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"Unable to migrate to dependency-based boot system..."

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 04:33 AM PST

On 3/2/2010 5:40 AM PT, J G Miller typed:
 

Thanks man! I will wait for the Squeeze. I will do like I did last time
and use net-install. Amusing how my XP Pro. installation is older than
this Debian box. I need to redo Windows too with 7 one of these days. :)
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Weird ubuntu audio/sound problem

Posted: 28 Feb 2010 10:29 AM PST

edu wrote: 

Did you make the mistake of installing the OPTIONAL modem driver?

When you point to your Volume Icon, you should get a Tooltip with
something like "Internal Audio og Stereo

IF YOU DID install the modem, uninstall it and see what happens. That
fixed this problem when I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10

That's because my on-board Modem is a Voice Modem used for
Voice-over-IP used for using my system's speakers & mic for phone
function. You don't want the feed-back squeal when you use it as a
phone, hence the speaker is disabled with the modem installed.

How do I make resize my /'s /boot partition for more free disk space?

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 02:50 PM PST

Woohoo/W00t! I managed to install Kernel v2.6.32 barely on my old Debian box:

# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
linux-doc-2.6.32
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 127 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 76.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 2.6.32-5 [26.3MB]
Fetched 26.1MB in 35s (731kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686.
(Reading database ... 158155 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686_2.6.32-5_i386.deb) ...
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 (2.6.32-5) ...
Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
Running update-grub.
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
done
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 2.6.32-trunk-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3 2-trunk-686
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/gnome/help: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/omf: 0 KiB
localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML: 0 KiB

Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB


$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 280003 240465 25082 91% /
....

I probably won't be able to install 2.6.33 even if I were to uninstall
2.6.30. :P When that happens or whjen my hardware fails or whatever,
then I will do a clean install from scratch and do my partitions
correctly. Thank you to all who replied. :)
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Where is Bluetooth installation coming from and how can I removeit from my old Debian box?

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 06:29 AM PST

In article <4b8df04a$0$4975$newshosting.com>, jull43
@tampabay.rr.com says... 

None. That's what I've been trying to say...

D

cybercafe program

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:46 PM PST

balou wrote:
 

Modern URL?. AFAIR, the only onlne HOWTO references all commented about
unreliability. OTOH, these things are usually just cobble togethers with
various hardware.

Getting *all* local mail to be sent to the smarthost relay

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:52 AM PST

On Feb 17, 7:51am, The Natural Philosopher <invalid>
wrote: 

You're referring to the "dpkg-reconfigure" script, or whatever it's
called? That's not in the RHEL RPM's.

I just had a gentle talk with the configure files in /etc/exim/ on
RHEL 5. It works, but it's not well doented. I had to go hunting in
the on-line manuals for details on setting up a smarthost, which
involves replacing a stanza about DNS handling.
 

Right. Exim Doesn't Do That(tm). There's a table in /etc/exim/ where
you need to put such aliases instead.

Issues with 7TB partition

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:42:35 -0500, Ranman <com> wrote:
 

The dos mbr is limited to a total disk size (not just partition)
of 2TB. Trying to create/write past 2TB will result in wrap
around, causing corruption.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

From "man fdisk" ...
fdisk doesn't understand GUID Partition Table (GPT) and it is not
designed for large
partitions. In particular case use more advanced GNU parted(8).

While your kernel appears to have guid support enabled, you have
to use partitioning software that also supports it, and you have
to select guid as the partition table type (aka gpt).

With parted, you would use "mklabel gpt", followed by the normal
partition creation.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Can my ubuntu desktop access web via wirelessrouter

Posted: 14 Feb 2010 04:42 AM PST

On Feb 14, 10:18pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote: 

thanx for that

Newbie looking for advice on Linux distribution

Posted: 13 Feb 2010 06:57 AM PST

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:33:42 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
 

I have tried various distros over the years, and I always gave up due to
various problems, notably hardware recognition issues. Last week I began
looking at Ubuntu netbook remix. I downloaded it and installed it on my
netbook. It picked up all my hardware and booted into a fully functional
system, with only minor tweaking. This week, all my computers are running
ubuntu. I have 7 machines here, and it installed on all of them with only
one problem. My main laptop had the harddrive trashed by the installer.
Luckily it was all backed up, but my Vista 64 was trashed. I was fuming,
but I decided to continue installing Ubuntu. I got it installed and it is
running flawlessly.


Of course, nothing is perfect. I am a musician, and I like to do some
multitrack recording. THis is the one area where Linux is very weak. I
had to leave my DAW machine untouched, so that I could continue to use my
studio. I'm not saying I can't record audio on a linux box, just that it
is much more limited than Windows. I could just be missing things, and
I'm aware that there is always a learning curve with any new endeavor,
but it seems that the capabilities just aren't there. We'll see.....

Protecting the Windows using Linux

Posted: 12 Feb 2010 11:36 AM PST

On Sunday 14 February 2010 12:58 in comp.os.linux.setup, somebody
identifying as TomB wrote...
 

Follow-up header respected, albeit that I haven't been subscribed to
that group anymore in a few years already.
 

Xen is primarily suited for server deployment, albeit that it can be
used with workstation set-ups as well - see her down The thing
about Xen is that it's a bare metal hypervisor, so it doesn't run
inside a host operating system. Everything running on top of Xen -
including the management system - is a virtual machine.

It's similar to how mainframes work, but with the difference that the
operating system in direct control of the hypervisor on a mainframe is
a specialized single-user system, while on Xen it must be either
GNU/Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD or (Open)Solaris, all of which are
UNIX-style systems and thus multi-user. It is however advised,
especially for server set-ups, not to have any users log into the
management virtual machine, or perhaps, just one user, and have that
user then use /su/ and/or /sudo/ to obtain root privileges.

(Note with regard to the above: I always disable all direct root logins,
both remote and local, on all of my machines, virtual or physical, and
thus an unprivileged user account must then be used to log in directly,
and /su/ from there on. This means that any cracker breaking into the
system must instead of guessing only the root password now guess my
user account's login, its password, and then the root password.)

If you intend to run GNU/Linux-only guest systems (and as servers), then
you might also want to look into OpenVZ and Vserver as an alternative
solution. This is another kind of virtualization, at the operating
system level, i.e. you then run multiple userspace "containers" (also
called "zones") on top of a common kernel, with one userspace context
being "the host", from which you can access all others.

OpenVZ and Vserver are similar to eachother but there are some important
differences. For instance, Vserver uses a copy-on-write system for the
guests which is economic in diskspace, but OpenVZ has more
possibilities and uses a more recent kernel - 2.6.18 for "stable" and
2.6.26 and 2.6.27 for "testing". Another operating system which offers
this kind of virtualization would for instance be (Open)Solaris.

Personally I would like to see the OpenVZ adopted into the upstream
Linux kernel. It already has a now quite mature Xen support built-in
(for both dom0 and domU) and it also offers KVM and lguest as
additional virtualization technologies, but those are too much akin to
the third party virtual machine monitor set-ups of VMWare (Workstation)
and VirtualBox. Operating system level virtualization would be a nice
complement to GNU/Linux, especially since OpenSolaris already offers it
as well, and if I'm not mistaken, then FreeBSD also already had it at
one stage (although I think they've removed it again now - I'm not
sure.)

In the event of a Xen set-up, each of the virtual machines runs a
complete operating system, i.e. kernel plus userspace. So there's a
little more RAM overhead than with OpenVZ or Vserver. Otherwise, Xen
performs very well in comparison. With paravirtualization, performance
of the guests is only some 1% or 2% slower than if they were running on
the bare metal.

Another advantage is that Xen can run different types of guest operating
systems. You can even run Windows as an unprivileged guest on Xen, but
only on the condition that your hardware has virtualization extensions,
because Windows can obviously not be paravirtualized, since the code is
not free. Microsoft did at one stage - during the development of Xen -
supply a paravirtualized version of Windows XP, but this version was
never licensed for retail; it was solely intended for testing by the
Xen developers.

Performance-wise, hardware virtualization is slower than
paravirtualization, though. With hardware virtualization, part of the
hardware the HW virtual machine sees is emulated by Xen, using the Qemu
device manager. This emulated hardware is also not exactly "the latest
and greatest", but at least it works reliably.

Paravirtualization on the other hand is an approach in which the
unprivileged guest operating system is "aware" that it is running
virtualized. A paravirtual guest has a kernel which uses
so-called "front-end" drivers, which are basically an abstraction layer
that connects to the "real" back-end drivers running in the dom0
virtual machine. So there is no emulation involved, and all of the
systems running on that one physical machine actually become one big
multifunctional virtual machine operating system. Again, it's like a
mainframe system.

Xen also allows the sysadmin to tailor performance by configuring how
many virtual CPUs each guest can use, and for performance-critical
virtual machines, it is possible to assign one or multiple physical CPU
cores to them, so that the other virtual machines cannot use those.
There are also multiple scheduling options for shared physical CPUs.

On the networking side of things, Xen defaults to bridging, but it is
possible to use routing/NAT as well - scripts are supplied to easily
set up whatever configuration you prefer. Xen also supports isolating
certain hardware from the management virtual machine (dom0) so that
this hardware can be directly accessed by one of the unprivileged
virtual machines (domU), which is then considered a "secondary driver
domain"; this is again often applied in (Open)Solaris, even with Sun's
own bare metal hypervisor - I forgot what it's called. In other words,
if you're running a virtual machine which needs a lot of network
bandwidth and your physical machine has two NICs, then you can choose
to hide one NIC from dom0 and have this particular virtual machine
access the second NIC directly with a regular driver and without having
to use the bridging or routing via dom0's NIC.

The machine I am currently working on - i.e. setting up; I'm not talking
of the machine I am typing this from - is going to be running Xen with
multiple paravirtualized Gentoo GNU/Linux virtual machines - the dom0
plus two domUs. One of the domUs will have direct access to a limited
set of hardware - i.e. a dedicated PCIe video adapter card, the
on-board sound chip and all USB hubs - which will then of course be
hidden from dom0, and the second domU will be running an OpenVZ kernel
with multiple "zones", installed as "headless servers".

Virtualization on top of virtualization, and all of it is Free & Open
Source Software. ;-) (Okay, that last line was specifically intended
for COLA. :p)

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Intel Graphics Under Debian Lenny (Blank Screen)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:35 AM PST

There are two intel drivers for X, i810 and intel (the newer one).

Check out, which one Ubuntu and Lenny are using.
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cannot change current block/inode allocation

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST

Bill Mar wrote: 

I tried this , but still i am getting this

zodiac@zodioc:~$ sudo su
root@zodioc:/home/zodiac# edquota -u testuser
edquota: WARNING - /dev/sdb5: cannot change current block allocation
edquota: WARNING - /dev/sdb5: cannot change current inode allocation

GUI for /etc directory?

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 02:51 AM PST

On Feb 8, 1:08pm, donottypethisbit.com (Mark
Hobley) wrote: 

Linuxconf hasn't had an update in 5 years. The tools available for
particular Linux distributions vary widely, and are often specific to
specific features: "yumex" for yum software updates on RHEL, "system-
config-network" for network setups on RHEL, "YaST" for all sorts of
configurations on SuSE, "lilac" on various Fedora and Debian based
platforms for Nagios, etc.

Frankly, I prefer Webmin wherever feasible: it's a better interface
and more robust, by far, than many of the other GUI's. But its
completeness relies on people writing good components to manage parts
of /etc/, and creating *those* is often not part of the author's
plans. CUPS, for example, is just nasty to configure graphically due
to missing access to core components, such as the text->Postscript
page size settings.

Pimp my GRUB

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 01:06 PM PST

On Feb 10, 12:45pm, Peter Köhlmann <de>
wrote: 

That's their problem. Well, that and SuSE. (Its primary configuration
tool, YaST is really, really, really not your friend for any remotely
sophisticated configuration needs due to a number of pervasive flaws
in mishandling both kernel and package configurations, especially the
"there can be only one kernel" and the 3rd-party software
installations such as NVidia. And don't get me going on how foolish it
is to publish a kernel SRPM where the patch files are hidden inside
tarballs, to be plucked and chosen among by shell scripts.
Errrggghhh!)

Manuel actually asked an interesting question, the sort that's worth
trying to answer and educate with even if it seems foolish to someone
already more familiar with how these things work.

For example: optimizing the "initrd", which is not actually a script
but a compressed, mountable file system for old reasons involving
bootstrapping from 1.44 MByte floppies, is an interesting way to try
to speed things up. Optimizing the init scripts, which is a different
matter, is actually something people are actively pursuing, and it's
one of the lengthier parts of the boot procedure. Optimizing the BIOS
itself is also possible, but takes considerable courage and some
knowledge to do. (LinuxBIOS isn't broadly supported yet, but it's
awfully cool if you can make it work.)

Manuel, I'm glad you're more clear now on the difference between grub,
the boot loader, and the init processes. They're tricky: they're shell
scripts, fitting a very standardized layout to ease management, but
they really *weren't* written for speed. For example, throwing out all
that nice sanity checking of config files and testing whether they
exist is going to slow things down. And the various funky bits
designed to make the printouts look pretty are a complete waste of
most user's time: We don't care of the output is "OK" or a splufty,
pretty green OK printing subroutine, but we needn't waste our time
loading up shell function files if we just print "OK".

install linux on blade server

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:53 PM PST

On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 12:53 -0800, syd_p wrote: 

I don't have a Bladesystem H yes... but in general the blade
manufacturer provides a virtual CDROM/DVD capability that allows
you to connect your "local" DVD from a the remote control point
running the enclosure software and use that for the blade(s).

So... you effectively get a DVD drive on your blades that
comes off your desktop (if you will).

Of course, once you do one machine, you could always clone
it to the other blades... lots of options once you do one.

SQUID problem;need help

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:32 AM PST

On Feb 9, 4:36am, kaari <com> wrote: 

I'm no squid expert, but your request is short on what might be useful
information. What OS is your proxy server? What version of Squid is
it? And can you post the configuration file for it?

Similarly, what OS is your web client? Which browser? And does this
website work well *without* the proxy in the way?

Last, what is the target website?

Microsoft Word - Word 2013 blank boxes appear and disappear when closing

Microsoft Word - Word 2013 blank boxes appear and disappear when closing

Word 2013 blank boxes appear and disappear when closing

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 02:02 PM PDT

Hello,

Oddly enough, today a colleague was working on a previously saved Word 2013 document and after making changes they went and pressed the X to close at the top right. Normally a window pops up asking if you would like to save or close the document as changes have been made. With this document, which appears not to be corrupted or anything of the sort, a blank box pops up and disappears several times before finally being replaced by the typical dialogue box, once selecting to save or discard the mystery box does the same thing several times until it asks the same thing. The only way seemingly out of the loop is to cancel the operation; closing the program. I can go to File and press Save and it works properly and allows me to then close the program. However I am wondering if anyone has any clue about this mystery disappearing box trick as I would love to be able to fix the problem so that it does not happen again on a document that cannot be lost.

Deleting word document

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:52 PM PDT

If I delete a word document file from my PC, does it leaves any traces on the hard disk. If yes where can I find them?

User name changes to "author"

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:30 PM PDT

Split from this thread.

I don't know whether I can get any help on this issue but I am having the same problem. A person send me a document with their edits (identified as "author" no matter what). Then I proceed to insert my edits and I have to physically go in at the beginning of each edit session under Review options and put my user name (otherwise it assumes I'm the "author" too.)  The edits I put in are in a different color. But as soon as I save, my edits are the same color and the edits are now identified as "author")   I've lost all productivity because I haven't found a good work around.

How can I insert tab after right indentation.

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:14 PM PDT

Recently, i shifted to Word 2013 from 2007's counterpart. However, in earlier version of word, i can insert a  tab for right alignment tab beyond the right indentation.

I found that this facility in not available in word 2013. Is there any way to do that?

For more illustration, I have also added a snapshot from  word 2007.

   

Word and Excel will not open, mising msvcr90.dll

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:13 PM PDT

Product: Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student

OS: Windows 7 64-bit

Problem: When I open Word or Excel I receive a message that it cannot find msvcr90.dll

Troubleshooting Steps Attempted:

  1. Checking the computer for infections (clean)
  2. Hardware tests (passed)
  3. Reinstallation of Office 2010
  4. Reinstallation of Visual C + +
  5. Windows Update
  6. Repair using Tweaking Windows Repair
  7. SFC /Scannow

Thank you for any additional suggestions. The only option I can think of next is a backup, clean install which I would prefer to avoid.

Why does font change to calibri when inserting a paragraph or section mark in Word 2010 even though default font (and font in use) is Times New Roman and how do I fix that?

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:12 PM PDT

We have suddenly started having the problem that when inserting either a section (§) or paragraph (¶) symbol into a word document (64-bit Word 2010 on Windows 7 Pro), even though the default font has been set in Word to Times New Roman and the font in use in the document is the default, it switches arbitrarily back to Calibri. Why is this happening and how do I fix it? Thanks!

Ariel

Replace First Character

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:11 PM PDT

I have a document in which I wish to replace the first character on all lines at once with a new character. Does someone know how I can accomplish that? Do note that Excel is not the answer, as the document contains 11,881,376 lines on which the first character must be replaced.

Word 2013 Templates - Drop Down Box

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 11:08 AM PDT

Hello!

I'm creating a template, and was wondering if there is anyway to increase the number of characters for the drop down box choices. For the template I'm creating, I need the user to be able to select from two paragraphs. However, the drop down choices only hold so many characters. Is there a work around for this? Thanks!

Sign in to Office (an issue with disabling said feature)

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 11:03 AM PDT

Okay a bit of a back story.  The company I work for has asked that I essentially neuter Office to the best of my abilities from communicating with the outside world for privacy reasons.

One of the issues is with it signing in to Microsoft.

I followed the steps to either edit the registry or to use the Group Policy editor to change 'block signing into office' to enabled with the maximum setting.

The issue is that when Word or Excel for example are loaded, it still prompts in the top right corner to "Sign in to get the most out of Office".  Fine, I get that.  If I click on it, sometimes (not always), it will display a box that says this feature has been disabled by your administrator.  GOOD!  However, I click the X to close it, and immediately click to sign in again, and it pops up the same box, this time with it asking for an email address.

Close Word, and repeat the process and it's hit or miss if it will say it's disabled or ask for an email address.

Using the latest version of Office (all up to date as far as I can tell).  Frustrating!

Mail Merge Rules and Next Record

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 10:40 AM PDT

Hi, 

I am creating a personalized agenda that I am trying to populate from an excel file. A couple problems:

1- the document is a custom template to print on a perforated page, so i dare not mess with it too much. I created the agenda template from a table.  I am using the If, then rules to populate the table and I think it's working ok, on the template on the left side of the sheet anyways. 

How do I get the template on the right side of the page to populate?

I though the Next record function might work but I was getting an error message about not being able to post in headers or margins or something. 

How do I get the next person's agenda to populate on the right, and the person after that to populate on a subsequent page?

Would be happy to share my docs to anyone who can help.

Thanks!

Larkin

not compatable setups

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 10:22 AM PDT

endnote option is not appearing in my word document i have ms word 2013 professional plus and endnote 7 what should i do?

Word 2010 document

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 10:14 AM PDT

I just got a new computer and I can not get the documents in Word to stay one page at a time on the screen.  It keeps going back to two on a page (like a book).  I never had this issue before, maybe it's the new monitors?  They're about 18" across now.

How do I get  Word to stay  set to show one page at a time and scroll down to read rest of document?  

Mail Merge Data is Not Showing What is in the Database Field

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 08:51 AM PDT

I am trying to merge fields from an Excel database over to a Word document. One field has the customers work phone in it. The merged data always shows up as "0" instead of the phone number in the Excel cell. The column before and after the Work Phone field has the customers Home Phone and Cell Phone and this data merges correctly. Any ideas on why the Work Phone column merges as "0" for every customer in the list?

How do I copy a list item from Word to a third-party application WITHOUT also copying the liste item number,letter,marker,etc.?

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 08:27 AM PDT

I have Word for Office 365.

I have a document with a numbered list.

I want to copy the text from one of the list items and paste it into another program.

I select JUST THE TEXT (taking great pains to NOT include the empty space at the end of the line) and copy it by either pressing CTRL+C or using the COPY button in the ribbon.

I open up a third-party program and press CTRL+V to paste the copied text into the third-party program.

When I do this the line of text is pasted, but prepended to this line of text is the list time. So instead of seeing:

This is some text

I see:

a.    This is some text.

How can I stop this from happening?

Under FILE -> OPTIONS -> ADVANCED -> CUT, COPY, AND PASTE I have "Keep bullets and numbers when pasting text with Keep Text Only option" unchecked. I have all "Pasting..." options above this set to "Keep Text Only". I do not think these settings apply to my issue because they are for pasting into Word not copying.

I have no options for controlling how things are copied under this "CUT, COPY, and paste" section.

Thank you for your help.

Microsoft office 2013 problems

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 08:14 AM PDT

I downloaded office 2013 and it has not worked well since the day I got it. I had 2010 on my computer and upgraded to be able to use more office products. 2013 programs will start to open and freeze. Then I will have to ctrl-alt-del to effectively 'push' the programs to open. That still only sometimes works. Also, randomly, I will be working (writing a paper or something) and I will click on the internet to maybe look up information, and when I click back into the MS program it will be completely frozen again. I will have to ctrl-alt-del many, many times to push it through again.

PLEASE HELP ME. This is awful.

PS I know I selected MS Office Word, but it happens an all of them.

Double & Single Side printing in 1 PDF

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 06:24 AM PDT

I am not sure if this is possible but I have a PDF document that has 7 documents but only 4 of them I want to print double sided.

Pages 1-3 I need to print single sided

Pages 4-16 I need to print as double sided (these are 4 documents with 2 pages each)

Is this possible and if so How?

Shazz

Is there a way to change (as a default) where delivery address goes on an envelope

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 06:12 AM PDT

Hi All - 

    Each time I do an envelope  - I have to by hand move the left margin in the delivery address area. (Either company name or street address line does not fit on one line as it is).

Is there a way to set a default - so the left indent of that section is further left? 

Thank you in advance

just installed word wont print out in word but will print in emails

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 04:54 AM PDT

I just purchased word 2013 last week and because of viruses within my computer it was installed remotely by Microsoft.   Since then I cannot print out in word, it will print out emails etc but not in word.  I have checked my printer it is on as default full ink and working correctly.  Why will it not print out a word document.

Insane behavior of Word document!

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 04:07 AM PDT

I'm tearing my hair out!

I have a document that when I paste text from another document, whether just one line or a whole paragraph, there is a non-deletable space of half a page suddenly inserted in the document THREE PARAGRAPHS ABOVE where I am pasting the text.

I've even pasted the text into Notepad so there's no formatting at all - just plain text - it STILL inserts this gap when I copy and paste from Notepad.

How on earth can I get rid of this gap?

It's driving me insane!

win 8.1 does not detect printer(hp photosmart c4485) but scans and copies?

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 03:19 AM PDT

win 8.1 does not detect printer(hp photosmart c4485) but scans and copies?

I have tried everything..

Radio buttons appear as pictures and no longer work in Word 2010

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 03:15 AM PDT

I received a file from a customer containing radio buttons with a Yes/No choice. Everything worked fine until a couple of days ago. I must have accidentally hit a combination of keys on the keyboard that changed my settings in some way. Now I can no longer select any of the radio buttons in the document. When I click on them, it's as if I selected a picture. When I double-click them, a properties window appears showing the properties for "This document" (and not the radio button's properties). The weird thing is that on my colleagues' computer everything works fine.

I have searched the internet and tried all kinds of solutions (removing the *.exd files, reinstalling Office, etc. etc.) but nothing works. I am really getting desperate now, since I have a deadline to fill out the document and I cannot do it.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks!

Converting Word file to PDF with embeded PDF documents

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 03:10 AM PDT

I have a report which includes a number of PDF files which have been embedded within it, however to add security during distribution I need to PDF the master document. Unfortunately, as I convert the file to PDF using the 'Save As' function in Word 2010, all the embedded files are lost.

Is there any way to convert the word document to PDF and retain these embedded files, or am I going to have to re-insert them again in Acrobat?

Any help would be appreciated.

Apologies if this is an old topic, however I have uncovered a lot of questions and discussions on embedding files, but not in their retention in the subsequent conversion of the master file to pdf also.

Thanks in advance.

Alex. 

Microsoft Word 2013 - Macro to copy existing header and footer to many other documents.

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 02:16 AM PDT

I've attempted to create a macro that would copy the header and footer of 1 existing document and paste them onto every other document in the folder and sub folders, but I haven't gotten anywhere.

Could I get some help with this? Could this also do this for all the pages in the document? 

Thanks

Rod

Word 2013 Table of contents - page numbers all change to 2 when print (or print preview)

Posted: 24 Mar 2015 12:04 AM PDT

I have a single section document in Word 2013.  The first page is a TOC.  The document is 4 pages

long and has three Level 1 Heading styles through out the document.  The TOC initially appears correct. 

When I go to Print Preview the TOC will revert all page numbers to 2. 

Changing the Options "Update fields before printing" and  "Allow fields containing tracked changes to update before printing" has no effect (before anyone suggests this).

The only solution is to manually update the TOC, save to PDF, and print the PDF.

Anyone can reproduce this problem. Try it....

  1. Start with blank document
  2. Insert a TOC (ignore the error message, we will come back to this)
  3. Go to the end of the document and insert a page break to move to page 2
  4. Now type a heading in Heading 1 style and press enter
  5. type some dummy text (=rand(20) for example)
  6. Continue steps 4 and 5 to insert more headings and dummy text.
  7. Now return to the top (page 1) and update the TOC
  8. So far so good.  Everything working well
  9. Now go to Print Preview (Ctrl+P)
  10. Everything is still good
  11. Escape back to the document
  12. Go to Print Preview again
  13. AGGGHHHH! All the page numbers have reverted to page 2
  14. Happens every time without fail.  Totally reproducible on all our office PCs.

I have seen many descriptions of this behavior on different forums and not one solution. But I am like the proverbial dog with a bone - I will not let this issue go until MS gives me a solution !

where do i find technical support?

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 09:50 PM PDT

I am trying to reach technical support, but all the pages I go through that keep redirecting me to the same page that is expired. There is no phone number or email where I can contact someone regarding my account. I just need to contact technical support.

How not to mess up a range

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 08:12 PM PDT

I have a bunch of Word macros which allow me to do some time-saving bulk editing on my documents input from OCR. I was trying to make one of them work better by converting it to use Range.Find instead of Selection.Find. In doing so I made some improvements that I do not want to lose, but I broke the code in the process and do not see how to correct it.

Sub pig()
    Dim rng As Range
    Dim keepGoing As Boolean
    
    ' Look for at least 15 characters of text at the beginning of a

    ' line, valid characters are:
    ' space, uppercase, numeric, - or ~
    Set rng = ActiveDocument.Range(start:=Selection.start, _

         End:=ActiveDocument.content.End)
    rng.Find.MatchWildcards = True
    rng.Find.Style = ActiveDocument.styles("Normal")
    rng.Find.text = "^13[~\- 0-9A-Z]{15,}"
    
    keepGoing = True
    Do Until keepGoing = False
        ' this fails second time around unless I remove the Delete below

        If rng.Find.Execute Then

            rng.Select
            ' Move the start of selection to avoid ^13

            Selection.MoveStart unit:=wdCharacter, count:=1

            Selection.Delete
        Else
            keepGoing = False
        End If
    Loop
End Sub

I have removed most of the actual functionality to reduce the size of this example which does reproduce the problem.  When I run the above code on my text, the first call to rng.Find.Execute works, but the second and subsequent calls fail, somehow I seem to have broken the Range.  If I remove the Selection.Delete the find works every time but my code needs to delete the selected text. Please forgive me if I still have some Selection code in there because I am still only a noob at Ranges, and therein may lie my problem.  I tried range.delete and range.insertafter to put in the replacement text I want to insert, but it still failed the second time through.

How can I avoid destroying the range?

Right click freezes Office 2013

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 07:20 PM PDT

I have Office Professional Plus 2013 on my single desktop computer, all of the office programs freeze when I right click. Not everytime I right click, but only occasionally (I cannot figure out under what occasion). After freezing, I must restart the program and lose the data. Otherwise, the program works fine. This has been occurring regularly over a couple months, and I've simply been working around it, but it almost seems to be getting worse. I don't have any knowledge on how to solve this particular issue. Any help or suggestions here would be greatly appreciated.

I have attempted to contact the support center for this product, but the Windows support webpage misdirects every time I attempt, on every device or web browser. I have not discovered any other way to contact them, so any help on this would also be nice.

Word2000 spell checker block "disregarded during the spell check"

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 05:16 PM PDT

I've never seen this in using Word 2000 for all these years (even before the 2000 version) but it appeared on our secretary's computer (new Dell 3647, Windows 7 Pro, using Office 2000 for Word and Excel only). When you start a spell check, you get a message about a particular block is o be disregarded during the spell check.

It first appeared after fooling around with tools>options>spelling where we unchecked the boxes to ignore uppercase and words with numbers. I do not know if we have rechecked that. I will check tomorrow with the secretary. Could that cause the message about disregarding a block? Or what else did we accidentally change?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions (but please do not recommend using a newer version of Word. It's possible but I'm am much more comfortable helping her with 2000).

Loading MS office 2007 - Microsoft Office forums

Loading MS office 2007 - Microsoft Office forums

Loading MS office 2007

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 09:24 PM PST

No
Uninstall trial, together with any activation assistant, clear temp files,
reboot prior to installing from cd/dvd
(data will not be lost, but as with anything PC related data backups are
allways wise)

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I AM FURIOUS WTH MS's QUIRKS

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 02:52 PM PST

Hi Mike,

MS Office 2000 upgrade editions weren't available as OEM products and there
were some issues with having it recognize MS Works, but usually it was MS
Works 6. You may want to try contacting MS as described here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210437 if you're using MS Works as the
qualifying product, but as you already have MS Office 97, the Office 2000
upgrade version should recognize either an installed copy of that or it
should recognize the CD/diskette for that version during setup for upgrade
purposes.

Like new car models, when a new one comes out, Microsoft basically stops
making 'old models' (in this case CDs) for the older Office models when the
next Office model (Office XP/2002 in the case of Office 2000) comes out.
See if you can copy the CD you have to your hard drive and install from
there.

=================
<<"Mikie" <com> wrote in message
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I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new,
perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid
program to use for upgrading!

Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the
year???

So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I
loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access
File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE!
CANCEL...my only option~

Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact
someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my
desktop/ ?????????????

I think my computer might hate me, ya think?

Thanks for any help I can get.

Mike>>
--
Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

ineed the key code for microsoft office 2003

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 12:23 PM PST

Is Office 2003 still installed on your computer ???

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Product Key is not working

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 08:49 AM PST

You can't download it anylonger. Get your mother to send you your disks
ASAP.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


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install Off Pro 2007 on 4th computer

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 08:15 PM PST

Office 2007 Professional allows for an install on a primary machine and a
portable, not 3 machines.

--
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ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, jan asked:

| hiya,
|
| Is it possible to extend the license of the software I purchased to
| use on another computer? I use it on 2 currently (had loaded it on a
| 3rd which died, so no longer have the use of it), now want to load it
| on a replacement for the 3rd machine. A message pops up saying I've
| reached the limit. Any guidance is greatly appreciated!

Cannot install Office 2003 on Windows 7

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 05:50 PM PST

Windows 7 beta newsgroup
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/w7itpro/

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Office 20007 Install Error 1402

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 05:46 PM PST

Well you carry on how you wish, and as you lose Outllok data & settings dont
complain
by by


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Non-commerical use in the title bar and problems sending/receiving

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 03:43 PM PST

DL,
Thank you for your answers in my other posts. Thank you for the tip on cross
posting vs. multi-posting. Don't want to have poor forum etiquette. Wasn't
sure how to do it and it was late. I will try to investigate before
multi-posting.

Office 2007 - Sharing folders

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 11:29 AM PST

I thought there was someplace in Office where that permission is given. I
will check my operating system. Thank you!
--
Beth Ellen


"Beth Ellen" wrote:
 

how do i reinstall office 2007

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 03:41 PM PST

Contact the seller that you purchased it from. You have all the doentation of the
purchase

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Office Enterprise 2007 will not load in my computer. Suggestions?

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 11:31 AM PST

What is the exact error message?

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After furious head scratching, STARFISH asked:

| I have a new copy of Office Enterprise 2007 and am trying to load it
| into my computer with no luck. After entering the product key and
| agreeing to the Terms etc I see a screen with two boxes. Upgrade
| and Custom. Clicking on either shows a list of the programs
| included but I'm unsure what exactly I should be doing at this point.
| If we proceed to load then it hums for about 5 minutes with the
| progress bar about half way across the screen and then the floppy
| drive buzzes for a few seconds [weird] and an Error message comes on
| the screen. That's it game over.
| What the hell? Isn't this supposed to be easy?

Failure to Install Office Ultimate 2007

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 12:49 AM PST

DL-

Thanks for the reply-I'm sorry about being so slow getting back to you.

By booting into safe mode can I install the CD w/o any problems or
shortcomings with the Office suite? And, yes, other cd's have been used
successfully in the past to install programs into Vista.

I'll try that, probably this weekend, and get back to you in either case,
install or failure.

TheRalpher

"DL" wrote:
 

Install Office 2003 on new computer?

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 10:48 AM PST

Phyllis wrote: 

Only The Shadow Knows what evil lurks in the heart of WPA or WGA and he
ain't talking!

You'll only find out when you go to install it on the new computer and,
if so, you'll have to phone activate.

Alias 

Using Office Professional 2007 On A 64 Bit System

Posted: 15 Jan 2009 10:05 PM PST

I am sorry if I sound confused. I intend to use Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit) as the operating
system. This does not come with a 32 bit browser.

Will I have to install a 32 bit browser for Office 2007? If I have both a 64 bit browser and a 32
bit browser will Office 2007 automatically use the 32 bit one?


"DL" <address@invalid> wrote:
 

Product key not recognised

Posted: 15 Jan 2009 03:53 AM PST

Thanks. I'll try it...
S

--
Regards
Stephen Ford

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bulk assignments Microsoft Project

bulk assignments Microsoft Project

bulk assignments

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 04:26 PM PST

Thanks Rod, let's say I have a spreadsheet with several resources on them
that are already in the enterpise resource pool. I'm trying to get all of
these resources assigned to the same project all at once. Is there a quick
way of doing this and still keep them in the enterprise pool rather than
making them local resources? In short I'm trying to assign several resources
to the same project, but not one at a time and not as local resources. Thanks
again

"Rod Gill" wrote:
 

Problem w/ duration cal. incorrectly when applying multiple resour

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 11:39 AM PST

This is a case where I would use the split screen to assign the resources.
Enter Task X, duration 15 days. Assign resource R1 at 100%. Total Work is
calculated at 120 man-hours. Now with the task selected split the screen.
In the bottom window you'll see R1 already assigned. With the task set to
effort driven and the task type as Fixed Units, use the pulldowns under the
existing resource to add R2, entering 75% in the units column, and R3 with
units set to 50%. Click the "OK" button. You'll see the work gets
distributed between all three resources in a 4:3:2 ratio with R1 getting
53.33 hours, R2 getting 40 hours, and R3 getting 26.67 hours while the
duration goes to 6.67 days.

Now the question remains, why don't you have R2 and R3 devote their full
attention to their work and assign them 100%? Have 'em all give it their
full efforts and just git 'er done ASAP.

--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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"com" <microsoft.com> wrote in
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Bloat

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 11:36 AM PST

In article <googlegroups.com>,
"textron.com" <textron.com> wrote:
 

Bruce,
Wow I thought, what was it that I said in my last comment that was so
offensive.... and then I read my response again. OK, you're not
translating back and forth - that's good.

Well, I tell you what, unless the .csv file has a lot of complex data
(which I doubt), the code to implement my "fix" should be very simple.
That means it is no cost to you, despite your large employer who hasn't
been able to figure it out for you yet. I understand, its called
"corporate bloat". It's part of their mentality division. I know, I
worked for a large corporation too.

If you want to contact me, send me a note and we'll go from there.

John
jensenj6atatcomcastdotdotnet
remove obvious redundancies

Managing multiple, concurrent project

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 11:09 AM PST

Hi,

One more original situation (in case you prefer one file) could be to attach
to each task a task calendarshowing work for A 8-12, for B 13-15 and for C
15-17. Then you can assign all resources @100% and durations will be planned
correctly as soon as you give in work.

Hope this helps,
--
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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Duration, work, and calendar changes

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 11:03 AM PST

Thanks both for your comments -- got me going in the right direction.
I mistakenly assumed that decreasing the work days for a specific resource
in a resource calendar (and not changing the base calendar) would somehow
manifest as a difference between effort and duration.


"bam" <com> wrote in message
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Problem with duration dates miscalculation

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 05:20 AM PST

Thanks for the reply . I checked the calendar for weekends, extended
hours etc, 5 days week, no weekend working, 8 hours days, 40 hours weeks but
nothing helped.

I could email project to you if you could spare the time to take a look? Let
me know your email (com is mine)

" D" wrote:
 

enumerate projects sharing resources

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 03:43 AM PST

Hi John,

Problem.
The way I handle this is to show the window I talked about, break ALL links
with the Sendkeys method and re-connect the right ones.
Hope this helps,

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Holiday dates

Posted: 07 Mar 2006 01:07 AM PST

Hi Peter,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :)

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

Look for Housatonic in the Companion Products, who have an Outlook/MS
Project Tool which, I think, does this. There's a free trial on offer:
http://www.projectviewercentral.com/

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

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

Peterl wrote: 

Automatic calculation w/ add duration to "planned start/finish" da

Posted: 06 Mar 2006 11:50 PM PST

Sounds like what you're describing is the baseline start and finish dates.
Before you begin to post actuals, save a baseline. Your original plan is
preserved there. Then when you enter an actual start date, the planned
duration is added to it to come up with a projected finish. When you record
the task as finished, project either transforms that projected finish into
an actual or, if the actual duration differs from the planned, it records
the new finish date as you've inout it. But the baseline you saved records
all of the original start, duration, and finish info for comparison
purposes.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
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MySQL or ODBC

Posted: 06 Mar 2006 11:19 AM PST

Seems to work except for when it wants to use the type "longchar" for
at least one of the fields. MySQL does not support this field type.

Is there a work around?

Task % of total work

Posted: 06 Mar 2006 06:06 AM PST

In article <googlegroups.com>,
"Eanna" <ie> wrote:
 

Eanna,
You're welcome. The "60" converts minutes to hours. Project stores all
time based data in minutes so unless the user is working in minutes,
formulas using time based data (e.g. Work) must be converted. I think
most users enter work in hours so I made that assumption. If your value
from step 3 is in weeks, then the factor should probably be "2400" (i.e.
60 x 40, assuming 40 hours per week).

John
Project MVP 

How to print a few tasks of a project

Posted: 05 Mar 2006 11:17 PM PST

Feel free to wonder, but there isn't.
Tables decide which columns show and filters determine which "rows" show.

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