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Microsoft Word - What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?

Microsoft Word - What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?

What is causing this mysterious box and how can I remove it?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:28 PM PDT

I had someone show me this empty box at the bottom of the table on their Microsoft Word 2013 document and tell me that they didn't know how it got there or how to remove it. 

I know it's not a cell from the table above as when I right click on it, it doesn't bring up options for dealing with cells.  I've tried selecting it and deleting it and then right clicking on it and cutting or deleting it, but no luck.  What is causing this and how do I remove it?

Document crashes Word

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:56 PM PDT

Split from this thread.

The document in question has come from SharePoint online and has some heavy formatting.

Can we send in the word doc in question? I suspect it will crash whatever machine it runs on.

Cannot uninstall or re-install Microsoft 2010 home & student

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 12:19 PM PDT

My Microsoft 2010 does not work, it keeps telling me the user will not let me. I had it yesterday and today it will not let me access it.

I am so confused. I did put myself and girlfriend as an administrator and put myself as a local account. It also says cannot verify the license and should repair the office program in control panel. I have tried this and it does not work. What do I do now? I had office for four years not it is telling me they cannot verify my license what is with this, I am totally confused. Please help me I need my office!

Thank You

Home and Student 2010 problems

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 11:20 AM PDT

So I bought Microsoft Home and Student 2010 a year or 2 ago for my laptop. It was working fine up until I had to get my laptop repaired numerous times for hardware problems. I eventually got it repaired a month a go, I installed Office Home & Student (for 3 pc's and I'd only installed it once on my laptop) and it seemed to be working. However when I tried to get some work done and open documents I keep getting the message of it being an unlicensed product. I tried putting in the install disc again to try and repair features and see if that made a difference, it didn't. I went to Google and saw some suggestions like changing the settings because Publisher isn't a part of it so wan't working, I did that and it too made no difference. I saw other people saying to remove and re-install it and other people saying there is no need. I've also seen people saying you have to upgrade. I've already spent almost £200 on it, surely I don't need to upgrade again, do I? If anyone out there can possibly give me some hope of fixing this issue I will be very grateful.

Andy

Do drawing canvases prevent photo compression?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 10:11 AM PDT

Hi all -

I'm using drawing canvases to group pictures in word and I keep ending up with extremely large file sizes that are leading to issues with saving. I have been individually compressing each photo, but it doesn't seem to make a difference as to the file size. Any help? 

'Set proofing language' has a mind of its own

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 09:28 AM PDT

Word 2010 on a Windows 8.1 computer, Spanish hardware and keyboard setting, software purchased online in English from Spain.

i have removed every reference i can find to the Spanish language, and i have set every place i can find to 'English' as default.

Still when i start an email or a Word document, the system insists on checking in Spanish first, even though i use English predominantly.

i have been to 'Set proofing language' where SpaNISH IS HIGHLIGHTED, CHANGED THAT TO eNGLISH, TICKED 'SET AS DEFAULT', clicked the option to 'change every document based on Normal template, and still if i click 'Set proofing language immediately (or on next opening a document) it proof reads in Spanish

i have been through every 'help'topic i can find on the subject, and am currently considering whether my first floor office is high enough to completely destroy my computer and its software if i throw it out!

Help!

Keith Mason

Automated Table of Figures

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 08:57 AM PDT

My figure captions have long, explanatory notes, which continue on the same line as the actual figure number and main caption text (this is a requirement of the document - I can't change that). Is there any way of applying a style to part of a line and not the rest of the line/paragraph? I just want, e.g., Figure 1 Blah Blah Blah to appear in the automated table of figures but the style I apply is taken up by the entire text that follows this piece. Thanks in advance.

Very strange disappearing text and paragraphs in Office 2013 Pro

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 08:46 AM PDT

Okay, I swear this question has never been asked before. I've spent the better part of my life for the past two days scouring the internet for this issue.

First, qualifiers:

  • I am running Windows7 and Windows8.1 when this issue occurs.
  • I have Microsoft Office Professional Plus
  • It happens regardless of whether or not I have copied/pasted or typed manually
  • I am not using the overtype feature
  • I am using OpenType Features and alternative expert fonts (such as Linux Libertine, Minion Pro (Adobe), Calluna)
  • It happens regardless of whether or not I have OpenType features enabled.
  • It seems to not promulgate by the default font Calibri (tested in one place on one paragraph).
  • I have not experienced this behavior in any of the other Microsoft Office products other than Word (Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, Access).

Next, the behavior:

  • It happens at seemingly random times. When I'm typing, or copy/paste, a number of things will happen. First, my cursor will disappear, and part of a paragraphs text will be randomly missing from the screen. When I try to highlight the affected body of text, the "highlight gray" that covers the text also partially disappears. When I try to click and move my cursor to within the affected body, it also does not appear. When I go to remove part of the paragraph (usually the beginning), the missing text magically appears.
  • It also occurs when I'm returning to the beginning of a line. When I press enter at the end of any given paragraph, the end of the paragraph will disappear with the start of a new one.
  • When I go to print, the text also is not present. In fact, in many things I've done, my numbers, fractions, and list numerators do not appear in the print, even if they are present on the screen.
  • The problem is also present when exporting to a PDF of any kind.

Help?

Missing Insertion Cursor in Word 2007

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:51 AM PDT

In Word 2007, I am missing the insertion cursor and macros are not running anymore either.  I have read multiple post on this issue.  Tried almost everything from uninstalling to repair to word options and cursor rates.  It has not worked.  Need help!

Word 2013

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:05 AM PDT

I now have Word 2013 as part of a new Office Package.

It opens properly  and it is easy to use. However, I am finding that when a file is saved and closed it reopens in word 2003 mode ( not compatibility Mode) the next time I want to work on it .

I still have Office 2003 on the computer,

My question is, how can I stop recently created files opening in the old Word style and appearing in the folder with the old Word icon?

Do I simply remove the older program from the computer. If so how will that affect older files created before Office 2013 was installed ?

Result Chain Smart Art

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 06:53 AM PDT

I have been searching a better way to draw Result Chain smart in word with no success so far. I have seen Result chain diagram in wikipedia. Can some one suggest me to draw in these type of diagrams. Thanks in advance.

Microsoft Word 2013

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:19 AM PDT

Microsoft Word 2013 is not working properly. I've done the following;

1) Run > winword /repair - nogo

2) Same as above - winword  /safemode - nogo

3) Uninstall Reinstall - nogo

Not sure what else to do. Ran a microsoft fix it, nope.... 

The problem, is that when I open it - everything is blank. Other Office 2013 products work just fine. I can't see text, I can't see menu items, and when I try to download templates everything but the image is blank. I can't even see the ribbon. Not sure what else to try at this point...

Thanks in advance!

Pictures not displaying in Office (Word) for Windows Phone 8.1

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:47 AM PDT

I am a new user of Windows Phone 8.1.

When I open a document (created in Office '93 for example) in Office on my Windows Phone, the pictures and word drawings in the document do not display, I just get the old Windows picture icon.

Is there anything I can do to get this to display properly?

Short footer.

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 08:34 PM PDT

The footer on side of my mirror document is shorter that the footer on the other page.  How can I make them equal in size?

Word has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 07:40 PM PDT

Word:

 

Version: 15.0.4641.1003

Error Code: -1610612703-8

ERROR_BAD_CONFIGURATION

1610 (0x64A)

The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel.

The uninstall and change both failed to complete.

Word Form - Buttons Stop Working

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 05:46 PM PDT

I have a Word form that has been used for several years, but doesn't work correctly in Word 2013.

There are a number of content controls and 2 buttons, one that emails the document and one that does a validation of the information entered. When we open the file in Word 2013, after working through the fields, when one scrolls back to the buttons, they do not work.

It's not that the code is failing, the button simply doesn't respond in any way to the mouse. ie, It doesn't appear to move, instead the outline and sizing handles appear around the button. This makes it impossible for the user to submit the form. It works perfectly in earlier versions of Word. There are two content controls near the buttons, and they too stop working. No cursor appears when you click in them, and no text appears when typing.

The only way to get the buttons to work again is to disable Protection, go into Design mode, then exist Design mode and re-protect the document. The two buttons are in an unprotected section of the form.

I need to find out how to get the document to work reliably in Word 2013.


Thanks

Gordon

In word 2010, text converted to non-standard bottom border

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 05:05 PM PDT

I don't know what I must have done.  I'm proofing a large file (800 pages of mostly text) of short stories.  There are many places in the stories where a scene break exists - consisting of '***' centered on its own line.  These have ALL been replaced with a non-default bottom border, ie, a 3 point wide dotted line (small squares, actually) across the entire width of the line above. To be very clear, it is not an underline.  It's hard to believe that I somehow made such a global change, particularly because I'm still trying to replace the bottom border with the original line and aren't finding a find/replace for borders. 

I'm running 64-bit windows 7 and 32 bit Word.

For example:

These are the words before the scene break (denoted by ***)..

                    ***

These are the words after the scene break. 

And, to a small degree, it now looks like (except the underline is really a big fat border):

These are the words before the scene break (denoted by ***)..

These are the words after the scene break. 

My questions:

1.  how could I have done this (or could the change to bottom border be something in the document that was masked over and I hit the switch)?

2.  How can I fix this in a replace-all way?

thanks for any help you have to offer.  I spent some time looking for a previous question but didn't find anything useful.

Joan

Where can I download some free, virus and adware-free, music symbol font sets?

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 04:50 PM PDT

Just like it says on the top. I want to change the lyrics to a song for my own use, not to record or anything.

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work Microsoft Project

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work Microsoft Project

How to mark a task as complete without adjusting the actual work

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 10:44 PM PDT

I want the task to be checked (Completed!!) and i want to be able to say
that i was able to complete this task in half the time and tell the boss that
i saves this much money on this task.

I use a view that includes a custom task field (number) that is the exact original estimate.
It is a non calculated enduring value. Baseline does the same thing and is nice because of the native
Gantt chart representation but sometimes that is too sophisticated. As Jan said the reporting comes
in; in your case; 
The custom task field has an enduring value of 4 which is the original work estimate, with no need to
understand baselines. I did it most for the convienence of not having to explain baselines to other users.
then just made them nice reports that show "We beat estimate!" on this task or "We went over estimate
on this task" Almost immediately there was a gain in focus on each assignment to beat estimate. PM's tightened
estimates, resources responded, and a balance was struck. "TRUE" estimates became visable, not ones with built in
bloat, trust was built between resource and scheduler. Resource started looking for root causes of why an assignment
would take longer or shorter. Almost always it had to do with someone messing with their flow, That is interruptions OR waiting
on a needed preconditon.



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

Milestones linked to summary bar

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 06:35 PM PDT

Hi,

Quote:
"I don't like seeing Milestones with its predessesor the summary bar to
which
it belongs"
Good news, that is impossible to do. When you try it you get the message:
"You cannot link a summary task to one of its subtasks".

HTH

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

Customized Who Does What When

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 05:27 PM PDT

Hi John! I think I'm making this harder than it has to be. I went into the
Customize Fields screen and changed the values of the 20 flags to Yes. (Yes,
I have multiple resources on multiple tasks). But then I'm lost.

In the Resource Sheet, it shows all 20 custom fields under each resource
name and then in the Gantt view, no fields show.

If you have time, can you walk me thru this? I'm getting frustrated with my
inability to figure out what is probably an easy puzzle.

Thanks,
Patti

Seemingly simple question about scheduling resources

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 03:30 PM PDT

Yeah, I see what you're saying, but without the program in front of me, I
can't check. I will check first thing in the morning. Thanks for the input,
and I'll keep you posted.

Doug

"Brian K - Project MVP" wrote:
 

Remote Connections from Project Pro

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 03:22 PM PDT

Dave Lugo wrote:
 

well best case the server and the project Pro client are not on the same
box, for performance reasons but I suppose that would work. That box is
going to get a little busy.

--
Brian K - Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com
--
Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts
--
QuantumPM Associate
http://www.quantumpm.com

Change windows behaviour

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 11:08 AM PDT

aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHH!

:-PP

Cesar



"JackD" <momokuri@gmail> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl...
Sorry,
You can't change this behavior.

--
-Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project
or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html
..
"Cesar Ronchese" <ronchese*smlinfo.com.br> wrote in message
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in 
just 

Schedule gaps

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 10:45 AM PDT

Hi,

So far so good!

Just a precision: don't be afraid of clear leveling.
Leveling introduces delays ands stores them on assignment level.
Clear leveling just puts them to zero.
That is why clear leveling is so much faster than leveling itself (can take
minutes on pools with many files); it is so much simpler.

Hope this helps.

--
Jan De Messemaeker
Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
+32-495-300 620
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news:com... 
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it 
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HELP: Task Calendar won't have any effect!

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 08:26 AM PDT

Dear Julie,

Yes, it's my mistake not having chosen all monday to Friday column! Thanks a
lot advicing my careless mistake!

Best regards,
Teres
"JulieS" <passport6847 at maine dot rr dot com> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:%phx.gbl... 

How do I accomplish this kind of budgeting/resource allocation?

Posted: 13 Sep 2005 06:47 AM PDT

In article <phx.gbl>,
"Patrick Allmond" <com> wrote:
 


Patrick,
Well I'm glad you went back to proofread what you wrote - even if it was
after the fact. Many people just don't care. I even had one guy tell me
it was too much effort to bother with capitalizing. And these people
work in a professional environment? Wow.

Sorry, it's kind of a hot button with me.

When users put together a plan to secure budget there is always a
certain amount of "gaming" going on between the performers and the
providers. Unfortunately it is a no win situation. It might work the
first time but pretty soon management (or a customer) figures out the
the numbers are padded and they set or negotiate a budget accordingly.
So the user pads the next plan a little more and so it goes. In the end,
the plan isn't worth much because it doesn't represent anything and no
matter what the project the budget is never enough anyway.

I'm not sure there is a real answer because you're going against human
nature. The best scenario is to establish a honest working relationship
among the performers, management and the customer. Communication is the
key. My suggestion - put together the most honest plan estimate you can.
Don't shortchange yourself but also don't "pad" the plan. If you
management and customer are worth their salt, they will respect the job
you need to do to make the plan successful, and that is a win-win
situation.

That's my two cents anyway.
John
Project MVP

Microsoft Word - Why won't Microsoft Word's "Find" function work in some of my documents?

Microsoft Word - Why won't Microsoft Word's "Find" function work in some of my documents?

Why won't Microsoft Word's "Find" function work in some of my documents?

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 03:23 PM PDT

Sometimes Microsoft Word's "Find" doesn't work in my documents. I input a word that I can't see in the document, but Word won't find it. In fact, the "Find" function won't work for any word that I input.

Am I doing something wrong? The odd thing is that the "Find" function works in some documents but not others.

Keeping a table on one page

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 02:11 PM PDT

I am trying to keep a 6X10 table on one page, but I run into a very weird situation, following the selection of the 9 rows. When I go to Format>Paragraph>Line and Page Breaks in order to select "Keep with next", all 5 check boxes, besides "Widow/Orphan control", are already checked by Word itself. I don't know what else to do except reducing the number of the cells. When I reach the 49th cell, everything returns to normal. All 5 check boxes are cleared. The result is that I can't select more than 49 cells. Can someone explain what's wrong here?

Thanks

My OS is XP pro with Office XP (Word 2002)

Microsoft office 7

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 02:02 PM PDT

I have microsoft  office 7 with a license - I had it on my laptop and I had to do a recovery - when I put it back on the laptop, it now wants to configure everytime I use office 7.  It never did that before,  I put the disk back in and use the repair mode - still does that.  Can anyone tell me why

It does it on word, powerpoint and excel.

Defining a New Multi-Level List -- Saving it for new documents?

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 01:16 PM PDT

If I define a new multi-level list, is there a way to save it for quick use in later documents?  Perhaps name it?  

This morning I went through a big hassle to define a new numbering list.  When I started a new document, I want to use the same numbering scheme, but I don't see it in the numbering format dropdown box.

Mouse cursor jumps out of navigation pane when trying to 'find'

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 12:49 PM PDT

Hi,

I'm using Office 2013 on a Windows 7 desktop machine. When I hit Ctrl-F, the Navigation Pane opens on the left side of my Word document. The cursor is initially in the white textbox/search of the Navigation Pane, but it jumps back into the actual document itself if you do not start typing immediately. Additionally, even if you do manage to get something typed, it very quickly disappears and your cursor goes back to the document. 

It is extremely frustrating and seems to only be a problem in Word (no other applications). I just tried using the instance of Word 2010 on my machine, and it seems to be experiencing the same issue.

I am using a USB mouse. I have seen other people with this problem online (e.g., http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/1/tech-helproom/4451435/word-2013--find-and-replace-broken/) but have not seen any solutions which apply to me (mainly, most solutions involved touchpads on laptops.

I have checked for updates to Office, and restarted the program. The problem persists.

Any advice as to how to keep this from happening would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Shift to Read Only Macro

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 12:14 PM PDT

Hello - This is an Excel Read Only macro I have.  Is there something similar to word?  I'd like to shift between Read Only & Read/Write more easily than opening & closing the document.

Sub ReOpenReadOnly()

  Dim Fullname As String

 

  With ActiveWorkbook

    'New file?

    If .Path = "" Then Exit Sub

    'Already readonly?

    'Save the path\file name of the current file

    Fullname = .Fullname

    'Close it, ignore changes

    .Close False

  End With

  'ReOpen readonly

  Workbooks.Open Fullname, ReadOnly:=True

End Sub

creating master documents

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 11:37 AM PDT

We are attempting to create a master document from several word documents.  We insert a section (next page) break at the end of the first document "try" to keep the page/section numbers as created for each document.  Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.   Our biggest problem is when adding or deleting sections within the created master document, it totally destroys all formatting, page/section numbering and we have to either start all over or go back and modify each page/section.

We are creating these documents for very large project bid specifications and it is typical to have to add/delete sections, pages, from a contract book.

Recent folders not pointing to right locations

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 08:52 AM PDT

Clicking on any link in Recent folders during a save in Word 2013 just takes me back to the last save location and not the location I clicked on. I tried quick repair, online repair and then uninstall and reinstall (in that order) but the problem persists. I also checked the "number of unpinned recent folders parameter" in Options/Advanced and that is set to 5.

At a loss on how to fix this problem -- any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Mail Merge not working - to word, from excel

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 08:46 AM PDT

I have never used mail merge before. I am using a document that I did not make. It supposedly was working last year. After I pressed "Update Labels", all of the labels looked like this. Why does it insert the formatting, and not the actual names/etc. ? How can I make this work correctly?

Searching for the Styles Formatting using shortcut

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 07:54 AM PDT

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to look for a specific formatting style without going through normal pathway:

  • Ctrl+F
  • Advanced Find
  • More
  • Format
  • Style

My aim is to avoid multiple mouse clicks and scrolls.

In this respect, VBL macro or shortcut combination will make my life as editor-beginner much easier.

Thank you all in advance,

Best regards,

Greg

reactivated MS OFFICE 2013 ALREADY ACTIVATED

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 07:01 AM PDT

I have downloaded MS OFFICE 2013 with the help of my school which inc the SN

I did it in August and used since then, yesterday , when  I open ms word, I got this message,:

This copy of MS OFFICE is not activated, you have  3 days left to activate

there is a button with : change product key.

underneath error code: 0x4004F00c

is there a bug ? how do I fix it ?

Thanks

Alex

Legal Documents: Integrating Numbered Headings and Styles

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 06:55 AM PDT

This may sound complicated, but I'm pretty sure it's possible.

I want to prepare documents that have auto-numbered section headings, with different levels, and then body text for the paragraphs. For example.

I.     MAIN HEADING

     A.   First Sub-Heading.

      

      This is the text paragraph.

     B.    Second Sub-Heading

     This is the next paragraph.

II.  SECOND MAIN HEADING

     A.  First Sub-Heading.

Etc.

I can kind of figure out how to modify a number style that I want.  But when I hit enter after entering the heading text, I want to get the body text style (not the next number).  And then, when I finish with the body text for that section, I want to easily be able to get back to the next heading level.

Can someone point me in the right direction?  I bought a copy of Word 2013 Bible just to figure this out, but I don't see it addressed at all.

Remove default templates and disable web templates in office 365

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 04:08 AM PDT

Hi

I would like to know to thingsin Word, office 365

1. How do I remove the default templates and tabs I see in the "old" dialog File/new? I just want to see my own cusotm templates and my shared templates

2. I would like to manage to show the User templates first on the start screen and disable the ms webtemplates, is that possible?

When you start Word and on backstage/new you see microsoft templates from the web. Can I disable this? I know that I can ad a registry key to show my personaltemplates tab first on the "Welcome screen" BUT, when you also have shared templates and sharepointsites connected to office the personal tab renams to custom and just shows a bunch of folders.

User accounts & Microsoft Word

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 01:49 AM PDT

I have recently created a User account for the kids in windows 8.1, when they log into their account they are unable to access Microsoft word 2013.

How do I fix this??? 

Format Text Effect pane Word 2013

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 12:08 AM PDT

I am currently creating some notes for my blind students describing the different attributes and options in the Format Text Effects pane in Word 2013. I am testing each of the options so that I can write detailed descriptions. When trying to use the Soft Edges attribute both the Presets and Size options are greyed out. No matter what I select i.e. text, image,shape, WordArt etc will make thes eoptions available. What is this option used for in regards to text?

I can apply Soft Edges from either the Drawing Tools, the SmartArt Tools or the Picture Tools.

I have searched everywhere but can't find a solution to this question.

I know that in Word 2010 Soft Edges was available in the Font Texrt Effects diaLog but could only be applied to images, shapes, SmartArt and WordArt.

I threw away my package with my product key info on it... any way I can get it back or do something about it?

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 06:47 PM PDT

Yea I messed up and threw the package away I need help now lol.

Read Only Document

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 06:34 PM PDT

I created a READ ONLY document and emailed it to a friend.  I did not want her to edit or revise it.  Will she be able to print it even though it says READ ONLY? 

opening old word files

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 04:11 PM PDT

We have Word 97 files that I want to open in Word 2003. I followed the directions to modify the registry and they gave registry values for FilesBeforeVersion.  I put in the number given for Word 97 but Word 2003 kept giving the error message that it couldn't open the file. I kept trying values for older and older  versions but the only value that would work was 0. The article said it's better to not use 0 since the older versions have security risks.

Help appreciated.

Auto Populate Letterhead addresses

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 04:01 PM PDT

I am trying to create a standard template for business forms (letterhead, memo, fax, transmittal etc) that prompts you to select an office address in a list and then adds it to the form. We have 23 offices and we want to standardize the forms to not incluse every address (getting long). But rather select an address pre populated and then have it insert it.

I know ther has to be a way to do this. but I am struggling.

I have office 365 university 4 year subscription but the download is for home premium retail

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 03:51 PM PDT

Ok so I was doing an assignment for class and it told me to apply a theme that wasn't showing up for me. I contacted my instructor who basically said I had to have Word 2013 to do the assignment, she was no help at all.

So I'm wondering if the discrepancy is due to the download being the home premium retail and not the actual university? I only have 9 themes on my just now freshly re-installed office 365. At school there are quite a few more themes in Word and they're using 365 university.

Word 2013 - Create path on separate line from filename in footer

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 03:03 PM PDT

We work on a corporate network with lots of departments, within various groups, with lots of locations.  The hierarchy to finally get to the directory for my department is extensive, and if the file name is very long, the text encroaches into the area for page numbers.  In a footer in Excel, I can simply put &[Path] on one line with &[File] on the line below it and "Voila!", the path is on the top line and the file name is on the bottom line.  There doesn't seem to be a way to do this in Word... rather it's filename alone or path and filename all on one line.  Can anybody help create a macro or ??? to show only the path?  TIA for your help!  KBo

Ftape on Slackware 10 - Forums Linux

Ftape on Slackware 10 - Forums Linux

Ftape on Slackware 10

Posted: 21 Feb 2007 03:49 AM PST

com wrote:
 

Yeah, I know. Also all of the documentation that you might find is out of
date.

The ftape I got was on the Slackware 10.2-CD. There is a 4.04-version on
http://www.sourcefiles.org/Backup/

It seems it is not maintained anymore.

ljm

How to take printout of linux file from windows xp using putty?

Posted: 19 Feb 2007 09:28 PM PST

com wrote:
 

If it is just text you want to print, use the possibilities of putty.
Otherwise:
- on your xp-box: share your printer. As I am not a Windows-man, you need to
figure out how to do that yourself.
- look at
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMicrosoftWindowsNetworkIntegration.ht ml#PRINTING


ljm

Yahoo or google mail on RH 7.3

Posted: 19 Feb 2007 05:10 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup CCDSJ <com>: 
 
 
 

They should be on the install medium and can be installed through
yum/rhn.

BTW
Please stop multi-posting, cross-post if you think it is needed,
see: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

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Linux System Imaging (restore and capture)

Posted: 18 Feb 2007 08:42 AM PST

Harshal writes: 


Package: systemimager-common
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 176
Maintainer: dann frazier <org>
Architecture: all
Source: systemimager
Version: 3.6.3dfsg1-2
Depends: perl, rsync
Filename: pool/main/s/systemimager/systemimager-common_3.6.3dfsg1-2_all.deb
Size: 38484
MD5sum: c4eacd4d8cff7137e253fa1ba4a201e8
SHA1: 4a8e2f493f2532e287ff9e532743c31e26798617
SHA256: 6b21ea59a5d34cdabdef2db43ea1799cdcce0675350c81cf41 67d955cb66c162
Description: Utilities and libraries common to both the server and client
SystemImager is a set of utilities for installing GNU/Linux software images to
clients machines over the network. Images are stored in flat files on the
server, making updates easy. The rsync protocol is used for transfers, making
updates efficient.

Dual core processor and software....

Posted: 16 Feb 2007 07:51 AM PST

bgeer wrote: 
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 28.8% 351.6% 18.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
cpu00 3.2% 93.7% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
cpu01 4.3% 93.7% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
cpu02 17.6% 75.9% 6.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
cpu03 3.8% 88.2% 7.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%


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Formatting C drive

Posted: 15 Feb 2007 10:52 PM PST

com wrote: 
 
 

Offhand it sounds like a partition at least that should be the simplest and
cleanest way to do such a thing.

Remove the partition. Format the disk with a live CD linux.

OR leave it and mount it separately. OR 7G might be enough to install linux and
use the rest of the disk for user files. OR install different versions of linux
on each partition and see which you like best.

I did the second OR when a small boot disk failed and I had to install the OS
on the data disk without losing the data. Of course I created the partition first.

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installing RHEL 3 on an unsupported storage array

Posted: 15 Feb 2007 07:54 AM PST

Zak. wrote:
 

From the installation main menu type (as explained on this menu screen);

linux dd


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fontconfig question

Posted: 14 Feb 2007 10:34 AM PST

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:31:49 +0000, Dave Gibson wrote:
 

Thank you very much.



Eddie.

Locking down the desktop...

Posted: 14 Feb 2007 08:45 AM PST

CSG72 <k12.ga.us> did eloquently scribble: 

Is gnome really neccesary?
Seems you want an iconless window manager.
(Blackbox and iceWM are two good ones)
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getting high resolution display on Acer Aspire 1681

Posted: 13 Feb 2007 06:57 PM PST

On Feb 15, 4:03 am, spam () wrote: 

I have an Intel i810 integrated chip, which is easily detected. I am
fairly sure the
problem is in the montir (e.g. sych ranges). I have 1280x800 entries
in the Xorg config
file, but it seems that my best guess for the synch ranges is wrong.

Gary Whitten

1280x800 with Intel 945GM (laptop)

Posted: 13 Feb 2007 03:13 PM PST

Baho Utot wrote:
 

Both failed :-(

With the KDE utility is even worse: that one does not even show the
1280x800 mode (the GNOME Display Settings utility shows it --- it's
just that it's no use to select it, since it is ignored afterweards)

system-config-display runs the same Display Settings utility (to the
same effect :-( )

Carlos
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touch pad is supported in linux?

Posted: 12 Feb 2007 08:54 AM PST

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:54:10 +0900, kerneloops wrote:
 

tpconfig

http://www.compass.com/synaptics/

How to install Fedora Core 5 on laptop from HD?

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 07:46 PM PST

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On 2007-02-11, zalek spake thusly: 

Crossposting appropriate. Left in.

Just one comment really; Consider if you really need, or want, to run
Fedora core. I used it until six, when I decided that it was getting
more "unpolished" and hard to use with each subsequent version, rather
than getting better.

I resisted comments from others here that Fedora really is a distro
for experimentation and tweaking rather than ease of use and out
of the box functionality. I resisted it because I had devoted alot
of time trying to work the endless useage problems out. There isn't
anything inherently wrong with it. It just isn't the distro for
the guy who wants to install and use with a minimum of fuss. IMHO.
I started looking for a more friendly and complete-from-the-install
distro after I just about ripped my hair out with FC6. I've used quite
a few distro's over the years, but I haven't used any that can compare
to Ubuntu in completeness, simplicity of install, and ease of use.
It comes on a live disk that lets you install it if you like it. The
install asks a few brief questions, then does all the work for you.
I haven't ever used a better installer, and anaconda is an abortion
in comparison. It's going to take you by suprise. Root is handled
differently in ubuntu, and it takes some getting used to. But it's
fast, the add-remove is a breeze and actually works, unlike FC
add/remove and update which is prone to unreliability. Take a serious
look at moving on from FC. I did, and ubuntu is a joy to use.

My wife still runs fedora on her machine, and it keeps farting on
various things at verious times for no apparent reason. I haven't
*ever* had ubuntu do that on my machine. Too bad that she dosen't want
to change over. Oh well.

Best regards,

Mateus

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groups vs users

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 07:50 AM PST

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<co.uk>, Dave Stratford wrote:
 
 
 

OK - I should have done a bit more explaining. As stated, neither the
man or info pages ('man chmod' verses 'info chmod') give the greatest
explanation of what the flags do. Using the octal value rather than
the alphabetical values is just an experience thing. I'm used to working
with the numbers, and not as comfortable with the letters. Each method
has it's uses, strong and weak points.
 

You still need to be a member of the group (to have write access), but
you don't need to run the 'newgrp' command to make a specific group your
'primary' group ID. Yes - very handy.

The Xnnn numeric sequence has eight possible values (like the other
digits), but there are some differences in the effect on a directory
verses on a file. Also, how an 'ls -l' command _displays_ the resulting
mess is less obvious.

For directories, only 1xxx and 2xxx have meaning (4xxx does nothing). If
you look at /tmp or /var/tmp, you'll see that these directories are
readable/writable by everyone, and that _can_ be bad news when you have
"playful" users (like students in a class sharing a directory). So we
change permissions on that directory from '777' (the leading zero is
implied but not shown) which would be

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2048 Jan 1 1970 /tmp

to '1777' which changes the "others" permission to 't' (o=t is the
letter version of the '1xxx' bit) and this gives

drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 2048 Jan 1 1970 /tmp

The effect of this change is that only the Owner of a file (and root)
can delete it. Without this, anyone who can _write_ to the directory can
also delete files in this directory, leading to much student hilarity.
You _may_ find someone setting a group directory to '1770' and setting
the group ownership to something like 'students' to prevent "outsiders"
from accessing the directory. This would show as

drwxrwx--T 1 root students 2048 Jan 1 1970 /tmp/students

Note the 'T' rather than a 't' - meaning that the sticky bit is set (1xxx)
but the 'others execute' permission is NOT set.

The '2xxx' permission on a directory (g=s) has been described upthread.
The not-very-useful permissions of 2740 (SGID, but without the execute
bit needed to _list_ the directory contents) would show up as a 'S'
rather than 's' in the ls output. (drwxr-S---).

Note that these actions are different for _files_ as compared to
directories. For files, the 2xxx and 4xxx permission causes
executable _binary_ files (does not apply to scripts) to be run with
the GID or UID of the file owner, rather than the person who actually
invoked the binary. The 1xxx bit has no effect any more, but used to
mean that if the file were swapped OUT of memory, it didn't have to
be saved to swap space, but would be reloaded from permanent disk
space when the file were swapped back IN. This is a relic of the past
when both RAM and disk space were expensive and could profitably be
used for other purposes.

Old guy

WLan Setup Problems

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 07:35 AM PST

On 10 feb, 16:35, Andre Betz <de> wrote: 

Seems to me the instance of your wireless driver is not loaded, or the
driver is not loaded at all.
lo en eth0 are never wireless devices.
try bringing it "up" with iwconfig <interface name> up

lilo problem:how can I increase the waiting time

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 05:38 AM PST

On 10 Feb 2007 05:38:38 -0800, vim
<com> wrote: 
Which version of Slackware are you using? Does Slackware still use lilo
instead of grub?

Try pressing shift when LILO appears. You should get a menu or a
"boot:" prompt.

If that doesn't work you may have to edit /etc/lilo.conf (look at
"delay=", "timeout=", "prompt", "install=" options).
man lilo.conf


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Ubuntu installation from hard disk ISO image

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 05:04 PM PST

The process will not leave your system in a broken state
if you do NOT
- create new partitions during install ; i.e install over an existing
ext3 partition
- Keep the ubuntu install on the windows partition and not on the ext3
parition where you intend to install Ubuntu
- you do not do something really silly

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Dell Optiplex GMT+ NIC on Install

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 03:46 PM PST

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<freeserve.co.uk>, Alan Adams wrote:
 
 

Gotcha! I'd forgotten about that. Thanks for the correction

Old guy

Access to environmental vars to PHP

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 07:57 AM PST

Slawek wrote:
 

Yes.


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"No init found " when boot up.

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 01:50 AM PST

kerneloops wrote:
 


Do you have a /etc/inittab ?

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Installing Linux on Intel DG965SS Motherboard

Posted: 07 Feb 2007 01:35 AM PST

I've assembled this one machine with:

Motherboard: Intel DG965SS
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Memory: DDR2-533 2 GB
HD: Barracuda 7200.10 SATA/250.0 GB/7200 rpm

For the main purpose of scientific development (high performance
computing).
So, I'm trying to find out what's the best Linux distro to work with
this hardware, the distro (not just the right kernel, but the best
hardware support, given this mobo is fully onboard) which has 100%
compatibility between hardware and OS.
This hard disk already has Windows XP Professional installed on it,
and I don't need to have both (Linux and Windows) running at the same
time, but if it is the only way to work, ok.
Can you give me few directions??? Tips??? Answers???

Thanks in advance,

Samuel. (anyone whom may help and answer directly, my e-mail address
is com)

Apache configuration file check httpd.conf

Posted: 06 Feb 2007 02:57 PM PST

On 7 Feb, 12:53, Davide Bianchi <net> wrote: 

And for programs that are not as well written as httpd, you can check
the init scripts in /etc/init.d to see if they use different
configuration files set manually. (Nagios does this). And you can run
"strings /usr/sbin/httpd" to see what strings are in the program
itself, and you can find whatever options it is started with and use
"strace httpd [options]" to see what really gets opened.

There are lots of tools: never be scared of learning the other
techniques: that way you know them when the first one doesn't work.

Thunderbird and line breaks on replies

Posted: 06 Feb 2007 08:12 AM PST

Jules wrote: 

I am using thunderbird. there is your message. Looks fine to me. I have seen a
problem that sounds like you describe with some AOL messages.

My quick solution is to replace the original replay message with a copy of the
original post. I insert a > only on the first of a group of lines I am replying to.

Agreed it is annoying.

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Volume/partition names

Posted: 05 Feb 2007 10:35 AM PST

On 2007-02-05, Bill Marcum <net> wrote:
 
 

Ah, yes. Much better:

[root@vector john]# file /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1: block special (3/1)

It appears the "-s" switch is required:

[root@vector john]# file -s /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)



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"GRUB GRUB GRUB" repeating error

Posted: 04 Feb 2007 01:00 PM PST

Dan, you da man. That was it. Setting my drive to User Type instead
of auto detect did it. What a nightmare. A whole weekend down the
drain. But at least I'm on my way. Thanks a ton.

allie
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