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Dual monitor for Intel 82915G & ATI Rage 128 card on FC6, DellOptiplex Gx520 - Forums Linux

Dual monitor for Intel 82915G & ATI Rage 128 card on FC6, DellOptiplex Gx520

Posted: 08 Jan 2009 10:46 AM PST

On Jan 8, 5:36pm, Bill Mar <net> wrote: 
I want to use Fedora 10 too but my manager won't allow me.
Our small company like stability & upgrade OS very rarely.
Now I still have to make dual head work on FC6.

Thunderbird - How to list the spelled out groups full name?

Posted: 07 Jan 2009 05:23 PM PST

or:

add to user.js:

user_pref("mail.server.default.abbreviate", false);

Neil Jones 于 01/08/2009 09:23 AM http://embed.mibbit.com/?channel=zhusupe 写é": 

End of /dev/sda at unexpeced point after repartition

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 03:48 PM PST

On 2009-01-09, Allen Kistler <moc> wrote: 

You don't have long lines. The I<X-UserInfo1:> header's value is long,
but since value of I<Path:> is longer I don't think that would be a
problem (BTW, just checked, RFC3977 doesn't impose line length limits).
May be something on the path, hard to figure.

*CUT*

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Stallman's goal for GNU is even simpler: Freedom

Partitioning harddisk for Ubuntu

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 12:38 PM PST

Ryan McCoskrie <com> wrote:
 

See <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq> for swap space and
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace> for partition size in
general.

I would use 2*RAM for swap, 10-15 GByte for the / partition and
for the /home partition as much as you think you need for your user data.

 

If you want to use suspend-to-disk you need at least the size of your
RAM for swap. But then suspending will fail if too much swap is
used. 2*RAM is usually a good choice.


Florian
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"Error configuring network device" trying to install FC10

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 06:18 AM PST

On Jan 6, 11:04pm, "David W. Hodgins" <afraid.org>
wrote: 

Yes, I have. It's the way it's displayed on the input screen as

IPv4 [ ] / [ ]

so I put 192.168.0.107 in the first box, and either 24 or
255.255.255.0 in the second. I get an error if I leave the second box
blank.

Dave

Total admin n00b needs to know everything

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 10:10 PM PST

Baron Samedi wrote: 
Clonezilla claims it is great at this (I haven't used it). ting
a linux install by cloning works well. You'll need to do a little
fix-up of the result on each machine: hostname, IP address and MAC
address are unique on each box. udev will helpfully create a one-higher
network device (eth0 succeeded by eth1 ...) if you don't update
/etc/udev/rules.d/xx-persistent-net-rules.

This is a very exciting time to launch a start-up.

Reduce text console from 80x25 to 80x20

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 02:13 PM PST

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>,
com wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.
 

Gotta love those new monitors.
 

[compton ~]$ whatis resizecons stty
resizecons (8) - change kernel idea of the console size
stty (1) - change and print terminal line settings
[compton ~]$

In order to deal with (c), resizecons does a `stty rows
ROWS cols COLS' for each active console (in the range
tty0..tty15), and sends a SIGWINCH signal to selection if
it finds the file /tmp/selection.pid.

So look at 'man stty' if you don't have the 'resizecons' man page.
The command probably wants to go into one of the boot scripts in your
unnamed distribution. Can't tell which one.

Old guy

ipv6 connections: how?

Posted: 04 Jan 2009 06:48 PM PST

Allen Kistler <moc> writes:

 

Well, it didn't, that's why I asked again, to clearify, because my
results did not match the expected. However, I found out the reason for
that, so problem one solved. Of the tools I was testing with, curl has
need of some option and can't request []: type addresses
directly. Netcat - no idea what's up with it, probably does not support
IPv6. wget (and now curl) I have working:

curl -v -k -g 'https://[::1]/'
wget --no-check-certificate -6 -S 'https://[::1]/'

 

This is problem #2 and the heart of the matter.
 

This is not a distro, thus I am asking how to do it. Setting routes in
config files sooner or later amounts to some script someone's written
that reads those values in and then executes the proper tools with those
values as arguments. I need to know the tools and the inner workings of
it, so I can write the scripts, or do it by hand when needed.
 

I can see why. This isn't like another version of IP, this is more like
a completely new protocol with little if any similarity to IPv4. No
wonder people are slow picking up on it as it requires relearning almost
all aspects of networking.

If there is no NAT, what do you do in situations, such as mine, where
you have less public IP addresses than you have machines needing to
access the Internet? Assign link-local addresses and let the
Internet-facing machine worry about routing what-where?
 

radvd - is this what makes those router advertisements?

'radvd is the router advertisement daemon for IPv6. It listens to router
solicitations and sends router advertisements as described in "Neighbor
Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)" (RFC 4861).'

I came across it while looking for info on IPv6 and routing. I built &
installed it, but have yet to write a config file for it until I get a
better understanding of how IPv6 works.
 
 

Yes, thank you very much.


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Cleaning up /tmp in Fedora 10

Posted: 01 Jan 2009 05:01 AM PST

Unruh <ubc.ca> wrote:
 

Danger! Danger!

Trying to do this sort of thing in a part of the file system which is
writable by hostile uids (e.g., /tmp) is very nearly impossible. In
particular, the above `solutions' are hopelessly insecure.

The first allows an adversary to create a file, say `/tmp/foo
/lib/ld-linux.so.2'. To achieve the same effect if you use -print0 is a
bit harder: I'd need to make a file /tmp/foo/ld-linux.so.2 and replace
/tmp/foo with a symlink to /lib between find scanning it and rm trying
to delete it. But I only need to win the race once.

(As other targets, I might pick /etc/rc2.d/S38firewall or wherever it
is, to leave a server's filter table in the default accept-everything
state; or delete /etc/hosts.deny; or...)

You could use the GNU find -execdir option: find ... -execdir rm -f {}
+. Since that runs with the working directory set to the directory
actually containing the relevant file, there's no symlink diddling
possible. That's not to say that there isn't some other way of
attacking this that nobody's thought of yet.

Of course, if you're talking about a single-user machine, you can forget
all of this.

-- [mdw]

FC10 as a guest VM does not boot

Posted: 31 Dec 2008 12:14 PM PST

Neil Jones wrote: 

I haven't had any problems running F10 in VMware Workstation 6.0.5.
However, I try to avoid problems by specifying IDE disks for emulation,
not SCSI. VMware SCSI emulated disks have had some challenges in the
past. Maybe it's fixed. Maybe it's not. But there's no harm in using
IDE, either way.

HTH

Debian Installation is asking for (hard disk or motherboard) driver

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 03:32 PM PST

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:02:11 +0000, Bill Mar wrote:

 

Umm, i thought his problem was that the driver wasn't installed.

The Live CD route might be worth a go if you know about virtual terminals
and how to pop one, but lspci will list the hardware your *nix sees/finds. 

setting up Apache for LAN

Posted: 30 Dec 2008 03:58 AM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 
 
 

Of course you are correct there. The docs said to do turn it on that way. I
stuck it into rc.local because I read that in some Redhat docs as the place to
put things the user adds. Obviously this is not quite a user thing but it
worked. I switched to doing it with checkconfig -5 as I only use it at
runlevel 5.
 
 
 
 

I overlooked trying this and the other machine is down now. Will let you know
later. I did open it but can't test if it worked.
 
 

I just want to make it work not me work. ;) This is a home thing. Being a
webadmin sounds like real work.
 
 

The files I have put in /var/www/html ...
 

And I do see them with the browser on the server with the Apache icons for
directory and such. That tells me Apache is functioning properly.
 

It records them fine.

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Grub error 17: dual booting on large disk, old BIOS

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 04:11 AM PST

> Ouch. I'm glad you managed to work it out. Do you have access to the 

Haven't tried yet, I'm still afraid of messing up a the first setup
that actually works... I really don't need the extra space anyway.
Andrew

...if you contacted Microsoft....your computers would actually be ofservice...

Posted: 28 Dec 2008 05:57 PM PST

Penang wrote:
 

Linux is free for all

http://www.livecdlist.com - hundreds of free liveCDs that boot directly off
the CD without having to install on a computer.

http://www.distrowatch.com

All the Linux distros come with source code as well so that you
can modify to heart's content.

Crontab

Posted: 23 Dec 2008 05:34 AM PST

Unruh wrote: 

What about "1-59 0 * * *"?
What about "0 1-23 * * *"?
They are also "not 0 0 * * *".
 

Thumb drive with weird partition

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 06:23 AM PST

If you can plug on a Windows system maybe you can run the U3
uninstaller, usually included. I did it that way.

hans

USB sound and Audigy card

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 03:50 AM PST

Doug Laidlaw wrote:
 

The only devices showing in the PulseAudio Volume Control are the ALSA
devices.

I am running ALSA, Pulse and JACK (not counting Arts for KDE.) Do I
really need three audio servers on a desktop with only the Internet
networked? Before, it used to "just work." Now, I am supposed to
wait until the stream is running so that I can get it to the correct
device. That means missing the beginning of anything. It isn't my
concept of progress.

Doug.
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats.

Accounting software for Linux

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 08:11 AM PST

Douglas Mayne wrote:
 
I am using Gnucash. A new version has just been released. The URL is
http://www.gnucash.org. The ledger interface is similar to Quicken. It is
good for serious accounting because the "categories" of Quicken become true
revenue accounts. It supports scheduled transactions, reporting, graphing,
investments, much more. There is no payroll module yet. Its users are
worldwide.

Quicken works better under Crossover Office than under Wine, but even there
it won't run as well as under Windows itself. Virtualization would be the
way to go.

The one closest to Quicken for home users, IMO, is Kmymoney2 which uses
Quicken's "categories." There are several Web-based full accounting
packages. Go to http://freshmeat.net and search there for accounting.

Gnucash will print only one check at a time, but that is more than many of
the others. The limitation doesn't seem to be any problem for its business
users. Templates for Quicken's check stationery are built in. It has a
very active mailing list, discussing accounting "how to" questions as well
as technical ones.

HTH,

Doug.
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- R.L. Stevenson.

Accessing Windows XP Shared Folders (drive letter X: etc...) fromLinux

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 08:09 AM PST

<com> wrote 

It uses SMB ("samba"), and yes you can see those shared folders from a Linux
machine. Please note that Linux does not use drive letters, it uses "mount
points" instead. So, if we call your Windows machine "winhost", and your
Linux machine "linuxclient", you need to do this:

1. Share the folder on winhost as normal - make sure you give the share a
name you will remember (we'll call it "MyShare")

2. On linuxclient, type "smbclient -L winhost" (without quotes) to see the
list of shares. This assumes that smbclient is installed on your system -
how to install this depends on what distro you're using. If you get asked
for username and password, these are your WINDOWS username and password, not
your Linux ones.

3. If you successfully list the shares, you should see MyShare in there. You
then need to create a mount point for this share, e.g. "mkdir /mnt/MyShare".
Then you type "smbmount //winhost/MyShare /mnt/MyShare" (again you may need
your Windows username and password). If that works, you should be able to cd
into /mnt/MyShare and see the contents of the share.

If you want more detailed help, please let us know which flavour of Linux
you're using and what errors you're encountering.

Good luck,

CC

Tweak Page Cache in Ubuntu Linux

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 09:42 PM PST

annalissa <com> wrote:
 

High swapiness can increase the memory available for file caching
which may give significant performance improvement, but may swap out
process's memory that isn't used for some time, causing a delay
when the swapped out memories needs to be accessed, e.g. when you're
switching between applications.

Low swapiness reduces the chance for such delays, but also reduces the
memory available for file caching.




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Cannot configure graphical mode for FC10

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:01 AM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

I found this snippet of information on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq -

-----------------------------
Fedora Core 6 -> Fedora 7

Fedora 7 replaces the old IDE subsystem with libata. Drive device names
which previously started /dev/hd.. will become /dev/sd.. after the upgrade.
/dev/hda1 will usually become /dev/sda1, although there may not be a direct
relationship between the old and new device names (for example hdd does not
necessarily become sdd). Before you reboot be sure to change all references
to /dev/hd.. in your config, especially /etc/fstab - where it however may be
simpler to refer to filesystems by label (check out the programs blkid,
tune2fs, and mlabel). LVM Volume names are not affected. In
/boot/grub/device.map change /dev/hd.. to /dev/sd.. before running
grub-install - and don't change (hd0). Changing /boot/grub/grub.conf may
also be required.

The libata layer represents all hard disks as SCSI disks, which are limited
to 15 partitions in the kernel. IDE hard disks with more than 15 partitions
are not supported in Fedora 7.

-----------------------------

Hope this is of interest. It does not mean much to me. However, I believe
that this is why I cannot boot my HDD in a machine with a different
motherboard/IDE controller. A couple of people on the Fedora mailing list
are trying to help me, but we have not cracked it yet. It is not actually
that critical in my case, but I want to use it as a learning exercise in
case it happens in the future and there *is* critical data on the HDD.

Frank

Distros and GPL

Posted: 07 Dec 2008 08:33 PM PST

On Dec 8, 5:58pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote:
 
 

I'm not suggesting he create his own license. In fact, he basically
can't. I'm simply suggesting he create his own license *page*. That
should explain what license(s) apply to the individual works and the
compilation as a whole.

He can either disclaim any compilation copyright he might have or
place it under a GPL-compatible license. I'm not sure if he can
legally place a compilation copyright for a collection of GPL'd works
under a non-GPL-compatible license. If you were saying he shouldn't do
that, I definitely agree with you!

DS

USB external drive help, NTFS, FAT32, EXT3

Posted: 06 Dec 2008 07:17 AM PST

On 2008-12-06, Roger N. Clark (change username to rnclark) <net> wrote:
 

If you don't need to use these drives to exchange data with Windows
machines, you'd be better off using a native linux filesystem on them.
FAT has no concept of *nix file attributes and permissions and they
will be lost unless you encapsulate them in e.g. a tarball before
storing them on the FAT filesystem.
 

Not true in my experience. Did you try using linux fdisk to delete the
existing NTFS partition and create a FAT partition in its place, and
"mkfs -t vfat /dev/[whatever]" to format it?
 

NTFS is a proprietary filesystem; the full specification is only
available under licen$e from Microsoft. That said, most modern linux
distributions come with NTFS-3G, which is an open source implementation
of what is known about how NTFS works. Much of this has been
painstakingly reverse-engineered over the years, and in my experience it
is now quite stable and reliable. YMMV of course.
 

Apparently there is for ext2, although I don't recall the name.
Although reading ought to be safe, writing to an ext3 filesystem from
Windows will likely destroy the journal and may have other untoward
consequences.

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debian only loads text interface

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 06:25 AM PST

On Dec 5, 8:38 pm, Bill Mar <net> wrote: 

Thanks created new user and Gnome works!!! now i think i have more to
learn so i can copy hidden files lol
of course KDE isn't that painful and maybe i'll keep it

Les

Microsoft Word - Creating a dynamic break when using tables and mail merge

Microsoft Word - Creating a dynamic break when using tables and mail merge

Creating a dynamic break when using tables and mail merge

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:53 PM PST

Hey Gang,

I am trying to make some index cards based off of information contained in an excel spreadsheet.

My approach has been to create a table and format it to my needs with a mail merge.  The merge is working just fine without issue.  I formatted the original document to be the same size as an idex card.  However, with printing margin restrictions and such, I decided to try a more economical approach with expanding the table to fit 8.x5x11 cardstock which I would simply cut afterward.  So if I have a 6 cell table that fills the sheet (each cell is roughly 4x5), I have the first cell with the merge fields and the remainder with Next Record fields.  The problem I am running into is that the length of the total amount of information being inserted via the mail merge sometimes will be greater than the size of 1 cell.  If I fix the cell size to keep uniform card size, the remainder of the text is clipped.

Is there a way, using this approach, to roll that clipped text into the next cell or to somehow print on the same size area?  Would a different approach work better?  I tried the text box route which didn't work due to the Next Record field incompatibility.

Thanks!

-Aesculapius

HTML Elements displaying as red X's, Word 2010

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:46 PM PST

Hi,

I've been using Word to interpret HTML and have recently run into an issue. My HTML elements display as red X's. This includes all hidden elements, and all check boxes. When I delete the element and then undo the deletion, the element loads without issue.

I'm looking for answers as to possible causes or what setting controls this. I'm guessing a setting somewhere has been toggled since documents that did not have this problem a month ago now do. 

I have tried deleting my registry keys and renaming my Normal.dotm, as well as using Add/Remove programs to try and Repair my installation.  Thanks for any help you can provide, I can try to post a file that is experiencing this issue if anyone is interested.

Cannot get Microsoft Word 365 to Work

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:41 PM PST

My daughter does online school and is unable to get her work done through Word 365. (meaning completing or submitting)  Recently our we had to purchase a new Router because our other failed.  Since then she's unable to use Word 365.  When logging on to K12 Online School, and trying to do an assignment through Word she is getting a message at the top of the page that states:  Most of the features have been disabled.  Then gives the option to re-activate.

When doing so a pop up will come up with 3 options that are:

1.)  Buy - I want to buy

2.)  Enter Key - I have a product key

3.)  Sign In - Add this computer to an active account

I don't know the product key.  Is there a product key I'm unaware of that came w/ the computer that I can put in to make Word work?   (Word came w/ my HP TouchSmart 15 Sleekbook purchased around Sept. 6, 2014)  When I try to sign in it states that The password doesn't match & do you want to change password stored in windows to your new entry.  I already changed my password to my Microsoft Acct.  (which worked fine)  

Only when my daughter tryies using word for her work does this error comes up.  

I do not understand why Word worked before, but doesn't work now.   Any suggestions on how to get Word 365 to work?  Thank You for any suggestions on how to make WORD 365  work so she can use it for her online school.  Keep in mind that it doesn't allow her to type any text at all because of the reasoning stated above..

Sincerely,

Jennifer O'Bryan

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headers

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:55 AM PST

I am using APA format, 6th edition.  It requires that the header of the first page of the document be different from all subsequent pages.  The first page must say;

Running header: and then the title of the paper.

On subsequent pages the term 'Running header" is removed, leaving only the title of the paper.

I also need the page numbering to start on the first page and continue through. 

I am not even sure what is happening other than to say that I cannot get the sequence correct. 

Can you please help?

Many thanks for your time and input.

Kim

Word document format changing when copied to flash drive.

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 11:27 AM PST

I am working on a document with Word 7 in Windows 7. When I copy it onto a USB flash drive, the formatting is slightly different. The margins are wrong on every other page. What might cause this?

XMLSchemaReferences.AllowSaveAsXMLWithoutValidation fails for Office 2013

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 10:08 AM PST

I have a piece of code which works fine on office 2010 but when I use it on office 2013, it gives me run time error

Run-time error '5891'
That Property is not available on that object

=========================

Code - 

    With ActiveDocument
        .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True
        .AttachedTemplate = sourcefile
        .XMLSchemaReferences.AutomaticValidation = False
        .XMLSchemaReferences.AllowSaveAsXMLWithoutValidation = False   ' It fails here
    End With

=========================

I want this to work for both office 2010 and 2013. Is there any way by which that can be done or if not then is there any way in which it ignores the error for office 2013?

How can I combine several Word documents into one without copying and pasting the content

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:39 AM PST

Is there a way to take a series of word documents and insert them into one document without copying a pasteing all the info.  Ex: I have 15 appendices that are separate word docs but wor like to put them together in one.

Original title: Word documents!

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Clipart printing problems

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:11 AM PST

Using Vista Word and Windows 8.1 printing duplex booklet. Prints correctly, including photos until I add in clipart, and the whole project goes haywire, with pages double printed and images out of place. Is there some setting I need to alter?

Resizing photos in Word 2013

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 09:09 AM PST

I am trying to resize a photo in Word 2013 (using Windows 8.1) so that it covers the entire page, including into the margins.  When I drag a corner sizing handle and the photo reaches the Live Layout alignment line for the page margin, the photo suddenly zooms to a massive size and scrolling up or down to try and return the photo to its original page and size is impossible.  Word then freezes and has to be restarted.  Indeed, even trying to move a floating photo or object, such as a text box, into the margins causes wild scrolling down several pages.  I don't recall this ever being a problem in Word 2010.  Would turning off Live Layout help (is this even an option?) or do I have to set all the page margins at 0mm (which would wreck my other formatting)?

Drop down in MS-WORD

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:59 AM PST

Hello friends and Happy New Year.

I will need a document with some form items, i.e. Legacy drop down which will be located lets say in Line 10.

I know how to insert the drop down and add all the values I need.

The difficulty for me is that, after selecting from that drop down I want to populate different text in lets say Line 30, based in the value I choose.

Drop Down List Sample (items):

1. Clerk

2. Assistant

3, Manager

Clerk duties: a bulleted/numbered list (might be located somewhere in the same file (perhaps as hidden text)?

After selecting e.g. Clerk I want to populate the duties of the Clerk - several paragraphs/lines mentioned above (starting from Line 30)

Any help will be highly appreciated,

Thanking you in advance,

Regards,

George

locking word table cells while auto-updating fields

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:35 AM PST

Hi,

Got a wee problem, hope someone can help!

I've created a table inside a word 2010 doc, image below..

...which contains two formulas. Both function perfectly. If I change any of the values in
the peach coloured cells, all I have to do is right click / 'update fields' on
both grey coloured cells containing the formulas, and it will update the values
accordingly.

However, I want users to input their own values into the
peach coloured cells without having to right click / 'update fields'. Is there
any way the formulas in the grey cells can automatically update after user
input? I also want to lock/protect the grey cells so users cannot edit the
formulas.

Using excel sadly isn't an option.

any help would be very much appreciated...thanks

Removing redundant/extra empty pharagraphs in Word 2010

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:54 AM PST

A text copied from a webpage and then pasted into Word 2010 contains some empty paragraphs in the document. How can I remove just the redundant/extra empty paragraphs?

Thanks for your help

Arrange Word Documents on Secondary Monitor

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 03:37 AM PST

I have a dual-screen setup. The primary monitor is the main focus for my work, with supporting documents etc. displayed on the secondary monitor. When I open a Word document, it appears on the secondary monitor (I previously moved a Word document there), although the 'splash screen' still appears on the primary monitor.

I currently have two similar Word documents open and I would like to view them in a split screen arrangement. When I click Arrange All on the View tab, the documents are arranged neatly on the primary monitor. I then have to drag (and re-size) onto the secondary monitor.

Can Word 2007 be persuaded to perform consistently on the secondary monitor?

Search in Word 2010

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 02:43 AM PST

In Windows Explorer, if I search with the term 'patent layout', the search results are listed in order of relevance, ie files that start with the words 'patent layout', then files for which the name includes the words 'patent' or 'layout', then files which contain the words 'patent' or 'layout'.  This also used to be the same for Word, Excel, inserting files into Outlook messages, etc. However, in Office 2010 rather than in Windows Explorer, the search results are now shown only in name, date, type, etc order, not in order of relevance. This has only happened since returning to work after the New Year.  Any ideas?

Word 365/2013 New field in document properties

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 01:26 AM PST

Hi,

I am creating a new Word document template.

This template should use central values like "Revision" and "Last Update Date".

Now I found out how to create new fields within the advanced document properties, but it is quite extensive to Change this value.

I know that I can show the document panel above the text, but the individual fields are not shown there.

Does anyone here knows a way to show this fields in the document Panel?

A Workaround to show Special fields in a Dialog box to Change them would also be OK.

Thanks

Golem

Adding equations vie Macro using the formula editor - function stops working at equation no. 99

Posted: 13 Jan 2015 12:39 AM PST

I created a document template including a customized ribbon for adding predefined elements like e.g. equations in a predefined font and layout.

In addition to the equations, a consecutive, equation reference number is added on the right hand side - everything is packed into a macro.

The related code for adding the consecutive number is the following:

.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, _
                    Type:=wdFieldEmpty, _
                    Text:="SEQ PDEq \* MERGEFORMAT", _
                    PreserveFormatting:=False

The problem that I currently have is, that for any reason this section of the code for adding the consecutive number)doesn't work for equation numbers higher than 99.

If I copy and paste the entire line, it works also for numbers higher that 99.

Unfortunately I don't have an idea on where the problem can come from.

Generating automatic TOC for different sections in the same document

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 09:22 PM PST

If I have, for example, 5 sections in a document (created using section breaks), is there any way to create automatic TOC for each sections?
If not, what would be the alternative?

Cursor instability

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 09:18 PM PST

Why does my laptop cursor jump back into an earlier position whenever I insert text. It functions normally for a short time, then inevitably jumps back.

"Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable."

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 08:31 PM PST

Hi, I am having a problem with my Word 2010 since 2 weeks. Whenever I open it, a pop up comes up and says "Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable." I have tried everything, I've searched online, I've chatted with a Microsoft tech but nothing helped AT ALL. Can anybody help me solve this problem? Also, I have tried uninstalling Microsoft Office and installing it back but that didn't work either.

I need help as soon as possible.

Thank you.

I need a pattern match expression to change the digits place from side to side of a slash (changing 12/34 to 34/12)

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 08:24 PM PST

I need a pattern match expression to change the digits place from side to side of a slash (changing 12/34 to 34/12).

I've used this pattern "([0-9]{1,}).([0-9]{1,})" in find what and "\2/\1" in replace with places.

but it shows an error that your pattern match contain a .. which is not valid.

could you please help me to find the right command?

think if you wanna do this command in your word document:

changing 34368/56 to 56/34368.

what would you do?

please help.

Word 2013, Headers and Footers

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:20 PM PST

I've had this problem in the past and have yet to find a solution.  Can anyone tell me if they have ever experienced their footer starting at the exact same place where the header ends if they were able to fix it?  No matter what I do, [when this happens] I cannot resize the header so it is at the top of the page.  Attempting to resize only makes a mess of everything else and has no impact on the header.

ANY help would be greatly appreciated!

Create a Varying number of labels using Word Mail Merge

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:03 PM PST

I am working on a file label project that I would like to take one step further. 

We have an Excel spreadsheet with the file codes, description, retention, etc.  At the beginning of the year, we want to print out the labels we anticipate we will need so the labeled folders can be distributed.  The number of labels for the various file codes will vary.  Some might not need a label, others will need dozens.  If we had a column in the Excel sheet with a count, could we use this number to "tell" Word how many of each label to include in the Mail Merge? 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Direction of Table of Authorities

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:10 PM PST

Whenever I try to insert a table of authorities on my word document, it comes in the direction of right-to-left (instead of the needed left-to-right). I've currently been unable to change this, whereas doing so manually still leave many problems. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

Word 2013: is it possible to ref field on first 3 characters

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 04:07 PM PST

Is it possible to display only the first 3 characters of the field month?

{REF MONTH}

How to convert PDF into Word document and vice-versa.

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:42 AM PST

Original Title <365 Word>

Office 365 will let me save a word version of a PDF file but the file is still not editable.

I need to be able to convert a PDF file to a word document, fill in the form and convert it back to PDF before sending to a customer.

Please advise the simplest and cheapest way to accomplish this.

Thanks!

Microsoft Word - Word 2013 file will not open some files

Microsoft Word - Word 2013 file will not open some files

Word 2013 file will not open some files

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 02:51 PM PST

I have a problem that when I open some of my Word files the blue start up screen comes up like this:

but it gets no further. On one occasion, I left it for nearly two hours, and it kept on cheerfully working at it i.e. those dots kept sailing in from left to right to encourage you that it was doing something, but nothing happens. No error report or any such thing.

   The file I am trying to open is not the name that you see on this screen snip, but it was created off of this custom template. So far nearly all of my errors have been with files created off of a custom template, but I can't prove that that is a connection, because I have been working almost exclusively with those files. Once I lose hope that it is getting anywhere I click exit until a window comes up to say that "Office is not responding" then I choose "close the program." The next time I open Word there is a box to warn me that "Last time you opened Word it did not start correctly. Would you like to open in Safe mode?" I choose yes, and it opens fine in Safe Mode. I exit and open again. Everything seems to work fine. But when I try to open that file again it warns me that "Last time you opened this file it caused a serious error. Do you still want to open it?" If I choose yes Word locks up again.

   This all would seem to indicate a corrupted file. But the strange thing is, at the same time that word is unsuccessfully trying to open the file, I can go to another computer (also with Windows 7 and Office 2013) and open the same file (it is on my OneDrive). The file opens fine and informs me that my other computer is currently working on this document (even though it still hasn't managed to even get it open). I can save this open file with another name and then my first computer is able to open that file.

   I don't run into this error every time I open Word. It works fine for a while, then for no understandable reason it comes again to this place of spinning its wheels.

   I thought maybe my template was the problem, so I created a new template and just brought over my four custom styles from the old one. That didn't help.

   I tried the route of deleting the Data and Options registry key. Again no change.

   I have tried repairing Microsoft office both the thorough and the quick fix. Again no help.

   It seems like since the other computer opens my "corrupted file" without a problem, it must not be a corrupted file but rather something with this copy of Word. Actually I am wondering if it is something deeper than Word. A while ago I was also having a problem with copying mp3 files to micro SD cards via the built in card reader. I insert a micro SD card into the included SD card adapter and that into the card reader. These are 4GB cards and I am copying more than 1,000 files totaling very close to the capacity of the card. I take all of the files at once and drag them to the card. For some cards everything worked fine. The transfer completes in about 20 minutes. But for several of the cards it would copy for a while then suddenly pop up with an error that read something down the line of "The semaphore timeout period has expired." Sometimes it would copy quite a few files before coming up with that error. Sometimes it wouldn't get far at all before coming up again. I used a different computer to copy the files to the cards, and it did the job fine with no complaint, so obviously the problem was with my computer and not my cards. Now I don't know if this problem has any connection to the problem with Word, but I thought I would mention it in case it might be connected.

Style Set Blocking

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 02:44 PM PST

The Normal.dotx and Normal.dotm in Word 2010 has been changed and saved so that the Style Set Switching was turned on for "New documents based on this template".

However, when Word is reopened the Style Set Switching option is turned back on again.

Any suggestions as to why this is happening and how we can stop Word from switching it back on?

We are on a network, however, the testing has been done from a new Normal.dotm by removing all copies of the Normal files before reopening Word, opening the Normal.dotm file from the 'Roaming\Microsoft\Templates' location, turning the Style Set Switching off saving on the Normal Style and saving the Normal.dotm. Once complete Word is closed and reopened, however, the Style Set Switching option is turned back on.

Please HELP!

Thanks, Delma

Using Quick Parts in Protected Document

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 02:39 PM PST

Is there a way to use Quick Parts in a protected document?  I set up a template and entered all the information into Quick Parts so it can select an address from the Quick Parts drop down list.  But when I turn on the protection in Restricted Editing, the list becomes inaccessible.  I tried using the drop down option as well but the address is not in address format.

if field not working with text

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 02:11 PM PST

I have created a field called month, default text is November.

I then enter the following:

IF month = November Yes Null

I have also tried

IF month = "November" Yes Null

The result is null.

This worked fine in word 2003 (just been updated to word 2013)

The if statement also works for me if I use numbers but never when I use text.

Any ideas?

Word 2010 - Outline in Spanish

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:44 PM PST

In Word 2010, is there a way to change the ordinal numbers, when in Spanish, to accommodate whether it be masculine or feminine. For example:       It should be Clausula PRIMERA not PRIMERO.   Please help me correct this?  

Keyboard command to remove auto formatting/linking in Table of Contents in a Word document

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 12:51 PM PST

I've done this before, but forgot how to do it. There's a keyboard command (F9 is part of it) in Word that will turn an automatically created table of contents into text so it retains the page numbers as-is if it's copied into another document. Does anyone know off-hand what the keyboard command is for this?

Thanks,

Susan

Print Screen to Word 2010 document?

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:53 AM PST

Hi!

Please I have spent this whole day finding a way to add a print screen picture to my Word 2010 document

but while out result!

My print screen is shown on the clip board but adding it to the Word 2010 document by clicking the tiny picture on the clip board only brings a black outline of the site, no content!

This is my home laptop, I am the only user and owner so there should not be any strictriction to add e.g. my own web page to my own Word document!

But no! It is uninpossible!

I wonder if there is some false selection " x " somewhere in Word's configurations which is preventing that!?

There is a Ms article about "Content rights" in finnish here:

https://support.office.com/fi-fi/article/Sis%C3%A4lt%C3%B6oikeuksien-hallinta-Office-2010ss%C3%A4-c7a70797-6b1e-493f-acf7-92a39b85e30c

"Mitä sisältöoikeuksien hallinnalla voi tehdä:

  • estää valtuutettua vastaanottajaa lähettämästä luvattomasti edelleen, kopioimasta, muokkaamasta, tulostamasta, lähettämästä faksilla tai liittämästä käyttöoikeuksiltaan rajoitettua sisältöä

  • estää käyttöoikeuksiltaan rajoitetun sisällön kopioinnin Microsoft Windowsin Print Screen -näytöntulostustoiminnolla"

And it tells about "Content Rights" which can prevent adding Print Screen to a Word 2010 document!

But unfortunatelly this article says no words about the opposite!

I do not understand where I can manage to change, possible some preselected(?) preventing of Print Screens

so that I could make normal notes so that I would be able to add a print screen then text and then the next picture!

Earlier I used to make notes e.g. for seldom used computer skills which I could refer next time.

Print Screens where great e.g. for making notes of home web configurations which a professional hade put right

and I then made a note to remember all those several configurations. :)

Thank You for all help!

With Best Regards from Finland!

Footers in Word 2013

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 11:47 AM PST

  1. I want to place the document file name at the left side of the footer and the page number in the center of the footer.  This was possible in Word 2003 but I have not been able to do it in Word 2013.  After putting the file name in the footer, it disappears when the page number is added.  Does anyone know how to do this?
  2. Word Help says that double clicking in the footer area will open Header & Footer Tools.  This does not happen in my case.  Any comments on this?

Create and Run Spellcheck Macro on Restricted (protected) Form

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 10:19 AM PST

Hi All!

I have a form I created that is restricted to filling in fields.  Because spellcheck will not check fields in a protected form, I would like to create a macro that will do the following:  1) stop protecting the form 2) run spellcheck and then; 3) protect the form.  

I am haven't been able to figure out how to do this since the "record macro" button is grayed out when the document is protected.  If I unprotect the form to begin recording the macro, I loose the step of unprotecting the form in the actual macro recording.

A few years back I was able to get this to work in a protected Excel Spreadsheet.  Can I not do this in Word?

Sincerely,

Amy

Cannot open any word documents

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 09:37 AM PST

Hi

I hope someone can help me please. Lately I started to experience that I cannot open any of my word documents. I get this message: 

Microsoft Office Standard 2010 cannot verify the license for this application.

I bought this pc in 2009 with Windows Vista but now use Windows 7. Should I download office 2010 activator to rectify this problem?

Thank you for your help.

Clipart in MS Word 2013

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 09:27 AM PST

I do not like the new clipart function in MS Word 2013.  I have 15+ years worth of purchased clip art on disks, from many different collections.  I want to use THAT clipart, instead of the very limited and often unattractive offerings from Microsoft.  How can I disable the MS Word 2013 clipart function, and go back to the way that I have used clipart in Word for the past 20+ years?  Do I have to remove Word 2013 and reinstall one of the prior versions of Office?  I use clipart ALL the time and I want what I used to have!  I am a very unhappy Word 2013 user!  I have been unhappy with the changes that Microsoft has made to its flagship programs in the past three years.  I don't mind change, but when the changes are so radical that a heavy user has to spend weeks "re-learning" a program that they have been proficient with for many years, it makes no sense to me!  I don't want to be a dinosaur, and I embrace innovation.  But, the recent changes are frustrating and I am seriously thinking about either going back to using WordPerfect or firing up an older laptop, so that I can do the things that I want to do in a word processing program!

Help with creating letterhead document

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 07:22 AM PST

I am trying to create an electronic letterhead for our company.  I would like for the Header and footer to be on the first page when a one page document is needed but for the footer to "move" to the second page (or 3rd, 4th etc) as text is entered after the first page.  If I have a 4 page document, I want the header appearing on the first page and the footer appearing on the 4th page.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kim

365 Word

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:42 AM PST

Office 365 will let me save a word version of a PDF file but the file is still not editable.

I need to be able to convert a PDF file to a word document, fill in the form and convert it back to PDF before sending to a customer.

Please advise the simplest and cheapest way to accomplish this.

Thanks!

File levels

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:34 AM PST

How do you remove an unwated file level from a file hierarchy without losing the contents of the lower level file?

Thanks to anyone who can help

Paul

Word docs formatting has changed since Office 2010 / Word Starter update

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 06:13 AM PST

I've had that little pop-up box telling me there's an update for Word Starter, which I'd been ignoring until today, when I accidentally clicked the 'Okay' button.  Now all my Word docs, especially the ones with column formatting, have changed (though it may be that these are just the most obvious ones - I haven't checked every single doc!).  They are mostly things like CVs, but I am at a loss how to change them back (e.g. so that content fits on 2 pages), or how to identify and uninstall whatever update it was that has caused these changes.  I've had a look at the Click to Run Manager, but that only tells me that updates have been installed, and there seems to be no way of seeing what's been done, or how to undo it.

I am running Word Starter 14.0.7140.5000

Click to Run version 14.0.7140.5002

Mail merge Doc doesn't show cents

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:57 AM PST

One of my Excel source fields has a currency amount of $663.25. It shows up on the doc as $663 with no cents shown

I have checked the source formatting and it is $0.00. The amount in the mail merge source list doesn't show the cents value.

How do I correct?

Problem when clicking "save as" in MS Word 2010 pointing to a different path or folder

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 05:37 AM PST

I have a user that when she opens a word document (from any source folder) and then tries to "save as", the path destination folder points to a different folder that is not the source folder nor is it the default location configured within Word.

For example, If I open an existing Word document located F:\Data\Stats\Word and do a "save as", it will immediately point to a different to folder on the server to M:\Public\Docs instead of F:\Data\Stats\Word. This does not occur to one specific file or files located in a specific folder, but to different other files in different folders.

I want the computer to open a Word document from its original location (ex. F:\Data\Stats\Word) and automatically open to its original source folder (ex. F:\Data\Stats\Word) when clicking "save as" without having to browse to it.

I'm aware that you can just do "save" instead of "save as", but often this user has to edit a file and save the changes as a separate file name.

The only step I've taken to remedy this was disabling the Trust Locations within Trusted Center Settings, but it did no resolve the problem.

Mail merge fields not updating

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 03:02 AM PST

I have a mail merge that takes field data from an Excel sheet.

In the Word settings, Update fields before printing and Update linked data before printing are selected.

However, if click Finish & Merge >> Print Documents...

...and click Options in the Print dialog, you can see that Update linked data before printing is no longer selected. In fact, it's disabled so I cannot select it.

And then of course, none of the fields are updated in the mail merge. 

Does anyone know why Update linked data before printing is disabled?  I didn't have any problems with this document in an older version of Word. Also, I get the same problem when using a real printer, instead of the PDF printer.

Formatting Issues on Word 2010

Posted: 12 Jan 2015 01:30 AM PST

Good Morning 

One of our clients is having an issue on Microsoft Word 2010. The Client uses document templates for all of the work they do. In their office, all of the computers are Microsoft Windows 7, with Either Office 2010, or Office 2013 Installed. The problem is that on Office 2010, the formatting of these document templates is not correct. The Bottom of some of the words is chopped off, but in Office 2013 it is fine. 

Also, This computer was recently reinstalled with Windows 7, and I have checked to make sure office is up to date, completed a repair on the office installation, made sure that windows is up to date and tried various different printer drivers on the computer to see if we could resolve the issue

I have attached some images on this post for referance, but due to confidentiality I have had to remove some of the lettering frmo the customers logo, but you can see the issue. 

The First Image, is what the document looks like in Word 2013, and the second image is what it looks like in 2010, that is causing the problem. 

- Office 2013 

- Office 2010 

Thanks in advance for your help with this! 

Open documents created in Word 11

Posted: 11 Jan 2015 04:57 PM PST

How do I open in Word 2003, Word documnets created in Word 2011.
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