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Be kind to a N00b. Video question and general queries

Posted: 02 Oct 2005 06:31 AM PDT

Thanks for the info Matt.

The chipset from lspci is a 3D Labs compatible.

I editied the XF86Config-4 in vi but now my Gnome has got bugggered and
the screen is all out of synch :)

Is there a way to "reset" back to the default again ?

Cheers
Mike

Dances With Crows wrote: 

After Ubuntu installation...Winxp boots up sloooooowww

Posted: 02 Oct 2005 02:01 AM PDT

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sherry wrote: 

Well, the correct answer, of course, is just don't use MS Windows :)

It's been awhile, but you should be able to find the disk manager with:

Control Panel -> Computer Administration -> Disk Something or Other

Perhaps though, the time has come to simply move on.

Neil
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New user from WinXP to Ubuntu 5.10

Posted: 01 Oct 2005 03:51 PM PDT

sherry <com> wrote:
 

A marksmanship program? ;->

Setup problems - fdisk, overlapping sectors?

Posted: 30 Sep 2005 09:48 PM PDT

On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:10:51 +0200, <com> wrote:
 

Since you fail to quote the earlier messages I have to gather the
information from three messages.

Ummm...

You have built several machines of the same type,
o Appliance type
o running a Via processor
o with 20 Gb drives, except two have 40 Gb drives instead

The 40 Gb drives are Samsung 2.5".

The two with 40 Gb behave differently.

You cannot boot those two from CD without setting ide=nodma on the
kernel boot command line, do I get it right? (What are the symptoms
when you don't supply ide=nodma? Can we infer that the disk interface
is traditional IDE?

You use fdisk => meaning you have booted some kernel and are
running fdisk under that kernel. With ide=nodma.

You set up one or more partitions, then hit "w" and return.

Fdisk queries the kernel about the number of bytes per sector
and the total capacity in bytes of the disk, and uses llseek()
and read() to read the second and the last sector of the disk.

In my test case, the disk had no extended partition.

Fdisk uses llseek() and write() to write a 512-byte block to
the start of the disk, calls sync(), waits for two seconds,
calls an ioctl() to make the kernel reread the partition table,
and repeats sync()-sleep()-ioctl(), sleeps for another four seconds,
and exits.

If you changed any logical partitions fdisk probably called llseek
to reach the proper sector, read the sector, modified the memory
copy of the sector, called llseek() again to access the same sector
again, then wrote the modified sector back. Repeat for each partition
modified. Or perhaps for all logical partitions.

Now you restart fdisk, but the partition data do not correspond to
the data written.

The exact nature of the differences between written and subsequently
read is perhaps not so important as noting that the contenst of one
or more sectors have changed.

Just for the record, the number of partitions is the same...
as before? as written? I guess the disks had empty partition
tables when you started, so you mean the same as written.
Some partition(s) have changed type to ntfs (where ext3?)
Partition start (first sector) overlap ... overlap what? The end
of previous partition? If the disks had empty partition
tables when you started, it means the sectors have been written.
Number of partitions read is the same as written.


We have some options.

Did the write hit the disk? Or did the kernel keep it in
its buffercache?

Block device reads and writes go through the buffercache.
Sync should force out everything. Is there any possibility that
something delayed the write so much that the call to reread the
partition table clobbered unwritten buffercache blocks with the
old data from the disk?

I don't know if sync() waits until the data are actually safely on
the platter. I *believe* it does.

Do some hardware conditions corrupt the data on the way to the disk?
Do some hardware conditions corrupt the data being read from the disk?

Are there kernel bugs that give timing errors or other corrupting
errors when using ide=nodma? Are there memory errors?

Could there be electrical problems, with the disks drawing too much
current and making the power drop below what the ram likes?
Do you have any means of observing that?

You probably have mostly readonly filesystems as long as you
are running from a CD. But /dev is a tmpfs, so if you have some
memory to spare, you can hold short files there. Can you
do

dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/hda (or whatever) of=/dev/mbr-before

then run fdisk, and from the advanced menu hexdump the partition
table, then partition as it should be, hexdump again, save the
dumps to /dev/something, and finally repeat the dd command, but
with of=/dev/mbr-after. Then od -t x1 /dev/mbr-before and
see if there are any pattern in the differences. I cannot imagine
you can do much more from software except debug the kernel.

The rest would be fairly lowlevel properties of the disks and the
chips on the appliance.

-Enrique
of=/

Nut and USB setup

Posted: 30 Sep 2005 02:33 PM PDT

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:33:45 +0200, david walcroft <com> wrote:
 

If somebody else happen to know what you are talking about, they will
surely help.

I am possibly able to provide som assistance after you tell me what it
all is. I know what USB is, if it is Universal Serial Bus, and perhaps
"s/w" is software.

But what is a powermate? What is "doco"? "for serial ports"? What
serial ports? What is Nut?


A quick google on the internet gives some links that might be usefull:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Griffin_PowerMate_with_UDEV_and_Kernel_2.6.x

If you don't have gentoo linux, there may be some differences.

If you have Fedora Core 4, you do not need to recompile the kernel,
I guess. I have the modules powermate.ko and evdev.ko anyway, so
I would probably only need to edit the hotpulg files.


http://www.eviloverlord.net/powermate.html

but linux-2.4 is not current anymore. Watch out for things that do
not apply.

-Enrique

Choose a Session

Posted: 30 Sep 2005 12:39 PM PDT


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

/etc/inittab. It's a typo.
 
 

That's the one.
 

And that's the other one. It's a script file with way too many options,
designed to by default present various settings based on the
/ets/sysconfig/desktop configuration file.
 

Right, that's a configuration file you can *USE* to preset your default
desktops.

Follow the logic in all those "if" statements. I can't guess from here which
one triggers the display of and use of Gnome in your desktop settings, but
it should be traceable through your system and configuraton files.

I wonder if you play with your system much, and whether you add and delete
packages? Is gnome still listed you RPM packages, or if you accidentally did
a "yum remove" that removed it as a dependency?

VPC machine on an IBM Thinkpad x-term video problem

Posted: 30 Sep 2005 09:55 AM PDT


"Enrique Perez-Terron" <no> wrote in message
news:home.lan...
 

I'm afraid that would be an automatic spam, reaching the classic spam
"Breidbart Index" of more than 15 substantially identical posts in the same
newsgroup within 45 days, and wind up automatically cancelled.

We could post a FAQ, though....

How do I sum resource hours into a group summary? Microsoft Project

How do I sum resource hours into a group summary? Microsoft Project

How do I sum resource hours into a group summary?

Posted: 11 Mar 2005 11:39 AM PST

right click on the right pane in resource usage, add 'cumulative work' field

This gives cumulative work; you have to manually subtract the previous
quarter figures to get the figure for just that quarter.

Or export to excel.


"Jeff" wrote:
 

Export Reports

Posted: 11 Mar 2005 08:59 AM PST

you're welcome

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

Maintain budget constraints with new activities

Posted: 11 Mar 2005 08:43 AM PST

John - thanks for the quick reply! I do appreciate the feedback. I think we
are attempting to lay out the detail tasks for the near term, but are looking
for a mechanism within MS Project to manage it. I think establishing those
issue budgets I mention addresses the "planning packages" idea you mention.

In our case, we know our resource budgets and the work that is currently on
our plate. We have established a means for prioritizing the work and are
finalizing high-level estimates for the work. We fully expect to see far
more work than we have resource availability and have gone through the effort
to establish what % of each resource's time is available for these
issues/CRs, as many of them will also be doing ongoing customer support and
tech support activities.

I guess my question was less about how to maintain budget constraints as to
how best to programatically administer the scenario I mentioned in MS
Project, keeping the consideratios you mention in mind.


"John" wrote:
 

Project Plan in Minutes

Posted: 11 Mar 2005 08:19 AM PST

Hi Kai,

You're welcome.

Just a word of caution. Typing in start and finish dates/times constrain
the tasks. If you enter in a start date/time for a task in a project
scheduled from a fixed start date (in Project>Project Information) you are
setting a Start No Earlier than constraint. Typing in a finish date/time for
a task sets a Finish no earlier than constraint. As much as humanly possible
you want to set the Start Date of the Project (Project>Project Information),
enter your task durations (you can enter in minutes if you choose) and then
link the tasks together to drive the start date/time of the sucessor tasks.

I assume you also changed your calendar (Tools>Change Working Time) to set
Sunday as a working day?

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

"com" wrote:
 

Changes to baseline

Posted: 11 Mar 2005 07:39 AM PST

In essence the scope of a task is the deliverable the task produces. If you
have multiple resources assigned and it's even possible that the scope can
change for just one of them but not the others, that suggests they are all
producing different deliverables. That in turn suggests that you have
combined what really should be listed as completely separate and distinct
activities into one task and your WBS has not been sufficiently decomposed
into its activities. If you breakout the resource's task from the others,
listing them all as distinct activities, rebaselining that one task when its
scope changes becomes very simple.

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


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

Exporting to web page - how to format columns?

Posted: 11 Mar 2005 07:25 AM PST

 
and correct 
is a headache, but using the actual visual page is easier. 

Overall project duration

Posted: 11 Mar 2005 02:49 AM PST

Create a Summary Task and indent right the two inserted summary project
plans. The summary task will give you the total duration.

"Gérard Ducouret" wrote:
 

Project ressource pool

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 11:53 PM PST

Stian,
The solution is quite simple :
The problem comes from the fact that you assigned each resource twice :
- On each elementary task (task's OK)
- On the summary of elementary task (That's too bad !)
What version of project are you using ? Normally, 2003 avois this kind of
problem...
So :
Select a summary of reccurent task (which has a small + sign)
In the Assign Resource dialog, select the resource and click Remove.

Gérard Ducouret

"Gérard Ducouret" <fr> a écrit dans le message
de news:phx.gbl... 
to 
de 
entire 
wrong 

Project is lying to me!

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 08:44 PM PST

Hi,
In the real world, "Fixed Duration" logique is very rare.

Gérard

"Project Slave" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le
message de news:com... 
project 
U. 

Illegal start date bug?

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 06:18 PM PST

Hello Andrew, hello Jack,
Another possibility : the T2 task duration is in "elapsed" days : "ed"

Gérard

"JackD" <momokuri@gmail> a écrit dans le message de
news:phx.gbl... 
some 
situation 
2/7/05 
makes 
T2 

Filtering subtasks

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 03:57 PM PST

John,

Thanks. This worked great. I have one more issue with this. I
created a new view to only show a certain number of fields. When I
apply this filter to that view, I can see the parent summary tasks, but
everything is inline. Is it possible to somehow keep the indenting of
the subtasks when it does the filter?

thanks,
Scott

sound during powerpoint preview works when I view the show it wil.

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 02:11 PM PST

Hi Viola,

This newsgroup is specifically for matters dealing with Microsoft Project.
I suggest you try to find a more appropriate newsgroup that deals with
PowerPoint problems.

Could you please tell us what led you to chose this newsgroup? We would
really like to know! :)


Mike Glen
Project MVP



viola wrote: 

Report Help

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 11:10 AM PST

Hi Scott

wouldn't bother with a "report" per se, i would just use the Task Sheet view
(view / more views / task sheet) then as it's better to create a new table
rather than modify the existing tables i would choose view / table: entry /
more tables / copy - call the new table "Report Table" and then delete the
rows that i don't want to see in the print out ... (also tick show in menu)
.... once the tables have been deleted click OK and APPLY. This table will
now be shown in the Task Sheet view ... now use the Autofilter or filter box
to filter out the tasks you don't want to see (if you're doing this on a
regular basis you can insert a new column and filter based on that) and then
print it out.

Hope this helps
Cheers
JulieD



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

Gantt Chart View with columns to the right of the Gantt chart

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 10:51 AM PST

Hi

1. no
2. yes .. .check out Mike Glen's series of articles at www.tinyurl.com/2xbhc
or
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMFrame.asp?CMD=ArticleSearch&AUTH=23
esp numbers 14 & 15

Cheers
JulieD

"Project Slave" <Project microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Error when copying picture to word or using the WBS Visio Wiizard

Posted: 10 Mar 2005 06:05 AM PST

Hi Mike,

Sorry if I did not make myself clear.
I am using Project standard 2003.
When I try to use the wizards on the analysis tool bar to export data to
word for example when I want to inlcude my project data in a document I get
the error below.
The same is true when I try to create a WBS using the visio wizard from the
same toolbar.

Thanks

Neilb

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

How to open Microsoft Office 2004 with Microsoft Office 2004 and not with Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac? Microsoft Office for Mac

How to open Microsoft Office 2004 with Microsoft Office 2004 and not with Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac? Microsoft Office for Mac

How to open Microsoft Office 2004 with Microsoft Office 2004 and not with Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac?

Posted: 03 May 2010 01:18 PM PDT

Thanks. I know, but I am looking for a fix-all, so that double clicking
any Office 2004 file opens it with the corresponding Office 2004
application (Word, Excel or PowerPoint).

It should be possible with some macro or application or something else
since it is indeed possible with single files using the Get Info menu,
which means that the appropriate changes are made for such file for
ever, so that it is open with the corresponding Office 2004 file
always, for ever. Since it is possible for a single file, there should
be way of doing it for all, with a single click.

Thanks again.

------------------

On 2010-05-04 01:14:11 +0200, Diane Ross <com> said:
 

Office beta 2011 installer wizard in 10.5.7shows"Wrong OS version. This software needs Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later"

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:45 AM PDT

Justin wrote: 

Heck, if you really want to punish this guy make him use OpenOffice or
Lotus Symphony! LOL

-Jim

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

Office Mac 2008. Want to reformat computer &save Office, but lost the disk.

Posted: 24 Apr 2010 08:58 AM PDT

Diane Ross wrote: 

I recommend that before you reformat your hard drive that you take the
following steps (you'll need a second hard drive with enough room
connected by FireWire to do this):

1. Boot to your MacOSX install disk. Choose the language you want to use.
2. In the next screen, use the Utilities menu to launch Disk Utiltiy
3. Use Disk Utility to Verify the hard drive and use Repair if needed
4. Use Disk Utility to create a disc image of your computer onto the
extra hard drive
6. Once you have created the disc image you can Disk Utility to erase
your original hard drive (don't erase the one with your backup copy, of
course)
7. Now quit Disk Utility and you can proceed with your install of
MacOSX. Again, be sure you choose the correct disc so that you don't
wipe out your backup.
8. When MacOSX is installed, it will boot up with the nice music, etc.
One of the choices you'll be offered is to use a disc image to migrate
to your fresh system install. That's what you want to do - or you can
choose the option to not import anything and then use the Migration
Assistant application in the Application > Utilities folder.

-Jim

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

Slow file operations in all Office 2008 apps

Posted: 22 Apr 2010 06:37 AM PDT

On 4/22/10 6:37 AM, com wrote: 

This is not an official Microsoft forum. We are your peers.

Fonts seem to be a common culprit. Run Font Book to validate fonts. If
you have installed Snow Leopard some of the newer Snow Leopard fonts
conflict with the older ones installed by Office 2008. You need to
delete the older fonts.

Microsoft fonts to delete after installing Snow Leopard (includes help
deleting font caches)

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/remove_fonts_snowleopard.html>

John McGhie's troubleshooting list for Word slow starts

1) Quit all Microsoft applications.

2) Track down all instances of pre-2008 Normal template on your
computer, and drag them to your desktop. The file is called simply
"Normal" and has no extension.

3) Find and drag the file Normal.dotm to your desktop. Unless you have
moved it, it should be in

/Users/ ~ /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/

4) If the following files exist, Remove or rename them:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word Settings (10)

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word Settings (11)

User/Library/Preferences/com.Microsoft.Word.plist

User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008 (the whole folder!)

5) Now re-start Word 2008 and it should be OK.

Be thorough with this, if you leave any of these files behind Word 2008
will find them and won't replace them. Do it right and Word will
construct a new, clean, set of preferences and everything should now work.

Make sure you are updated to 12.2.4.

See this page for other solutions:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/crashes.html>

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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Windows 7 leaves a lot to be desired

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 11:57 AM PDT

No worries, it happens quite often. The Forum interface leaves a lot to be
desired.

--
Diane

Can't install after using Trial Version

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 10:40 PM PDT

got it to work. could never get the uninstaller to work > it would either hang or not find any other versions. dragged the office folder to the trash and emptied it, also delete the plist as noted above.

you'll know you're doing it right if it asks you for your ID # during the install process.

good luck - works pretty well and people at work can't tell i am using a Mac

:-)

odd behavior of 12.2.4 update

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 08:56 PM PDT

As Rob suggests, this sounds like a matter that needs to be tackled by way
of a setting adjustment in or fix to whatever this "third-party software"
may be.

I'm curious as to why such a program is necessary, though. Office has its
own AutoUpdate app, as does most every other software. Typically the apps
can be set to notify of updates on a periodic basis, including as a matter
of routine each time you launch it.

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

"Mark Pavlick" <org> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

Still can't install SP1

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 02:27 PM PDT

On 4/27/10 8:18 AM, in article JaKIaxP2ac0,
"com" <com> wrote:
 

Glad to hear you are updated now. Restarting cleans out some of the temp
folders used during the install. Restarting is good practice after any
install or update for major applications.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
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mac 11.5.0 Update

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 02:14 PM PDT

On 4/1/10 8:23 PM, com wrote: 

Glad it's working!! :-)

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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How to Convert MTS to any formats from yourSony/Panasonic/Canon(Mac&Windows)?

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Convert MTS to AVI with best MTS to AVI Converter, MTS to AVI Converter free download. Want to know more in http://www.bestshareware.net/videoguide/mtstoavi.htm



john b wrote:

MTS Converter
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Importing holidays to the calendar

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:29 PM PDT

I just noticed something. Rather odd. As stated, no holidays show in my calendar. But now I notice that in the &quot;Assign Categories&quot; window (click on an email, click on &quot;Categories&quot;),

in that window,

Christian, Jewish, and United States holidays are listed. That is the categories for those are listed. The holidays themselves did not download and are not listed in the calendar.

Burning .MTS files to DVD without loss of quality

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:06 AM PDT

On 2010-03-29 06:26:16 -0400, CyberTaz said:
 

The same company has been spamming multiple groups like that lately.
If anything, it's a good indication of what NOT to buy.

Corentin

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Convert Blu-Ray ISO files to WD TV for enjoying

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 12:02 AM PDT

On 2010-03-30 03:10:21 -0400, com said:
 

I love the fact that you spammed, and later had the nerves to come and
post a positive comment about your own piece of junk without even doing
so from a different account.
Wonderful!

Corentin

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slowdown with 12.2.4 update?

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:57 PM PDT

On 3/24/10 5:54 AM, com wrote: 

If you have a backup with 12.2.3 still installed can you boot from that
drive to test the issue? 

1) Did you clear up the duplicate fonts in the Microsoft fonts folder
after installing Snow Leopard? This includes deleting font caches. See
this link for instructions.

BTW, are you running any font software? http://bit.ly/aPektH

2) Restart your computer holding down the Shift key to log in using Safe
Boot mode. Does this help?

Troubleshooting Office for Mac with Snow Leopard

<http://tinyurl.com/ndmt4x>

There are several suggestions under this link:

Performance Issues/memory management
<http://bit.ly/dBPSB5>

Let me know what your tests show.
--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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Develop solutions for MAC Office

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 11:18 PM PDT

Shujaat wrote: 

Please take Bob Greenblatt up on his offer. He'll treat you very well.

Meanwhile, the answer to your question is a qualified "Yes, you can." As
Rob Schneider pointed out, VBA is absent in Office 2008. However it is
available in Office 2004 and will be available again in Office 2011 (not
2010) on the Mac. Office 2011 will debut later this year.

You will need to know the hardware and software capabilities of your
user base. Office 2004 runs on PowerPC processors and Intel processors
and has VBA version 5. The VBA compiler had to be rebuilt for Intel, so
I suspect Office 2011 will require Intel processors, and of course,
Office 2011. It's not too soon to start developing for Office 2011.

Bob will fill you in on the way to build good cross-platform
applications. Avoid Active-X like the plague. Learn a few simple rules
about Mac file path conventions, and you're applications will be able to
run nicely.

And yes, there's an Apple installer application.
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/SoftwareDistribution/Install_Operations/Install_Operations.html

-Jim

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

12.2.3 Update woes of a different kind?

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 06:50 PM PDT

On 3/16/10 6:47 PM, com wrote: 

Since the 12.2.4 updater requires 12.2.3 to be installed, it sounds more
like a bad pref for MAU than a copy of Office that is missing the update.

The MAU will find other copies of Office on backups that need updating,
but it will fail to install until you boot from that partition. Not sure
why it looks if it won't install.

--
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Ready to put a gun to my head...Office updates

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 09:20 AM PDT

On 3/19/10 9:20 AM, JohnKGibson wrote: 
Did you run any applications like monolingual after you did the reformat?

Dos and Don'ts for a good install
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/install_08.html#basics>

In case the above link does not work:

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

Check List to troubleshoot your install

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/install_08.html#checklist>

--
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Microsoft Word - How do you keep the comparison view display?

Microsoft Word - How do you keep the comparison view display?

How do you keep the comparison view display?

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:19 PM PST

I'm comparing two historical transcriptions and need to see specific word differences, so I was really glad to see the comparison function on Word. It works great, except that when I save the comparison as a file, it just becomes a document with a bunch of messy tracked changes. Is there a way to make it so that every time I open the file, it stays in the comparison view, with the two documents in smaller windows on the right side, etc.? It's really important.

I have Word 2013.

Open with list

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:50 AM PST

I have two versions of MS Word (2003 and 2007) but prefer to us 2003 for most of my work. I had set the 2003 version as the default program to open .doc files under "set associations" but today for some reason previous 2003 files are only opening with 2007. When I go into set associations or use "open with" for individual files the 2003 program does not even make the lists. When I did not find the 2003 version on the default program list I selected browse and went to the 2003 .exe. I selected it but the only option was to open which I did. This did not seem to change anything. Is there any way to fix this so the 2003 version as well as the 2007 version is an option for "open with" and the default program for .doc can be selected as the 2003 version?

 

Thanks

Removing/changing soft page breaks

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:46 AM PST

I have a Word document that is generating 'soft' page breaks in locations that don't make sense. I have a page with only a few lines of text and the rest of the page is blank. The paragraph then continues at the top of the next page. How can I fix this problem?

This is not due to a manual 'hard' page break. When I view the document in draft mode, there are no formatting icons except for a horizontal dotted line at the location of the page break. I cannot select or delete that line.

It also does not appear due to pagination settings. I selected the surrounding text, navigated to the Line and Page Breaks tab in the Paragraph window, and un-selected all of the Pagination settings. 

I suspect that the problem might be related to the fact that I have Drawing Canvases and Equations at other locations in the document.

Lost emailing ability, Windows 7 Home Edition

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:38 AM PST

I cannot email directly a document from Word 2003. My O/S is Windows 7  Home edition. When selecting the email icon a little window opens and says cannot access the email envelope etc

It can be done other ways by Copy & Paste or File, send to etc.

Is there a good W/7 Dummies book?

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Using Picture Tools in Word 2010

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:06 AM PST

Using Word 2010, I might choose to make changes to a picture using Picture Tools, such as set color saturation to zero.  This makes the picture appear in grayscale.

Do the changes I made get applied to the stored picture, or are they applied only when rendering the picture when opened?  I ask this because I pick up the picture later from inside the zip/docx.

Restart at 1 changes the formatting of my paragraph

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 11:02 AM PST

Whenever I choose to Restart number at 1, it always, without fail, indents my paragraph or changes the formatting some what.  It's very frustrating.  Anyone tell me why this happens and if it's only happening to me?

 

Word 2007

Windows 7

 

Printing problem with Office 2007

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 10:48 AM PST

I have a Vista Operating System and I am using Office 2007 with an Epson CX8400 Printer.  I have used this arrangement to successfully print for several years.  Last week it seems like my MS Word Documents and Excel Documents will not print on the printer.  The printer goes through the print cycle, the ink carriage moves and the paper is blank.  I am noticing that my documents now say (Compatibility Mode) - Microsoft Word Non Commercial Use.  I never noticed this before and I am wondering if I have picked up some new type of template that will not allow me to print.

I have reinstalled my printer driver and I have tried to save the documents in .doc and .docx format, but I still cannot get MS Word documents to print.  Occassionaly I will find a document that does print or it prints partially (it will print onlythe highlighted links)??  I am also having problems printing .pdfs.

Can anyone help?  Thank You, PalmerHill62

 

navigation pane menu

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 10:33 AM PST

What are the best ways to access the navigation pane menus in Word 2010? You should be able to left click everything to access multiple options with that normal point and click method. 


I do not like right click at all and that should be taken out. It hurts my hand.

Word: Pen tools in protected view

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 10:28 AM PST

Hi,
I have a word 2010 document on a tablet Win7 PC. The document is 3 sections; the first two are protected while the last one is not.
The "Pens" tab gets grayed out in protected view but I need a way to activate it when the user moves to the unprotected section in order to capture signature.
Thank you

Unable to Right Click on Office 2013

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 10:11 AM PST

Right Click works everywhere, EXCEPT  Office 2013.
How can I resolve it?


Hid Compliant mouse. (Microsoft mouse) - On Device manager it says the best driver is installed.

Thanks in advance!

Word 2010 w/ embedded pdfs

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:58 AM PST

I have a word 2010 document with embedded pdfs.  Once I save this word document as a pdf, is there a way to launch the embedded pdfs?  I can launch the embedded pdfs when the document is still a word doc but I am unable to launch the embedded pdfs after I save the word document as a pdf. 

I currently have windows 5.1 but very soon will be getting windows 7.  So if the answer is different for these two versions please let me know that as well.

 

Thanks for any thoughts on how to do this.

 

Writing Pad Toolbar/screen does not appear even though handwriting recognition has been installed.

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:36 AM PST

I've got Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 installed.  I have added on Microsoft's speech recognition and handwriting recognition, and can get the languages toolbar to appear.  Speech recognition works ok.  However, the handwriting recognition does not appear to allow me to bring up the "writing pad" or "write anywhere" screen and toolbars, although it does allow me to bring up the "drawing pad" screen and toolbar.  What can I do to get the "writing pad" and "write anywhere" screens and toolbars?

 

When I go to "Control Panel/Regional and Language Options/Languages/Text Services, etc/Details/Installed Services,"  handwriting services appears, along with "writing pad" "write anywhere" and "drawing pad."  However, when I select any of them and click "Add", the next box ("Add Input Language") does not let me select "handwriting recognition."  What can be done to correct this?

 

I've search on-line (including on Microsoft.com) for this problem, but was unable to find any help.  I even had a chat with Microsoft tech assistance, but they only provided a web site on how to remove speech recognition and handwriting recognition. Thanks!

Picture Format Tools Not Appearing after Windows Update

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:31 AM PST

I have Microsoft Office 2010 for Home & Business. After the recent Windows 8.1 update, some of my picture format tools are not appearing. Crop to Shape and Remove Background. These are tools I have used regularly in Word before the update. 

As far as I can tell, Word is not running in Compatibility Mode. All new documents are saved as .docx

I tried running a repair on Microsoft Office but it did not fix the problem.

I have tried .jpg and .png images and the formatting tools I need still don't show up.

Any ideas?

Office Document Grouping Function

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 09:12 AM PST

My question: Is there a way to create some sort of Office 'Project' that links different files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), so that if I'm working on a project that requires all of them to be open for reference/use, I can click on a single Project doc and they will all open?

This idea seems like it would be extremely handy for the corporate world, where often times multiple spreadsheets need to be referenced in order to finish presentations or reports (this is a single example of an issue with thousands of scenarios). I keep running into this issue where I want to open the same set of files over and over and it gets tiresome having to manually open each one.

Making Single Option Checkboxes in MS Word 2013

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 08:45 AM PST

Hey All,

I'm attempting to make single option check boxes that we'll be using for customer approval e-mail.

What I mean by single option is, you can only select one of two (approved or not approved) options within

the body of the e-mail.

I've got the checkbox thing down-pat, but I need to make it so only one is selectable by the recipient.

The "VOTE" function is not acceptable for what we need to do.

If anyone has any info on how I can do this, it would be fantastic.

Thank You

-Kevin

Cant type

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 08:41 AM PST

I can only type 3or4 letters then I get a beep with each key stroke . If I rt. click my mouse I can type a few more letters. Not always the same number of letters before it beeps , sometimes 2 sometimes 5 , that seems to be the most. Please help

Microsoft Word Ribbon and menu completely blank!!

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 08:23 AM PST

I have Microsoft Office 365 University. They told me it should last all 4 years I am in school and I just finished my first semester at college. However, when I open Word, whether it be a new or old document, the top ribbon is completely blank-- no options what so ever. I cannot save documents. If I right click, no menus show up as well. It is really stressful, especially since my second semester is about the begin in less than a week.

The only option that DOES show up on the ribbon says "sign in".. but when I click it, nothing happens. To exit Word, i cannot even "X" out.. I have to either restart my entire computer or use task manager. I checked my other Microsoft programs and the same issue is occurring.

Please help!!

Microsoft Word 2007 - Table of Contents Numbering issue - Numbers go to 2 during Print

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 08:10 AM PST

Hello Everyone! I'm having a hard time figuring out why this is happening. I have a report that the TOC is numbered correctly when I open the doc, but as soon as I try to Print or PDF the page numbers all change to 2. One thing I noticed while comparing this doc to a working doc is that when you go to the Bookmarks, the Go To button is grayed out/disabled on the TOC items. I'm sure this is probably related somehow, but just not sure what could be causing this. I'm not looking for a temp fix like locking the table or CTRL+End then CTRL+ALT+I. Hopefully, one of you have seen this before and point me to the root cause. Let me know if you have any questions. Here are a few screenshots to help get things started. I appreciate your help.



Thanks,
Jeremy

I cannot save - how to work around trust section

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 07:45 AM PST

If I use material from earlier versions of Word I am prevented from saving it to Word 2013.

I am using my earlier documents which I trust and do not need or want protected.

Or how do I do a mass update of my earlier version documents to Word 2013.

Word 2013 macro based run-time error '91'

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 06:19 AM PST

Our publishing house has developed, over the past nine years, a 1,600 line macro set for prepping our Word (03 to 13) documents with house style and as final manuscripts ready for production. These macros have always worked across Word platforms, Op sys, and through the years. After a most recent W 8.1 update (past Friday I believe) one particular macro that searches a specific wdColor has started giving (for the first time) the following error: run-time error '91': Object variable or With block variable not set


Here's the code block:


Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
     Selection.Find.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
     Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
     Selection.Find.Replacement.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic
     With Selection.Find
          .Text = ""
          .Replacement.Text = "^&"
          .Forward = True
          .Wrap = wdFindContinue
          .Format = True
          .MatchCase = False
          .MatchWholeWord = False
          .MatchWildcards = False
          .MatchSoundsLike = False
          .MatchAllWordForms = False
     End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll


The break point is on the first line - Selection.Find.ClearFormatting


We use wdColorBlue as a marker during the edit and proof process for certain types of issues. This macro removes all instances of the color.


This issue has been confirmed on two W 8.1 machines. Both 64 bit. One running Office Pro Plus 2013 installed from our Office 365 premium business account. The second machine is running Office Home Premium 2013.


A windows 7 machine maintained just for such problems, also completely up to date, runs this block of code with no problem.


I found one community post that dealt with this issue for a specific cell search in Excel (also a color search) but nothing that relates to Word 2013. And the correlation between the commands is not readily apparent.


Thanks,


Roscoe James

Operations Manager

Atlantic Bridge

Macro Shortcut Keys Behaving Erratically

Posted: 22 Jan 2014 03:22 AM PST

I use Word 2010 and lately have had intermittent difficulty launching macros I have recorded with their shortcut keys. For example, if I type the shortcut keys ALT + CTRL + J + D to type the name "John Doe," sometimes the third keystroke ("J", here) is not recognized and the macro does not launch (I will see "ALT + CTRL + D" in the lower left-hand corner of the screen on the status bar). It does not happen all the time and does not happen with all of my four-keystroke macros. Any thoughts?

How can I recover the autotext, auto corrects and spell checks from the backed up files of a W7 system with Office 2010 to a new system with Office 2010?

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 08:05 PM PST

My W7 system has died and all I have are the files on a back up system.  I'd like to recover the autotext, auto corrects and spell checks from the backups of the old system and install them on my new W8.1 system.  Both are Office 2010. 

Error: The object is corrupt or is no longer available while openning an embedded file in word 2013 and 2007

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:16 PM PST

Hi Everyone.
Everytime I open an embedded file (PDF, Xls and doc) files that inside a word document, Error : "The object is corrupt or is no loger available" shows up
Some file shows another Error : Microsoft office word can't start the application required to open this object, an error occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly, would you like to repair this feature now? When I click yes to repair this feature, nothing changes.
I tried to uninstall , and reinstall 2007 again, nothing changes
I uninstall 2007 and installed office 2013, nothing changes
disable com Add-in, nothing changes
I search google and some people said that it is a Norton Antivirus Issue, but I do not use Norton Product at all.
Anyone has same problem? Can anyone help me ? I already try everthing.....................
Thank in advance!!!!

Huge gaps in Outline View

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 07:01 PM PST

We produce some long docs consisting entirely of headings and nearly-full-page inline images. These 2 items alternate (heading / image / heading / image / etc.) so the structure is precise and simple. The paragraphs holding the images are in Normal style, and the headings are in Word's built-in Heading 2 style. So, when needed, I can switch to Outline View, see all the headings, and shuffle the order of each 'pair' (heading-and-image), moving it up or down easily with either ALT+SHIFT+Up/DownArrow or the tiny wedge arrows on the Outline tab. The headings display compactly and adjacently, about 15 on a screen.


On my co-worker's PC, with the same versions of Windows and Word, we see a very different display: the screen shows an enormous gap between headings, AND when we try to move one of the pairs as described above, it always fails -- even if we explicitly include the gap in the selection. 


Obviously the gap is the image; but why is it visible on her PC and not on mine (or any other)? It's the same file, not just a similar document. (I created it, and she hasn't edited it.) I don't see anything in the Word Options that would account for this. Oh and enabling or disabling picture placeholders has no effect.


Each inline image is in its own paragraph (that is, it's followed by a paragraph mark). I'm certain they're all inline, not floating. It's a very rigidly constructed document. Any ideas? TIA.


Mark

Locking the rows, columns and cell contents in Word 2010 for a table inside of a .doc or .docx

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:43 PM PST

In Excel, I understand that  you can lock the row and column lines and the contents of cells, but can you do that in MS Word 2010??

 

If you make a table in Excel with these items locked, can you insert your table into Word and retain these locks.

 

It is so easy to put your cursor on one of the those lines and move it just slightly in Word.  It sure would be nice to lock these features. 

 

Right now I am using XP with all the latest updates, but also have Windows 7 on my laptop that I could use. 

File Not Found

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 06:39 PM PST

I have recently saved an essay into my "Documents" folder as a Microsoft Word document. I restart my computer because I noticed I had no wi-fi connection. (I saved the file before restarting).

When it finally restarted, I look in the Documents folder and see that the file I had just saved was not there. I open a blank page of Microsoft Word and click the "recent document" tab on the Office Button. The file is RIGHT THERE. Although, when I try to open it, I get a message saying:

This file could not be found. (C:\Users\B-Boy.Tei-PC.004\...\UCF.docx)

The file is not present AT ALL in my Documents folder even though I had saved it before restarting. 

Is there ANY way I could retrieve it? Please help!

I bought Office 2013 three weeks ago; it isn't working right. Do I really have to pay for Answer Desk support??

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:59 PM PST

In Word, my cursor is blinking/flashing, and is impossible to use.  I tried Microsoft Fix-It for this problem, but it didn't fix it.  I tried to get online support but it says my "warranty may be out of date" and it looks like I will be charged to use Answer Desk.  That doesn't seem right to me.

PDf files

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:02 PM PST

I cannot open any PDf files. When I click on the PDf file in automatically opens in Word 7 which is unreadable. I am running Windows 7 and I have downloaded

and installed Adobe reader 11 and tried reinstalling Adobe reader still no luck. This is very frustrating. What do I do to correct this.

Thanks

unlock documents on word 2003

Posted: 21 Jan 2014 04:01 PM PST

Is there an answer to how to unlock documents on word 2003? I noticed advise given that went nowhere when I tried to implement it.
Does word 2003 lock after a certain amount of use, therefore demanding that one must purchase this product again or is there some trick involved?
I did as instructed (Control+shift+f11) but nothing happens.  I also notice that if I go to view, then outline, the tab opens but I am unable to unlock (it is grayed out). I have a feeling this is just typical a Microsoft "gotcha" so I will need to upgrade and keep Mr. Gates above the 75 Billion mark but I am not yet sure they are playing this game.
Any ideas?
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