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Posted: 24 Jan 2008 11:40 AM PST

On 24 Jan, 20:09, Bill Mar <net> wrote: 

OK, first, never edit /etc/passwd without using "vipw". This useful
command does sanity checking on your changes, and will help prevent
you from making dangerous mistakes.

Also, to change a user's password, use "usermod", not direct editing.

Also, *DON'T CHANGE ROOT'S SHELL!!!!!!* Seriously, there are a big
variety of init and configuration tools which can become extremely
unhappy if you pull a stunt like that. Root is not a normal user, and
should not be treated as one.

In the meantime. You need a live Linux CD, or your installation CD for
Fedora, and to boot from the CD. With the Fedora CD, you can type
"linux rescue" and it will try to find your disks and mount them for
you. Then you can use "vi" to edit the mounted file at /mnt/sysimage/
etc/passwd.

upgrading FC6 -> FC8 - Error enabling swap device hda5: no suchdevice or address

Posted: 24 Jan 2008 08:57 AM PST

As it turns out, all i did was to change my fstab
entry that had:

/dev/hda5 ....

to

LABEL=/dev/hda5 ....

and it got past that error.

Now it hangs during dependency checks, but I know there is
an arg to pass it on startup I saw.

Thanks for the help

Grub Manual Install Question

Posted: 23 Jan 2008 11:32 AM PST

com wrote:
 
.... 

Subject to naming your partitions correctly,
this sounds fine to me.
But I don't claim to be an expert.

1) You can install grub on your Windows partition,
but I'm not sure why you would want to.
Most people install it on the MBR.
This should not interfere with Windows, if that is your worry.
Here are the stanzas in my grub.conf, as a matter of interest:
--------------------------------
title Fedora (2.6.23.9-85.fc8)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.9-85.fc8 ro root=/dev/vg/slash rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.9-85.fc8.img
itle Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
--------------------------------
If you are in doubt you can always put several stanzas
for the same system, and see which works.

2) You don't need to use the --root-directory option.
This is for installing grub for a system that is not running.

3) I don't know how your system works,
but on my SCSI system (Fedora) I cannot have /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5 .
For historic reasons to do with IDE disks
I have to declare /dev/sda4 to be an "extended partition"
which is then divided into /dev/sda5 ... /dev/sda13 .

4) There are two precautions you could take.

a) Get Knoppix (Linux on a CD).
In my experience it is a life-saver if anything goes wrong booting.

b) I always save the MBR before installing anything on it,
with something like
dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr bs=512 count=1
Then if there is any problem I can re-install it with
dd if=mbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

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Partition troubles on a GIANT storage server

Posted: 23 Jan 2008 10:22 AM PST

In article <com>,
Ignoramus2378 <2378.invalid> wrote: 

LVM isn't really that scary, and it affords you some flexibility that you
won't get with partitioning. I just put a box in a colo with 10 400GB SATA
drives. The drives are connected through an Adaptec SATA RAID controller;
two are hardware RAID-1 with /, /boot, swap, and an LVM partition to hold
Xen domU root filesystems and swaps, while the other eight are software
RAID-5 set up with LVM as a dumping ground for data. (I used software
RAID-5 because Adaptec's firmware won't create volumes larger than 2
TB...grr. I didn't buy these cards; I'm only using them because someone
else here bought them and a bunch of them are hanging around the office. I
would've used an Areca SATA RAID controller (we also have some of those on
hand and they will create >2TB volumes), but it doesn't appear to play well
with the Asus M2N-LR.)

As long as your volume groups don't span multiple physical disks, LVM is no
more dangerous than conventional partitioning. IIRC, some additional work
is needed to boot from a logical volume, so it's simpler to use partitions
for your root and boot filesystems. For the rest, it's simple enough...
something like this:

pvcreate /dev/sdb # introduce a physical disk to LVM
vgcreate foo /dev/sdb # add it to a new volume group
lvcreate -L 10G -n bar foo # create a logical volume in it
e2fsck -jL bar /dev/foo/bar # format it

_/_
/ v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail)
(IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting!
\_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?

Verizon/LG VX8300 Dialup

Posted: 23 Jan 2008 05:57 AM PST

Thanks for the info, let us know how your bill looks. We have the same exact
phone, i think a simple 400 min plan..
mc

can not boot from DVD

Posted: 23 Jan 2008 04:15 AM PST

On Jan 24, 8:16 am, Matt Giwer <REMover.rr.com> wrote: 


I used k3b to burn (which now I know i just copied not burn!!). I will
BURN another DVD. I have to look at k3b options again.
hope it works this time..

installing Fedora 8

Posted: 22 Jan 2008 04:46 AM PST

On 23 Jan, 11:44, JM <net> wrote: 

I was apparently unclear. I did not suggest splitting your drive: this
is what I think is probably silly. I mean keeping your other drive
online on the machine.

Using a USB flash drive to install multiple versions?

Posted: 19 Jan 2008 05:54 PM PST

At Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:28:18 -0800 Bogus <bogus> wrote:
 

Basically, you install some sort of boot loader on the USB stick (eg
Grub or Lilo) and create boot loader sections based on the contents of the
isolinux directory. Typically you'll need to copy the kernel and
initial ramdisk images from the CDs and look at the isolinux.cfg files
to get the right kernel command line options. What will then happen is
that each boot option will be listed by the boot loader (either
explicity for Grub or via the 'menu' option (or TAB key) for Lilo).

It is not really much different from creating a boot/rescue floppy or
CD. I believe there are a number of web pages about creating bootable
USB sticks (Google is your friend) -- mostly these are for creating
standalone Linux systems on a USB stick, but the same principles can be
used for what you want to do.
 

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hwclock problem with leapseconds - posix? - solved?

Posted: 17 Jan 2008 02:01 AM PST

hi,

Bill Mar wrote:
 

thks for the hint, but nope, /usr is fully contained in /, not on an
extra partition,

so there must be something else, will post about it when i find time
to check,

thks,

helpless user

Urgent: SharePoint team services 2003 and Project 2000 Microsoft Project

Urgent: SharePoint team services 2003 and Project 2000 Microsoft Project

Urgent: SharePoint team services 2003 and Project 2000

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 07:10 AM PST

Why are you supporting this configuration?
It dosen't work, Apples and oranges. Or in this case, rotten apples
which is the world of XML.

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

MS Project recurring tasks

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 05:56 AM PST

Hi Peggy

I am trying to recreate the scenario you have described but I do not get the
same results

I have created a recurring task - every monday for the next 5 weeks

I have expanded the recurring tasks by clicking the + symbol

I have created a task that has a dependency on the first instance of the
recurring tasks (in the predecssors column I can see the specific reference
to the individual instance)

The task that is dependent on the individual instance starts as soon as that
instance is scheduled to finish

Have you done anything different to this for your project?

Hope this helps ...
--
Regards


Chris Marriott - PMP MCSE MCDBA
UK - EPM Consultant & Trainer


"Peggy" wrote:
 

Problems with Projectserver 2003...

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 03:49 AM PST

You're welcome, Arne :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Arne Styve wrote: 

Hiding group totals in Project 2003

Posted: 07 Nov 2005 03:21 AM PST

Chris

Thanks for your reply. Someone I know with Project 2000 is able to do this
by formatting the summary start/finish/days to the same colour as the
background, but in Project 2003 when I try to do this it won't let me format
individual cells in the group summary.

Cheers
Gary

"Chris Marriott" wrote:
 

How do I show multiple resources on one graph in Project?

Posted: 06 Nov 2005 11:38 PM PST

Hi Skiffie,

Welcome to the Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

Please see FAQ Item: 38. Combined Resource Graph

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on:-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP
Skiffie wrote: 

with publisher how do i insert a flash object into a web page?

Posted: 05 Nov 2005 05:28 PM PST

Sorry Moe ... you have selected the wrong group .... publisher is one floor up
--
Regards


Chris Marriott - PMP MCSE MCDBA
UK - EPM Consultant & Trainer


"Moe" wrote:
 

Help me please.....

Posted: 05 Nov 2005 10:27 AM PST

Hi toofan,

You can't change the information *directly* in the Relationship Diagram view
in the bottom pane, but you can modify task link types (FS, SS etc.) in the
Task Form View. When you initially split from the Gantt Chart view, the
Task Form is the view in the bottom pane. Click in the bottom pane and
choose Format > Details, and you can display Predecessors and Successors in
the task form.

As far as changing the color of task cells, I'm afraid that is impossible.
Unlike Excel, there is no "fill" color to change the background of a task
cell. You can change text color, size, etc through Format > Font.

I hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie
"toofan" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

stop task durations from changing!

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 06:23 PM PST

Hi, John

Thanks. Yes, I periodically highlight the whole column of tasks, go to the
task dialog/advanced, and set the task type to fixed duration. It seems to
work to change it for all the tasks. Nonetheless, MS project changes
durations and splits tasks.

The doentation says it will change duration if you have resource
calendars, etc., so I also tried to put all that on the same calendar. No joy.

Anyhow, I soled the problem by brute force: created a new file, adjusted the
standard calendar, and copied over one column at a time as text. It solved
all three problems. It now resource levels, does not split the tasks, and
does not change the task duration. So, something must have gotten corrupted
in the original file that I could not change.

Regards,
Larry

"John" wrote:
 

stop task splitting

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 06:16 PM PST

Hi, Jan

I don't think holidays were the problem, but the overall calendar use
appeared to be causing the trouble.

I started a new file with first resetting the standard calandar, and then
pasted all the stuff from the broken file. It works fine now, without
splitting or changing the durations.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Larry

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Task Scheduling and leading zeros

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 12:25 PM PST

In article <com>,
"WhyIsEverythingSoConfusing" <com> wrote:
 


Justin,
The only way I can te your scenario is if the 9/10/05 task has an
Actual Start date of 9/10/05. That effectively says the task has
"started" even though there are no resource hours. I suspect the task
has NOT started and the entry in the Actual Start field was either
inadvertent or manually inserted without really understanding what
Actual Start means.

Normally, leveling is applied prior to the project start (i.e. the user
is trying to adjust the schedule so no resource overallocations exist),
or it is applied to resolve overallocations that have crept in over a
period of time. In the latter case, task splits are to be expected (if
the option to split is selected under Tools/Options/Schedule tab).

In the absence of an entry in the Actual Start field, leveling WILL
adjust task start dates. In your case, the 9/10/05 task will indeed be
slipped out to 9/13/05 when the resources are available.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Microsoft Word - References show in search

Microsoft Word - References show in search

References show in search

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 12:42 PM PST

I'm cross-referencing notes for an ebook and I want to be able to search the text without including the references in the text.

For instance, I've got the below text with a reference

If I search 'this is a test' it produces 1 result. 

However, if I search 'this is a test for' it produces nil results.

If I search 'this is a test1 for' it produces 1 result.

Any ideas for excluding the reference from the search?

How to deal with Table Tools

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 12:02 PM PST

Split from this thread.

Can you assist me with a "Tables Tools" & Design Layout issue??  I have racked my brain with attempting to get rid of a piece of information that I transferred from the internet.  Once I transferred one small paragraph, the rest of the document now shows the "The Table Tools" highlighted, which has been a problem until it was time to insert "Page Breaks."  I was successful in inserting "page breaks: until I encountered this section.   

Moving a shape (textbox)

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 10:41 AM PST

If I have a macro that creates a textbox on a multipage document, I can adjust the top and left properties of the shape quite simply, but how can I move them onto different pages. I know that word does not think in terms of pages exactly, but it has pages nonetheless. Adjusting the top property of a shape beyond the range of the first page simply pushed it out of sight, rather than onto the next page.

Is there a solution to programmatically moving shapes or textboxes between pages?

Thanks.

URGENT! Need help with (corrupt?) Word Document! Please help! :(

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 10:30 AM PST

I am running Windows 7. I have a Word document created in Word 2010. It was usable and fine yesterday, all other Word documents in the same folder work properly.

The icon is grayed out, and there is an X over it. I get an error message whenever I try to do ANYTHING with this file (open it, move it, rename it, attach to email). It says the file is not usable by this computer.

I was able to get this error code when I try to move the file: 0x800710. I can't find anything online that indicates what happened here and how to recover the file. This document is EXTREMELY important.

Please any help you can give would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Index not combining main headings

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 08:41 AM PST

I get this when doing Insert > Quick Parts > Field > Field Codes: \F "G" \c 2 (I have six indexes and the one I'm concerned with is "G")

expectations fail

   invulnerability, 263

expectations fail

   evidence, 264

expectations fail

   evidence, 264

expectations fail

   evidence, 304

expectations fail

   evidence, 313        which should be grouped like this:

expectations fail

   invulnerability, 263

   evidence, 264, 304, 313

I have repaired Office 2013 and the document, given all the in-text index entries the same style, and used "dumb" quotes consistently, but no matter what I do, I get the above error. The same thing happens on a different computer running Word 2010, so the problem is in the document itself, not in Word (unless the same bug is present in both versions).

Word saves "extra" document with $ in the beginning. How do I stop this?

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 07:15 AM PST

Every time I open an old document and resave it  (I have templates that I do this with over and over), Word creates another file with the same name, but starting with the $ sign. It is only 1 KB of data and is listed as a "word document" in the "type" column. It cannot be opened and when I try to delete it, it gives a message that it may cause problems opening files in the future. Can anyone tell me what this is and how to stop it from happening? My folders are getting filled with garbage files!

Thanks in advance!!

I can't open word documents

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 06:39 AM PST

Whenever i try to open a word document through "Studywiz" 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 have tried repairing Microsoft office, i have 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 (from his computer), and his word is from the same disc as mine.

Please help!!!!!

MS word not opening

Posted: 15 Nov 2014 06:23 AM PST

I had been working with ms office 2013 on windows 8.1 64 bit since 1 year but getting problem in opening MS Word. It's not opening even in safe mode. Everything else is working perfectly. I re installed office and repaired it so many times but still MS word is not working please help as fast as possible...

Microsoft 365

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:00 PM PST

Hi I am planning to buy Microsoft 365.  Please tell me if I will get a product key with the £109 version.  Also how good is it.

Full Task Names in Rports Such as To-Do Lists Microsoft Project

Full Task Names in Rports Such as To-Do Lists Microsoft Project

Full Task Names in Rports Such as To-Do Lists

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 09:18 AM PST

Unfortunately the project plan is coming from our corporate headquarters and
our efforts to convince them to do what you've suggested has fallen on deaf
ears. Hence my desire to find a technical solution within Project.

"Paul" wrote:
 

Entreprise calendar

Posted: 04 Nov 2005 01:11 AM PST

Ok thanks

Peter

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Cost Loaded Schedule

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 06:09 PM PST

Hello Mike,

Thanks for responding.

Column 1 has no formula, I want it to accept my scheduled value for the task.

Column 2: I want it to accept a decimal number to represent the % complete.

Column 3: I used the buttons in the dialog box to enter: column 1 x coulmn
2. It looks like this: [scheduled value]*[ % complete]. Basically it is field
1 x field 2.

Column 4: I want it to accept a number for the previous month's billing for
that task.

Column 5 looks like this: [Total complete to date]-[previous application for
payment]

For clarification the items in [ ] are the field names. I used/renamed the
fields Number1,2,3,4,5 and added them to the standard Gantt Chart view. I put
in 25,000 in coulmn 1 and .35 in column 2 and nothing calculated in column 3.

Hope this helps you help me.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Bernie

Hope you can help.

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Custom Field Calculations

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 01:57 PM PST

I have emailed you a file containing the problem. Thanks for taking a look
at it.

Scott Hanebutt

"John" wrote:
 

MSProject Gantt timescale not saved

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 12:50 PM PST

Thank you - that is what is happening. It is an enterprise project stored in
Project Server 2003.


"Chris Marriott" wrote:
 

Calculating a per calendar week of usage cost for resources

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 10:29 AM PST

Hi Dan,

This sounds lie a job for vba. Try posting on the developer newsgroup.
Please see FAQ Item: 24. Project Newsgroups. FAQs, companion products and
other useful Project information can be seen at this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm

Mike Glen
Project MVP


poordan wrote: 

Recurring Tasks frequency

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 08:38 AM PST

In article <dkf5er$lhq$grnet.gr>,
intell1 <gr> wrote:
 

Nikolas,
Well, the simple answer is yes - lay in the tasks individually. But, I
don't think that's the answer you are looking for.

One of my suggestions was for a non-linked version. That meets your
request of "not (a) or (b)". Other than that however, I don't have any
further suggestions. Sometimes you just have to go with what is
available.

John
Project MVP

Hyperlinks on Project

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 07:58 AM PST

Thanks so much for the information! I shall try it out.
"Rod Gill" <rod AT project-systems DOT co DOT nz> wrote in message
news:phx.gbl... 

Need help with flags!

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 07:07 AM PST

It WILL NOT EVER work. Properties of a summary task are NOT automatically
applied to sub-tasks. Project doesn't work like that.
Further, the group summary is not really a summary task at all. It is just a
header in the display.

--
-Jack ... For Microsoft Project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project
or http://zo-d.com/blog/index.html
..
"New2Project" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 
You 
consolidated 
would 
But for 
I'm 
this, 

Capacity of Project

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 05:14 AM PST

Thanks for the information.

"Jan De Messemaeker" wrote:
 

Display Duration in hours?

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 04:35 AM PST

You can change the settings fro the Options/Schedule section to display
future duratiosn in hrs. But the macro would be needed to convet any
previous durations in the form of days to hours.

"Martin Wilkinson" wrote:
 

Subprojects not rolling up (at all)

Posted: 03 Nov 2005 02:49 AM PST

In article <com>,
"Martin Wilkinson" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 


Martin,
My error, yes I did mean SR-1. Project 2003 identifies the first update
as SP1. However, when I ran my tests I was using Project 2000, just so
we would be looking at the same version.

Thanks for answering my questions directly. Unfortunately I find that
many people either don't answer at all or only give partial answers.

Your description of trying the Work field almost sounds like you are
looking at Baseline Work because that's exactly how it will act.
However, that idea doesn't apply for % Complete because there is no
baseline value for % Complete.

If you need to desensitize your file for sending, I can send you a
desensitize macro or you can find an equivalent version on fellow MVP,
Jack Dahlgren's webstie at: http://masamiki.com/project/macros.htm
Jack's macro is called "scrub". You shouldn't need the whole file
(although sometimes size DOES matter). As long as the problem still
shows up with just a single Summary Line and subtasks, that's all I need
for review.

John
Project MVP

Project Standard and Analysis Toolbar

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 01:59 PM PST

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your note. As noted (I believe) in my original request, I had
tried all of those suggestions, except I did not reinstall. I guess I wanted
to make sure that it was a feature of Project 2002 Standard Edition before
trying to reinstall it. Item 46 does not mention any different editions.

"Mike Glen" wrote:
 

Export to Access

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 01:17 PM PST

In article <com>,
"JAY-USC" <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

JAY,
Just an adjunct to what Gerard suggested. An export maps works fine for
static data but it will not work for timescaled data. For that there are
basically two choices - either use VBA or and SQL query directly on the
Project database. For information on the Project database structure,
search your hard drive for the following file (or something similar
depending on what version of Project you are using):
projdb.htm

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Enterprise Customer Fields

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 12:37 PM PST

Hello Julie,
Try this one :
IIf([Baseline Finish]=ProjDateValue('NA');"No
Baseline";IIf(ProjDateDiff([Baseline Finish];[Finish])/480>=5;"Late by more
than 5 days";IIf(ProjDateDiff([Baseline Finish];[Finish])/480>0;"late";"On
schedule")))

It work for me.

Gérard Ducouret

"julie" <microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:com... 
2003 
doesn't 
returned 

Reminders in Outlook

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 08:28 AM PST

Hi Owl37,

Did you run the wgsetup.exe file? See help in MS Project for "Work group
messaging" and view information on setting up the email system for
collaboration with the team.

Hope this helps. Let us know how you get along.

Julie

"owl37" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com... 

Help with creating a filter for Notes field - test/value to use to check for presence of content

Posted: 02 Nov 2005 04:08 AM PST

Sorry! I gave the answer fo ra formula and not a filter!
(Reading diagonally can seriously harm one's credibility)
Still, I now tried several things and I the use of a formula is the only way
I can find.
So it's a two-step exercice.
First, through Tools, Customize, Fields, customize a number field (f.i.
Number1)
with the formula:
Len([Notes])
Then make a filter for

Number1 does not equal 0

That does it.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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

Microsoft Word - downloading the app onto my laptop....

Microsoft Word - downloading the app onto my laptop....

downloading the app onto my laptop....

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 02:41 PM PST

im beginning to become very frustrated with this thing because every time i follow the instructions given to me when i bought the office, it says that the account i already made isnt associated with office and it wont let me contiune until it works. 

Can Word create a MLA citation from an on-line database?

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 02:19 PM PST

I am trying to use Word 2013 citation functionality to create a list of Sources and create a list of References. I have found no way to include the database (ProQuest, Humanities International Complete, ...) in its proper place in an MLA-format citation for a journal article found on an on-line database. There are fields for everything else, but it looks like a proper list of references listing articles from online databases would have to be edited one-by-one to put in the database info, and that would be a very tedious process. Does anyone know whether there is a way to create an MLA citation for such articles retrieved from databases?

Word 2013 Merge Table breaks after header-Need to keep it together with data rows

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 01:10 PM PST

We have created some report templates in Word 2013. The information merges in fine, but on some of them the header rows stay on one page while the data rows break to the next page. Is there any way, to keep the rows together but allow them to break after filing up the page?

Strange issues with MS Office (Outlook, Excel & Word)

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:11 AM PST

Hello

I've had an issue with my hard drive and since then had the following issues:

Using MS OUtlook 365 - I cannot preview office docs or open Excel files attached by double clicking on the file

Word files would open - now won't.  If I save to desktop, it won't open.  If I right click and the select EDIT - it opens!

I've have uninstalled, repaired, reinstalled and am now out of ideas.

Can any help please?

Thanks

Simon

Dictionary not working

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 10:03 AM PST

I am technically *logged in* to my account, but it won't let me use the dictionary function in Word, is there any way to fix this?

Updating blog via Office 2013, image lost

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 09:48 AM PST

I want to write blog via Office 2013, but there is a problem. I am using Google Blogger. I found a post would be update to Blogger but without images. I always insert an image in my post to make it better. Now I can publish a post to my blog. But I don't know how to update the image to my blog. I remember there is a tool Windows Live Writer working for Blogger well. 

Any one know how to make it?

Page numbers in headers are all the same number--help!

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 09:00 AM PST

I use page numbering after the first page of a letter (e.g.  [Name of addressee/Subject/Page "X" of "Total"]    I have no problem getting the text in the headers, which does not have to change.  But when I insert a page number, what I get is, for example "Page 3 of 3" on *both* page 2 and page 3.  And if I try to change the page number in the header on page 2 to read "Page 2 of 3", then it changes the header on page 3 to also read "Page 2 of 3". 

I followed the word directions from Microsoft that are posted on line, but it hasn't worked for me.  What's the trick??

Susan

Set the Paragraph Style to be used with a Table Style

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 08:28 AM PST

Hi,

In Word 2013 I can insert a table and then click a Table Style in the Table Tools, Design tab > Styles group.  I can modify a Table Style to give the desired formatting of file, border, etc.

Is there a way to link a Paragraph Style to a Table Style so that when I apply a Table Style the font/paragraph formatting is automatically updated?

Cheers
Rich

Protect Word Template

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:00 AM PST

Our office has a central file server (very simple system). Our companies document templates are placed on the file server for the employees to double-click and start editing a clone of the template. Recently, I have found out that if an employee from there work station opens Word and goes File->Open and selects the template, they will then be editing the template document itself (.dotx); not the clone!

I am in charge of maintaining the templates. What I would like to do is have the template itself protected from other people editing it, but not to protect the clone. Is this possible? I feel if I password protect the template, when someone opens the clone it will also ask for the password. Not sure if it is the case or not.

Thanks!

Linked Content Control

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 06:41 AM PST

Hello,

I read this:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/linked_content_control_dropdown_list.html

But I need to use only Method 3, but the page only describes how to get the two dependent drop down lists. How can I get something like Method 3?

Is there another page? Or maybe just a set of other codes? I can't seem to filter it out of the long code in VBA.

Thank you very much!!!

Can't install spellcheck in Word

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 04:11 AM PST

Hello,

Could you help me understand, why our spellchecker doesn't work?

We have Windows 7 & Office 2010. We wanted to install spellcheker for Lithuanian language. We tried to do that by installing Proffing Tools for Office 2010. As you see in the image:

However spelling wasn't installed as you see in the following image:

And here:

We also tried to install Lithuanian spellchecker from here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/language-packs/microsoft-office-language-options-multilingual-support-FX102851176.aspx

No changes...

What do we do wrong?

Greetings,

Vytas

STYLEREF field updates only sometimes

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 03:56 AM PST

Hi everyone,

 

I'm using the Dutch version of Word 2013.

 

In a template for reports I have created for one of my clients, the header should display:

- text in the style "Bijlage" whenever the report has an enclosure;

- the text "Colofon" at the colophon at the beginning of the report;

- the text "Inhoudsopgave" at the table of contents at the beginning of the report, directly after the colophon;

- text in the style "Kop 1" (Heading 1) elsewhere.

 

In order to achieve this behavior I have included this field in the header:

 

{ IF { BijlageTitelCompleet01 } = "Fout! Bladwijzer niet gedefineerd." { IF { PAGE } <= { PAGEREF Inhoudsopgave } { STYLEREF "ColofonInhoud" } { STYLEREF "Kop 1" } } { IF { PAGE } >= { PAGEREF BijlageTitelCompleet01 } { STYLEREF Bijlage} { IF { PAGE } <= { PAGEREF Inhoudsopgave } { STYLEREF "ColofonInhoud" } { STYLEREF "Kop 1" } } } }

 

"Fout! Bladwijzer niet gedefinieerd." translates to "Error! Bookmark not defined." in English Word versions.

If a report has one or more enclosures, the bookmark BijlageTitelCompleet01 encapsulates the title of the first enclosure.

The bookmark Inhoudsopgave resides on the page with the table of contents.

Both the colophon and the table of contents contain the right tekst ("Colofon" resp. "Inhoudsopgave") in the style "ColofonInhoud".

 

The field displays text as intended; the trouble is that it only does so every now and then. Or better: "Colofon" and "Inhoudsopgave" show up all the time at the right locations so that's fine - but any texts in "Kop 1" style or "Bijlage" style remain invisible. F9 does not work. Sometimes however - hey presto! -  all of a sudden the field does display text in those styles, and this seems to happen when I copy individual parts of the large field elsewhere in the header in order to check their results. I cannot lay my finger on when exactly the field starts behaving like it should. This is highly frustrating - especially because I cannot think of an alternative approach to achieve the desired results.

 

What is happening here, and how can I get the field to behave correctly?

 

Thank you,

Cooz

There is not enough memory or disk space to complete the operation

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 03:17 AM PST

Is the error message I get when users opening a word document gets on Windows 7 64 bit, Office 2010. Machines getting this error are Core i5's with 4GB of Ram (Free ram of 2GB, and Free HDD Space of 200GB) Microsoft solutions on this forums is that you add more RAM and HDD space to the Computer. (The file is 220Kb in size) And it used to open fine. Chrome uses more memory than that small file - this error message is related to something else, question is how did Microsoft manage to break Word and what "Update" broke it, so I can uninstall it?

What exactly to select to create macro

Posted: 14 Nov 2014 01:57 AM PST

Good morning!

I had a (potentially simple) question in a recent test :

Word 2010 document: Create a Macro, call it e.g. RedHighlight and assign a keyboard shortcut. . Apply this to, let's say, Table on page 5, Second Column.

I created, named it, assigned keyboard shortcut.Then recorded formatting & stopped recording. However, what exactly do I select in order to record it? A random piece of text, the specified column in the table they ask for? If I select table column & create it, it's fine. However, doesn't that defeat the object of testing my shortcut key?

Any solutions? thanks

Stephanie

Page Borders cut off by printer

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 07:21 PM PST

The printer is HP OfficeJet Pro 8100

When I used WORD 2007 I would put in page boarders and they would print.

No so with WORD 2013. Boarders get cut off. Even the page numbers get cut off.

I am using moderate margins. The top and bottom boarders are cut off.

This used to be no problem with WORD 2007, now I am digging through options and not being able to do a simple thing.

Is there a web page on WORD 2013 work arounds? 

FAX file that I can't open. Can I convert it to a DOC or TXT file?

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 05:10 PM PST

I have a FAX file that is just data, no pictures.  Can I open it with any program or convert it to some other type of file? I have Windows Vista Business & Office 2010.

Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 04:42 PM PST

Hi,

Recently, my laptop shut down on its own.  I had put it on sleep mode for several hours.   When I restarted it, almost everything went awry.  I couldn't access the Internet.  I managed to get online again but I can't open all my Word documents and my photos.  Every time I try to  do so, the laptop tells me that it can't do so unless I insert a Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business disk.   I've never had this program and can't understand how my documents etc had been  converted to this format without my doing anything.

Advice to resolve my problem would be most appreciated.

Thank you.

Vince

Desktop Icons Don't Appear Saving In Word 2010

Posted: 13 Nov 2014 03:47 PM PST

I recently had to install a new Modem Router and for some reason now whenever I go to "save as" in Word and use the menu in favourites, if I click on Desktop it literally can take 3 minutes before the Icons / Folders on the Desktop appear in the window on the right hand side and you can then click on one and save the document. If I don't wait for the icons to appear and just save it straight to the desktop it appears instantly.

I've recently installed a new modem router and it has happened around that time, before this it was virtually instant, I've also saved a number of other locations into the favourites list and if I click on one of those again it's instant to open the folder and display the contents.

I've tried removing and re-instating the Desktop in the favourites list, in case changing the router has had any affect on network drives I've disconnected them all and can't think what else to try.

I'm using Windows 7 with Office 2010.

Any suggestions what else I could try would be much appreciated!!

 
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