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How to configure X windows in text mode

Posted: 13 Mar 2007 09:31 PM PDT

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, com wrote:
 
xf86config
 
A standard VGA 640x480 8bpp will work with almost everything. After
setting that up you could use a GUI tool to configure if you really wanted
to.

Try this in your XF86Config file:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Dell"
HorizSync 31.5
VertRefresh 50-70
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "My Video Card"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 8

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x400"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection


That should get your GUI up and running and from their you can config in a
more "user friendly" manner.


--Sir Jackery

Discarding Modules

Posted: 13 Mar 2007 09:06 AM PDT

On 2007-03-13, Don Phillipson <ca> wrote:
 

Yes, reiserfsck is fsck for reiserfs filesystems, which Xandros uses by
default. FWIW, my Xandros system has been much more stable since I
converted (backup/mkfs.ext3/restore) the reiserfs filesystems to ext3.
 

You're referring to software packages, not kernel modules. If you're not
using the package it won't use any resources besides the disk space it
occupies so there's no urgency in removing it. If you use your
distribution's package manager to remove unwanted packages, it keeps
track of dependencies and won't remove pieces that are required by other
packages. For Xandros, "Xandros Networks" is the default package
manager, although other Debian-type package managers also work well
(e.g. dpkg, apt-get, synaptic).

--

John (dhs.org)

Installing Fedora 6 Core 6 "ZOD" Live Spin x86_64 DVD

Posted: 13 Mar 2007 07:16 AM PDT

John Taylor <com> did eloquently scribble: 
 
 

I'll tell you one thing...
I for one will not kneel before Zod.
:)
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Problems setting up CUPS

Posted: 12 Mar 2007 10:04 PM PDT

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:13:20 +0000, Lenard wrote:
 
 

I see links for managing jobs, printers, and printer classes, but
not servers. Can you describe the required changes to cupsd.conf?

Jack

Encore (Sundance) NIC does not compile.

Posted: 12 Mar 2007 11:34 AM PDT

On Mar 12, 12:53 pm, Dances With Crows
<com> wrote: 

Here is the lspci output
- - -
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Sundance Technology Inc: Unknown device
0200 (rev 31)
Subsystem: Sundance Technology Inc: Unknown device 0201
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
Memory at feaffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
- - -

In the kernel tree, you can find the module at drivers/net/sundance.c
but in 2.6.12, this module is older than the one supplied in the NIC
drivers diskette

I have just recompiled kernel 2.6.12 and the module sundance.ko is
present, but when I try to activate eth0, system reports that there is
no netcard present. Also, tI tried to recompile the diskette drivers,
and I get same errors.

You can get the drivers from http://www.encore-usa.com/download/driver/ENL832-TX-ICNT_Drivers.zip

Regards,

Marco


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Ubuntu non-live

Posted: 11 Mar 2007 08:34 PM PDT

On 11 Mar 2007 20:34:02 -0700, com wrote:
 

Once you boot from the 'live' CD the desktop contains two icons. One
is 'Install'. Choose that icon.

Install is pretty straight forward. It asks what language you prefer,
your time zone area, etc. The only part not obvious is the
partitioning routine. If at all possible, replace the existing system
with Ubuntu. This will wipe out your existing OS. You do have the
option of creating a dual boot where Ubuntu determines the size of the
appropriate partitions. Third option is manually determine the
partition size. I don't recommend this for beginners.

All in all, this is a very straight forward and easy install.

colors on terminal

Posted: 10 Mar 2007 02:35 PM PST

On 10 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>, com
wrote:
 

At any sunsite or Linux Documentation Project mirror:

../docs/HOWTO/unmaintained:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 12059 Sep 12 1999 Colour-ls

It's an unmaintained mini-howto. Then look at the man pages for

[compton ~]$ whatis ls dircolors
ls (1) - list contents of directories
dircolors (1) - output commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable
[compton ~]$

Old guy

Problem preparing hard disk for installation of Fedora Core 6

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 09:01 PM PST

Chris wrote:
 

Visit: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page


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Grub loading troubl on my win2000 machine

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 11:07 AM PST

On Mar 9, 2:58 pm, Lenard <0.0.1> wrote: 

Your "may be" answers your question and thanks for your help in
solving my problem. Keep it up.

Downloading packages for Linux on Windows

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 06:28 AM PST

There is a wget version available for Windows. I'll try it out.

Thank you very much.

crazy web connection woes

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 06:16 PM PST

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<esuuhh$er2$xnet.com>, Will Renkel wrote:

[on Friday, you had posted:
:when you find out please post the solution
:I have similar problem with wwww.chicagotribune.com
]

Please learn to quote some context so people have some idea what you are
talking about.
 

[compton ~]$ ping -c 1 www.chicagotribune.com
PING chicagotribune.com (63.241.84.11): 56 data bytes

--- chicagotribune.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
[compton ~]$ lynx http://www.chicagotribune.com

Chicago Tribune news : Local news, weather, traffic, shopping and class
(p1 of 8)

[clear.gif]
[clear.gif]
Home [clear.gif] News [clear.gif] Business [clear.gif] Sports [clear.gif]
Travel [clear.gif] Entertainment [clear.gif] Homes [clear.gif] Jobs
[clear.gif] Cars [clear.gif] Shopping [clear.gif] Place ads [clear.gif]
Newspaper services [clear.gif]

[clear.gif] [clear.gif] chicagotribune.com [clear.gif]
[mostlycloudy.gif]
54<B0> F
Latest forecast [clear.gif] [clear.gif] [clear.gif]

Ping doesn't work (big surprise), but there's no trouble connecting. The
page uses frames, but lynx is obviously bringing it up. Actually, with
all of those .gifs, one wonders if there is eighty tons of crap being
downloaded from some content provider like akamai or similar.

What exactly happens when you try? Does the computer catch on fire?
Does your browser show pictures of dancing pigs? Explain what happens
and MAYBE someone will tell you what you are doing wrong.

Old guy

Installing Linux Enterprise 4 WS on HPWX9400 ....

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 10:33 AM PST

On 7 Mar, 18:33, rr.com wrote: 

Not this *particular* platform. But do you have RHEL 4.1, or 4.4, or
what? The minor release number makes a huge difference for the latest
hardware, since it takes time to add drivers for such new devices.

Frankly, I find CentOS easier to install to start out with, and only
use RHEL for commercial-grade installations after debugging with
CentOS. The breakup of RHEL into Workstation, Enterprised Server,
Advanced Server, and various subdivisions with "Basic Edition" just
drives me nuts.

Xend occupies ttyS0 and can not use modem in FC6

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 06:41 AM PST

In article <googlegroups.com>,
Masroor wrote... 
Try installing a non xen kernel and using that instead. If this works,
you can remove the xen kernel safely.

ne...
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ISA card detection routines in Redhat Linux

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 12:20 AM PST

On 7 Mar 2007 00:20:56 -0800, mahi
<co.in> wrote: 
Look for "isapnp". For non-PNP cards you need different functions to
detect specific types of card, e.g. network, sound, IDE or SCSI controller,
serial or parallel ports, etc. Some cards may need boot command line
arguments to specify port address and IRQ.
By the way, Red Hat 9 is as obsolete as ISA. A newer distro should work
better, if you choose one that is suitable for your hardware (unless, of
course, you have proprietary software that requires RH9.)


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Lisp Machine is Fun.
Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine,
Fun for everyone.

Upgrading elfutils (FC6)

Posted: 06 Mar 2007 07:09 AM PST

On 8 Mar, 11:19, Matthew Harrison <com> wrote: 

He was polite. You are not being polite about this, sir: you may get
even more useful help in the future if you top-post and don't worry
too much about someone, politely, pointing out that you're violating a
very old and common standard.

minicom

Posted: 05 Mar 2007 06:23 PM PST

Hallo,

Op dinsdag 06 maart 2007 schreef Lew Pitcher aan All:
 
LP> First, find out which group owns /dev/ttyS0.
LP> Next, add the user to that group,

Also have a look at /etc/minicom.users

Groeten,

Hans.

jdh punt beekhuizen bij duinheks punt xs4all punt nl

Where can I download RHEL 4.?

Posted: 04 Mar 2007 05:14 AM PST

Rob wrote: 

Check out http://www.linux.org/dist

iptables (netfilter) and kernel 2.6.20

Posted: 03 Mar 2007 03:52 PM PST

Dear Newsgroup:

Thanks to all who replied. I now have a working configuration for kernel
2.6.20, and no, I wasn't able to determine why my original configuration
(based on the default 2.6.20 configuration) failed, nor was I able to
establish why the new one works. And not from lack of trying.

But as it turns out, there are 90 settable options in just the (new and old
methods) netfilter section of the current configuration, and most of them
are three-state: off, module, or built-in. That means this single section
of the configuration is a state machine with (3^90 = 8.72 followed by 42
zeroes) possible states.

Up to now I had been trying various things, and after each change, I had to
recompile the kernel and reboot to see if iptables came up successfully. I
use distcc to speed up compilations (very highly recommended BTW) and I
have a roomful of computers to help distcc along, so I was able to get the
experiment cycle time down to five minutes per test.

Nevertheless, at this rate, I would have required some astronomical amount
of time, vastly greater than the age of the universe, to reach the 50%
probability point of success.

So, realizing this, I posted my situation yesterday, and today I downloaded
the netfilter section posted by "Grant" (thank you), which worked
immediately, and even better, it uses the new, so-called "layer 3
independent connection tracking" approach.

The downside is that I now must paste a magic sequence of options into my
existing configurations, and I cannot even sort out how to select the same
options using the GUI configuration interface (because the names listed in
the GUI, and the names in the configuration file, have little or nothing in
common).

I have this advice to others trying to lick this problem:

1. Selecting all the options guarantees failure.

2. Selecting none of the options guarantees failure.

3. Selecting reasonable, obvious options guarantees failure.

4. Trying to select particular options in the GUI configuration program,
relying on a print-out of a working configuration file, guarantees failure
because of the poor correlation between the names.

To summarize, any rational approach to solving this problem will surely
fail.

Here are the instructions for anyone else similarly stumped:

1. Take the default 2.6.20 configuration and delete the "Core Netfilter
Configuration" and "IP: Netfilter Configuration" sections. Replace those
section with this (commented-out options deleted for brevity):

#
# Core Netfilter Configuration
#
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_FTP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HELPER=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y

#
# IP: Netfilter Configuration
#
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_IPRANGE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP=m
CONFIG_NF_NAT_FTP=y

2. Save the edited configuration and, using normal procedures and programs,
set any other options you need.

3. Compile.

The bottom line is that no one with an Internet connection wants to do
without packet filtering, and AFAICS no one can use the existing default
2.6.20 configuration file to produce a successful configuration (it seems
all the successes have been based on a working 2.6.19 configuration, which
I didn't have).

I wonder if it would be too much to ask the kernel maintainers to create a
default configuration file that has the obvious options already set, or a
configuration algorithm that prevents the setting of options that will
create a fatal conflict (which I suspect was my earlier problem)?

--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com

extreme (but cheapass) storage solutions

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 07:25 PM PST

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:25:25 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:
 

I have a client with up to 9-10TB of video and film files that need to be
backed up.

Right now, they're using GRAID 500GB Firewire drives attached to each
production box - usually one or two GRAIDs per box, sometimes 3.

What we're going to do based on my recommendations is ensure that each box
has enough internal HD capacity to handle production work, and use the
GRAIDs strictly for backup during production work. We'll use the Vembu
Storegrid product (the client is totally on Windows) to do the backups
from the internal hard drives to the GRAIDs.

(Storegrid, BTW, is an interesting product, as it appears to be a complete
redevelopment of rdiff-backup on Windows! It backs up only the incremental
deltas of file changes after first doing a full backup, and allows
restoring backups from any backup point in time, just like rdiff-backup.
They've even modified the rsync algorithm to choose efficient block sizes
depending on the size of the files being backed up.)

For archival storage, right now we're using a Maxtor Tera II 1TB external
storage device, plus two Western Digital 1TB MyBooks, for 3TB of storage.

For additional terabytes, I have recommended to the client to buy a
separate low-end box, with two four-port (or one eight-port) eSATA
controllers. Attached to those would be one eight-bay or one twelve-bay
eSata storage enclosure which four-port fan-in, allowing three of the
ports on each of the controller cards to control up to 12 drives in the
enclosure for a total storage of 6TB. This takes advantage of the 3Gb/s
speed of SATA II as well, which outmatches Firewire when you're dealing
with multiple drives over a single channel.

Then just fill the bays as necessary with 500GB SATA drives, which are
going for around $135-165 these days mailorder from places like Newegg.
750GB drives are overpriced per GB at the moment, but they should be coming
down by end of the year as full terabyte drives hit the market. With 500GB
drives, you get 6 TB out of one 12-bay enclosure. With 750GB drives, you
get 9TB, and by end of the year you could get 12TB using 1TB drives. And
you still have one controller card free that you can attach another
enclosure to if you need another 6-12 TB.

The cost will be around $300 for the box. Any box will do, it isn't doing
anything except hosting the drives and running the network card to receive
the files - it isn't even serving them, since it's an archive box - if you
need file serving, adjust CPU and bus speed accordingly. The eSATA
controllers are expensive at $50-100 or more - but you only need one or
two. The enclosures run $400-800 or more if you need eight or twelve
bays - four-bays and two-bays are more common and cheaper, just depends on
how you want the space allocated. Total cost shouldn't be more than a
grand for the infrastructure and then however many drives you need - and
you can start out with just the drives you need and add on later.

I'd say this is the cheapest and most efficient way to handle large
amounts of video.

nVidia driver for Intel 64-bit processor?

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 04:07 PM PST

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:19:45 -0600, Alan Moorman <com> wrote:

 
 
 
 

but don't quote me. do your own research.

I'm pretty sure about amd64->intel emt but you never know.
this at about the time that microsoft is finally using the
features of the 80386 to protect the OS from its users.

vsftpd per-user configuration issue.

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 02:24 PM PST

On Mar 1, 11:38 pm, Grant <com.au> wrote: 

Is there no configuration based solution?

My Linux Page

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 12:48 PM PST

I multi plonked it.



John Thompson wrote:
 

How to avoid login....

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 10:50 AM PST

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:58:48 -0600, Chris Cox
<net> wrote:
 

Thanks! I figured out that I'm using Gnome. . .

Alan Moorman

Daylight Savings Time Changes

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 10:42 AM PST

John Hasler wrote: 

I probably designed my /etc/crontab file before Vixie cron had these
properties and then never changed it. I know I used to have a slow tape
drive and did full backups on Sundays just after 1AM. They took over an
hour. At that time (early 2000, I think), when the time shifted, it started
another backup (which failed, since the tape drive was busy) in the fall. In
the spring, I think it worked OK.

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/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 06:30:01 up 19 days, 18:54, 4 users, load average: 4.12, 4.16, 4.09

Installing FC6 & WinXP on 2 Disks

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 10:07 AM PST

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:14:10 GMT, Stefan Patric wrote:
 

During installation only while partitioning hardisks the installer see
/dev/sda but after partitioning if it is asking for placing GRUB MBR it
sees only /dev/hdd

Gregory

Microsoft Word - SOMETHING WENT WRONG

Microsoft Word - SOMETHING WENT WRONG

SOMETHING WENT WRONG

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 03:07 PM PDT

I have Microsoft 2013 and I tried opening it and it says "We couldn't start your program please try starting it again.  if it wont start try repairing office from programs and features in the control panel." or go online for more help .....I tried fixing it myself with control panel but I'm not that much of a "computer wiz" I don't know the problem I let best buy install everything on my computer including word so I'm not sure how to restart the program. I need help I am a college student with deadlines

Launching Word 2013 causes UAC to ask for permission to make changes.

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 02:38 PM PDT

Hello,

I have been having an issue when I launch Word 2013 it always asks for permission to make changes to the system. I have tried to run the compatibility wizard to fix the problem, since Windows 8 no longer has the compatibility tab in properties, and sometimes I can get it to stop asking, but after a few weeks it will start asking again. Or another issue I run in to is certain settings in the capability wizard will cause windows to no longer allow me to open documents downloaded in the chrome browser because an error comes up saying I need to repair Microsoft Office, which running repair doesn't fix the issue. The UAC prompt is just an annoyance and would be nice to no longer have it ask for no reason. It only asks when launching Word and not any other of the office suite programs.

OS: Windows 8.1

Office 2013 Student

UAC setting: Default

 

Why Does a .docx Created in Word 2010 Open in "Compatibility Mode" in Word 2013?

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 02:33 PM PDT

I have documents originally created in Word 2010 and saved in .docx format. These documents have never been opened in anything other than Word 2010 and have never been saved in anything other than .docx format.

When I open these same documents in Word 2013, Word says they are in "Compatibility Mode." Why should they be in Compatibility Mode if they have always been saved as .docx?

Office (2000) fails in Win 8.1

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 01:04 PM PDT

OK, my version of Office Pro is old (2000, SP3 with all updates till support stopped), but I paid for it and it does the job so why pay $s for the latest? 

I installed and used it in all modes (except for some of the ODBC drivers missing) in Win 8, no problems.

Now "upgraded" to Win 8.1.  (Bad move)

I can open Word or Excel and use [File][Open] and select a file OK and all the other functions work but, if I double click the .doc or .xls file in a folder (or right click and [Open with] although Word or Excel window opens the file does not open.  Instead I get a popup window with the message "There was a problem while sending the command to the program".

It cannot be access rights as I can open the file from the menu.

I have tried un-installing and re-installing (after removing all traces of Office) but still the same.

I have tried setting compatabilty for all users, no go.

Have MS done a nasty in the upgrade to "promote" sales?

Oddly, Visio works fine.

Can anyone suggest a reason/solution?

Regards

How come as soon as I open Microsoft Word 2013 and start typing it freezes then insists on closing?

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 08:09 AM PDT

Hello and thanks for your assistance!

As stated above I have encountered a very frustrating error on Microsoft Word 2013. Every time I open my document and begin typing it suddenly freezes then displays a dialog box saying "We're sorry, Microsoft Word has encountered an error and needs to close." The box has 3 buttons including "repair" "help" or "close." I chose repair and it just caused it to continue to freeze before closing. I am at a complete loss and as I am a college student this is becoming increasingly troublesome. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Word 2013 will not open

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 06:12 AM PDT

I have a Windows 8.1 Laptop and I am having issues with Office 2013. I am unable to start Word yet My PC is up-to-date and I tried re starting the computer. I went to Control Panel and selected the "Quick Repair" For Microsoft Office and discovered "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly..." (Microsoft Click-to-Run issue). What should I do? I am stuck on this click-to-run issue.

ScreenTips missing

Posted: 21 Sep 2014 06:10 AM PDT

Hi - I'm using MS 2010 on Windows 8.1. I have selected "Show feature descriptions in Screentips and "Show document tooltips on hover." Any suggestions?

[Split from the thread at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/word-2010-display-of-comments-footnotes-etc-within/a3ac1a67-fea1-4865-957f-9809d2205b3d]

Difficulty with Share icon on Microsoft Office 2013.

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 11:44 PM PDT

Hello, I am currently having difficulties with the share icon on Microsoft Office 2013 in the sense that I can't invite friends to be coauthors. Every time I try to send my friends a document via email it brings up this notification stating that OneDrive needs authentication, so I go through the process of authentication but it still doesn't send. I don't know what to do can, someone help me out, please and thank you.

Have Office 365 and all of a sudden I can not download Microsoft Internet pix or clip art????

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:58 PM PDT

Had this problem once before and was told that it was with Internet Explorer and to get an older version... this does not seem feasible.

Transform Tab not where it should be in Word Art

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:49 PM PDT

Hi All.

I would appreciate some help on this one. When workin in Word Art under the special effects tab where I am suppose to find "Transform" I believe. On my machine this is missing.

I do have the others such as Preset, Shadow, Reflection etc but no Transform tab.  Any help on why this may be the case to assist me in getting there would be appreciated.

I am running Win 8.1 64bit, with Office 2013 SP1 32bit.

Many thanks

Dave.

Can't open Word Documents 2010

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 07:50 AM PDT

Whenever i try to open a word document this message comes up:

Word experienced an error trying to open this file.

Try these suggestions

*Check the file permissions for document or drive

*Make sure there is sufficient free memory and disk space

*Open file with text recovery converter

I can't work out what the problem is, i know i have enough memory and disk space, i've tried repairing Microsoft office,  i've tried the "Repair and open" option, i'm just not sure what to do.

My school uses "Studywiz" for saving documents, and opening them at home, i wondered if it was a problem with that, but my brother can open all his documents and his word is from the same disc as mine,

Please help!!!!!

microsoft word

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 02:59 PM PDT

Hi! When I go to microsoft word It doesn't allow me to type. It says modification is locked. I do I unlock it?

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Posted: 17 Jun 2007 08:26 AM PDT

I would still suggest you go back to the supplier and explain the situation
to them. At this point you've spent money for something that you cannot use
and it's up to them to either make it right or refund your money.

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

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



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news:com... 

Installing Office Enterprise 2007, Error 1913

Posted: 17 Jun 2007 07:19 AM PDT

I would because you know it's causing problems.

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MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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


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news:com... 

Various re when switching computer on

Posted: 16 Jun 2007 04:14 AM PDT

Answered in the OTHER newsgroup

"NPA" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 
open 
cure 
what 
this 

cannot show "My recent docs" under Office button

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 11:26 PM PDT

Some security suite programs can suppress the recently used file list
like TweakUI. Look for the registry key mentioned in KB284896, check
the value, and change it if necessary.

LAD wrote:
 

Running both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 03:23 PM PDT

Only if you have 2 OS partitions or are running a Virtual Machine. VMs are the way to go IMHO. The one from Microsoft is free but VMWare also has VMWare Workstation which does cost $$.

--
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, cpetek asked:

| I currently have Outlook 2003, but want to run Outlook 2007 to test
| the new features and I don't want to use the free download trial.
| Can I have both installed and switch back and forth?

Need to reinstall Powerpoint and Access from MS Office Small Busin

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 02:44 PM PDT

Thanks a lot! Thanks to those who responded! It worked!

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
 

Microsoft Beta

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 02:17 PM PDT

My laptop won't let me remove the files. How can I manually remove the files?

"Mary Sauer" wrote:
 

Purchasing Office 2007

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 10:55 AM PDT

There is no upgrade version available for Outlook alone so that's out. It
runs about $109. To be honest with the the cost of HSE + Outlook as a
standalone will cost you less than if you return the HSE (assuming you can)
and buying Office Standard. Plus you'll have PowerPoint and OneNote.

This assumes that you are using it for non-commercial use, of course.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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"Confused from Surrey" <Confused from microsoft.com>
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Hard drive space required

Posted: 15 Jun 2007 05:28 AM PDT


"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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Well, i heard its the common misconception that frequent defragmentation is
necessary to maintain adequate system performance. Although it may produce
substantial file system speed improvements in some cases, for the typical
Windows user the overall performance improvement is minor or unnoticeable.
Defragging the disk will not stop a system from malfunctioning or crashing
because the filesystem is designed to work with fragmented files. So there
is limitations of defragmentation. Does windows XP automatically defragment
in a background process like Windows Vista?

Office 2007 SBE license / Activation.

Posted: 14 Jun 2007 03:41 PM PDT

I am accustomed to the "old way". I;'ve beedn using it for many years now
but I'm forcing myself to learn the Ribbon. I still have a few years until I
retire (not as many as I need to earn enough money but too many years before
I can sleep in late) - I can't afford to be left behind.

Patrick Schmidt has an add-in that you can purchase and download which will
give you something akin to the old style menus.
http://pschmid.net/office2007/index.php

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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


"Masaki Kuraoka" <net> wrote in message
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Multiple Activation Issue

Posted: 12 Jun 2007 11:19 AM PDT

Start here:

Call Support Customer Care:
1-800-936-3500 (U.S. and Canada Only)


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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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


"Toby Reeves" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Microsoft Word - Office 2013, new files don't open onscreen and can't be opened on the toolbar from under a primary document - Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook

Microsoft Word - Office 2013, new files don't open onscreen and can't be opened on the toolbar from under a primary document - Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook

Office 2013, new files don't open onscreen and can't be opened on the toolbar from under a primary document - Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:10 PM PDT

I'm using Office 2013 on a Windows 7 computer.  When opening a word file (with one already open), the new file used to open and display on screen.  Now it does not do that, but opens a new window on the toolbar (so I have two Word windows to alternate between on the toolbar).  When I try to toggle to it on the toolbar, the second window doesn't display a "preview" of the content like the other one and clicking on it causes nothing to happen.  So essentially, I can't toggle to the secondary window at all.  Sometimes it works ok with two windows but messes up on the third.  This also happens in Powerpoint and if I open multiple messages in Outlook.  I have not had multiple excel files open in awhile to test it there.

Why is Office behaving this way?  I need to be able to toggle between multiple open files and until recently I didn't have a problem.  Is this maybe a result of a recent update?  How do I fix this?

Thanks,

Jessica

Wordpad

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 02:04 PM PDT

I made changes to a Wordpad document and 'saved' it.  I then reopened the file and the changes had not been made.  What did I do wrong?

Add empty lines to word template

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 01:54 PM PDT

After struggling to create a MS Word template for my letterhead, and succeeding (thanks to this group!) ... I have one more stumbling block to request help on.

After creating a large header to accomodate my preprinted letterhead stationery, I added a fixed date just below the header, using

Insert\quick parts\field\createdate

So my date is already inserted when I start my document based on this template. But my cursor is on the left side of the same line as the date, which is to the right on the same line.

I would like to put a couple of lines after the date field, so that I can start the recipient name, address, etc as soon as the document is opened.

I tried entering paragraphs. No help.

Any advice would be appreciated. I am close to completing this project!

Many thanks.

Jack

Can't Start Office

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 12:18 PM PDT

MS WORD won't start!  How can I fix this?

Turn off grammar check

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 11:26 AM PDT

Split from this thread.

My problem is that I am writing a Religious Book, and having to use many different Bible verses, and this is an example:

Isaiah 28:9-11

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. 

It keeps telling me that the "and whom" should be "And whom" and that the "them that are" should be "Them that are". But this is what the Bible says and I do NOT want to correct it, I want to leave it as it is. So I keep using the "Ignore once" feature and it stops with the squiggly green line for a bit but before I know it, it is right back there again. It is SO annoying! I have to put up with this with every chapter that I write. 

Why can't you just tell it to IGNORE that, and have it STAY ignored in that particular document at least? It is really distracting and all I can do is to turn off the Grammar checker altogether, which is not good, since then I have to remember to keep turning it back on again to check for other mistakes. 

Run Time error 429 ActiveX can't create object

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:34 AM PDT

I receive a Run Time error 429 ActiveX can't create object every time i close a microsoft office 2010 word document. how can i fix this problem it causes word to freeze up and i lose my work. please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Office 7

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 09:11 AM PDT

I'm having problems opening both a word document and an excel spreadsheet.  More so with the word document.  What happens is when I try to open a new document or an existing one, it does not allow me to edit it.  When I do "control-alt-delete" and choose the task manger, a window pops up and shows Microsoft Bootstrapper and Word Document for tasks to end.  As a last resort, I've uninstalled Office 7 and reinstalled and it works fine, for awhile.  After a little over a week, it's right back to the same old problem.  I've uninstalled and installed at least 6 times over the last month or so.  Any idea what the problem might be?

Encryption for Office for Android

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 06:43 AM PDT

Why doesn't the Android mobile app allow me to open encrypted documents, or save them? Just a heads up devs, this is why I don't use OneDrive or the mobile Office app. Without encryption, it is useless to me.

While we're at it, how about the ability to save to a local folder? Or alter the default template?

English numbers converted to Persian

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:53 AM PDT

Split from this thread.

Hi Suzanne,

i`m vahid from iran. *** Email address is removed for privacy *** and vahid in instagram

u`r a proffessional in ms word. i`m amazed really.

i have a problem that badger me for a long time. pleas help me.

when i save as pdf a doc in word2013, it deform and convert eng nombers to persian like end notes.

i can send u sample file.

thank`s a lot

u`rs sincerely.

please save me skirt madam.

v.eini

Font colors are not retained when Paragraph styles are applied against Table cells in Microsoft Word

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:28 AM PDT

Hi,

I am experiencing an issue in Microsoft Word 2007/2010 wherein font colors are not retained when I apply paragraph styles (like Body Text, Normal) against table cells.

I noticed that this is happening even when the font color is "Automatic" for the paragraph styles

The same is not happening when I apply table styles against table elements.

Is there a restriction against using paragraph styles against Table cells?

Underlining won't print on areas of word Document

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:18 AM PDT

I use Mircosoft Office Home & Student 2007 and am having problems when printing out 'Word' documents

Where I have areas on a document that are underlined, the underlined areas are not showing at all or only one area is showing when printed out.

I initially thought this may be a printer problem but have tried every suggestion that has been made to me from the printer forum and everything was showing up normal

It was suggested that I print the documents in another format, so I pasted the content of the word document onto One Note and Powerpoint and in both instances the underlined areas printed out correctly which leaves me to believe that there is some error with the Word programme. I have also forwarded the documents to a friend for them to use their printer and again this was produced correctly

Can anybody come up with suggestions of what the problem may be

Display only images names and suffix in DOCX

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 04:12 AM PDT

Hi!

I would like to display only images name and suffix (ie. image1.jpg), so that i can identify in DOCX which image is showing where...

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Highlighting a words in 'Find' and saving the document with the highlights

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:59 AM PDT

Is it possible to

1. save the document showing the highlights?

2. after saving the highlights, search, find and highlight another word in a different colour and save that to

I'd like to come back to the document the following day and edit

Word 2013 Mail Merge

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 03:39 AM PDT

I am having a problem with the results of my email merge.

Everything works, it sends to each recipient, but it sends a copy of everyone's email to everyone.   When you scroll down, you see the next person's greeting and message, scroll down and see the next person's greeting and message, etc...   What am I doing wrong?   I think it is at the end when I finish the merge.

Legal Style Headings

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 02:56 AM PDT

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question; however, it is as good a place to start as any I suppose.

First, I am a long time "LaTeX" user which gives me absolute control over my documents. I am now working in a position that requires me to use MS Office. Since I create mostly "legal" documents, I have been having all sorts of problems crating properly formatted material.

For instance, a new chapter in a legal document usually begins for example:

Article 1

Control of Noxious Growth

Now, try as I might, I cannot create that type of heading using any of the built in heading styles that Office has. I can create the formatted size, but not the LF/CR between "Article" and "Title". The numbering configuration page only gives an option for "Tab", "Space" or "Nothing". There should be a line feed option also.

Also, for some insane reason, Office insists on placing "Article" in the TOC. That is plain dumb. It should only place the number then the title. It is things like this that drive me crazy with Office.

I would appreciate any assistance available. I have tried Googling, but came up empty.

Microsoft Word ignore once feature

Posted: 20 Sep 2014 01:19 AM PDT

My problem is that I am writing a Religious Book, and having to use many different Bible verses, and this is an example:

Isaiah 28:9-11

9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. 

It keeps telling me that the "and whom" should be "And whom" and that the "them that are" should be "Them that are". But this is what the Bible says and I do NOT want to correct it, I want to leave it as it is. So I keep using the "Ignore once" feature and it stops with the squiggly green line for a bit but before I know it, it is right back there again. It is SO annoying! I have to put up with this with every chapter that I write. 

Why can't you just tell it to IGNORE that, and have it STAY ignored in that particular document at least? It is really distracting and all I can do is to turn off the Grammar checker altogether, which is not good, since then I have to remember to keep turning it back on again to check for other mistakes. 

I am using Microsoft Word 2002 and have a Windows 8 computer.

Thanks, Claudia

WORD 2013 READ ONLY?

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 07:11 PM PDT

Hi,

anytime I open my word doc, it's read only,  when I save it, I was told to save under different file ! MS OFFICE 2010, didn't have this problem

I did UNCHECK  from the option : not open as  "read only"

.

is there any way I can disable read only so I can save  under the same file ?

Thanks

Microsoft Word on Surface RT

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 05:42 PM PDT

I have a Surface RT 1 generation Until today, MS Word has work excellent, but today, I loose my header, and by default when I open a new blank document, the cursor star in the first line, (on the header).  I've looking to reinstall the program but I cant.  I try to set default margins size and I cant.  How I can repair it? (Sorry for my English).

Selecting bold adds bold and italics to text

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:28 PM PDT

Since last week, any formatting in which bold is applied now displays as bold italics. Any attempts to add bold formatting also adds bold italics. Trying to de-select italics has no effect. It seems the style definition for 'Bold' is now 'Bold Italics' and thus cannot be changed in the style editor (since it only has 'bold' format selected, but defines bold as bold with italics). If I try to create a new style definition with just bold, it also creates bold with italics (since it now thinks 'bold' includes italics).

How do I restore normal bold (without having to do a system restore, if that would fix it) or resetting all Word settings to default (undoing all of my custom settings)?

Thanks for your help.

Problem with page orientation.

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 04:04 PM PDT

I have written a fairly long thesis which includes numerous sketches. When I go back to revise and edit it, I find the whole work is in landscape mode. Also many of the sketches do not appear. I have copied and pasted a small selection to a new page in word and the work appears in portrait with the sketches intact.

How do I return the whole work to normal portrait mode. I have clicked on the landscape/portrait button but nothing happens.

Mail Merge with Linked Datasource

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 03:09 PM PDT

I'm doing a mail merge with a linked data source (Excel 2010) and I'm having trouble with it updating. I update the data, but it doesn't update in the merge document data table. I've heard that linked databases do not update if the database is saved on a shared drive. Is this true? My database is saved locally, and it's still not updating. 
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