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Moving /home

Posted: 17 May 2007 09:21 PM PDT

On 2007-05-18, Matt Giwer <REMover.rr.com> wrote: 

It's not? The OP seems to have originally placed /home on the
/ partition, and now wants it on its own partition. He probably
wants to be able to erase / without disturbing /home.
 

Why?
 

If users are logged in moving /home could cause problems. The
most sure way is to go to runlevel 1, log in directly as root, and
then move /home to its final destination e.g.

mount /dev/hda88 /mnt/newhome
cd /home
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/newhome;tar xvf -)

# (force of habit; the equivalent mv should work too)
# verify newhome is good; then
rm -rf /home
# or
mv /home /oldhome
mkdir /home
mount /dev/hda88 /home
# now edit /etc/fstab and add an entry for /home

If runlevel 1 is not an option, then set /etc/nologin or equivalent
(like beating your users over the head with a hockey stick if they
log in), kill off any processes using /home (lsof can help here), then
do the above.

You need to remove or move the old /home before mounting the new
/home if you want to be able to eventually free up that space without
having to umount the new /home. If you don't move it out of the way,
the new mount will mask the existing files, and there will be no way
to delete them without umounting the new /home.

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Blog publishing (newbie)

Posted: 17 May 2007 05:40 PM PDT

On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:40:31 -0400, Neil Jones wrote:
 

A good tool for newbie bloggers is WordPress.

http://wordpress.org/

How to set the order of init.d scripts.

Posted: 16 May 2007 01:30 PM PDT

On 16 May, 21:30, voipfc <com> wrote: 

On most Linux systems, the "chkconfig" command is used to read the
chkconfig line in the init script and set the order appropriately.
Take a look in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d to get a sense of what happens at
runlevel 3, and at the contents of the files and the man page for
chkconfig.

Is there some good serial port terminal tool ?

Posted: 15 May 2007 10:46 PM PDT

On May 17, 7:23 pm, Nico <com> wrote: 

What isn't intuitive about minicom? Anyone here who has ever used a
popular terminal program for the PC such as Telix or Procomm will
recognize minicom.
 

Kermit?! If minicom isn't intuitive, kermit is arcane! Only greybeards
will recognize kermit. I remember it, but fortunately only used it
sparingly to transfer to/from old systems that had nothing else.

video/wireless devices for FC6 on Dell laptop; recommendations?

Posted: 15 May 2007 12:39 PM PDT

In alt.comp.linux Richard Vaughn <com> wrote:
 

Ok, this appears to be supported by open source DRI drivers. I have not
tested this personally, but if it works, this would be the card of choice. I
would try and find someone who has a similar laptop, and test it with a live
CD. The other cards do not have open source 3d support at this time, as far as
I can tell, so I would avoid these at this time.

Regards,

Mark.

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From Mozilla to Mailx and Sendmail ?

Posted: 14 May 2007 09:26 AM PDT

On May 15, 11:23 am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote: 

That's maybe the goal, but I was asking something completely
different, if someone knows how to...

Thanks anyway.

How to recall history command for editing

Posted: 14 May 2007 03:08 AM PDT



voipfc wrote:
 

If you are using bash then first do:

shopt -s histverify

Then when you do !27 it will put the command on the command line and
allow you to edit it.

Good luck,

Steve

P.S. This was found via the time-honored method of "man history".

cron daily jobs all run together

Posted: 12 May 2007 07:52 PM PDT

Darren Salt wrote: 
They do, but mine contains only:

cron.d:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Nov 15 2005 sysstat

$ cat cron.d/sysstat
# run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
# generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A

I like to keep my regular stuff together in /etc/cron.hourly, .daily,
..weekly, and .monthly in each of which run-parts runs one after the other as
fast as it can.

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Is there an easy way to install apps on Linux

Posted: 11 May 2007 01:43 PM PDT

On 11 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>, Roger wrote:
 

As you are new to Linux, your best bet is to use the applications that
come with your distribution (or in the case of *buntu, the applications
available through Debian), and you _REALLY_ want to be using the
package manager for this.

1: The packages have been inspected, poked at, tested AND someone
is keeping an eye on it for security problems.

2: The package manager keeps track of what is installed, where, and
what conflicts and dependencies exist, AND how to resolve them.

3. The package manager can handle updates, and the safe removal of
packages without breaking the system.

Do you know how to do all of that? Are you aware of the consequences
if you are not able to do so?

Unlike windoze, there are (literally) hundreds of different Linux
distributions, and they use several different package tools. Most often,
packages are built for a specific release of a specific distribution,
much as a fender for a 2006 Plymouth PT Cruiser isn't going to fit very
well on a 2004 Chevrolet Corvette. or a 1957 Ford Thunderbird. The
common tool among all distributions is the tar file and compiling from
source - which is still simpler than you trying to figure out how to
bash that piece of sheet metal (or fiberglass) into something that may
be made to fit and function like a fender.
 

Then why are you using a keyboard? Can't you just click on some icon
and have your thoughts translated directly to words in some web-form?
 

uhuh
 

The reason it did not is because that cryptic command stuff can do things
that your GUI can't do because the author never thought you'd need or
want to do so. If the GUI author didn't include it, you can't do it.
Amazing. Additionally, the commands can be chained together to do
things quite different, and rapidly without much effort. In reality,
while there are a lot of "cryptic" commands on the computer, you rarely
use even ten percent of them. Here, there are over 1300 commands in my
PATH as a user - yet I average using around 80 commands to accomplish
everything I use the computer for. Tell me where the icons are that you
can use to find out how many commands are on your system, and which ones
you are using.

Old guy

Video Problem installing FC6 on P4

Posted: 10 May 2007 11:56 AM PDT

On Fri, 11 May 2007 17:58:13 -0400, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Good morning, Matt.

I found ONE video card (Matrox G-200), out of my large stack of video
cards, that works. So, the problem is solved for now. Unfortunately I
had to accept that and move on to my next problem, so I didn't get a
chance to retrieve and post messages generated by the non-working cards.
I do appreciate the offer to look at them and I may take you up on that
when I get myself dug out from under the current pile of issues to deal
with. :-\

Ubuntu 6.10: I cannot compile "hello world"

Posted: 10 May 2007 08:27 AM PDT

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Bill Mar wrote:
 
Thanks!
you enabled the "crystal ball" option,
understood what i meant
and gave me the solution
(or at least something very well worth trying)

Thanks again
Luciano :-)
 

Where can I download UPDATE 2 for RHE 4 !

Posted: 10 May 2007 07:14 AM PDT

Zex wrote: 

Who do you think pays Red Hat to produce those updates?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to test those updates?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to package those updates and all the other
packages into a distribution that you can easily install?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to maintain all the development and test machines?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to maintain all the servers to distribute the
updates?
Who do you think pays Red Hat to purchase the networking capacity so you can
download those updates?
It is the subscribers to their service that do it, and you want to freeload
off all those of us who pay for it?

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where and how to create a cron job

Posted: 10 May 2007 03:14 AM PDT


Ayon kay Bill Mar: 

Tnx sir. i tried using crontab -e and my back-up scheduling is now
ok...tnx so mch

How to setup telnet server for root account ?

Posted: 08 May 2007 10:43 AM PDT

com.tw wrote: 
Simply excecute "su -" once logged in..and go superuser.

Having a root capable direct telnet login is a security hole so large
that even I don't do it on a private network!

Active mode FTP over PPP

Posted: 08 May 2007 04:13 AM PDT

Mark Hobley <deletethisbit.com> wrote:
 

The three servers are connected to each other by ethernet. I have an idea.

Keep all the servers on 192.168.0.*

On the modem panels provide DHCP addresses as: 192.168.1.* for the first panel
through to 192.168.254.* and use a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0.

This allows 254 modem panels, each containing 254 modems. (Presumably you
don't have any more than this.)

(Remember you cannot use *.0 and *.255 for client addresses)

A dialling in client then requests its PPP address via DHCP, and is placed on
the 192.168.1.* network (presuming the first panel takes the call)

You still need to activate packet forwarding on server A, but this is trivial.

I assume here that all 64516 modems are connected to server A, obviously you
need to adjust this model to suit your layout.

Regards,

Mark.

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USB hard drive compatibility and Linux

Posted: 08 May 2007 03:23 AM PDT

Wenslauw wrote: 
Just bought a new Seagate 500Gb drive with 16Mb Cache, and 5year
warranty, for $139.99 delivered. Stuck it into one of my
USB/Firewire400 cases, and formatted it to EXT3. 465 GB of usable
storage. Have two others and am dumping them over. Also can dump my
internal 120Gb drive.

Hey, works fine in PCLinuxOS and Simply Mepis 6.5.

Repartition tool

Posted: 07 May 2007 02:30 PM PDT

Don Phillipson wrote: 

http://livecdlist.com has some like, QTParted, Gnome parted (Gparted).

or: any live cd has the partition editor in the install file.

Also, > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ 

Dual-boot system: How to change default to Windows

Posted: 06 May 2007 09:56 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, Stefan Patric
<com>
wrote
on Tue, 08 May 2007 04:48:42 GMT
<KiT%h.1834$%phx>: 

Well, really, everyone knows that the normal method of designating
partitions with single letters starting with C:, D:, etc. is just so
intuitive! :-)

I'll admit I'm of two minds of all this. The HP mindset -- since HP
originally had a nomenclature that identified a drive by SCSI ID --
is a bit brittle; what if one changes the scsi ID? A similar problem
exists for the Linux ordering, which is basically first drive /dev/sda,
second drive /dev/sdb, etc., regardless of whether drive #1 is id 0, id
1, id 3, etc.

However, there's a third alternative...and in fact, several more.
Take a look at /dev/disk; one will find three alternate choices
to the standard /dev/hda1 nomenclature.

/dev/disk/by-id:
Entries here are symlinks, with names starting with the interface type
(ata or scsi, presumably), followed by an identifier read from the drive
(I have a Maxtor_98196H8_V80BT60C and a
WDC_WD800LB-55DNA0_WD-WMADW1096956, apparently; it's possible that
there's a unique identifier in there somewhere as a lot of systems are
configured with two identical model drives), followed by -partNN if it's
a partition as opposed to the entire drive.

/dev/disk/by-path:
Entries here are also symlinks. I'm not entirely sure what the first
part is on other systems (on mine it's pci-0000:00:02.5, which is
probably an indication of where the interface card, or in my case
which onboard controller, is), followed by 0 or 1, followed by colon,
followed by 0 (master) or 1 (slave), followed by -partNN as before.

/dev/disk/by-uuid:
Entries here are symlinks, and apparently represent a UUID generated
when the partition was formatted for use.

This is all part of udev. Presumably mount doesn't care whether it's
accessing the device directly (/dev/hda1) or a symlink that's correctly
pointing to the device.

Of course, during booting, all of this isn't quite set up
yet, so there's not a lot one can do; I happen to like GRUB
but LILO might make more sense for those already familiar
with e.g. /dev/hda1.

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Does some have any idea to install DSL on HDD without FDD?

Posted: 06 May 2007 06:54 PM PDT

google-rambo88 <com> wrote:
 

There is a command dsl-hdinstall that transfers the system onto the hard drive.

http://markhobley.yi.org/linux/distributions/damnsmall/baseinstall/index.html

Regards,

Mark.

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Making 'ptal-init setup' permanent.

Posted: 05 May 2007 09:56 AM PDT

On May 7, 4:41 am, elsiddik <com> wrote: 

Ok, a good point to start, but are you sure that '/etc/rc.local' is
somewhat debian specific?
I don't have such as directory (file!?) in my /etc. I guess his debian
counterpart could be the directory '/etc/rcS.d'. In thins directory
I've many symlinks to '/etc/init.d', one of which keep my attention,
'S55bootmisc.sh'. A comment line inside this file declaim as follow:
" # Short-Description: Miscellaneous things to be done during bootup."
So what I would to do, put the 'ptal-init setup' entry inside it?
This isn't a simple 'typeit_typeenter_goaway command', but an
interactive one, with many questions to answer to go to its end. So
what I would like to do is save its final results.

Apologies in andvance if I'm too noob and I'm saying non-sense things
in a bad english :-}

installation/upgrade questions

Posted: 04 May 2007 01:01 PM PDT

Thanks, guys, for the feedback.

Now I know that at least I'm not alone with erratic CD-ROM behavior. I did
give the the thing a cleaning, which helped some. I'll get another one if I
must.

BTW, the problems were from CD-R discs for the most part, though some may
have actually been industrially-pressed CDs. I have no expectation of any
results from any DVD or CD-RW disc.

MB

A curious one

Posted: 04 May 2007 09:05 AM PDT

Jean-David Beyer wrote: 
Well I use it as a files server so I can share files and printers wih my
wife's old Mac, and its recently taken up a positin to go online as a
web server for a very small site that so far has juts 700 people
looking at it on an irregular basis..an its a place my wife can showcase
websites she is developing for clients..so no one is paying anything for
its use..its just a development and utility platform.
 

Yup. That's a tree branch across the line, or the wires clashing
together. That's what got it into this state...I have it on 'no auto
reboot' since when we do get an outage, chances are the power goes up
and down several times before its cleared.

My 
Nah. I am more irritaed on having to wait for the lights to stop
flashing, then 'press enter' to get it to carry on booting..

keeping drivers over boot

Posted: 04 May 2007 03:16 AM PDT

On 4 May 2007 03:40:48 -0700, elsiddik <com> wrote:
 

I don't know what 'em is. Only thing I know that works is 'make install'
and I suspect there must be a cleaner solution.

The link /vmlinuz is a damaged link and The link /initrd.img is a damaged link due to lack of free disk space...

Posted: 03 May 2007 12:18 PM PDT

> > # apt-get remove kernel-headers-2.6.8-3 kernel-headers-2.6.8-3-k7 
 
 

Thanks! I always thought headers were required for modules (not just
compiling). Heh, I am still learning Linux a lot. :)
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Duplicate Linux Disk

Posted: 02 May 2007 11:29 PM PDT

On Wed, 02 May 2007 23:29:35 -0700, com wrote:
 
If you are using the grub loader, then you will need to install grub on
the second disk. This is because you used tar to copy the partition, which
is the correct way to do it, IMO, BTW. It is correct way to copy because
it allows for the source partition to have different properties than the
destination partition (size, filesystem, etc.) You just have to remember
to account for the bootloader.

The final fixups for making sure the copy will work as intended. Two
of the fixups are as follows:
(1) grub needs to be installed, and its menu verified,
and
(2) /etc/fstab needs to be edited (that is, if you intend to boot
without recabling.) The FC distribution may use "disk lables"
instead of standard device names which is a big annoyance for me.
If you are going to recable in the event of a drive failure, then you may
not need to do this step.

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Microsoft Word - need help

Microsoft Word - need help

need help

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:52 PM PDT

I want download Microsoft word because is very expensive and I don't have this money.

Desktop Icons

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:43 PM PDT

What does the exclamation mark in a red circle indicate when it appears in the desktop icon for a word document? Never seen it before, but today it has started appearing on icons for all newly created files.

Update

The same exclamation mark now appears on all office document icons on the desktop. When files are moved to a folder the exclamation mark disappears but reappears when the document is moved back to the desktop.

Issue with Creating Individual Borders around Text

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 12:12 PM PDT

I've run into this issue recently and I've found no solutions online so far.

I try to follow the directions outlined here for putting borders around lines of text. I expect to be able to select the text, add a bottom border, and then apply it to just that section of the text. Instead, it creates a complete border box around the text no mater what individual border button I click (left, right, top, bottom). It either has a full border or it has no border; I can't draw individual boarders at all. If I apply the boarder to the whole paragraph, then I'm suddenly able to select top and bottom borders normally.

order of mail merge with labels

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 11:06 AM PDT

I'm trying to use the label format for a mail merge to create a directory listing.  The template is about the right size.  Is there a way I can get the data to sort alphabetically going vertically down the columns, rather than horizontally across the rows?

print 2 of same page on one sheet of paper

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 10:24 AM PDT

I have typed text into Word 2013 document.  The text fills only half of a landscape normal size sheet of paper.  I would like to duplicate this text on the other half of the sheet.  When I set "2 pages per sheet" in the page layout section, I do get text on only half the page, but the second sheet in on a second piece of paper leaving the right half of the 8 1/2 x 11 sheet blank.

Is there any way to duplicate the text on the left side so that it prints on the right side?  

I know that I can accomplish this in Publisher.  Just wondering if I can accomplish this in Word.

bookmark causing Word 2010 doc to lock

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 10:05 AM PDT

When attempting to find assigned bookmark,  doc freezes when I click on "Bookmark" in "Insert."   I then have to hit Esc to access doc.  Very concerned about this as it is on a manuscript in editing phase, as I don't know if this is an indication of a major corruption.   I am able to find my location by entering in "Find" the name I had assigned in Bookmark , which I had cross ref in doc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Word 2010 crashes when opening a text (.txt) file

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:31 AM PDT

I am using Office 2010 with Windows 7(64) with all current updates.  All drivers are also current.  When I try to open a text file (*.txt) in Word, the program crashes.  I have tried a new Normal.dotm and I have run a repair of Office.  Does anybody have any ideas about this?

How can I install the math symbol library in word?

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:05 AM PDT

This is what my word displays instead of formulas created with a good version of word.

Already uninstalled and installed the program, it keeps not working. You can see on image top that symbols lack in the computer library, and it's not a matter of corruption of the file. Also my math input panel does not display correctly symbols. Any suggestions? Do you know  how can I install the symbols libraries?

Can't apply Heading 2 style to first item in the list

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:44 AM PDT

I've defined the heading 1 and heading 2 styles for the top 2 levels of headings (and others below). I'm having trouble with numbering and indents/alignment, which I suspect are related. 

Heading 1: Capital letters off in the left margin; text starts at 0

Heading 2: Numbers at 0 (aligned with text of heading 1), text at .25". 

For #1 in each section (the first "heading 2"), Word is mysteriously indenting everything an additional .25". (This is a problem because .25" to the right is where heading 3 is.) With other "heading 2" numbers -- 2, 3, 4, etc. -- I am able to move manually by dragging the markers in the ruler. With #1, though, even if I drag the markers in the ruler, it doesn't move. If I update heading 2 to match the selection at #2 or #3 (in its proper location), the change applies to all of the heading 2s throughout the document -- except all of the first ones (the # "1"). I've tried inserting a line of "Normal" style text between the heading 1 & heading 2 to make sure heading 2 formatting isn't affected by something about heading 1. 

How can I get the first "heading 2" (e.g., "1.   Introduction") to have the same positioning as the other "heading 2" items? Thanks!

Not sure if this is relevant: I need to keep telling Word to restart numbering at 1 in each section. It says it'll update the style "heading 2" and apply the style to each paragraph, which is fine. 

Regular (roman) character style doesn't change text to roman

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 08:25 AM PDT

I have a paragraph that uses a paragraph style that makes the entire paragraph italic (among other things). I want the first word to be roman. I would prefer to use a style for this, because the client may change her mind, and it's easier to change the style than it would be to change every occurrence of the style. So I made a character style that sets the font, makes it not bold and not italic. I even cleared direct formatting by selecting the paragraph and pressing CTRL spacebar. But when I apply the character style to the first word, it remains italic.

How do I make a character style that will change italic text to roman?

Line Numbering in MSWord 2010

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 06:47 AM PDT

I want to start with a number OTHER than 1, using line numbering.  I have multiple sections that I want to keep in separate files, but need to line number consecutively.  Any suggestions?

Cannot create a document using the New | Microsoft Word Document context menu

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 06:30 AM PDT

Split from this thread.


I am having the same issue when trying to create a new Word document ("Sorry, we couldn't find your file.  Is it possible it was moved, renamed or deleted?") in a home folder network share I have ownership of and full control over.  I cannot create a new Word or Excel document in this folder, but am able to do so on the local HDD.

I get an entirely different error message in Excel when trying to create a new .xlxs file: "Excel cannot open the file 'New Microsoft Excel Worksheet.xlsx because the file format or file extension is not valid.  Verify the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file".  I cannot create a new .xlsx anywhere, local HDD or network share.  I'm using the right click shell menu to create a new file in both cases.

Windows 8.1, Office 2013 x64.

Prevent Mail Merge from Printing Unwanted Labels

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 06:18 AM PDT

Hi there,

I have a small problem relating to printing a Mail merge from Excel 2007 using Word 2007.

I am selling on Amazon & eBay. When printing our labels we print on A4 sheets which have 8 labels per sheet. I start printing by going to finish and merge and then entering the record numbers from the excel spreadsheet.

Most days we have orders which do not add up to multiples of 8. Therefore, the last sheet usually has a few labels with addresses and the rest are empty. However, the labels which do not have addresses on them still have the postage label and our company logo. 

Please see image below; This is how the last sheet of labels looks if I printed 9 lines. I would have one full sheet, then this (only there would be 4 more blank labels) 


Is there anyway I can do mail merge and prevent our logo and postal image from being printed on empty labels?

Thanks in advance for your time

Align text vertically in Word

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 05:52 AM PDT

Split from this thread.


Kindly give me a solution for vertical alignment of text in ms word, just liked letter head i want to have some text in it.

Word 2013

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:51 AM PDT

Hi there

 I downloaded Word 2013 but there seem some error it does not start...what's the problem...please help?

All of our documents are opening in compatibility mode when edited and read only when double clicked

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 02:12 AM PDT

The computer in question is running office 2013, the documents were made in office 2013 however it is apparent that they were all saved in 07 format which I believe is why we are having the issues. How do I convert all of these files into the correct format so that they open and are editable in word. At the moment when you double click on a file it opens in "read only" and the document changes to WD000017 etc which means it cannot be saved immediately back to its location

Thanks in advance,

Laura

Backstage View animation pauses when opening

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 09:37 PM PDT

When I'm opening the Backstage View, It pauses for about a second before displaying the menu. This seems to happen in every Office application and is consistent (i.e. it happens regardless of how many times I open it).

Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'm using the Windows 10 Technical Preview (x64) and 32-bit Office. I don't recall this happening when I used the Office trial.

Missing Word 2013 Functions on Surface Pro 3

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:31 PM PDT

I have a Surface Pro 3 running Windows 8.1 Pro and Office 2013 suite. I have found that when in Word and doing stuff with tablets the function where you hover of the table and the left hand column the '+' symbol that allows to you quickly add rows doesn't appear. But on my old machine also running Windows 8.1 Pro and Office 2013 it works - is this a limitation to the Surface Pro? Anyone else come across this issue?

Microsoft Word 2010

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:09 PM PDT

Why does a document from old words programs (2003, 2007 etc.) come up as a document object?  My copy and paste stopped offering me any option it simply was an object. So when I tried to edit I got a neat little frame around the text and on the ribbon Picture tools appeared. This is an upgrade? Now I had a project of 174 pages which actually came up in that mode. I was able to print the items and saved it I thought as it was. Now I can't even find it. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Help - Need Word 2010 file recovery!

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:03 PM PDT

I have been working on a Lab Report for over a week and when I was finally finished I saved it, closed it and reopened it to make sure all my equations, graphs and text was formatted aesthetically. When the file tried to open I was prompted with a message "the file report cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents." In the details it stated, "the name in the end tag of the element much match the element type in the start tag." With a location below. 

I have tried everything from using a different computer to free recovery software to opening the file with every type of recovery.

Is there a sure fire way to fix this issue?

How to unlock a read only file

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 06:57 PM PDT

I owned Microsoft word version 2007. Whenever  I open a file and try to close it, I get the following error. "File is used by another application or in use"  upon further reading, it says that "the error is commonly encountered when read lock is set in the file you are attempting to open."  Also, when I attempted to download a file, it re-save it first, and assign a new revision.  Can someone help me to straighten things out.  

Protected templates becoming unprotected - Office 2007

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 05:39 PM PDT

We have a number of templates within our organization, users usually open the templates and edit away. We lock the documents down so they can't edit the logo's and usual font styles and what not, just so it comply's and is the same across all our documents. Though for some reason the documents are becoming unprotected.

We've figured out how to unlock the documents by doing the following

Opening a protected template

Opening another protected template

Copying the title bar from the first document into the second document

All of a sudden it's unlocked.

Now it might not seem like much, though this is considered a big breach of policy, as we have the templates for a reason.

And users being able to unlock the documents on their own poses the issue of having to redo entire reports/documents because someone has played around with the templates.

Has anyone experienced this before, or would anyone be able to give some input to why this occurs? Haven't tried copying any other data or any other method of unlocking the documents, the main concern now is just to lock this down so this can't happen.

Callum 

WORD 2013. unable to share documents/email as PDF's.

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:25 PM PDT

Original title: WORD 2013.

Alert states problem with account, sign in to fix....but it doesn't fix.  I am unable to share documents/email as PDF's.  I shut down system and rebooted, still unable to send any documents.

Configuring two Ubuntus to share a swap partition? - Forums Linux

Configuring two Ubuntus to share a swap partition? - Forums Linux

Configuring two Ubuntus to share a swap partition?

Posted: 30 Apr 2007 08:46 PM PDT


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FC5 printer problem

Posted: 30 Apr 2007 10:29 AM PDT

In message <supernews.com>
metoo <net> wrote:
 

From the front panel, or the web-based tool, of most HP PostScript
printers it is possible to turn on "print postscript errors". This
might help.

On at least one (HP 5M) printing beyond the bottom of the printable
area causes the job to be silently discarded. Are your paper
definitions correct?


--
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
freeserve.co.uk
http://www.nckc.org.uk/

SATA Controller (ICH5) drivers for Ubuntu Linux

Posted: 30 Apr 2007 03:09 AM PDT

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:09:52 -0700, Sameer wrote:
 

That's interesting. I had a problem with my Toshiba laptop that has a
SATA drive, but in my case it was Knoppix 5.0.1 and Mandriva 2007 that
would not install, and 6.06 LTS Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xbuntu that would!

--
Maurice Batey
(Remove 'removethis.' to reply by email)

Told FC6 to install everything, but it didn't, now what?

Posted: 29 Apr 2007 11:12 AM PDT

Eric wrote: 

There is no "install everything" option in FC6 The system installed what
you selected. If you are certain that you selected a specific package
during the install and it didn't get installed, file a bug report in
the Red Hat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
 

Use "yum list available".

--
Markku Kolkka
fi

ctrl-alt-fkey combination not working in Xorg

Posted: 28 Apr 2007 03:08 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Mark Hobley <deletethisbit.com> wrote: 

For information, my keyboard is a PC102 Keyboard (British Layout) AT / 5 pin DIN

It appears to be a bug in Xorg. I found some notes on the Debian Wiki:

If Ctrl-Alt-Function keys stop working, try removing the keyboard variant
option from xorg.conf if it's there. (option "XkbVariant") dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg and leave the keyboard variant field empty.

If this doesn't work, chvt 1 from a root shell will.

Mark.

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International: 0044 121 247 1596

Email: markhobley at hotpop dot donottypethisbit com

http://markhobley.yi.org/

How do I get my onboard midi synthesis to work?

Posted: 28 Apr 2007 08:08 AM PDT

I demand that Mark Hobley may or may not have written...
 
 

Then, presumably, the OSS module for it is loaded.

--
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| RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army
| + Buy less and make it last longer. INDUSTRY CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING.

In the stairway of life, you'd best take the lift.

understanding reverse proxy using squid

Posted: 27 Apr 2007 08:39 PM PDT

Thanks , I got it. From next time I will take care.

newbie double boot install issues

Posted: 26 Apr 2007 02:26 PM PDT

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:56:39 -0700, Gremnebulin wrote:
 
You are right. Both is best. One links to the other. The available space
(<512 bytes) in the MBR is not sufficient to "learn" all of the possible
filesystems, etc.

Here is an example of why what you say is true. Without help from the
code in MBR, grub cannot be installed on some filesystems:
http://www.mail-archive.com/org/msg10770.html

And if you cannot install to both the MBR and partition, you are better
off using an external boot media (cdrom or floppy). This leaves the BPB
of the partition unchanged, and avoids possible damage. The benefit of
external media is that once grub "learns" how to read filesystems and
displays the menu or prompt, grub is fully functional. It can read the
kernel and initrd from any partition with a filesystem that it "knows" how
to read.

--
Douglas Mayne

Linux machine backup

Posted: 26 Apr 2007 12:02 PM PDT

On 26 Apr, 22:42, Robin T Cox <net> wrote: 

Welcome to rsnapshot, to push it to another drive efficiently, and
tarballs to store it on DVD's.

Help for FTP setup??

Posted: 26 Apr 2007 08:59 AM PDT

On 26 Apr, 18:25, Keith Keller <san-
francisco.ca.us> wrote: 

Or better yet, to avoid the security and proxy problems of FTP and its
passwords sent in the clear, use WebDAV over HTTPS to keep people in a
restricted directory, or SSH if your friends need accounts on your
machine.

newbie install problems

Posted: 25 Apr 2007 03:45 PM PDT

Partitioning software at this point for your purposes is INDEPENDENT
of the problem (OS). If XP is already installed on the machine and you just
want to partition/repartition the second physical drive just use XP to do
it. Most Linux installs make at least two partitions one for boot/root and
one for swap. If however you ACTUALLY have one hard drive that has
two partitions, that is a different story.

later.....

"Rubyxx" <co.uk> wrote in message
news:462fe9d9$news.uk.tiscali.com... 
is 

FC5 on a Laptop --- disabling hardware

Posted: 25 Apr 2007 10:56 AM PDT

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:56:06 -0700, Carlos Moreno wrote:
 

Besides ensuring your FC5 OS is fully patched/updated & that you are
running the most current BIOS version for your laptop, also check your
RAM.

With FC5 on my laptop, I had issues with all of these, which caused my
laptop to randomly freeze the GUI, which required a hard shutdown/reboot.

Once I upgraded the BIOS, some of my issues went away. Keeping the OS
updated also fixed some more of the random freezing issues. However it
was not until I swapped out the RAM with some known good RAM, did my
laptop stability issues fully go away. Since then, I replaced all the
RAM with new chips & things are rock solid. Upgrading to FC6 also showed
to be stable, once the BIOS & RAM issues were resolved.

Hope this helps...

Just when you think you have seen them all ...

Posted: 24 Apr 2007 06:20 PM PDT

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:20:23 -0400, Matt Giwer wrote:
 

Perhaps X is angry that you're calling it XWindows.

Cannot find pid in top using ps on Linux box

Posted: 24 Apr 2007 02:07 PM PDT

On 25 Apr 2007 06:30:22 -0700, ss-sandsideoaks
<com> wrote: 
What duplicate pids? Every running process has a unique pid. Maybe you
are looking for threads?


--
The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to
devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation.
-- Lew Mammel, Jr.

/dev/pts and CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY etc

Posted: 23 Apr 2007 01:40 PM PDT

On Apr 25, 12:11 pm, elsiddik <com> wrote: 

This is the part where I have to be careful. Do you know of the lines
in MAKEDEV which are responsible for /dev/pts creation?
I'd rather go for the right MAKEDEV file than run the commands
manually. The complaints about /dev/pts start during the boot process
and I'd to have it setup before all the other process that depend on
it start.

Is there a way of finding out where CONFIG_UNIX98_ are configured -
if it is supposed to be compiled into the kernel?

How to install FC5 on an external USB Harddisk?

Posted: 23 Apr 2007 12:48 PM PDT

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:30:47 GMT, The Doctor <com>
wrote:
 


Better reinstall. Look here:

http://www.vigla.eclipse.co.uk/

Mektub

how to achieve high speed rate in file transfer

Posted: 22 Apr 2007 11:21 PM PDT

Matt Giwer wrote: 

I would have said FTP is as primitive as it gets actyally.

I m wondering if the 100MBps link really is what it says it is, or if
its dropped back to 10Mbps for some reason.

Or if the OP is confusing 100Mbps with 100mega Bytes oper second.

i.e. a transfer rate of 10Mbytes/sec is about right for a 100Mbps line,
with framing overheads etc.

Microsoft Word - No longer able to edit background removal

Microsoft Word - No longer able to edit background removal

No longer able to edit background removal

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 02:31 PM PDT

While making presentation/creating word documents I often use the background removal tool on pictures. Lately the feature for manual changes on background removal has not been available on Word nor Powerpoint, and the automatic feature is virtually helpless when it comes to complex images.

Is there a way to get it back?

 

Amipro 3.1 .sam file converter to office 2013

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:46 PM PDT

I have some old AmiPro 3.1 files (*.sam) that I would like to convert to Office 2013 running on Windows 8.1 or Windows 7.

Does anyone know how to do it?

I would prefer to hear from someone that has actually done it or at least  tested the method.

I would also consider any other contemporary Application such as, Open Office in lieu of Office 2013.

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP. 

A blue circle near to my cursor

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:39 PM PDT

Hi,

Why a blue circle appears (for just a second) near to my cursor when I click to my .doc file;;;

Thank you !!!

Information in Content Controls disappear when closing and opening a word 2010 document

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:09 PM PDT

Has anyone experienced this, and if so, know how to fix it? I created a form in Word 2010 using content controls and grouping. When I open the form and fill it out, save it, and close it and then open it up, most or all of the information I typed is gone. I cannot understand this. It has not happened before. My coworker is experiencing the same thing. Is there a glitch?

Random white lines in Word 2013 Table of Contents

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:47 PM PDT

I'm trying to correct an issue with an automatic table of contents in Word 2013.  Random white lines are appearing between certain headings and they don't seem to follow any kind of pattern.  I've tried turning on 'view all characters' to see if there is some combination of keystrokes in the document text causing this issue, but there doesn't seem to be any inconsistency there.  I've also reviewed the text 'style' before and after each heading and all of my headings (including those without the issue in the TOC) are preceded and followed by either 'Normal' text or another 'Heading'.

Here's a screenshot of the TOC with arrows pointing to a couple of the offending lines but you can see there are many more.  I've tried copying a good table of contents from another doc, but that didn't work.  I am at a loss.  Help please!

WORD 2013

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:25 PM PDT

Alert states problem with account, sign in to fix....but it doesn't fix.  I am unable to share documents/email as PDF's.  I shut down system and rebooted, still unable to send any documents.

Apps for Office

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:18 AM PDT

Hi,

I am having a problem getting the apps for office (word) to work, whenever i try to refresh the 'MY APPS' section, word gives the message: "Cannot connect to catalog". When googling the problem I've noticed more people have encountered it, but I haven't found an answer yet.

This is the message I am talking about.

I am using word 2013.

Whenever i have opened this my apps section there also seems to be a connection problem to my account:

and:

I've blacked out my email-address but i guess you can find that back in my account somewhere if necessary.

I hope there is a quick solution to my problem, thanks in advance.

Kind regards,

Jeroen Broers

Word 2010 - Creating Manual from Other Word Documents and Hyperlinks

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 11:02 AM PDT

I'm assembling a host of notes in Word 2010 on a multitude of different work topics. I was creating a large document for reference, but the file size was getting so large that I wasn't able to e-mail it through the work e-mail system.  I need to be able to share documents via e-mail with others. Unfortunately we don't all have access to a shared drive we can use for this purpose. For security purposes we also cannot use USB drives in our computers.

I've since been creating separate documents for separate topics.  I've also been accumulating a list of online resources and pdf documents.   What I would like to have is a document that pulls all of these resources together.   I'm going to be using this in the course of a fast paced job so I'm going to need to be able to access information quickly.  My thought is to create a resources document that has hyperlinks to all the various subdocuments, pdfs, and online resources.

I've been looking into Master documents and I wonder if this isn't the solution, but I'd like to get some advice before I begin creating this document.  I like the fact that it looks like each section is collapsible. There are some things I'm curious about though.

Does the Master document become huge itself?  Is it the size of all the documents combined?

Along with inserting subdocuments would the addition of hyperlinks to web resources and pdfs work well?

Is the text of all the subdocuments within the master document searchable?

Am I on the right track here or can you all think of a better solution to my problem?

First and foremost I need a document for my own use. But I'm also considering how I could easily share it with others. The hyperlinks I create are going to reference word documents on my system.  If I send the master document and all subdocuments will it work for them?  I'm thinking of all the hyperlinks that might end up getting broken.

Thank you so much for your help!  I don't want to put a lot of time into a solution that is not ideal.

iCloud Drive integration with Microsoft Office on iOS?

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 10:27 AM PDT

Hi,

I'm deciding weather to buy a Surface Pro 3 or an iPad Air with a Keyboard.  The defining factor for me is, will Microsoft Office on iOS have integrated support for iCloud Drive to not only open files from, but to save files to - similarly to how OneDrive is integrated.

I attempted to use OneDrive before, but I found that it took way too long to sync only 314mb, whereas Dropbox (Which I currently use) did it in a few minutes

Read-Only / Protected View _ Word 2013

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 08:00 AM PDT

At work, we use a Java based website to generate letters based on 2003 Word templates and Macro inputs. These Word templates can be modified to adjust the formatting or Macros. To do so, the template is opened as a Word document, the document is modified, and document is saved to update the template within the site. This is done without a hitch on Word 2003. The document is opened, modified, saved, and updated within the site.

However, when the same is tried with Word 2013 (the Word I am using), the document cannot be saved back to the site to update the template. Rather, the document opens as Read-Only / Protected View and saving the document to my computer as a new file is the only option. This is very frustrating and I need to find a way that I can open the document as an editable file and save it back to the site to update the template.

Things I have tried:

Installing the Microsoft compatibility pack

Modifying Trust Center settings to remove all restrictions

Adjusting restrictions once the document opens

Searched the web for solutions for hours

This seems to be an issue with many people and I have not found a solution. Microsoft prides itself on document handling and productivity, but this feature is in conflict with its own software and making it impossible for me to work.

Please help me resolve this issue!

Thanks

Proofing tools - x86 or x64?

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Hello,

I'm using 32bit Office 2013 on 64bit Windows 8.1.

I want to install the Dutch proofing tools.

Should I use the x86 or x64 version of the proofing tools? In other words, is x86/x64 in the proofing tools installer referring to the Office version or to the Windows version?

Thanks in advance,

S.J. Westra

Adding pages to templates in Word 2013

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:55 PM PDT

I have been asked to do an assignment using the booklet template in Word 2013. I cant figure out how to add pages to the template while keeping the same format and having page numbers continuous. I just need a simple solution :) please as I'm not that familiar with editing, the booklet will be viewed online not in printed form. Thanks in advance

MS Word Mail Merge from Access Data Corruption

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 09:28 PM PDT

I have a very basic Access database full of club membership data in which I have created a Mailing List Query. 

I have created a form letter and wish to use Mail Merge to complete the letters, taking the data from the Access Query.  This has worked OK previously, but when I recently tries this again, three (and only a specific three) of the fields came across as either completely corrupted (gobbledygook) or truncated. 

Curiously, if I close & reopen the letter, the results switch back & forth between gobbledygook and truncated.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong or how I might rectify the problem?

Thanks

Mark

Office word 2007 built in design tables

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 07:21 PM PDT

I'm working on a large ms office 2007 WORD document with tables and photos, and is unable to access the TOOLS > DESIGN > built-in TABLES. Any suggestions on how to access the the built-in-design tables on a large Office 2007 word document, that has already been created?

Coordinate proofing among different PCs

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:58 PM PDT

I set Word options to save documents and templates to my SkyDrive so that I can easily switch between my desktop and my Surface tablet.  That works fine for documents and templates but not for proofing tools.  Do I really have to redefine every proofing function on every new computer I use and hope I can do it consistently.  There must be some way to maintain a shared library of proofing functions, isn't there?

Convert a document from RTF to Word and embed all images

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:24 PM PDT

Hi,

I have a document that has been created as an RTF output and images are not embedded (I have no choice on this initial output), they are essentially links.  If I try and convert the RTF document to DOCX and send the file to someone else, none of the images appear because the links are broken or not present.

Is there a simple/quick way to embed all images into the DOCX document without having to go through one by one.  There are 250+ images.

Thanks, Scott

Flash Drive

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:21 PM PDT

How do I access the resume I have on a flashdrive?  Just getting started with this.

Need some assistance creating a new document in a separate Document Collection using VBA Word 2010

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:10 PM PDT

Hi,
I have been trying to figure out how to do something and hope someone might have an answer here.
I am trying to create a new document from a template within another Word Document.
If I call Word.Documents.Add template:="C:\Templates\Test.dotm", the new document opens based on that template but the calling document is locked until that new document is closed.
If I can Word.Documents.Open filename="C:\Templates\test.dotm", it opens in its own window and the original document is able to be edited.
I need to be able to create a new document based on a template from within a template without adding it to the Documents collection. Is this possible in VBA? Any suggestions are appreciated.

MS Word 2010 search results disappear from navigation pane after a few seconds

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 03:54 PM PDT

When I highlight a word and press ctrl+f the Navigation pane opens to the 'Browse results' tab. This lists my results, and highlights them in the document. However after a few seconds, this disappears, and says "you can search for text..." and I have to press the up/down arrows to get the list to reappear.  This is exceedingly frustrating. Could this be related to another problem I have that the view returns to the cursor position a few seconds after scrolling away from it? 

Any advice for either problem would be great. 

Sharepoint won't open office docs after server rename

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 02:49 PM PDT

Hi-

We renamed our SharePoint server and everything is fine.  However, MS docs won't open within SharePoint anymore.  We have an Office Web Apps server and that hasn't been touched since the rename...  Is there somewhere on the Web Apps server where I need to change the name of our SharePoint 2013 server?  Any other ideas?  This was working fine before the server rename.

Thanks in advance!

A5 Page

Posted: 14 Oct 2014 04:52 AM PDT

Since I have new Desktop Pc I install Word 2003 but when I look for A5 in page setup it is not there.  Wins 8
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