It is done by gnome-volume-manager that receives hotplug
notification from hald that gets notified in turn by udev.

=arvi=

Multi-boot liveCDs solved!

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 01:31 PM PDT

ray wrote:
 


I know how to make multi-distro CD for certain types like knoppix
and its derivatives because it has parameters that allow that.
The problem is really trying to boot combinations of distros
that don't have those parameter features. Take Mepis for example.
But clearly this guy is pointing the way at the right
procedures to fix it so that it works. And it really is so simple,
but as you can guess, I'm still half way between newbie and proficient
to have known better.

some software to download files like mp3 from the net

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 11:10 AM PDT

16 Aug 2005 18:10 UTC, leahcim typed: 

Mutella available via sourceforge (I think) makes use of the gnutella
peer2peer network. Works very well.

Also as already suggested, a suitable bittorrent client (rTorrent) might
fit the bill.

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rear of a Third Avenue street car -- if the car is in motion.

WebServer Setup Tutorial

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 06:54 AM PDT


Benson Jutton wrote: 

Thanks for your recommendation Benson!

Sincerely,
CR Junk

Mutt... Anyone using it ?

Posted: 16 Aug 2005 01:09 AM PDT

On 2005-08-16, s. keeling <ab.ca> wrote: 

As somebody else posted, it might be easier to simply configure mutt to
talk to the POP3 or IMAP server directly, if that's where the mail is
located. Then the OP needs only a program like ssmtp to send mail.

--keith

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Creating a new partition to install Fedora core

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 10:22 PM PDT

Atri Mandal <com> wrote: 

I had success using 'ntfsresize' on she SystemRescueCD
(http://www.sysresccd.org/).

Read and understand the documentation before you do it.
Run ntfsresize in test mode before actually resizing.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Connection problem

Posted: 15 Aug 2005 03:56 AM PDT

Peter T. Breuer wrote:

 


Hi Peter.

After a lot of tests I found out the problem, I guess.
The MTU parameter on eth, by default it was 1500, I turned down to 1400 and
now seems to works fine both on windows and linux clients.

It is not clear because I never touched that kind of configuration and I
don't think that last slackware update has done it too.
But now it works.

thank you.
ciao

Q: Setting up a Creative Audigy 2ZS and no sound on the headphone jack.

Posted: 14 Aug 2005 09:51 AM PDT

Torsten Zirzlaff <s.bawue.de> writes:
 

There are other cards with firewire.
 

It might be worth a try.

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Unable to boot linux via Grub

Posted: 13 Aug 2005 05:31 PM PDT

nvm. I found out how to fix it. Thx for the help.

installing scanner hp 5300c in fedora core 3

Posted: 13 Aug 2005 04:58 PM PDT

hi frank! thank you for help me
i`ll try to do what you say, and after that i`ll tell you what hapend
thank you, and see you soon
michael

Custom field formulas and inserted projects Microsoft Project

Custom field formulas and inserted projects Microsoft Project

Custom field formulas and inserted projects

Posted: 24 Feb 2005 09:59 AM PST

Ah, so simple and obvious! :-) I hadn't set it to use the formula for summary
tasks. Thanks! I'll also amend to use the "&".

I appreciate the help! ...L

"JackD" wrote:
 

Project Professional licensing quetion

Posted: 24 Feb 2005 09:33 AM PST

That is the answer to a different question.
Project Server does NOT come with a free copy of Project Pro.

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custom field inforamtion to be limited to task row only

Posted: 24 Feb 2005 06:31 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Majid" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Majid,
I find it easier to help someone if they explain what they are trying to
do rather than how they are trying to do it. So, instead of telling us
you want to highlight Flag1, how about explaining what Flag1 represents.
In other words, what determines if Flag1 is "yes" or "no"? Is there some
kind of criteria (formula or VBA code)? Is it changed manually by the
user? Whatever.

When you say you want Flag1 highlighted, what do you mean? There are
several text formatting options - color, italic, bold, etc. What is
special about summary lines? What determines why and when they will be
highlighted?

More questions than answers I'm afraid.
John
Project MVP

Who does what when

Posted: 24 Feb 2005 05:03 AM PST

In article <com>,
"jzis" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

jz,
Boy wouldn't that be great - Shilling versus Johnson.

Let me answer the two questions I saw in your multiple posts. First, the
data on the right side of Usage reports is for numerical information
only. It is possible to achieve what you want, but you will have to use
VBA to export the information to another application (e.g. Excel).
Second, Gantt bar text cannot be wrapped. The intent of being able to
attach text to a Gantt bar is to provide simple reference information on
the graphic, not to give details such that text wrapping would be
required.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Elapsed Time tasks show as non-critical in a critical path display

Posted: 24 Feb 2005 02:29 AM PST

You're welcome, General - good luck :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP





General M wrote: 

Auto Save as Web Page?

Posted: 23 Feb 2005 05:37 PM PST

"=?Utf-8?B?bWN1YmE=?=" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<com>... 

Go to Tools, Macro, Record new Macro, and then with the macro recorder
running, complete the File-SaveAs function, with the required options.

In the future, to re-run the macro, use Tools, Macro, Macros (Alt F8)
to run the saved macro.

You can also assign shortcut keys / toolbar items if this is something
you do frequently.

Here is what I got, but you may have different preferences:

Sub Macro2()
' Macro Macro2
' Macro Recorded Thu 24/02/05 by Michael Murray.
FileSaveAs Name:="C:\My Documents\testproject.html",
FormatID:="MSProject.HTML", map:="Default task information"
End Sub


Hope that helps,
M.

Combining Linked Projects

Posted: 23 Feb 2005 02:15 PM PST

In article <com>,
"Roland67" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Roland,
Did I misinterpret what is happening? I understood you to say that when
your subprojects were inserted into a master, some of the tasks slammed
over to the Project Start date of the master, however (and I had to
confirm this with my own test), this will only occur if the subprojects
are statically consolidated into the master (i.e. subprojects not linked
to the master). In a dynamically consolidated master, the tasks in each
subproject adhere to the Project Start date of their respective
subprojects.

Perhaps we need a re-statement of what is happening before we can offer
other suggestions.

By the way, I understand about customer wants. I just hope they are not
looking for detail planning of any tasks beyond 12 months. Tasks beyond
the rule-of-thumb 12 month window should be expressed as "planning
packages". That is, they have a rough idea of Duration and perhaps even
cost, but no details. As time marches on and those out-year planning
packages get within 3 months of the present, then they should be detail
planned.

Just for reference, I am a firm believer that the constraint types
"must-start-on" and "must-finish-on" should never be used. When you get
down to it, they defy reality. It is said there are only two certainties
in life. One of them has to do with "rendering unto Caesar" and the
other has to do with the grim reaper. The "best laid plans" do not fit
into either category. Oops, there I am on that soapbox again. Sorry.

John
Project MVP

1 Task, x Resources

Posted: 23 Feb 2005 01:21 PM PST

Jan De Messemaeker wrote: 

Hi
thanks for your patience.
OK, here is what I mean.
I have 10 stones I have to bring from A to B.
I can only carry one at a time.
For each stone I take one hour
So if I do it alone it is 10 hours of work for me.
So is the "duration" I meant.
Now my neighbor is popping by, as weak/strong as I
am and offers me help.
So we do it parallel.
So we carry the stone in 5 hours. 2 people carry 5
stones.
So the "elapsed time" is 5 hours although the
actual working hours (man days usually called) are
10 hours as planned.

So if I know how much effort a task is (in my case
10 hours) I want to see how much faster I am
throwing in more ressources (people). Yeah Yeah, I
know that in software dev it does not work this
way, but I am not talking about software dev.
So with four ressources I can finish the task in
2.5 hours
I hope this is clearer now, because I doubt my MSP
would add value to your understanding
Kay

levelling & the status line

Posted: 23 Feb 2005 11:24 AM PST

Dale,

Thanks so much &ndash; this feature does exactly what I wanted.

Syd.

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Syd --

Open the project in question and then do the following:

1. Click Tools - Tracking - Update Project
2. Select the task(s) for which no actuals were entered in the past
reporting period
3. Click Tools - Tracking - Update Project
4. Select the "Reschedule remaining work to start after" option
5. Select the date one day BEFORE the next reporting period
6. Select the "Selected tasks" option
7. Click the OK button

This will move uncompleted work to the next reporting period for the
selected tasks only. Hope this helps.

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Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
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Scheduling from fixed finish dates?

Posted: 23 Feb 2005 09:32 AM PST

Yup.

Stick to FS dependencies.

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