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Quicker access to "More Views.." selections? Microsoft Project

Quicker access to "More Views.." selections? Microsoft Project

Quicker access to "More Views.." selections?

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 06:42 AM PST

To add a tool bar of views: View>View Bar
For the view to be visable in the tool bae you'll need to follow Jan's
suggestion first.

"Pat" wrote:
 

Week Ending not Week Begining?

Posted: 22 Feb 2006 03:00 AM PST

I am always confused when I see date ending weeks. But you might look at
Tools>Options>Calendar and chanege the Week Starts On. I've never changed
this from Sunday so good luck.

"tbardlse" wrote:
 

% Completed vs. % Estimated

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 10:56 PM PST

Absolutely, Rod. A more basic item that many Newbies shol dunderstand is the
dofference between % Complete and % Work Complete. In your explaination of
updating the Duration, versus updating the Work, the two different fields
will soon "go out of alignment" with one another. It confuses many people
when they don't understand that:

% Complete - tracks progress through the task's DURATION
% Work Complete - tracks progress toward completion of WORK

There is also a third field called "Physical % Complete". it is an
alternative field that can be used to calculate BCWP for EVM. The
description of this field and recommended use is clearly described in the PSm
2003 Help files.


--
RTucker, PMP


"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

How do I create a time-phased budget in MS project?

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 09:12 PM PST

In article <com>,
corina <microsoft.com> wrote:
 

corina,
Some might say that the Baseline Cost field is the budget but it kind of
depends on how you view a "budget".

I suggest you set up your plan complete with resources. The original
estimated cost will be the Cost field and this would be treated as the
budget. When it is all set up, go to Tools/Tracking/Save Baseline and
save a baseline for the entire project. Project then captures all the
data in the Cost field and saves it in the Baseline Cost field so it can
be used for earned value calculations or any other comparative ysis.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

Question mark in Task Duration

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 05:21 PM PST

In article <googlegroups.com>,
com wrote:
 

Cole,
You're welcome.
John

MS Project Standard Compatibility

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 03:56 PM PST

Thank you Rick

"Rick Roszko" wrote:
 

Why does an 8 hour day start on 1 day and finish on the next?

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 12:11 PM PST

Thanks for the reply. I figured out what I was doing wrong. It has to do
with some people working an 8 hour day and some people working a 6.4 hour day
on the same calendar. I just messed up the time allocation so that it always
seemed to just be over 1.00 days of work.

Thanks anyway.

Roadrawts


"Gilgamesh" wrote:
 

setting up cost per hour

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 12:07 PM PST

Thanks for you feed back. I added the column like you said. I'm not really
sure what the deference is between work, actual work is. I guess work is how
much I have and actual work is how much can be done?. I'm still not clear on
setting up cost for work being done.

"Rick Roszko" wrote:
 

resources instead of tasks

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 10:39 AM PST

Hi,

Will the Resource sheet view not give you what you are looking for? This
view groups tasks by resource and shows the hours being worked on each task
each day.

Hope this helps

Regards

DavidC

"kotoman" wrote:
 

Using Project for manufacturing

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 09:29 AM PST

The great advantage Project has for Custom manufacturers is distributed (web kiosk)
task sheets and status updates in the Server version. Many full scale Manufacturing ERP systems
don't even include this, while some can achieve it via bar scanning as a data colection point. Custom often
means a whole lot of unknows (and worse cowboys running through your plant playing hero to keep their customers happy,
and everybody else) so if you can find out the reality of your present situation you can make good scheduling
decisions with bottom line company wide impact of those decisions.
An offshoot of capturing the ebb and flow of work on the shop floor is that with a simple coding system, any cost
evaluation is a data query away. This can blend with existing process/material/production/sales systems already in place.

Job A had 5 hours framing-2 hours finishing-1 hour packing. This is a simple audit after the production of Job A has been completed.
This then becomes your actual hours vs. quoted hours(revenue or operational)....mix that with the materials per Job A and voila,
done.
All enabled by real time recording of actuals from the shop floor on
task completion,
task change,
end of shift.

The closer you can get to real time status the more accurate and better performance the shop will have
because true limits to production are easy to spot. This discipline lets cost calculations be a non issue.
Just go use the information you had to gather anyway in order to time the events of transforming "materials and work" into
"product:"

So Project does the same thing as Project server, you would just need a way to record the actual status of the shop floor
and get it into the files. (Clipboard and running shoes come to mind).


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

Is there a Wizard in Project 2000 that reviews the schedule

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 08:20 AM PST

Hawnp --

I believe the QuantumPM Schedule Auditor is the tool you are describing:

http://www.quantumpm.com/qsa.aspx

Hope this helps.

--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"


"Hawnp" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Schedule Template w/ Customized Sub Menu's

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 08:00 AM PST

Which option would you like me to comment on?
I have experience with all of them.

--
Jan De Messemaeker, Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional
http://users.online.be/prom-ade/
For FAQs: http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm
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How do I outdent tasks that are indented (Project 2003)

Posted: 21 Feb 2006 02:41 AM PST

Moderator,

please close/delete this thread since it a duplicate.

Thanks.
Kav.



"kav" wrote:
 

Duration of task & subtask, assigned to resources % of their time

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 09:29 PM PST

A project produces a specific output. The duration of a project (and the
tasks within it) is whatever time it takes to produce that output. The more
resources you have and the harder they work, the less time it will take to
produce that output with the rare exception of physical processes that take
a specific time, like the time it takes concrete to harden. The planning
process is one intended to help you get the required output completed in the
shortest time and lowest consistent with the quality objectives you need to
achieve.

Notice that my focus here is on the output. You don't start with a defined
block of time - 3rd quarter of 06, for example - and then fill it up with
activity. Instead you start with the knowledge that you have to generate a
marketing plan that involves shooting 6 30-second TV commecials, placing
weekely ads in 15 national magazines, and hosting a customer appreciation
conference in the Bahamas. When you sit down with project, you're seeking
to answer the question "If I start the whole process next next Monday, when
should I tell the production company to start shooting the 4th ad in the
series, when should I schedule the meeting with the ad agency to finalize
selecting the photos for the print campaign, and what dates do we need to
reserve at the hotel in the Bahamas?" When you input what is essentially
the flow chart of the process of the campaign along with your estimates of
how much work each step of the process will require, MS Project calculates
those dates for you. Note that the purpose is not to doent dates that
are predetermined. Rather it is to compute dates that are NOT yet known.
You have certain targets that are known, true enough, but Project's job is
not to list the targets, it's to help you figure what concrete steps you
must take to achieve those targets.

HTH
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs



"Reb T" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How to retrive Calendar variantions from Microsoft Project

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 04:57 PM PST

Thank You John for acting on it so quick.
sorry for the insufficient information.
i am taking to the Microsoft objects using its disinterfaces. or
fvMSApplication := CreateOleObject('MSproject.Application');
ie. i am not getting data from database or xml.

My application has the similar objects as in the microsoft project. I
am populate my objects properties with Microsoft Project Objects
properties.
The application is really fast when i am getting project, task,
resource objects and its properties. but when it comes to the Calendar
object to get Variations to it i have to go thought loop which checks
if the day is different than the regular wroking calendar hours:

the loop is something like this:


LIDiff:=
DaysBetween(LMicrosoftProjectStartDate,LMicrosoftP rojectStopDate);

for Ly:= 0 to LIDiff+1 do
begin
LDate:= LStartDate;
LDayOfTheWeek:= DayOfTheWeek(LDate);
DecodeDate(LDate,LStartOfYear,LStartOfMonth,LStart Ofday);

LvDay:=
LvMicrosoftCalendar.Years[LStartOfYear].Months[LStartOfMonth].Days[LStartOfday];

{--Add Holidays--}
AddVariationIfMSDayIsHoliday(LvDay,LDayOfTheWeek,L Date); //This
function checks if the day is working or not
{--Add Exceptinal Working Days--}
AddVariationIfMSDayIception(LvDay,LDayOfTheWeek ,LDate); // This
function checks if the wroking day has differnt shift timings

LStartDate:= LStartDate + 1; //increment Date

end;

And to get working time information i am getting it by accessing
Microsoft SHIFT object from the Microsoft Day object.

Although this loop works but it takes tremendous amout of time as
every resorce also has calendar variations or exceptions and i need to
get them as well.
Thank again for your time.
I am only a junior programmes so in case if i have described something
wrong please let me know.

Thanks.
Gaurav

Printing Gantt on Multiple Pages

Posted: 20 Feb 2006 12:45 PM PST

I don't think this is possible, sorry.

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Microsoft CRM - Convert all incoming emails

Microsoft CRM - Convert all incoming emails

Convert all incoming emails

Posted: 20 Oct 2005 06:30 AM PDT

Do you know how to do this? If so, can you please provide me with some
directions?

Thank you!!

"cc" wrote:
 

sales for Outlook - requirements

Posted: 20 Oct 2005 04:27 AM PDT

thanks for your quickly reply.
Now I must change Operating system , because more than one laptop have WXP
home edition

thanks for all
--
Benito Rosado
Milano, Italy


"Arne Janning" wrote:
 

Help please - Another email router problem!!

Posted: 19 Oct 2005 01:10 PM PDT

Were they all configured at the same time? Exchange caches some of these
settings and you may need to cycle the server for it to pickup a setting
change for the users. Other than that, I don't know.

--

Matt Parks
MVP - Microsoft CRM


"Isil" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com...
Matt,

Thank you for your quick response but yes, I have added CRMEMailEnable
setting to their exchange profiles. Any other ideas?

Thanks
Isil

"Matt Parks" wrote:
 
in 

One Activity Record - Two 'Owners'

Posted: 19 Oct 2005 05:44 AM PDT

Thanks, Dave - appreciated.

Cozy

"Dave Carr" wrote:
 

Enquiries on MS CRM

Posted: 18 Oct 2005 06:43 PM PDT

Hi,

As Matt sayd you cannot create many-to-many relationships in CRM. There are
some 3rd party tools which allow customers to do this (with some
limitations). Check out the tools of C360 or Salentica. But you won't be able
to report on these relationships using Crystal Reports (you should be able to
do so with Sql Reporting Services).

I hope this helps,
Rob Bakkers,
Avanade Netherlands


"Johnson" wrote:
 

where is MSCRM 3.0?

Posted: 18 Oct 2005 06:24 PM PDT

I just got an email for MS that said Oct 24th is the new beta release date.

Chris

"dbj" wrote:
 

Changed administrator password now I can't login

Posted: 18 Oct 2005 04:26 PM PDT

The account is not locked and the password never expires. My administrator
account was probably used when CRM was installed (was around for that). Does
CRM request a user account during the install process? If so, then my
administrator account was probably used and since I changed it's password CRM
is not working right.

Microsoft CRM 3.0 - Is it multi-currency?

Posted: 18 Oct 2005 05:13 AM PDT

Nigle, One of my clients has been very happy with Experlogix.
http://www.experlogix.com/

In addition to handling multi-currency (quoting, opportunities too),
they also handled their custom requirement to do discounting at the
opportunity level, AND they make it MUCH easier to select multiple
products (probably save a dozen or more clicks per product add) by
letting you create one page where you can select all of your products
(you first select the category, then products can be grouped by
'service, warranty', etc.)

And the support has been good, too. HTH,

Dave

-------------------------------------------------
David L. Carr, President
Visionary Software Consulting, Inc.
Main #: 971-327-6944

NEW! VAST 1.2.5 featuring VAST Insights for Microsoft CRM! Now, VAST
audits all changes, but also gives you easy query capability into that
historical data!
For informative screenshots, please see
http://www.vscrm.com/screenshots.htm.

Customer Service with MS CRM

Posted: 18 Oct 2005 03:49 AM PDT

Rap,

The CRM 3.0 workflow tool is better, but it will still take a fair
amount of work to make it 'redirect to alternate paths after
diagnostic'. As you can now customize activities in 3.0, you should be
able to add expense tracking information to a task, e.g..

If you need to "keep a precise track", then you'll need VAST (Visionary
Audit System Tools, keep track of all changes made to incidents, etc.).
(By the way, VAST 1.2 is available until CRM and VAST 3.0 are released
for just $99/user, including 1 yr. maint.)

The web is still pretty much an unknown. Some ISV's have created web
portals, but MS has never publicly talked about the licensing issues.
Hopefully, that will be part of the long awaited 3.0 pricing
announcement... HTH,

Dave


-------------------------------------------------
David L. Carr, President
Visionary Software Consulting, Inc.
Main #: 971-327-6944

NEW! VAST 1.2.5 featuring VAST Insights for Microsoft CRM! Now, VAST
audits all changes, but also gives you easy query capability into that
historical data!
For informative screenshots, please see
http://www.vscrm.com/screenshots.htm.

CRM Privilege Error

Posted: 18 Oct 2005 02:14 AM PDT

If you have access to partnersource, there is a KB article with steps to fix
this. THey say it is caused by the user account does not have Local
Activation permission on the CrmBulkMailService DCOM object. The article is
at
https://mbs.microsoft.com/knowledgebase/KBDisplay.aspx?WTNTZSMNWUKNTMMYKOYVTOLQWXPSLWRZZXZ QYZUQUYNULQWNMZKMMNPQUQLNPVRTTXVNONULVNXOYZVSPUTLR TQYOZLQQTQZ


--
Matt Wittemann
http://icu-mscrm.blogspot.com


"Ian Kelsall" wrote:
 

Microsoft Word - Autocorrect font style and color change help, please

Microsoft Word - Autocorrect font style and color change help, please

Autocorrect font style and color change help, please

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 01:02 PM PST

I do transcription, and sometimes I have to make a "minute" notation at the playback location where I am in a given channel, so that I can coordinate it with that same position on another channel. When I insert these notations, I like to put them as bold red inside square brackets, so that I can easily find and delete them later. I have tried setting up auto correct to create the first red bracket so that I can then type the minute, but I am having trouble maintaining the bold red font long enough to type the actual minute notation. And of course I want to back out of the bold red at the end of typing the minute info. I created an autocorrect for this closing bracket in plain black. I don't mind having one black unbolded bracket at the end of the minute notation. But I would like the minute numerals I type, after implementing the bold red bracket, to stay in bold red until I implement.the plain black bracket. Instead, as soon as I type my space to implement my bold red bracket, all my text goes back to normal black . How can I maintain the bold read text until I am ready to type my AutoCorrect plain black bracket?  I also thought about writing a macro to handle this, but I am not that good at writing macros in Word, or at least not ones that have variable text in them . I would be willing to try, if someone could help me with that.

Mail Merge using headers in the first column?

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 11:01 AM PST

I know it's traditional to use the headers from the first row of an excel document in a word document mail merge, but I worked for a company who actually had their table rotated so the headers were in the first column. I'm trying to duplicate that now and failing miserably. The excel document we use has 28 headers to fill in and it would be great to be able to see it all on one page rather than having to scroll back and forth. Reading headers from the first column rather than the first row would enable that. Is there a way to make that happen?

Thanks!

Unspecified Error, Part: /word/document.xml, Line: 2, Column: 93818.

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 10:57 AM PST

Hi, I have a problem opening a .docx file. when I double-click on it I get the following message:

"The Office XML File cannot be opened because there are problems with its contents"

and when I  Hit the "Details" radio button It gives me the following information :

"White space expected, Location: Part: /word/document.xml, Line: 2, Column: 93818.

Spell check not operating properly

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 10:08 AM PST

I am writing a paper and when I use spell check it only checks about half of the document. Rather, it checks the entire document, but only flags about half of it. I verified this by purposely misspelling a few common words and I put in a few sentences that would normally be flagged for formatting. I have reset the document several times, but I get the same thing every time. Not sure if I accidentally changed something, or if I need to check another setting. Any help is appreciated. It is driving me nuts.

Thanks,

Joe Flynn

MICROSOFT WORD

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 09:38 AM PST

I have office 365 and after I have saved the document and closed it down I click on the word icon to open a new one and the last document I saved appears

  back on the screen and l can't get rid of it

 Would anyone know why   

    Bernxk

Can't get Help to open in Home 365

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 09:24 AM PST

I've been using Home 365 for about two months now and find it a bit confusing since I've had Office 2003 forever. So the Help feature should be a huge help but I can't get it to work and the two issues I've had that I used the Help Desk for hasn't been a great experience at all. I have installed Office 365 on my wife's computer which is Windows 7 Pro 32 bit and it appears to work fine. My office system is Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and has had its issues. The primary issue now is getting the Help section to work. In Word or Outlook, the main two programs I'm using right now, mouse clicking on the ? in the upper right corner of the screen is suppose to open Help. On my wife's computer it does, not on mine. It also indicates that F1 will open Help, mine no joy, wife's computer it immediately opens.

So I have no idea what is causing this but I would think the Help option might just keep me from looking in all the wrong places for answers if I can get it to work. The only other issue I've had that I'm aware of with this computer and MS is IE11. When I do a MS Update scan it reports that MS IE11 is ready for downloading and installing. IE11 is already installed as when opened about reports that it is version 11.0.9600.17207 and Update version is 11.0.10. Update fails and Help Desk couldn't resolve after a long session of remote control. They just "Hide" the update. I should mention that I also have MS EMET installed and when I went to un-install it a week after installing Office 365 Home it made running Office 365 impossible. Another long remote session with Help Desk and then re-installing EMET before Office would work again. I was under the impression that having EMET installed would enhance the computer security but the only real result I've seen is the very slow connection of IE opening a link. IE starts fast enough but there is a long pause before the pages load.

Now I don't know if IE11 is used for the Office 365 Home  help feature but I can't think of any other reason for this. Any suggestions would be very welcomed.

Thanks,

Steve

Microsoft Office 365 Word- Manual add add-in

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 08:42 AM PST

Hello,

Is there anyway to manually add an add-in to Microsoft word? I downloaded an add-in called Perrla (it is used to APA formating in papers). When I run perrla, it tells me that either my version of word is too old to be supported  or I am running a click to run version of word 2010. I am using Microsoft 365... and I thought this was downloaded on to my computer and not streamed from online...

Anybody know anything that could help?

Thanks

MS Word 2007 VBA Macro to change an image inside a table cell

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 06:28 AM PST

I am very new to VBA Macros in MS Word, and I have read from the example in this page that a VBA Macro can be used to open a dialog box and add a picture -- very powerful to me.

I have a table containing many cells, each cell contains a single picture and some text below (the picture uses "Wrap Text" -> "Square", "Align Center" and "Align Bottom"), but the whole cell is set as "Hidden" (using the Font Effects option) so the cell contents are not going to be printed out. And the "Autofit" property of the cell is already turned on.

What I would like is to write a macro to do the following (assume the cursor is at a table cell when the macro is run):

  • Open a dialog box for user to select a picture
  • Change the picture in the cell where the cursor is from the original one to the one selected by the user (deleting the original picture and inserting the new one is also acceptable)
  • The picture should be inside the cell, and Wrap Text effect and the alignment should remain unchanged. The picture size is not important, but the aspect ratio of the new picture should be locked
  • Remove the "hidden" effect of the whole cell

Any help or suggestion is appreciated.

Autosaved files

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 05:40 AM PST

I am trying to restore an autosaved version of a document file from the recycle bin, I have tried to restore it to it's original location and it has now gone from the recycle bin but I cannot find it in any searches. It appeared in the recycle bin as a file ending in .asd  - any help appreciated.

word cannot be opened due to a problem with content

Posted: 07 Mar 2015 04:49 AM PST

Hello,

I tried opening my docx file after saving but it could not open I attempted to repair all to no avail.

Please below is the link:

http://1drv.ms/1MefcyP

I tried using the method you elaborated using notepad++ with winrar but there was only one long line in notepad++ and I can't identify anything from that.

If you could please explain that a little deeper I would appreciate.

Cheers,

INFINITI

old msgraph needed

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 10:38 PM PST

I have several word documents that have charts in them created with older versions of word (2007/2003).

I installed 2010 and now when I double click them to edit, they actual chart goes to about half size but the place holder is large.

I don't want to use the excel functions because the charts need to be updated through another 3rd party program.

So.  I have to keep the charts via msgraph.   But, when I double click the chart (or they get opened up by the 3rd party software)  they actual plot shrinks to about half size and the place holder is same or larger.

Any ideas on settings or preferences that would prevent the graph plots from resizing when double clicked?

Thanks

Word Templates 2010 or 2013

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 09:22 PM PST

I am trying to find some guidance on how to create a template.

Not just click File Save As Template but how to design a template so that the formatting is restricted.

I understand the restrict editing feature but I see some Word Templates from Office online that have these tags (for lack of the actual terms) around the the category that the user needs to fill in.  What are these calls and how do they work?

I work with some folks that are novices in Word, so I want to design an easy point and click set up for them to enter headings. Any suggestions?

dragging picture into text box

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 06:10 PM PST

Hello,

I am trying to do a simple thing.

I have created text boxes in a word doc (2013). All I want to do is drag and drop pictures into the text box and have the picture resize to fir the text box. Simple Right??? Nope every time the text box changes shape to fit the picture. I want the picture to change shape to fit the text box. I have to do this hundreds of time and just want to eaily drag and drop pictures into the text boxes?

Any Help

Thanks

BC

So many kernel 2.6.x branches! - Forums Linux

So many kernel 2.6.x branches! - Forums Linux

So many kernel 2.6.x branches!

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 04:37 PM PDT

And so it was that in the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.setup, Marco A. Cruz Quevedo <com> uttered the following pearls of wisdom: 

Because when 2.6 came out they decided to ditch the odd number/even number
development system, we might never get to 2.8 or 3.0.
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Identification 32/64 bit Linux

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 01:55 AM PDT

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: 

mine says 3.9GB.

cheapest intel board I could buy. Dual core celeron. Debian lenny.

(Vista + Ubuntu) + Fedora

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 10:36 AM PDT

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:48:30 +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
 

I thought you just had to run a grub update to have it autho do this?
(caveat late to conversation) 

It isn't in /boot/grub? (location in debian linx that ubuntu derives from)

Note grub 1 and grub 2 have different files

Issue: Different space usage results for df and du for /homepartition

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 03:59 AM PDT

bzaman wrote: 

Repeating advice already given in this thread -

lsof | grep /home

will tell you all processes that have files open on the partition.
The list will even include processes that have deleted files open.

lsof - One of the sysadmin wonder tools. Like find and ls it has a
command line whose man page goes on for days. It is *well* worth
spending the days it takes to learn it.

x-window dumps have extraneous data

Posted: 13 Oct 2009 06:47 PM PDT

ix an unnecessary 

sheesh

he's a know troll (and idiot)
just put in in your killfile like most here have done

asterisk..any use for home users?

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 09:09 AM PDT

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 

Plus he asked about a week ago in c.o.l.m.

For any open source project, there are two options that take you where
you want to be most of the time.

www.<project-name>.org
and/or
<project-name>.sf.net

For asterisk, they both work.

Cannot mount previously mounted USB HD

Posted: 11 Oct 2009 06:02 AM PDT

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:52:57 -0400, Unruh <ubc.ca> wrote:
 

That is not quite correct. When I was first experimenting with lvm,
I used pvcreate to create a physical volume on an entire usb drive
(after I'd erased the the mbr). I later rebooted the system into
xp home, and found out the hard way, that xp will put a partition
table on any removable devices that don't have one. It doesn't let
you know it's doing this, it just does it. It won't do this if the
pv takes up an entire hard drive, but it will do it on a removable
drive.

Linux/lvm will not overwrite the first sector, but xp will.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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keyboard configuration (YDL/Fedora)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 10:07 AM PDT

John Goche wrote: 

Yep I did exactly the same. Tried the command line programs, no joy
except for consoles. Xorg.conf was essentially empty. Finally found a
gnome tool that set the X up in gnome, for exactly my keyboard. Never
found where it wrote the info. Wasn't in xorg.conf. I had a Sidney
moment then ;-)

Gui for Ubuntu server

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:25 PM PDT

MCR wrote:
 

He lacks the skills, education or intelligence to do it, so it's like
the old saying "Yelling -- the next best thing to being right!".
Anyway, like many, I've since added Sid to my ignore list. Seeing his
posts is just like seeing spam, it doesn't do any good to see or
respond (he's not going to go away, ever).
--
Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.

Corporate creep in Linux? (mini-rantette)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:51 PM PDT

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:51:48 -0400, Keith Keller
<san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
 

Yeah, I guess, since you're me, and I'm you, if I flamed you that would be
pretty self-depricating, wouldn't it? How's about we join our
personalities into one and take on . . . wait, who's left after that?

*stares around*

Aaron W. Hsu

--
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis

KDE and Gnome

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 05:10 PM PDT

On comp.os.linux.misc, John Hasler <com> wrote:
 

ROTFL!

The technocrats (and wannabees) are so desperate to change the
subject here that they are making complete fools of themselves.

John works for Debian, one of the mainstream distros that has
sold out to the M$-allied corporations that are funding the
GDEs.

They don't want the newbies to question the use of the Graphical
Desktop Environments (GDEs) because they want them to remain
ignorant of how Linux actually works, and thus dependent on
them for technical support.

They want the newbies to believe that in order to run Linux
from the commandline that you have to be some kind of guru,
which is complete bull.

All you have to do is understand the _basics_ of how Linux
works and the _basics_ of how the shell works.

That's all John knows, and if he hadn't sold out to the
M$-allied corporations behind the GDEs, he'd be trying to
teach what he knows to the newbies instead of running
interference on threads intended to do just that.

Here's how you beat s like these fellows: You just
do a little reading and a little playing around with the
commandline, and in no time at all you know everything
they do and can show them the door and tell them to take
their ugly Windows-clone user-interfaces with them.

http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/
http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2
http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto/slackfiles/books/slackware-basics/html/shell.
html
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-who-where-and-what
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-man-command
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-directory-manipulation
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/5/bash-files-manipulation
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/6/bash-history-in-the-making
http://www.usefuljaja.com/2007/6/bash-use-your-local-bin
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
http://linuxreviews.org/beginner/abs-guide/en/
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1052574.html
kind of odd "shell ninja" but lots of good info:
http://www.slideshare.net/brian_dailey/nyphp-march-2009-presentation
http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/classes/s243/bash.html
http://www.learnaboutlinux.net/blog/41-programming/50-bash-basics-1
http://linux.about.com/cs/glossaries/a/aglossary.htm
http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b
for:
From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO
Building a Minimal Linux System from Source Code

Note that John Hasler uses a GUI but does _not_ use a GDE:

#From: John Hasler <gt.org>
#Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
#Subject: Re: KDE Commentary
#Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:52:31 -0500
#Message-ID: <dhh.gt.org>
#
#Sidney Lambe wrote:
#> Slackers don't have to use KDE or Gnome or any other GDE.
#
#nb writes:
#> Try and view graphics from the command line, dolt.
#
#I run X with no "desktop environment". Works fine.
#--
#John Hasler
#gt.org
#Dancing Horse Hill
#Elmwood, WI USA


Just like me and tens of thousands of other Linux runners.


Sid

can't ping over crossover cable (get martian source)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT

David Schwartz a écrit : 

Then they become parts of the same segment, and the assertion remains
true. (Maybe "segment" is not the most appropriate term, "link layer" or
"broadcast domain" may be more accurate)

Did Debian's text console font change recently? How to get the old one back?

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 12:42 PM PDT

Am Montag, 5. Oktober 2009 06:26, Nico Kadel-Garcia a écrit :
 

1) I cannot decide whether following symlinks may or may not
cause problems on an unknown (to me) system.
2) Grep defaults to --devices=read.

Using find with the '-type f' operand is safe, 'grep -r' is not.

--
printf -v email $(echo \ 155 141 162 143 145 154 142 162 165 151 \
156 163 155 141 100 171 141 150 157 157 056 143 157 155|tr \ \\\\)
# Live every life as if it were your last! #

Microsoft Word - forgot to write down the Original Name of Add-in dotm file

Microsoft Word - forgot to write down the Original Name of Add-in dotm file

forgot to write down the Original Name of Add-in dotm file

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 01:53 PM PST

My MS Word 2010 continues to stop working.  I was following the process outlined in a blog, same instructions Doug Robbins actually provided to another user.  I missed the part of writing down the original name of the DOTM file before I renamed it to OLD and it turns out the program still does the same Stopped Working issue.

I do not have the original names of the 2 DOTM files and need to know who to proceed PLEASE?

E-mail links created in Office 2013 opening a browser window rather than an e-mail message window

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 01:13 PM PST

When I create an e-mail link in an Office 2013 document and click on it (Ctrl+Click) the link opens a browser window rather than an e- mail window. I know how to create links of all types in Office as I've been doing it for years. The link is correct in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box. The E-mail address block in the Linked to column is selected and the link in the E-mail address line reads mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy *** (not the real e-mail address name, obviously).  This is happening accross all of the office programs. I do have the e-mail icon on the Quick Access Tool Bars which correctly launch a new e-mail message window when clicked.

 I am new to Office 2013, however, and I'm also using a new Windows 8.1 laptop, where I previosly was using Vista. I don't know if that has anything to with it but any help or thoughts with this issue are welcome!

mail merge field sizes with word 2013

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 12:46 PM PST

I know that there is a work around for merging fields of more than 255 characters but is there a way to identify when a field exceeds the 255 limit without create the dummy record.  I am importing a number of text fields where the entry can be greater than 255.  What I am trying to do is determine if there is a way to flag that field and then I can go back and manually edit as required.

Lines showing across page in MS Word

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 10:48 AM PST

MS Word 2013 is displaying shaded horizontal lines between each paragraph: 

These are not paragraph or page borders, nor horizontal rules. They do not print. What causes them, and how can they be made to go away? 

Table too wide when copied into email message

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 09:10 AM PST

I'm having a problem with formatting an email message in Outlook 2010. Since Outlook uses Word to compose messages, I'm posting the message in the Word forum.

I'm copying a table from Excel 2010 into an email message. The table is formatted, with cells about 1.5 inches wide. It looks fine when I compose the message. But then after it's sent - when the recipient receives it or I look at it in my Sent folder - the rightmost column is too wide.  

In the rightmost column is text, which is word-wrapped to multiple lines. Outlook's reformatting expands it to full width, and doesn't retain the word wrap. When I try to forward the message, I'm unable to narrow that column to a normal width by dragging the right column border in the normal way.

Any suggestions?

List of open Word documents in taskbar changes spontaneously

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 09:02 AM PST

I usually have 10 to 12 Word documents open at once.  When I mouse over the Word icon on the task bar, I see the list. I have opened these documents in a specific order (their file names begin with 01, 02, 03, etc.) so I can easily locate & click on the document I want to paste something into.

After a few hours, I discover that the order has changed. For example, file 01 might be in the 7th position, and an un-numbered document might now be at the top of the list.

Why does this happen? How can I make it stop?

Document format changed after saved as the file

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 08:43 AM PST

Dear all,

The format of the document changed after I saved as the file. (the original file and the save as file type are both .docx)

Is there any way to avoid this and preserve the file formatting after save as?

Thanks!

I need to convert a merged MS word Document into an Excel Spread Sheet.....is there a step by step procedure?

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 07:31 AM PST


Hi,

Thank you for this wonderful forum, it has been a life saver and time saver on may occasions.

This time I am looking for a method of converting a merged MS Word document into an Excel spread sheet with the individual merged documents appearing in separate cells of the spreadsheet.

I am using Excel as a tool to format and manipulate data that is then uploaded to a database.

The database is very fussy and will reject files with any carriage returns or machine code. I need the Excel CLEAN function to eliminate all punctuation before uploading.

I am using MS Word to generate HTML Templates and need to convert them into a CSV file in Excel to CLEAN and then upload them to the database.

Currently I am copying and pasting each completed template document into Excel. This was ok but now the files are getting larger with a high number of records.

Is there a simple method to convert a merged MS word document into separate records on an Excel Spreadsheet? 

Once in Excel format I would use VLOOKUP to place each document in the correct cell on the upload sheet.

Any guidance is appreciated.

I also posted this query on the Excel Forum

Refreshing chart fills when the chart data increases - Word 2013

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 06:50 AM PST

Hi, 

I'm experiencing the following issue.

According to the documentation the only way to redistribute chart style is with chart template. But when i customize and use chart template (img 1) and the update the data for the chart, the styles are not reapplied (img 2). I need to reapply the template in order for the new bars to take the appropriate fills from the chart template. (img 3). This also happens with texture fills.

My question is: Is there a fix for this bug? or is there a way to create custom style and add it to the list in the Chart Styles?

Large document with section breaks that need tohave page numbers "continue from previous section"

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 06:40 AM PST

I am working with a large business document that has many section breaks in order to inform the reader what section (chapter) they are reading.  I am having a problem getting the page numbers to stay continuous throughout the document after I have saved and closed the file.  

I have selected page number / format page number/ continue from previous section and it worked correctly while I am in the document, but after saving and closing the document it will not hold those changes once I've reopened the file.    Any suggestions?

What’s the exact folder name of, “My templates. . . “?

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 06:32 AM PST

 

1. I am trying to set up a new WORD template so that it appears in:-

 

Office Button

 

New

 

The window called:-

 

New Document

 

 - opens.

 

2. In the window called:-

 

New Document

 

 - towards the top left hand corner there's a section called:-

 

Templates

 

 - and in that section there's a sub section called:-

 

My templates . . .

 

I want my template to appear in the section immediately above.

 

Can somebody please provide me with the exact folder name of:-

 

My templates . . .

 

Thanks in advance for any replies.

 

Navigating from hyperlink to hyperlink in a large document

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 06:31 AM PST

I have a very large document that contains many hyperlinks.  I would like to know if there is a way to navigate from hyperlink to hyperlink while I'm verifying that the links are still active.  The alternative is scrolling through each page in the document until I find the next hyperlink...which isn't efficient.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Typing

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:27 AM PST

When typing in Microsoft word, the letters are running off of the page and continuing back on to the page on a new line. Never had this problem before. Need help ASAP

Moved from Windows 7 Programs Forum.

Office 365 small business premium- toolbar options does not work

Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:15 AM PST

Hi all

This is ALI. I have recently installed office 365 (windows 8.1). first day it was working fine but next day it is showing some strange problem. when i click on anything on main toolbar like to change the font or size etc it does not show the options but it goes invisible.  it shows roll down window but do not show the options. first i thought it might be a problem with my windows so I refreshed my windows but  problem still exists. there is no malware etc. 

I dont know if I explained the problem correctly 

and this problem is occurring in all applications including word excel power point etc and I cant do anything at all. even it does not show the options to change the office background and office themes. looks like problem is in the whole software

Please help me as I am working on some project and I need to finish early

Thanks

Printing scale

Posted: 05 Mar 2015 08:24 PM PST

For the last few days, printing my usual document (Word 2013) comes out at about 65% of true scale. This happens to old versions of this doc, which used to print correctly. Other (unrelated) docs also print correctly. I installed Shrink One Page on the ribbon but when I click on it, Word hangs up. (Also, I don't know exactly what Shrink One Page means.) I suspect the problem has something to do with templates but I don't know how to change them. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Text disappears in Word 2013

Posted: 05 Mar 2015 03:04 PM PST

Hello all,

There's text in a document - without tables, placeholders or textboxes - that seems to disappear on its own. When I view the file in Read Mode at Zoom % at 120 or below, it is there. When you zoom in, it disappears. When you view it in Print layout or any other layout, it disappears irrespective of the zoom level.

The behavior stays the same in safe mode too.

I've read various answers to this and I've tried changing default printer to XPS, disabled the hardware graphics too but the issue is quite persistent.

Thanks in anticipation of your help here.

Regards,

Chaitrali

Slight difference gets magnified

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 09:02 PM PST

I have two versions of my document that are supposed to be identical. But on one specific page, one document contains one more line at the bottom of a specific page than the other. This difference gets magnified as the document proceeds until one doc has a whole extra page. (I don't want the extra page.) This messes up my page "parity" (each major part should start on an odd page). I don't know why there is a difference. I've checked the page size, margins, and styles and they are the same. This problem has cost me almost a week of editing and I never know when the difference might pop up again. Any ideas?
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