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Posted: 17 Feb 2014 03:10 PM PST

I assume this has been asked before but i really need to know how to changed word 2013 from the Us spelling to the Australian version. I am studying Lit at uni and am getting sick of having to change the spelling manually. This was never and issue with the older version i was using.

Microsoft word will not open and keeps coming up with an error message

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 03:05 PM PST

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, the rest of office works like Powerpoint and excel. Every time I go to open word it comes up with an error message, i have tried the offline and online repair options and it says it has repaired the problem but it is still persisting. Any advice? Thanks

Word 2010 keeps changing page size

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 03:02 PM PST

Hello:

I am working on a book with a page size of 5.5 x 8.5 inches.  I had this all formmated correctly and printing off in a pdf of the same size, and had been opening and closing and printing the files in those formats several times a day whilst I was proofing it.

A month later I have come back to do some more edits, and now when I open the file it changes its layout and page size to Letter.

More specifically, it seems to do this a few seconds after I open the file.  I open the file, it looks correct, then a few seconds later the page size changes.  I don't have time to check the page size it opens with before it changes, but it looks right.

Also, when I go to look at the page size in the styles section, it says it is a 5.5 x 8.5, but it is not.  The pdf printer is also set to 5.5 x 8.5, but it also prints as a  Letter sized page.

So, anyway, my file appears to have all the correct formating, but then resets itself to incorrect sizes after opening.

Any suggestions on what may be going on and how to fix it?

Thank you

Roo Davison

Office doc come up with no tool bars

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 02:05 PM PST

I purchased office using the yearly subscription. Worked great until recently. Now all my documents come up as a plain white sheet with no tool bars and a minimum of editing actions. What's wrong? Has a sign in link in top right corner and a ? link which do nothing when clicked.

Remove Upside down T symbol in text box

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 01:45 PM PST

Upon converting a 2007 document to 2010 all of the text boxes have at the end what looks like an upside down T.  I can't delete it like a normal character, and deleting and reinserting a new text box does not solve the problem.  How do I get rid of this symbol? Thanks.

I have both Office starter edition and full version installed on computer, I can't open up word documents now

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 01:17 PM PST

I have had them both installed for quite a while, but it is not letting me open up documents now.  Can I uninstall the Starter version without losing anything, I can no longer find my activation key for the version I purchased (I still have the disk for it)

Word 2007 suddenly can't find a configuration file

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 01:08 PM PST

I have been using Word on this computer without problem for several months.  (I'm running Win7Pro, and Office Home/Student 2007, and have plenty of memory; it's a new computer.)

Yesterday as I logged off an automatic update to something was installed.  Today when I tried to open Word, it tried to configure the program, but couldn't find a file it needed.  After getting into several endless loops, I determined that:  MSOCache\All Users\{90120000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}-H\ was not available either on the CD-ROM drive (H\:) or on my C\: drive (yes, I know the reference at the end must be changed to "-C")

It was apparently looking for a file called ProPlusWW.msi, but that is not on either my C:\ drive or my installation CD.

Obviously this is due to the automatic update, but I have no way of knowing what that update changed.  Excel opened today without problem.

Please help!  I use Word and Excel for my business, and I'm dead in the water!  Thanks......

Captions disappear when links are updated in my Word report

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 12:45 PM PST

Hi!

I am writing a scientific report with lots of tables and figures in it. Most of them are linked to different excel files where they are managed separately. I am continuously updating the excel files as I get new results, so it works great for me this way. BUT, whenever I open Word, it asks if I want to update the links. And sure thing, all the links are updated nicely, just like I want them to be. But all the captions disappear as well, and the cross references in the body text stop working as well.
Is there a way to keep the captions, but only update the actual table/figure?
Or maybe I am just doing it wrong to begin with?

What determines inclusion of items on the Recent document list for Office 2013?

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 11:48 AM PST

Situation:

  • Office 365 Pro Plus (Office 2013) on two separate machines
  • Laptop with Win8 and Surface Pro 2 with Win8.1 (also previously did all the same things with a Surface Pro 1)
  • Same LiveID used for both machines, and all settings are synced

I work constantly in Excel and Word 2013, and I am a heavy user of the "Recent" feature. I use this to both pull up recent documents for continued collaboration and for switching between my devices. For instance, I could be working on a proposal in Word at my desk, and then I can catch the train and pull up that same doc on my Surface Pro 2 by just going to the "Recent" area without having to browse to the document in SharePoint/SkyDrive or without having to email it to myself.. I frequently switch between my docked laptop and my Surface Pro 2, both of which I log in to Win8 with the same LiveID, so this is extremely valuable.

 

Up until recently (some time in January), this worked like a charm and was one of the most excellent collaboration/syncing features of the whole Office/Surface/SkyDrive/O365 ecosystem (for me anyway). I'm not sure what changed, but my Recent list no longer updates itself like it used to. In the past, I would open a file, and it would immediately go to the top of the list (my settings show 25 by default, which works for me). Now, I have a list of random documents that I definitely opened at some point in the past, but there is no known rhyme or reason, and I have opened many documents since the ones in the list. Sometimes a fairly recent doc will pop into the list, but it's no longer happening right when I open a document. I even cleared all unpinned items, and then opened a new doc, but that doc does not show up in the list (nothing does).

 

I haven't been able to find any threads/articles/blogs talking about this. I don't necessarily need to know the algorithm for how it works, but I do need to know why it's NOT working and/or how to make it work like it used to. Just in case, I performed a Simple Repair (didn't change anything) followed by an Online/Full Repair (also didn't change anything). I also just installed the latest O365 Pro Plus update today, but the behavior is still there. I imagine this may have happened after an O365 Pro Plus update in December, but I can't find any evidence.

 

In the end, I'd just like to be able to open a document in any Office product and have that item be added to the top of my "Recent" list just like it always has in the past.

 

Thanks for any help or guidance.

 

***Updated with important info - the problem seems to only be with files being opened from SharePoint. These files no longer show up in the Recent listing, but all others do. I've only tested with SharePoint Online as part of our O365 tenant, but that's what I've been using the whole time. I can't be sure if it won't work with an on-prem version of SharePoint.

  • If I open a new doc right now from SharePoint (O365), it doesn't show up in the Recent list.
  • If I open a doc from my personal OneDrive (SkyDrive) or from a local folder, it does show up in the Recent list.
  • If I open a doc from my Planet OneDrive for Business (SkyDrive Pro), then the file does show up in the Recent list, but it's listed as coming from my sync'd folder on my local machine. It does not show a URL/link back to the SharePoint site where the file originated

Resizing objects in Word document - Office 2010 operating on Windows 8

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 11:45 AM PST

I am working on large PowerPoint documents that I then convert to Word to edit and create training manuals.  When I convert the PowerPoint, the slides become "objects" in Word and the scale defaults to 75%.  I want each slide to show at 100%.  I can right click on the object and then use the "size" tab to change the scale to 100% BUT I don't want to do this for each individual "object."  I've tried to "select all" but this doesn't permit me to scale the objects.  When I may have a minimum of 80 to over 200 objects, I need an "easy" way to do this task.  I'm very "skilled" but am NOT an expert.  If you suggest using a "Macro", I'd NEVER done that before and will need "step by step" help!   I'm hoping there is an "easy" button that someone knows.

 

Thanks,

Margaret

TFF file

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 11:19 AM PST

I opened a tff file this morning and now cannot access Office. Could this be the Zero Day virus?

Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 11:08 AM PST

I created a document in Microsoft Word 2013. Can I convert and save this document to Microsoft Word 2010 format? I need this document in this format for a Computer Applications 2010 class on Simnet.

word 2002 status bar -- changing size

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 10:30 AM PST

Is there anyway to change the size of the font in the status bar in word 2002?  The type is small and I could have sworn I had set it larger, but I've gone through they display settings in control panel and nothing seems to change it, unless I'm missing something there; can't find anything in Word itself either.  I have been searching all over the web for an answer to this, but nothing to be found.  HELP!

Can't Use Alt Codes in Word 2010 on Surface Pro 2?

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 09:34 AM PST

On my Surface Pro 2, hitting the alt key (while in Word) brings up what I believe are called "accelerator" keys on the ribbon up top. Hitting the alt key brings up these overlay functions on the bar, where I could hit "1" to save, "F" to open up the File ribbon, etc.


Problem? I can't use alt codes to key in special characters in my font. Obviously I could use character map, but that is not a solution for my needs.


I don't know if this is an Office 2010 issue, a Windows 8.1 issue, or something special with the Surface Pro 2 settings. Regardless, I cannot find anything that disables this horrible "assist" that my alt key is trying to do, and instead gives me back a good old alt key that's good for entering in alt codes.


Any suggestions at all will be greatly appreciated!

MS Word 2007 is confused by definition of 100% View

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 08:52 AM PST

I notice that MS Word 2007 cannot display documents in "Full Screen" at 100%

Unlike Word 2003 that can perform this fundamental task perfectly

I appears that Word 2007 is confused between "100%" (document view 'as is')  and "Full Page" view (100% of document on screen at one time) - So it switches to "Full Screen" view but reduces the document to "Full Page" instead of 100%

At first I suspect I had not found the correct method
After few attempts I decided it was BUGGED out
Googled this flaw
Wasn't surprised to find MVPs ignoring this fundamental flaw and favoring demeaning the users instead
Just posted this to verify Word 2007 is flawed and it's not users "incompetance!

AHT Arabic font for office Word 2013 in WIN8.1 pro

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 08:15 AM PST

Where can I found AHT Arabic font?


I have file named: "AHTSetup.exe" works well in all previous windows operation systems except WIN8 !!!


Any one can help?


Thanks,

Badr

arial narrow doesn't work in adobe cs6 and office 2013

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 07:26 AM PST

My company recently purchased Office 2013 and Adobe CS6. Problem is Arial narrow and Arial Black. When I had office 2007 and Adobe CS5.5, a fix came out to correct the problem, now it's back again. I have gone through several forums in microsoft and adobe but none pertain to the new versions with Windows 7. Does anyone know a solution? I have tried the version 2.0 of arial narrow from a new computer. Tried Type 3.2 to rename the Family and sub family. Nothing works. Any help would be great, thanks!!

Lorry

Mail Merge Troubleshoot: Why is the Mail Merge Recipient list empty after I've selected my data source?

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 07:12 AM PST

After I've selected my data source from Microsoft Access 2010 which is a query, nothing comes out in my recipient list. When I try it with other queries it worked but only for this particular one nothing comes out I don't understand why. 

unable to import excel file into word via dde to make labels

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 06:35 AM PST

Hello, I'm trying to import an excel file into word to make labels.  I have gone through all the steps and it says that "word cannot re-establish a dde connection to Microsoft excel to complete the current task."


I have gone through all the threads and tried different things (checking and unchecking the "ignore other applications that use dde" as well as trying to import it using "ole database file"



none have worked.  I also tried importing it as a csv file, and as a excel 97-2003 file.



I'm using word/excel 2013 through office 365.


thanks for your help.

Word Template Conversion Issues with Parallels

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 06:28 AM PST

I am setting up templates for a client, but they are unable to open. I am creating them using Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac. She has Microsoft 2007 and is running Windows Parallels on her Macbook Pro. I've sent her both .dotx and .dot files. She can open them on the Mac side but not on the Microsoft side. Her colleague can open it on his PC just fine.

Is there an easy solution that I can use to save out the file so she can open it on her PC side?

Word 2013 not showing all pages?

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 04:52 AM PST

I am in the middle of typing a bunch of lab reports for uni and have had a bit of a set back.


I had written up 5 pages of text/tables and on page 5 I needed to insert an equation (I just wanted the x-bar symbol). So I went to insert equation-accent but the list was blank. I remembered which box inserted a bar so I clicked on that but nothing happened. I pressed undo and tried again. It didn't work. So I closed office, opened up the doc again and it now only has 4 pages. The taskbar at the bottom says there are 5 pages but it only displays 4.

I tried repairing (add/remove programs) but it didn't help.


Is there anyway of getting that page back? There wasn't a massive amount of text but I don't want to go through the pain of writing it again!


Thanks


EDT: I keep my docs on skydrive so I opened it up in the online word viewer and everything is there. I have just tried to copy and paste in the text but my Word 2013 doc will not allow me to see/create a page 5 at all. Ive tried pressing enter and inserting a page break, a massive pic that will force a new page... no page 5.


I am going to start a new doc and paste from skydrive. I am lucky I can get my work back. I feel for anyone that might not be as fortunate.

WinWord and Internet Explorer crashes all the time

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 03:43 AM PST

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: WINWORD.EXE

Application Version: 12.0.6690.5000

Application Timestamp: 52881869

Fault Module Name: StackHash_9b62

Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.18247

Fault Module Timestamp: 521ea91c

Exception Code: c0000374

Exception Offset: 000c3873

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3

Locale ID: 7177

Additional Information 1: 9b62

Additional Information 2: 9b629a32062b462d926d1f1957349f79

Additional Information 3: 78ca

Additional Information 4: 78caf091c87bbeeb2c1de4e5bb9d3798

How to increase 2048 characters URL limit in Office Web Apps?

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 03:41 AM PST

I have a farm with Sharepoint 2013 and Office Web Apps.
All working fine except one thing. I can't open files with multiple subfolders and long names. It says:

Server Error in '/wv' Application.
does not yield a URL that is <= 2048 characters

Exception Details: System.ArgumentException: does not yield a URL that is <= 2048 characters.

Is it possible to increase limit?

I think, i must edit <httpRuntime maxUrlLength...> but don't know in which web.config.

Excel/Word attachments do not open from Windows Live Mail

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 12:57 AM PST

Hi,

I have this frustrating issue for nearly 1 year now. I have change my client mail, I have done everything, problem persists.

Windows 8 (native, no upgrade). Samsung PC. Office 13 (original).

Whenever I receive an email with Excel or Word attachments (.xlsd or .docx), there's NO WAY to open it properly.

- I've tried, open it directly, not first saving and then open. I get the error message (Word cannot open and with absurd suggestions of issues)
- If I first save in a proper folder and then, open via File Explorer - same
- If I first save and then open directly from MS Word - same, it does not work.

Fist time I posted this issue, months ago, they want me to believe the problem is that I was using another mail client (Thunderbird).

So, I got back to Windows live Essentials, using Windows Live Mail (which by the way does not even appear listed as a product here in the Search option).
The problem persists.


I am forced to try to open it with third party software, because MS Word 2013 refuses to open an original MS Word 2013 file.

my feeling is that if I need to pay for a software that in the end makes me use a free third party software, namely Open Office, what am I paying for?

Word 2013 list of Alt + 3 digit codes

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 12:40 AM PST

In Word 2013 I need the list of codes using Alt + 3 digits for foreign letters.  Where can I find it?

Word 2007 suddenly hanging on startup splash screen

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 12:34 AM PST

I'm running Office 2007 on a high-end, Windows 7 SP1 desktop system.  Today, Word abruptly stopped working.  When I run it, it hangs on the startup splash panel and goes no further.  It will not open in "safe" mode either.  I've repeatedly attempted to run it from both the Start Menu (with no doc/docx file reference) and from File Manager; it hangs just the same.  Rebooting has no effect.


My other Office 2007 programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) all start instantaneously and exhibit no problems; only Word is broken.


To see whether it might fix the problem, I kicked off a 'repair' on Office 2007 from Control Panel.  The repair process hung at about 95% complete.  After awhile I canceled it; Windows Update said 'Canceling setup...', but the cancel also hung.


The only thing that's changed from yesterday was a couple of security updates that executed this morning in Windows Update.  These were not specific to Word or Office, so I don't know that they had anything to do with this issue.


I tried moving Normal.dotm to another folder, but no change.  I checked the Word\Startup folder, but it is empty,  I tried running winword \r to evoke the "Register" command, but nothing changed.


Any advise appreciated.

How to cross reference to Appendix in word 2007

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 12:22 AM PST

ok,, I have any problem ..

I have a TOC and in it it has Appendix 1.1 , Appendix 1.2,.......Appendix 3.4 say.

In a para in the word doc, I want to cross reference the word "appendix 3.4" to that of the actual appendix 3.4 table- ie when I control click on the word "appendix 3.4", it will bring me to the actual appendix 3.4 table.   In the cross reference dialogue box , I put reference type = Heading; insert reference type = heading text.. (I tried all combinations - it is this Heading type that will show Appendix 1.1 ... Appendix 3.4.).. It actually worked. But the problem is - it show "Appendix 3.4 Name of appendix" - but I only want "Appendix 3.4".

How do I get rid of the appendix name... Help!!

Thanks
Lydia 

Where are pinned documents stored in Office 2013 ?

Posted: 17 Feb 2014 12:12 AM PST

In Office 2013 it's possible to pin a used document to the top of the list of recently opened documents under OPEN. Where are those pins stored? I frequently lose my pinned items. Is there any connection to the cookies in the browser? Or to any temporary file or folder which I regularly delete with one of my tools?

Peter

Adding a new figure to a large doc

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 11:54 PM PST

HI,

Can someone help please?

I am using word 2007. Have a large document with TOC. I am trying to add a new figure say, figure 7.7 to an existing table of figures - the last entry to this figure table is obviously 7.6. After I cut n paste the pix onto the word doc (at a place where i want it ) - on the pix, I right click to add caption. In the dialogue box that pops up, I add a new label eg:-  Figure 7.7  Test box . Click ok and Figure 7.7 1 came out . How can I get rid of the numbering.

Even if I accept the annoying 1, I then went to the Fig 7.6 in TOC , put cursor under Figure 7.6 and go Reference -> Update table -> and click update entire table. Nothing happens.. fail!!!

Can you tell me where I went wrong.. bottomline.. I am trying to add a new Figure 7.7 to my doc and want to ensure Figure 7.7 appears in the table of figure and  that they are linked.

Please help...

Thanks so much
Lydia

how does Win 8.1 effect word documents produced in Win 7 - same office programme

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 10:53 PM PST

a document I produced using Office 2010 on a Win 7 computer fitted onto 2 pages - when I open in my new computer it takes up 3 and a bit pages.  The document is accessed from our server. 

I've checked the obvious solutions of line and paragraph spaces but to no avail.  Font and point size are the same

it's almost like going back in time to something less attractive.

Error: WINWORD.EXE - Ordinal Not Found 9298 oart.dll

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 09:59 PM PST

Hello:


When clicking on the pinned winword.exe icon located on the taskbar, the following error message is displayed:


WINWORD.EXE - Ordinal Not Found

The ordinal 9298 count not be located in the dynamic link library oart.dll.

OK


However, when right clicking on the W pinned icon and the Pinned and Recent list populates, when selecting a Pinned document MS-Word spawns without incident.


Additionally, when navigating to Start/All Programs/Microsoft Office 2013/Word 2013 executes as expected.


UPDATE:  Since I already typed everything I need to update my question as I just now realized the problem mentioned above is for Microsoft Office Word 2010 and the pinned version of WinWord is the 2010 version.   The error only occurs when attempting to run Microsoft Word v.2010, but 2013 is just fine. 


I suppose all of this is now moot, however does anyone know why MS-Word 2010 is failing with the above error?


Thank you very much.


Eric

What does this button do!?

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:51 PM PST

Hello. I accidentally pressed a button on Microsoft word 2013, and I don't know what it does. Can someone tell me real quick what it's function is? Picture is attached below with arrow pointing to button. It's in the top left corner and on top of the ruler.




Greyed Out Formatting Options - Word 2013

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:29 PM PST

Hi,


I have recently upgraded to Office 365 and am now running 2013 versions of Word, Excel, etc.


When using Word, I like to see all the formatting within the document, however when I went to include the different formatting options in Word 2013, they were greyed out (unavailable).


I have a brand new Surface Pro 2... any suggestions on how I can fix this?


Thanks,


Ray.

Huge display and fonts in Office 2013 interface

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:23 PM PST

How do I change the huge interface in Office 2013?  The toolbars and menus at the top are huge and take up about 1/4 of my screen.  Is there a way to change this? I already have my monitor display turned up all the way to 1920 and the problem only occurs in Office.  I've tried changing themes too but that didn't do anything.  I feel like I'm using a program from the 1980s and not 2013.  Can someone please tell me if there is a way to change it?

OPX file and Word 2010

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 07:15 PM PST

All right, so I downloaded the organizational chart add-in for Office 2010. I created an organizational chart, and it saved as an OPX file type. I submitted it to my Professor, and she e-mailed me, saying she couldn't open it. I tried opening it, and it gives me gibberish. How do I insert this OPX file as an object into Word 2010?

I cannot type some letters on the keyboard!

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 06:49 PM PST

Hi everyone,

Something happened to my computer. While using Microsoft Word or Microsoft excel, I cannot type some letters on the keyboard. For example, when i typed "home", it just turned out "me". I closed the M. word for few second then re-opened it, I could type normally. However, it just worked for about half a hour and then the same error occurred. I  do not know how to fix this. Can anyone help me?

 Thank you.

Why when dragging the mouse over the font and paragraph in the office toolbar does it show a thumbnail preview of a windows xp style window

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 05:46 PM PST

When I opened Microsoft Word 2013 one time and I dragged my mouse by the font on the office toolbar did I see a Windows XP style window. Windows XP isn't even compatible with Office 2013. It should show a Windows 8 style window.

Typing into a template for a doctorate and I can not change the table of contents. How can I override the template and manually do the table of contents?

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 04:22 PM PST

I am trying to correct the table of contents in my doctorate but I can not get the template to work right? How can I override the template and type the table of contents manually. Please help!

I cannot add page numbers on Word 2013

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 03:40 PM PST

more from Office.com, but nothing happens

Hardware SATA RAID -- FC4 installation - Forums Linux

Hardware SATA RAID -- FC4 installation - Forums Linux

Hardware SATA RAID -- FC4 installation

Posted: 19 Nov 2005 08:39 PM PST

Markku Kolkka wrote: 

That's the way I have it for the time being. However, the
machine is a dual-boot with Windows 2000 (which unfortunately,
I *have* to use for certain tasks, about 20 to 30% of the
time), and I want to have RAID in there too.

However, if I go the software RAID way, then Windows 2000
requires the entire disks for itself -- they have to be set
as "Dynamic Disks", which means that the OS creates ONE
partition labeled as NTFS (one partition per drive, spanning
the whole drive), and then it handles everything that happens
inside that partition. As a result, Linux can't use any
space of those drives.

Is there more documentation on that DMRAID that they talk
about in the page you pointed me to? It sounds interesting,
but sounds complicated (well, more than complicated, sounds
like a hack -- perhaps it has to be, given the "hacky"
nature of this technological abortion that they call
"onboard RAID controller"?? :-))

Why can't they simply do something in which you simply
connect two drives to a piece of hardware, and that piece
of hardware is, from every and any conceivable point of
view, seen by the OS as *one* hard drive with twice the
speed and twice the capacity? (that is, for RAID-0)

Thanks!

Carlos
--

GRand Unified Boot misery and Fedora Core 4

Posted: 19 Nov 2005 03:29 AM PST

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:37:54 +0000, imotgm wrote:

 

CORRECTION

You're going to have to provide a vfat (fat32) partition that can be
read and written to by both OSs, to mount, and copy to. Linux does not
write well to ntfs, and could cause corruption, and data loss. The above
line should read;

# mount /dev/sd?? -t vfat /mnt <Enter>

where the ?? is replaced with the shared vfat partition designation.
 

You now have a file named "test.txt" in the root directory of your shared
vfat partition. Shutdown Knoppix, reboot to Windows, and post the contents
of "test.txt" back here. You can open it with "Write" and copy/paste it
into your newsreader.

Sorry about that. I don't personally use ntfs, and was thinking more of
the details of the process, than that little Windows booby trap. My error.
And also thanks to Tauno Voipio, for the tip about using "Write" instead
of "notepad".

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

Bare Restricted Secure Linux Account

Posted: 18 Nov 2005 04:35 PM PST

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:35:45 +0100, boston_code_monkey <com> wrote:
 

Between firefox and mysql you need some kind of http server.
The http server and sql should run in one context, firefox in another.
Think of them as completely separate systems.

Users will be interacting with firefox. FF is not designed to restrict
its users, it is designed to keep the user safe from dangers on the net.

You probably want to disable the address bar and the menu bar in firefox,
I am not sure if you can disable enough to prevent users from entering
their own urls. You must disable the "file:" protocol in the browser.

Restricting what FF can do will be the hardest part. Probably you can run
FF and X in a chroot jail, having all the necessary libraries available.
FF and X must communicate some way, normally they do so through a named
pipe in /tmp. With FF in a chroot jail, it must have access to X.
You can enable tcp in X, and set DISPLAY=localhost:0, then FF and X
do not need to share anything. I guess you can run FF in a jail where
/usr/bin is empty, except for just firefox.

The normal non-restricted linux system runs the desktop from init,
in /etc/inittab, there is a "prefdm" entry, which runs gdm or kdm
or xdm. Remove that and you are taking control. Put a script instead that
runs X, sleeps a second, then starts a simple window manager, and firefox.
When the firefox application terminates, just kill everything. Let
init handle the restart of the application by setting "respawn" in inttab.

In the chain of commands, before starting X, run everything under su -
restricted-user, and chroot if possible.

Also remove the "mingetty" entries in the /etc/inittab. Better, make
your lottery application run under a separate runlevel, eg. runlevel 4.
Remove "4" from the runlevel field of all entries in inittab, and create
new entries for your stuff, that run in level 4. Make 4 the default
runlevel.

Set a password protection on the boot loader.

Make sure the sysreq functions are disabled in the kernel by
echo 0 >/proc/sys...appropriate files.

Security is easier if employees do not use Firefox on the same computer.
Let the secured computer just run the http daemon and mysql,
and let the employees access it through any browser they like on
any PC other than the secured one. If you set up a tight firewall
on the secured PC and follow standard practice with the rest, you
should be OK.

-Enrique

how can I configure a simple default IPv6 route

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 06:29 PM PST

The cenario that i will try to configur is the following:


a::1/64 b::1/64 b::2/64 c::1/64
------ (Host1 )------------------( Host2 )----------------

-All the Hosts has forwarding flag at true (1)
-The interfaces are properly configured. In the host1, i reach
sucessefully a::1, b::1 and b::2.

-For host1 comunicate with c::/64 network, e try to issue the fallowing
command.

[root@Host1]# ip -6 route add a::/64 via b::1
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
[root@Host1]#

what is the problem?? thanks

Centralised authentication.

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 12:14 PM PST

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

Why should he want to join a NT domain?
 
 

The URL doesn't work for me?

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Windows Network connect

Posted: 17 Nov 2005 11:21 AM PST

John Ferrell wrote:
 

Congratulations, John. You have weathered the Peter Breuer Effect and
emerged with your head held high.

running linux inside a small usb device?

Posted: 16 Nov 2005 11:03 AM PST


"Anthony Fremont" <com> wrote in message
news:Fg%ef.21520$texas.rr.com... 
Not as small, but 'interesting' for some applications, is the Netgear
NSLU2 file server box. It has a small Linux implementation (SnapGear), a
100base-T network connection, and two USB-2 master ports. About the size
of a cigarette packet, and cheap. 8MB of flash memory, and 32MB of RAM.
Even an RTC!. Source for the Linux, is included on the CD.
For certain USB master applications, it has to be a really economical way
of going!... :-)

Best Wishes

Installing Linux on Windows XP

Posted: 15 Nov 2005 07:52 AM PST


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

Hanu, you may as well ask US mercenaries not to commit war crimes. Ain't
gonna happen.

Help: Replacing my Windows partition with Linux in a dual boot machine.

Posted: 14 Nov 2005 01:47 PM PST

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:47:23 +0000, Marie-France wrote:
 

This is very easy. For details on the installation itself, go here;

http://www.opensuse.org/Documentation

and download the "Novell SUSE Linux 10.0 Start-Up" pdf file. the first
part will guide you, step by step, through the installation, complete with
screen shots.

If you want to be sure that you can see your SUSE installation from Red
Hat, check first to be sure your Red Hat kernel can read reiserfs. If it
can't, or you're unsure, when you format /hda1 during the SUSE
installation, use ext3 instead of reiserfs. All my SUSEs have been on
ext3, except 8.0. One of my other Linux installs could'nt mount it, so I
copied it off to another partition, reformatted to ext3, and then
copied it back.

When I say "One of my other Linux installs", I have seven on this machine
right now, and have had twelve at a time over the years, so this is from
experience, and I've installed grub to the MBR exactly once, with SuSE
7.2, and its survived to boot every Linux, and up to five Windows
installations, since. Still there, never gave a hiccup. See below.
 

You can definitely share the swap partition, but for a test installation,
I wouldn't bother with a separate /tmp partition to begin with. If you
need the extra space later, you can add a line in fstab to mount
your redhat /tmp partition to SUSE's /tmp. It should work.
 

Easiest way is to choose to install SUSE's grub to a floppy. This will
give you a way to boot back to SUSE, mount Red Hat's / on /mnt/RH, or
whatever you want to call the mount point, and copy/paste the SUSE stanzas
from /boot/grub/menu.lst to /mnt/RH/boot/grub/menu.conf, in either KDE or
Gnome. The stanzas will, by default, be named Linux, so rename them SUSE,
and the Red Hat stanzas also, as you want them to appear in grub's startup
menu. Erase the Windows stanza. Save menu.conf. At this point you can
remove the floppy, reboot, and you should see, and be able to boot to,
either one. Your present Red Hat grub, in the MBR, will be alive, well,
and untouched. Keep the floppy for emergency use, to boot directly to
SUSE, if the MBR ever gets corrupt.

You're done. I did say it was easy. ;-D
 

You're welcome.

--
imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
month or two, but never lost."

How do you account for asset costs in Project? Microsoft Project

How do you account for asset costs in Project? Microsoft Project

How do you account for asset costs in Project?

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 08:43 PM PST

Steve:
Thanks for your advice and insight. As you can tell, I'm new to Project.
Do you have a reccomendation for accounting for these asset / facility
costs? I could actually do most of the Project functions on Excel which
would of course do the asset accounting, too.

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Affect on SPI?

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 11:39 AM PST

Steve,

While I agree with your response, it did not answer my question.

The question is, if a task is marked complete, then more work is added to
the actuals later on, does this affect the SPI.

Regardless of if this should be done, I am asking if the SPI is affected.

Thanks,

Joe

"Steve House [MVP]" wrote:
 

Predecessors & Successors

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 09:50 AM PST

The concept of linking the tasks is primarily of use in Critical Path
Method scheduling. While too involved to go into detail here, it
basically helps you to know what tasks are more important (critical)
time wise, the ones that if they slip in time will result in delaying
the end of your project.
Without linking, you'd be doing what is called event driven scheduling,
creating a list of tasks and checking them off as you to them. This
works fine if you're the only one working on the project, or everyone
knows their part and it's relationship to every one elses. Which is
very rarely the case, even with relatively small projects. Just start
asking for the information you need to create the links, and you'll
find out how "out of sync" or "in sync" people really are.
An analogy might be if you had a car with a stick shift. If you didn't
know what the shift lever was for, you could drive around in first all
the time, and pretty much get where you needed to go. But not very
efficiently time-wise or fuel-wise. And you'd be in big trouble if you
parked face in to a brick wall and didn't know how to use reverse!
So if you don't set up dependencies, you end up with a nice list of
tasks with no meaningful end date. My experience is that as the tasks
slip, and in this envrionment, they usually do, we tell ourselves,
"It's ok, we'll make it up on the next task". And seldom do. Then just
as the project is supposed to finish, it comes as a big surprise that
it's going to be late. Go figure!
Some years ago, when a client company's VP was telling me what he
wanted from me as a consultant, he said he wanted to know why he had so
many "100 day projects that were 100 day projects until day 99". In
other words, to achive disciplined results, you need disciplined
procedures.
I suggest you try it without the links and see how useful it is. Then
try it with the links on a few projects. This will take some effort the
first few times. But my guess is, you'll be amazed at what can happen
if you get the thing out of first gear!
Best of luck.

How do I show the date a task's baseline was set in Project?

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 09:09 AM PST

Thanks,

Unfortunately, as dates slip, WHEN a task was baselined can be controversial
in my organization so manually inputting a date takes away from the integrity
of the plan + NOW it would be nice to know when all those other tasks were
baselined. I will use your solution for future baselines unless I get a
better idea.

Take care-----------john



"Project Slave" wrote:
 

Saving reports generated in Project

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 08:09 AM PST

YES!!! I'd love to dump the report into Excel. It's in an spreadsheet format
and should dump easily. How do I do that?

"RogerBE" wrote:
 

NonWorking time for a resource affecting standard calendar

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 05:25 AM PST

Hi,

Confirming what Julie said: never seen this.

Vacation tasks a stupidity? I wrote an article recommending them, it's on my
Website, and Micrososft published it in the latest Office Newsletter...

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
"need new ideas" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:com... 
sets 
only 
name 

Customising Task Fields

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 03:07 AM PST

Hi

i'm not getting that on your file - i open your file and if i set all your
tasks to 100% completed i get indicators and text without changing anything
else!?!

Cheers
JulieD

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

Notes not displayed completely & Text Styles not getting saved

Posted: 16 Mar 2005 02:53 AM PST

Hi Sumit,

Unfortunately I know as good as nothing about Server.
Why not try the Server newsgroup on
microsoft.public.project.server
HTH

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
"Sumit" <microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:com... 
styles 
CR. 
was 
for a 
first 
if 

force specific period ending dates in resource usage

Posted: 15 Mar 2005 01:53 PM PST

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


DWeb,
You're welcome. I glad I could be of assistance.

John

Sorting "Who Does What" Report by Start Date

Posted: 15 Mar 2005 12:11 PM PST

In article <com>,
Joseph G. <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

Joseph,
You're welcome. We are here to help and sometimes our experience can
make this go a little faster.

John

Microsoft Word - Can't open Word 2013 after installing Windows 8.1

Microsoft Word - Can't open Word 2013 after installing Windows 8.1

Can't open Word 2013 after installing Windows 8.1

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 03:06 PM PST

I can't open Word 2013 after installing Windows 8.1.

Using "SEQ" fields

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 02:31 PM PST

I am starting to use SEQ to iterate "exhibits" attached to a document.

I know how to create the SEQ field itself (essentially, "Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, PreserveFormatting:=False,         Selection.typetext text:="seq exhibit"") but how do I:

1.  Give the exhibit a descriptive name for future reference?

2.  Refer to the number (or description) of an existing "exhibit" (e.g., see Exhibit 14)."?

3.  Is there a way to create an Index (or other list) to all of the Exhibits?

RE: "Cut & Paste" Do I need a new mouse?

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 02:14 PM PST

I have a six month old Dell Desktop, I660S-1540BK. I've recently noticed a problem.
When I attempt to cut & paste, or copy & paste, or delete a word, or a sentence, or a paragraph, using the Dell mouse which came with the desktop,
I will move cursor to the beginning of the text in question,
I will "left click and drag", (thus highlighting the text in question), upon "releasing" the "drag", the text will NOT stay highlighted for me to delete, (or cut or paste).
The highlighted text will "loose" its highlight once I've completed the "drag", and released the "click".
Does this mean that a new mouse is in order?

How to specify "don't change the language setting" in a child style in Word

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:04 PM PST

I am generating a document that could be used in multiple languages, and I'm assuming the language setting will be defined in the Normal style or by some parent style. But to produce the document, I'm obviously working in one language.

Several of my child styles got (somehow) defined with the language setting that is different. Let's say they're "French (Canada)" instead of "English (US)" (which is what the Normal's style is set to). I want to specify in the child style the equivalent of Use the language from the parent style, in other words, "don't change the language setting" in the child style.

I can't find a way to "remove" the setting for French in my child style. 

To reiterate for clarity: I just want it to inherit the style from the parent style. So, tomorrow, if someone defines Normal's language to be Portuguese, my child style will just use that one (since it's based on Normal).

MS Word 2010 - How to get the sentences to format correctly

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 11:30 AM PST

Hello,

 

Can someone tell me how to get the sentences formated correctly. I copied and pasted from notepad to word and it's splitting the sentences and not using the margin space on the word document. I can place the cursor at the beginning of each line and press backspace and space again to fix it, but that will take forever to do. please see the attached imige.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Jose

Word 2013

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 11:06 AM PST

I have recently bought an Acer Aspire laptop, and am using the preinstalled office package. I think its Office 365, something like that. I assume it is probably a 30 day trial. What do I do to make it permanent? Do I need to purchase an activation key?  The sales asistant showed me some thing when I was buying the laptop. Sorry but on my old PC I just installed the office disk. 

Thanks.

Tablet PC and Word 2013: possible to customize favorite pens (thickness)?

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 09:26 AM PST

Hello. I am using Word 2013 to make ink corrections on student papers and none of the built-in pens has the thickness I want. I've tried to customize the pens by choosing a thickness, but I can't save these customized these pens among the built-in pens. Does anyone if this is possible? Thank you,

Tablet PC: change right scrollbar to left side for lefties

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:47 AM PST

Hello. I am left-handed and find using my Tablet PC's digital pen in Word 2013 quite awkward because the scroll bar is on the right side of the screen. Is there a way to change the scroll bar to the left side of the screen? Thanks

Word 2007 Crashes

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 08:00 AM PST

My wife's PC runs Win 7 64 bit with Office 2007.  

She has 2 files (which are basically the only files she usually regularly.  These files are each around 750 to 1000 pages and have many pictures in them which were pasted into them.  These files were originally created in Word 2003 but are now on Word 2007.  When she is using either file Word 2007 eventually crashes.  It may  not crash immediately upon use (usually does not) but it will almost always crash if she is continually uses it for an hour.

I did a Office repair from "Program and Features" which did not help.  I then did an uninstall and reinstall but that also did not fix the problem (might have made it less frequent).  

After the reinstall I noticed that when I called up Word 2007 it still knew the "previous files used" so obviously the uninstall did not delete all settings.

Please help me with suggestions on how to fix the problem with crashes.

Office 2013 programs close when you close the last file

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 07:35 AM PST

When I close the last open file in Word, Excel and other Office 2013 programs, the program closes down. There used to be a way to prevent this in Word 2007 by checking some box in Options. Is there any workaround in Office 2013?

Thanks in advance.

 

***Moved to *Office Topic: Microsoft Office Word* from *Microsoft Office Access* the database product

How to stop word 2013 from auto-removing bold after I put in a hyphen in a list

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 06:57 AM PST

Hello,

When I type lists, I bold the main point of a list item and then put a hyphen and then write a more detailed explanation for that list item.

the problem is that when I write the main point in bold and then hyphen and begin to write the explanation then word 2013 removes the bold automatically.

I don't like this as sometimes I want the entire explanation also to be in bold.

 

How to remove this behavior?

 

 thank you!

Margin changes affecting columns

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 06:36 AM PST

I have a question about this (MS Word 2003).

I currently have a document in which there are double columns on a few pages.
I want to print and bind this document, so I have gone into 'Page setup', mirrored the margins and then brought in the 'outside' margin slightly while leaving the 'inside' margin as it was in default.

However, when I do this, it destroys the columns I have. Instead of having two columns, side by side, of information, the whole document gets warped so that each line of text that was originally part of a column suddenly gets a badly-formatted page of its own.

Is it possible to change my mirrored margins (only slightly) while maintaining the integrity of the columns?

'Connecting to Printer' delay in Office 2010

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 03:32 AM PST

When I print from Office 2010 applications (in Windows 7) the print dialog shows my default (and only) printer with the message 'connecting to printer' which takes up to about 10 seconds to resolve to 'ready'.  If I click on 'printer properties' another pregnant pause ensues before the print drivers own dialog box opens and, having adjusted properties, it can then take up to another 10 seconds before the print button responds to the click to print.  It only happens with Office - everything else gets on with the job at a proper pace.

I have searched for various answers to this.  So lets lay a few to rest right here.
  • Unchecking the 'print in background' option makes no difference at all.  My PC has a Core i5 2.5 GHz processor with 6Gb of RAM so there is plenty of power and resource available.  What's more if I click on 'printer properties' again (just to see how it performs) there is another equally long pregnant pause.  Had the first delay been due to loading the print drivers dialog it would now be resident in memory so not subject to those delays next time round.

  • Updating the print driver makes no difference at all.  I would have been very suprised if it had as all other applications like Adobe Acrobat Reader, Firefox, Thunderbird and so on do not exhibit these delays - they are peculiar to MS Office.

  • Using REGEDIT to delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Data also makes no difference at all.

  • I have not reinstalled fonts - finding it hard to believe that other applications can work successfully with the same mainstream fonts like Calibri that Office might allegedly find 'broken'.
My conclusion so far is that it has to be something in the Office 2010 suite itself otherwise how come other applications perform as expected.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Al

Fillable Form Using Developer

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 03:28 AM PST

I created a form utilizing developer (Macro Enabled Word Document Format).  However, when I select restrict editing, under Editing Forms and opt Filling in Forms, allowing only this type of editing, it will not allow me to type in the Rich Text area and select a date under Date Picker.  However, it will only allow me to type under Quick Parts.  It seems I have to use comment and select the areas I want to allow for editing in order for it to work.  What is the point of utilizing the fillable form option if it will not allow me to use the protection mode? - Please explain.   And, let me know what the difference between comments and fillable form are, as well as, how I would create a fillable form that will perform under a protection mode.

How to create an own Text Box style ?

Posted: 16 Feb 2014 12:37 AM PST

How can I permanently modify the style of the built-in Simple Text Box in my standard word template, e.g. with different background color or margins? Or is it possible to define an own Text Box style which will appear in the Insert - Text Box selection ?

Many thanks for your ideas.

Peter

Word program problem

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 09:23 PM PST

When I go to change the width or height of a column in word the measurement come up as inches. How do I change it so that it will come up in centermetres??

word 2010 themes

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 07:36 PM PST

I have microsoft word 2013 and I need the themes from word 2010, any help? I am looking for austin theme..

Microsoft Office won't open

Posted: 15 Feb 2014 06:18 PM PST

Whenever I click on documents to be opened or even just to open word on its own it says something went wrong unable to open.  How do I get my word/excel/powerpoint all to work again?

Unable to work with Office 2013 applications.

Posted: 14 Feb 2014 10:29 PM PST

Original Title <Don't know what to do >

 

Before I reset my computer it had all the Microsoft office and when it turned back on they were all gone. When I got it they opened without asking fora password, but now its asking me for a password. I really don't know what it wants. I don't have the box anymore and it keeps saying I need a card.
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