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New Office (2007) menus -- can we change them back to exactly CLASSIC menus? - Microsoft Office forums

New Office (2007) menus -- can we change them back to exactly CLASSIC menus?

Posted: 05 Feb 2007 11:41 AM PST

There are a lot of things wrong with the menus & toolbars UI for Office.
If you are interested in reading the background on the Ribbon UI, see
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/09/58. It's an index to the blog posts
of the PM in charge of the Ribbon UI. His blog gives a lot of the
background of the Ribbon and talks a lot about its design. It makes for
quite some interesting reading.
 
All the keyboard shortcuts from 2003 (including the menu shortcuts)
should work without a problem. They are not displayed, but they lead to
the same functionality.
 
Back in beta 1, the Office apps were crashing all the time. It's quite
hard to learn a new UI when you have a crash every few minutes then file
a bug for it, etc.
 
Read the reasoning behind the Ribbon UI. In short, MS designed a new UI
because they didn't know anymore how to put all the new 2007 features in
a reasonable way into the old one.
BTW, you can create a resemblance of the old UI on the Ribbon. You'd
have to use RibbonX for it (the new customization model), it will take
quite a bit to do it and it won't look exactly like 2003, but it can be
done.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Office 2003 - starting from scratch

Posted: 04 Feb 2007 10:23 AM PST

If you have some sort of proof that you own a retail (not OEM) license of
Office 2003, you can call Microsoft for a new product key. You will need the
CDs tho.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823570

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




"MAEO" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How to uninstall Microsoft Office Activation Assistant (2007)?

Posted: 03 Feb 2007 09:19 AM PST

Thanks for replying... I can't understand how non-technical people deal with
all this. For example the pre-installed trial version of Symantec Security
Suite is exactly like the mob; when I tried to uninstall it, it told me I
shouln't, I should pay up, when I insisted it told me it wouldn't protect me,
I'd be unsafe, and suggested I not use the internet at all if I continue.
Vista is supposed to be the most secure Windows, yet I have this preinstalled
bully making me feel like it's going to punish me if I don't pay up. Heck
maybe it has, by making my system unstable? I wouldn't be surprised.

The other crazy thing is that the manufacturer not only loaded up tons of,
obviously paid for, third party software but also it's own crapware that is
eating up gobs of RAM, slowing everything down and making Vista completly
unreliable (although I can't tell if it's Vista, third party/OEM software or
drivers). I'm giving up... I'd have to spend many more days trying to
cleanup manually all that was pre-loaded, messing with the registry, startup,
cleaning system files. Since I already paid for Vista Premium with my new
notebook, I'm going to try and track down a full copy of Vista Premium retail
so I can borrow it, make a copy, and install it on the reformatted HD using
the key that was supplied with my notebook... I hope that works! If not, I'm
returning it... this whole experience has really left a bad taste in my mouth.

However, I'll point out that Microsoft continues to write bad software,
including the Office team that installs by integrating itself into the OS,
droping files all over the system and leaving 1001 entries in the registry
(it should install itself in it's own discreet directory and stay there, and
uninstall clean); and writing programs like the Activation Assitant that will
not uninstall itself... it's a sad state of affairs.

"CASellars" wrote:
 

Registry Cleaner? - after Trial version, before retail box 2007 of

Posted: 03 Feb 2007 07:53 AM PST

After reading the warning, I didn't run it, just uninstalled the trial
version, and installed the box version. I had no problems.
--
J. Raines


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
 

Office 2007 beta uninstall

Posted: 03 Feb 2007 02:28 AM PST

There isn't a tool for uninstalling the Office 2007 betas as there were a number of them going on (including the sister product, MS
Expression web) at the same time and there is a large number of possible combinations that could be in play.

When the beta isn't removed through normal procedures, add-remove programs, it's often because the installation was already broken.
If you review the Knowledge Base articles for steps to remove a broken 'regular' Office installation manually they're not far
different. Broken installations come from adding other software or add-ins over time or using utilities such as computer 'speedup'
or 'registry cleaner' ones that are 'helping'.

There is a risk to relying on time limited beta software, although it is easy to get used to using it and forgetting it's 'test
software'.

For many people the basic steps in the MSKB article, removing all prior betas and related add-ins, from Add/Remove Programs in the
Windows control panel, do work to have a clean environment to install the release version of MS Office 2007. It is the quality of
operation that is one of the prime reasons for starting clean with release software rather than focusing on 'upgrading' a beta/test
software.

=================
<<"ilv-m" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
Since this is the Office installation topic, would you kindly post the answer
here? This is not a 'misc' type of issue, but a show-stopper for us too.
We're glad to see that so many others want this Office 2007 installer defect
fixed so that hopefully Microsoft will either do that, or provide an
automated clean-up tool to deal with the problem.

The extremely time-consuming manual steps described in the KB's about this
problem are ridiculous. The people with the info to write the steps into a KB
should have incorporated the clean-up in the Office 2007 RTM installer, or
provided an Office 2007 beta wipe-down tool to make sure that Microsoft's
best and brightest customers are not angered by this kind of sloppiness.
Business is being lost as we and our customers wait for a reasonable
solution. The competition for a botched Office 2007 release is to do nothing
but stand on Office 2003.

If we were flying in Microsoft-designed aircraft, with such poor quality control, we would probably all be dead. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Will Retail box product key activate trial version of Office 2007

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 06:50 PM PST

Milly -

The more I read your responses, the more I respect you. I've seen others
telling people they don't need to dump the trial. I recommend they do and
was beginning to feel like I was singing a solo. Thank you for making the
"Uninstall the trial first" song a duet. :-)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
<org> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl...
Uninstalling the trial version will remove any leftover vestiges of the
timebomb. Always uninstall the trial (user data is never touched or
removed) and install the retail version you purchased.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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

After furious head scratching, hisplaceresort asked:

| I downloaded Office 2007 Professional awhile back. My trial is about
| to expire, and I just bought the retail box version upgrade.
|
| I have just gotten everything like I want it... settings, email
| accounts in Outlook, autocorrect entries in my normal.dotx and
| normalemail.dotx, etc.
|
| I REALLY do not want to have to uninstall the trial and reinstall
| from the box.
|
| Can I just use the box product key to activate this trial version???
|
| I noticed that uninstall was suggested to another person who had a
| student version, but...
|
| Someone please tell me yes... :-)

Vista Business and Office 2003 compatibility

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 02:55 PM PST

Thanks for the follow up Garrett. Funny your accepting EULA in safe mode
worked and accepting it normally didin't.

CH


"Garrett" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Rebooting Office Issues

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 02:12 PM PST

I'm not sure what a win update is but I bougt a cable to connect a phone to
my computer and it wasn't supported by Nokia. I have rebooted and reinstalled
Office now and everything is fixed and fine!! Thanks heaps.

"DL" wrote:
 

Outlook did not install with the Standard Office suite 2007.

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 02:00 PM PST

That should be answered by someone with more knowledge than me.... but:

I do know that all your Outlook stuff is kept in a file that ends with a
..PST designation. So if you do a search (*.PST) you should find it. It's
probably called outlook.pst but do a wildcard search incase it's something
else. It will be PST though.

That contains everything: e-mails, contacts, folders etc. It'll probably be
quite large (mine is 194 megs!)

Save a copy of it somewhere before you delete your stuff, as well as a note
of what folder it was in, because chances are that it will be in the same
folder in the new installation. You would then only have to copy that file
back into the new folder.

C.


"Tirado" <com> wrote in message
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Unable to remove beta version of Office 2007

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 09:07 AM PST

There were hundreds of thousands of people who used the Beta. A backup is
always helpful before you install something onto an OS like Beta office.
That MSKB will get the Beta out. Backup the reg keys by exporting each one,
than when you have Beta Office out and Office 2007 if that's what you want
to install in, restore the 4th reg subkey in the MSKB as I've said by
clicking on the reg export and your Add/Remove will be back to normal.

CH

"ukguy" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Installation Stalls out

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 07:00 AM PST

I received this for my new laptop through my office's home use program. I
purchased the license for about $20. All I need is to be able to create, read
and edit word, excel, and power point documents, so I saw no need to pay out
the extra cash for the more up to date software.

In anticipation of further questions, my system does meet the minimum
requirements, but has a tendency to have this same problem with standard
updates, downloads and installations (Java plug ins, Windows Updates,
Security Updates, Norton/Symantec Updates, Adobe Acrobat Reader), so I think
the problem has more to do with my configuration than faulty software and
disks.

2007 Spell Check Not working

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 06:17 AM PST

I just did. If I log out and log in as any other user the spell check works
fine. It's only when I'm logged in as myself that there is a problem. I was
logged in as myself when I installed the software.

"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eMV$phx.gbl... 

Failed to uninstall Office professional 2007 Beta

Posted: 02 Feb 2007 01:46 AM PST

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218/en-us

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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

After furious head scratching, Jeremy Cox asked:

| I cannot remove remnants of the Office 2007 Beta
| when I go to add/remove programs - the Office 2007 items are all
| 'MUI' files and have no change/remove button next to them.
|
| In my furstration I am going to get a full Officce 2007 professional
| set - but when I come to install it, will these MUI files prevent me
| from installing?
|
| I tried downloading the trial version but got an error message as it
| said first i had to uninstall the beta version.
|
| Any thoughts?

Do I need to save all my documents befor installing Office Pro 200

Posted: 01 Feb 2007 09:30 PM PST

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the informatio. That has been a great help. I appreciate your
taking the time to answer my neopohyte questions.

Thanks again,
MG
--
Pax et Bonum


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Office 2007 deployment on Terminal Server 2003 R2

Posted: 01 Feb 2007 04:03 PM PST

Thanks, but that page is the root of the resource kit documentation which
I've already been through and which leads to the TBD link I referenced.
Still no info specifically about Terminal Server deployment.

Karim

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
 

Office 2007 Add-Remove Features Broken

Posted: 01 Feb 2007 11:41 AM PST

Solved. I simply went through the appropriate .Msi modules in my folder,
Right Clicked each one and took "Repair". Once that was done, the add
remove features came back on line.

"R. McCarty" <com> wrote in message news:... 

Office 2000 problems after hard drive upgrade...

Posted: 01 Feb 2007 09:41 AM PST

Thanks for the advice, everyone. I'll post back after I've completed the
operation. Hopefully, I'll have good news to report.


"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" <com> wrote in message
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Moving Office 2003 to another PC

Posted: 01 Feb 2007 09:24 AM PST

I will give it a shot. Thanks

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
 

less strain for my eyesight ... How can I do this with a normal theme?

Posted: 01 Feb 2007 08:14 AM PST

> That's why I said VGA mode. You'll need to run with 640x480, or use Vista 

Nah.....that is not correct.. you can have 256 at any resolution on XP. I
must say that you indeed were right!
With 256 colors the Office 2007 interface reverts to a classic like
appearance.

For those who are reading this thread and want to do the same, you can
download QuickRes plus from greenparrots (free edition) that lets you go to
256 colors on XP

download here>>> ttp://www.greenparrots.com/aqr.html
SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM TO FIND THE 100% FREE EDITION!

When you install and run it, an icon appears in the tray, right click it and
select the color/resolution combination you want

-K


"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <mvps.org> wrote in message
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Reinstalling Office 2003

Posted: 31 Jan 2007 05:07 PM PST

How to order a replacement CD for Microsoft Office
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302822

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375




"RickT" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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how to install scanner

Posted: 31 Jan 2007 10:20 AM PST

This newsgroup is for questions about Microsoft Office, so your question
is completely off-topic here, but see
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?product=57854&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en& lang=en&cc=us
..

kicosmestiza wrote:
 

Unsupported install paths

Posted: 31 Jan 2007 05:42 AM PST


HI Bob, thanks for your reply

I am using "\\server\share\Office12\setup.exe /config
\\server\share\Office12\Enterprice.WW\Config.xml

and the only thing I have done is to create the .msp in
\\server\share\Office12\updates and \\server\share is definetly on a non
removeable disk.


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 

Inplace "upgrade" or migration from WinXP to Ubuntu 6.06 - Forums Linux

Inplace "upgrade" or migration from WinXP to Ubuntu 6.06 - Forums Linux

Inplace "upgrade" or migration from WinXP to Ubuntu 6.06

Posted: 21 Jul 2006 08:15 AM PDT

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:15:03 -0700, SpankyTClown wrote:
 
<snip> 

I don't agree. Incremental backups can save you a lot of work. _Your_ data
is what is most important to _you_. You can always reinstall the OS if
necessary, but you can't recreate your "birthday party pictures." Your
excuse about it "being hard" may land you in hot water if something goes
wrong with your install (or with your hardware- hard disks are known to
fail, you know). You should assess what you have on backup, and what you
need to make that set complete. Otherwise, be prepared to "kiss it
goodbye."
 

Note: comment inline.

You seem to know what you are doing, but I won't be the one to guarantee
that nothing will go wrong with your install. Shit happens. Humans make
mistakes. I'd backup I were you.

--
http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/error.wav

eth0 not activating at startup | RHEL 4

Posted: 21 Jul 2006 07:45 AM PDT

 

Neither - server NIC built right into the mobo (Tyan). I think I've
figured it out - will try to supply summary at some later date.

vsftpd chroot for users

Posted: 21 Jul 2006 07:09 AM PDT

Michael Heiming <michael+heiming.de> writes:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yup or if those users need to have regular accounts as well, give them an
ftp account different from the usual one.

 
 

Cannot connect to the internet

Posted: 20 Jul 2006 12:57 AM PDT

"kaari" <com> writes: 

Run pppconfig as root and follow the instructions. Then use 'pon' to start
the connection and 'poff' to stop it. If you need a pointy-clicky
interface install gpppon.

You should have been given an opportunity to run pppconfig during the
installation.
--
John Hasler
gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

Fedora 5 What is Beagle?

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 10:10 PM PDT

Keith wrote: 

Hit up Google, I just put in "Fedora core 5 beagle" and got a few hits
on what it is. From what I gathered, it looks like it's some sort of
desktop search tool.
 

cheers,

Anthony

Modem Problem with Suse Version 10.1

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 07:54 PM PDT

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:38:05 -0500, Clois Beckwith wrote:
<CUT> 
<snip> 
<snip> 
<PASTE> 
Please don't top post. I have moved your response to follow the format
adopted by this newsgroup.

I noticed after I posted that you are using a Intel-537EP. There is a
separate source/driver for that chipset. My links refer to Intel-536EP,
and that is the wrong driver. It appears version 2.7.95.0 is the latest
driver for the 537EP:

(split url, again:)
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/T8Clearance.aspx?
url=/9284/eng/Intel-537EP-2.70.95.0-suse9.3.tgz&agr=Y&ProductID=1230&DwnldID=9284&lang =eng

You said you have tried two versions of Suse. I see that Intel
supports Suse version 9.3 directly with a binary driver. Suse 9.3 is a
little old, though. The source is the best way, but you'll need to be
able to follow their instructions carefully.

--
Douglas Mayne

Where is mozilla installed?

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 07:16 PM PDT

"linz lovez" <com> writes:
 
 
 

I would copy all four of those files into
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox*/plugins

Test of Posting to Newsgroup

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 06:02 PM PDT

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:59:38 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"
<com> Gave us:
 

Were you in the movie "Blazing Saddles" and do people ask you that
all the time?

gdm login screensaver

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 01:33 PM PDT

On 2006-07-20, chuckcar <car> wrote:
 
 

Just because nobody's using the console doesn't necessarily mean
nobody's using the computer... :-)

--

John (dhs.org)

problems mounting external drive

Posted: 19 Jul 2006 09:54 AM PDT


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



Your drive needs to be repartitioned and formatted to something other than
what it is (MAC OS?)

Debian installer does not recognise ataraid array

Posted: 18 Jul 2006 03:14 AM PDT

magnate <demon.co.uk> wrote:
 

[snip details of your plan to try again using the Debian d-i installer's
"bf2.6" installation flavour]

Chris, I read your post last night, and at the time was very impressed
with your thorough approach to both the testing process and recounting
of same on this newsgroup. Like Michael Heiming, who kindly posted the
link to my Linux on SATA page, I have little practical experience with
fakeraid controllers -- and just about everything I know on the subject
is already on the aforementioned page.
 

I've not yet found one, and I've really looked extensively (though not
lately). In addition to the dmraid resources linked from my SATA page,
please see if the udev-related entries on
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Kernel are any use to you -- since hotplug,
udev, sysfs, and the devicemapper all work closely in 2.6.

Anyway, my understanding is that the ataraid software layer is
2.4-specific, and dmraid _is_ ataraid for 2.6. (You may have meant
simply "Linux parsing of ATA fakeraid disk semantics", in which case
no criticism intended, and I'm just being careful to disambiguate.)
 

Correct.
 

My impression is that you're not missing anything, except the extremely
high likelihood that the current Debian installer ("d-i") doesn't have
dmraid support in the installation kernel. Now, what you _could_ do is
to install some other leading-edge distribution, e.g., FC5, and then do
a chroot installation of Debian, using the other distro's infrastructure
support for dmraid to accomplish the job. You'd then compile a
dmraid-supporting kernel inside the chroot jail before rebooting.

(See: "Installers" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Debian on how to do
chroot installs. It's actually pretty easy, and interesting to do.)

See also:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2005-July/msg00014.html

The existence of this "udeb" package suggests that my suspicion about
d-i is correct: Such packages are useful in constructing custom
installer images. (There are lots of such custom installer images
catalogued on the aforementioned "Installers" page; might be one with
dmraid support.)
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/debian-installer/dmraid-udeb

That package should not be confused with userspace package "dmraid",
which is the glue to control fakeraid operations via devicemapper:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/dmraid

Good luck.

--
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Rick Moen Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of
rick@linux Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and
mafia.com Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that. -- Bill Hammel

PC Problem on boot up

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 08:16 PM PDT


***** charles wrote: 


I never meant to suggest that the OS is the cause, it was just
something that had changed.

I looked at the capacitors and some do seem to be swelled at the top.
I do not think it is the power supply though, I might swap it out just
to see.

I know that it would be easier to replace the computer, but it is just
my fooling around computer that I was using to run linux. I do not
really need to replace it, but I would like to have another working
computer here. I might try replacing some of the capacitors to see if
that works. If it does not, then I might just keep the case and
rebuild it.

There was mention of putting in a installer disc, but the problem
happens exactly the same when I try to boot with one of those discs.
I fear it is a motherboard problem and I will have to replace it. Suck.

debian setup PCI devices

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 06:11 PM PDT


iforone wrote: 

whoops -- perhaps 'wlan0' (rather than ath0)??

This appears to be Debian specific;
www.sown.org.uk/index.php/DebianHostAp
but all elements may not apply...

Regards

wireless and madwifi installation problem.

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 03:10 PM PDT

>about my system: I have a laptop t42 (ibm) with fedora 5. wireless 

OK, that means that the driver is either not loaded or had problems when it
tried to load. Look in /etc/modprobe.conf to see if there is something
there (ie some driver to be loaded).
If there is, run modprobe nameofdriver
and see if there are online errors or errors at the end of
dmesg|tail


 
 

That means that you do not have the kernel source installed. Look on your
installation CDs (or whereever you installed from ) for an rpm that starts
with
kernel-source and ends with .i386.rpm
Install it

rpm -Uhv /path/to/your/CD/kernel-source*i386.rpm


 
 
 
 

Yes, it means that the interface wifi0 does not exist, which iwconfig
already told you ( actually wifi0 is not an interface name any driver I
know of uses anyway).


You need either a native driver for your wirelss card
lspci|less
and look for the wireless card.
or you need to use ndiswrapper
( ndiswrapper should be on the installation CD. Install it with rpm
and then do
ndiswrapper -l <nameofwindowsfile.inf>
where the argument is the path to and the name of the inf file for the
windows driver from the windows CD that came with the wireless/laptop.




 

WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /selinux

Posted: 17 Jul 2006 12:21 PM PDT


Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 


Thank you guys for your help but didn't work!
looks have to study some books or ask other groups to solve it.

it takes time for newbies. Although I'm a linux fan but I have seen
that because of varieties of linux distributions, everybody says
something different about a problem or question :(
what I'm trying to say is that there is no a standard and formal or
unique way to solve a problem.

Once again thanks

No sound on headphones

Posted: 15 Jul 2006 09:49 AM PDT

"alexLIGO" <phys.lsu.edu> writes:
 
 
 

 

a) Talk to Dell. This is a hardware problem not usually software.
B) Make sure you are plugging into the soundcard output not input. (try
both)
 

URGENT please help

Posted: 15 Jul 2006 12:39 AM PDT

"iforone" <com> wrote in
news:googlegroups.com:
 

except they're not modems because they don't deal with sound. modem=
MODulator-DEModulator i.e. translating between sound and digital and
vice versa.

--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )

kernel upgrade ethernet and printer problem

Posted: 13 Jul 2006 11:22 AM PDT

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

The prior posters' advice is still legit. Do a clean install of
the latest version of Fedora, CentOS etc.... Then the
kernel will get along much friendlier with the supporting
software.....

later....

Motherboards

Posted: 13 Jul 2006 05:24 AM PDT

Mike Stewart wrote: 

No offense but your posts would be easier to follow if you spelled
correctly and used periods to designate the end of your sentences. This
last post consisted of one long sentence that was 6 lines long and I
lost what you were trying to say after the 3rd line.

just an FYI

installation failed

Posted: 13 Jul 2006 02:31 AM PDT

nix wrote: 

Well, yes, but which one are you using?

Disk Controller Problem of SiS 5571 chipset in LINUX ???

Posted: 12 Jul 2006 11:37 AM PDT

Susan wrote:
 
This chipset uses and old version of SiS 5513 IDE controller that doesn't
support UDMA only MWDMA-16 (according to the sources of sis5513.c). So
there isn't any problem with Linux/*BSDs is a limitation of the chipset
itself.

Hope this helps.

Microsoft Word - "Email as PDF" function button causing crashes in Office 2013

Microsoft Word - "Email as PDF" function button causing crashes in Office 2013

"Email as PDF" function button causing crashes in Office 2013

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:46 PM PDT

I created a toolbar in Office 2010 that would allow me to click the button, "Email as PDF" on the ribbon.

In Office 2013, there are two bugs in this function.

1. In Office 2010, when you click this button, an Outlook email windows open with the document attached as a PDF and the cursor is focussed on the send-to address bar.  In Outlook 2013, when you click on this same button, the focus is completely random.  Sometimes the focus is on the send-to address bar.  Sometimes it is on the subject line, sometimes it doesn't focus at all.

When sending an email normally, Outlook focuses on the send to address bar normally.  It should also do so when you click "Email as PDF"

I attach a screen pic showing the button.

2.  In Office 2013, there is a major bug occuring when a person tries to send an email  with a word document attached but another dialogue button is open in Outlook.  What occurs is that the email cannot be sent (Outlook warns that a dialogue button is open), the dialogue box is focussed for you to deal with it, but then when you close it, the email is gone.  You cannot then shut down Word at all and Outlook no longer functions either.  This never occured in 2010.  All one had to do is shut down the dialogue box, return to the email and send it.  Now, the entire Office system crashes.

Printout repeats word/phrase from end of one line to beginning of next, but Print Preview looks fine

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:24 PM PDT

We're having a chronic problem in Word 2010 where someone will print a document and notice that a word or phrase from the end of one line will be repeated at the beginning of the next line. However, the repeated word/phrase does not show up on screen, nor is it seen in Print Preview.

We've tried switching to a different printer, with no luck.

Is this a document corruption issue, or a print or display driver issue?

Inserting Multilple page PDF to a Office File

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:08 PM PDT

I have a multiple page PDF that I must add more pages to it and need to insert it into either Word or Publisher.  I have found how to insert it but it only inserts the first page, how can I get it to insert the second page as to where I can add my 3rd and 4th pages that I have already saved?  Thanks in advance!

Form Fields In Word Documents

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 02:07 PM PDT

My colleages have set up a document using form fields.  Unfortunately the end user's are double clicking on the field and getting the field box setup instead of just highlighting and typing.   In a nutshell, the end-user doesn't understand how to put in their text.  My colleagues also don't want to put an explaination to the user that reads you should hightlight and type over the text instead of double-clicking.  Another paramater is that I've been asked not to make it an actual locked form because they want the user to be able to send just the last two pages and not the entire five pages. 

Cannot insert PDF into word as usual - will only insert icon

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:54 PM PDT

I'm trying to insert a PDF into a document in Word 2013, to be displayed as the entire page. I've done this many times and had no trouble, but all of a sudden, whenever I try to insert a PDF as I've always done, it is only ever inserted as an icon. I keep retrying, checking the settings every time to make sure nothing is checked that should not be, and the PDF keeps being inserted as an icon. Please help!

Surface Pro II/Office 2013 displays all charcaters in Italics

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 01:27 PM PDT

I have some documents that I edit from multiple systems. When I open in Windows 7 with Office 2010 all is good. When I open with Surface Win 8 Office 2013 all characters  in the file are in italics.

I can edit and save. When I return to Win7 the characters are as normal except where edited. It seems do definitely be a display issue.

Ideas?

Mail Marge Master Template stripping formatting when using INCLUDETEXT

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 11:50 AM PDT

I am working with a Mail Marge Master Template essentially created to spew out letters based on certain criteria.

The master template has a TON of IF statements basically to check what letter template (different letters created in Word) to insert using the INCLUDETEXT field code based on the value of one of the list field.

If the field is "Letter1" then letter1.doc is inserted, if the field is "Letter2" then letter2.doc is inserted...etc

The template works great and inserts the right document using the INCLUDETEXT but the formatting of the INCLUDETEXT file is stripped (no bold, italics, bold etc..).

I have created a basic Mail Merge file from scratch and tried to include different letters and the formatting is perfect.  Somehow this Master Template I am working with is stripping the format.

I am using basic code in both the original and my test file:

{INCLUDETEXT "C:\\LOCATIONOFFILE\\letter1.doc" \*CHARFORMAT  \*MERGEFORMAT}

I don't think I need the CHARFORMAT but it's in the master so I left it.  The Master Template is very similar:

{IF {MERGEFIELD Letter} = "Letter1" "{ INCLUDETEXT "C:\\LOCATIONOFFILE\\letter1.doc" \*CHARFORMAT  \*MERGEFORMAT}" ""}

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Word 2013 corrupt file 'the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag' location Part:/Word/document.xml, line 2, column 4606

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 10:45 AM PDT

Hi

Can anybody help with this failure? I've applied the microsoft Fix-it solution, but it still fails to open. I've browsed the support forum, and tried various recovery tools, without success.  The failure occurred when I converted a PDF (with lots of embedded graphics but no equations) to word, using the built-in converter in MS Word 13.  I then did some extensive editing, and saved the file.  Everything looked OK, but when I opened Word the following day there were problems getting it to start .  Then there appeared to be a small file of 162 bytes and the corrupt file appeared and would not open.

Here is a link to the file

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Y1F7aBbYQFQ2R2Z2Y5SVd4emc/edit?usp=sharing


Thanks to anybody who can help

Best Regards

David

Creating drop-down lists in Word

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 09:18 AM PDT

I create a drop-down list to be used in a form in an MSWord document.  I add the items by entering the "Display Name" and then the actual "Value".  However, once I protect the document so that it can be used a form and you select an item, it shows only the "Display Name" and not the "Value".  This remains the case when I print the document.

Is there any way one can create a drop-down list that allows more than one item to be selected in the form?

Mail Merge Question

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:58 AM PDT

Hi,

Is it possible to merge one to many in the same document?  Example, my data source (Excel) has the fields:  Person's Name, Comment 1, Comment 2, etc. Similar to this:

Person 1 Comment 1 Comment 2
Person 2 Comment 1 Comment 2

I would like to group the comments by the comment field, not the person's name and display the data like:

Comment 1

Name - Comment 1

Name - Comment 1

Comment 2

Name - Comment 2

Name - Comment 2

I can get the first group to populate with the information, but the second group of comments won't display any information.  I looked at using the Directory mail merge type, but the comments are going to be different from each person and some may be blank. 

Thanks.

How to make feel of 'Notebook Style' in word 2010

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:51 AM PDT

Hi Everybody,

How to make feel of 'Notebook Style'

ie.

Lines in background

and

i want to type over it in 'Handwritten manner'

How to make this possible?

Thanks in Advanced

Ravi Vare

Outline View - Insert a Sub Document

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:40 AM PDT

Hi All,

I am using a document that I have created from a template, in outline view I want to add a sub document (only problem) they have the same headings as it is also from the same template etc... so now when in go to the TOC it also updates the headings in the document I have added as a sub document I only really want to show this as an Appendix, does anybody have any ideas on this, that when I insert this?

Many thanks

How to use/type 'Traditional Division' in word document

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:29 AM PDT

Hi Everybody,

How to use 'Traditional Division' in word 2010 document

.

As like follow

Thanks in Advanced,

Ravi Vare

Word 2010 will not stay on Home page as soon as I click on document

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:01 AM PDT

Word wont stay as I have it set up on the Home screen. As soon as I click  inside on a new document for example it gives me another ribbon at the top (not the home page )- I tried to customize it as the same as home page , but it not the same width or look.

The home page does come up when I start word, the only way for me to get back it in the doc us to click again on home.Anything I click on, on the ribbon or the document when in home page,  reverts a thinner ribbon with not as many options as the home page- I just want to use the home page as I have it set up-

What do I do?

I do see that control F1 will toggle the display back- but does this keep it permanent?

windows8.1whatmicrosoftwordiscopaable

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT

whatmicrosoftwordneededforwindows8.1

Bug: Page Color not shown in when new window is created

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 07:57 AM PDT

Here is a bug I discovered in Word 2010 14.0.7166 (when programming some macros):

In Print Layout:

1) In Page Layout, set the Page Color to some color

2) In View, create New Window. The new window will not show the page color.

3) If you go back to Page Layout, and click on Page Color, you will see that the page color you chose in 1 is selected. Clicking on this again fixes the problem: the new window shows the page color.

I have not found a way to fix this, to have the effect of 3, within macros, except switching in to Print Preview view, and then switching back. Removing and resetting the value of page color fills, screen refreshes, etc., don't seem to do anything.

Some Office Docs don't open - They open to Office start screen

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:43 AM PDT

Hi,

So I have a very strange issue on one of our users laptops. The user is on Windows 7 and is using Office 2013 with Office 365 subscription.

It started with the user attempting to open a Word document from our in house file server. Here is what happens...

When they open the doc the Word load screen starts

  • The Word load screen disappears and then reappears
  • After the load screen has reappeared, Word opens at the start screen where you would select 'Blank document' etc. Therefore document failed to load.
  • This happens with other Office apps like Excel for example

So here is the strange thing. This only happens when files are stored on the file server. If I copy the document to the local desktop it opens fine. The user has full access to these folders on the server (NTFS permissions).

Here is what I have tried and nothing has worked....

  • Office repair - Quick and online
  • Complete Office uninstall using Microsoft fix it, restarting the laptop then re-installing
  • Starting Word in safe mode - It just restarts and goes back to the start screen as normal
  • Renaming / removing Normal.Dotm files etc and renaming the Word 'Data' reg key
  • Adding the users file server credentials into Windows Credential manager
  • Removing recently open files
  • Tried on another computer and the documents open fine

Help please :-)

Missing/blank pages issue

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:36 AM PDT

So I was working on a very important document when Word stopped working. I could not do anything. I quickly saved my work, but when I opened the document again, about half of it was inaccessible, the scrollbar showed that pages were still there, but I could not see or access them to recover my work. Word didn't even show blank pages, it was just the background gradient. Also, it was tough to edit the last page before the cutoff, so I couldn't delete the information I could see in hopes that the information on the missing pages would move up into the pages I could see. I even tried to access it through onedrive, but it said there was an issue and forced me to open it in word, which gave me the same problem. There were no earlier versions of the document, since I saved it before I quit. Is there any way to access the information in the missing pages, or recover an earlier version of the document?

page numbering from a specific page

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 06:29 AM PDT

Is there any option in word 2013 to start number pages from a certain page while all the prior pages has no numbers at all?

thank you

Microsoft Office 2013 won't open 0xe06d7363 error.

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 04:31 AM PDT

Whenever I try to open any Microsoft office application it says 

'The application was unable to start correctly (oxe06d7363) Click OK to close the application, can anyone please tell me why this is happening.

Many thanks

Multiple Selection Drop Down Boxes

Posted: 24 Jun 2014 03:17 AM PDT

Is their a way for users to be able to select more than one choice when using drop down boxes eg- Can choose red brown green by just clicking on each.  They will be highlighted during selection and then appear on the form?

why does typing look dimmer when add to a document using word 2013

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 11:05 PM PDT

I have a Church list of names and need to edit it every week.  when I added a name this time to list, the fonts were dimmer than the other writing.  What did I do wrong?

Error in Table of Content page number when click in Print Preview

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 11:01 PM PDT

Hello,

I have a document with a table of content, a list of figures and a list of tables. If I update all the document or table by table, the page number shown is right.

However when I click print preview the page number change to 1 in all the entries for the three tables.

If I saved the document in pdf or I print it the page number is right again although it is shown 1 in all the pages.

Do you know how can I fix it?

Regards

Microsoft Word 2013

Microsoft Windiws 8.1

Search multiple documents

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:58 PM PDT

Windows 7 / Office 2010

Is there a facility—Windows or Office—whereby one can search for a keyword in multiple (unopened) Word documents in a given folder?

If yes, please provide details.

Delete a file warning

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 10:16 PM PDT

Where is the dialogue box that asks me if I want to delete the file?

Windows 7 & Word 2002 - documents being erased

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 07:23 PM PDT

Are there any known issues with Word 2002 wiping out documents under Windows 7?  Specifically, my Mom will be typing in a document in Word, and with no warning, the document will become blank.  The file itself becomes empty.

She used the same version of Word for ten years under Windows XP without having this issue.  She has written over 1,000 published pages, so I don't think it's user error.  The problem has now happened several times on her new Windows 7 PC (Dell hardware, purchased in March 2014).  Email and Internet seem to work without any problems.

Any suggestions are welcome.  A new version of Office is not desired because of the learning curve for an 80 year old.  Thanks.  Geoff

Cursor starts half way down

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:48 PM PDT

In Word 2013, when I open a new document the cursor starts half way down the page.  The top and bottom margins are set at 1".  I have tried closing and reopening Word.  I have tried rebooting, but  nothing is changing this. I can type, and the text gradually moves up the page as I type, but the cursor always starts half way down the page.  It was not doing this earlier today.

Lock a template

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:22 PM PDT

Hi

I am creating a template that users will be able to insert photos text.  How do I lock it so they cannot accidently delete any componants such as the insert image that I have set up in developer tools, I may have several in a page.  I want them to stay where they are not be able to be moved.  Everything I put on the template needs to stay where it is so the user cannot move delete or resize but I still will have sections where they can add their text.

What is the box that shows in place of a space?

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 06:07 PM PDT

I've received a manuscript to format where a number of the spaces between words or at the end of sentences have been replaced by a small box. Can someone tell me what causes this and what it is? See image.

I am working in Word 2010, but I don't know what version initiated the document.

Can't open docm - error message - the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:37 PM PDT

I have a 2013 word document that is a docm that I can't open and get the error message the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag. Can any one tell me how to fix this?

Thanks

can't change page colors

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 04:13 PM PDT

I have a Word 2010 document in which some but not all of the pages are colored.

The document's Page Background color is "no color."

The textbox menu pops up on some of the colored pages so I assume that the whole page must be a text box.  However, the fill is "no color."  How can I get rid of the color?

On other colored pages, no textbox menu pops up.  What could be  controlling the color on those pages is a mystery.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Text not pasting into Word 2013 from outside source (Windows 8.1)

Posted: 23 Jun 2014 03:26 PM PDT

Hi, 

I recently got a Lenovo u430 with Windows 8.1. I've been having problems with text not pasting into certain programs such as JCreator and Microsoft word. In Word's case, text will paste fine as long as it is copied from within Word, but text copied from any other source will not paste. Ctrl +  V or right-click > paste just does nothing. 

Any ideas as to what could be causing it? 
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