| Word's Formatting Palette Posted: 09 Jan 2008 02:29 PM PST On 10/1/08 11:12 AM, in article
microsoft.com, "JE McGimpsey"
<org> wrote:
And in supporting JE's comments, Leigh: re your comment "I wonder if the
developers actually use the applications they work on...", MacBU staff are
Mac enthusiasts through and through. One of the most memorable sights I've
experienced in computing is a seminar room full of MacBU people, most with
their MacBooks / MacBook Pros open, taking notes of our briefing. I don't
even see half that many at Mac User Group meetings. :-)
Clive Huggan
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| follow up to "wrong code" discussion below Posted: 09 Jan 2008 10:39 AM PST |
| Spell Checking in Mac Office 2008 Posted: 09 Jan 2008 08:51 AM PST I was about to say, "yeah, but Office X was a port to OS X"--but Office
2008 is a port to Intel vs. PPC. So, yeah, I'd wait if I were you too.
It'll all be public as of the 15th, I think.
Also, the "not quite as good" tech guarantee promotion seems to be set
to last longer than the supersuite promotion, by the way, so you might
wait and still save money.
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/supersuitedeal/
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/go/promotions/
Download Coupon to read the small print before you buy anything!
Valente wrote:
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| [ANN] The Entourage Help Blog: two new articles on prices andpromotions Posted: 08 Jan 2008 11:34 PM PST On 1/9/08 1:22 PM, in article
googlegroups.com, "Linotype"
<net> wrote:
For you this is a good option. For others that need VBA support they might
want both and prior to this having an updated version to work with until the
release.
Many like the option to get the Special Media edition.
I don't know how I did it, but pasting all of the info into the links I made
some mistakes and have now hopefully, cleared them all up. Getting the name,
version, price and ISBN number for the link evidently overloaded my poor ole
brain.
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac $354.99
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Student and Teacher $130.99
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Upgrade $214.99
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition $449.99
And if you are still looking to use the promotions....
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac $309.99
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Student & Teacher 129.99
Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac upgrade $209.99
If you buy through the blog links, it will help support the site. Everything
on the blog is volunteer and when we need to upgrade the software it comes
out of our pocket. This is an easy way to help us keep updated.
--
Diane, Microsoft Mac MVP (MVPs are not Microsoft Employees)
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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| If you use Leopard, any downside of Installing Office 2008 onOS-free partition? Posted: 08 Jan 2008 05:37 PM PST Thanks very much, John. This had not occurred to me.
On 1/9/08 1:42 AM, in article C3AAD418.D9BA%name, "John McGhie"
<name> wrote:
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| Password Protection doesn't interop between Office for Window andOffice for Mac 2004 Posted: 08 Jan 2008 01:29 PM PST You're referring to the Allow Users to Edit Ranges feature. Sorry, but that
type of protection hasn't made it to the Mac version of Excel.
Although I understand your position you might take a moment to go to the
Help menu in Mac Excel & voice tour concern to MS through Send Feedback...
Nobody here has any control over such issues.
Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
On 1/8/08 4:29 PM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"com" <com> wrote:
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| Office autoupdate via proxy server? Posted: 08 Jan 2008 03:27 AM PST Jyrki wrote:
AutoUpdate simply won't work through some proxies. Unfortunately, you'll
receive a "No new updates" rather than an error.
Your best option is to simply download the updaters directly from
Microsoft's website and install them manually. Be sure to start with the
11.3.5 updater since it's a combo updater. Then apply each successive
update.
Hope this helps!
--
bill
William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
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| ReInstall Office Test Drive. Posted: 07 Jan 2008 07:57 PM PST
Be careful - I don't know what "2004 and 2008 working together with VBA"
means. Office 2008 does NOT support VBA, and any Office 2004 files with
macros will open, but the macros will NOT run. Can both office 2004 and 2008
be installed on the same machine and work without interfering with each
other? Probably, but we'll know for sure next week.
As far as interfacing to SQL, this is quite possible with Office 2004. Look
at: http://www.actualtechnologies.com/
--
Bob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh
bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom
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| How do long-time owners of Office 2004-Student-Teacher order 2008version? Posted: 07 Jan 2008 06:08 PM PST Thank you so very much for your thoughtful counsel!
Respectfully, Norm
On 1/7/08 8:18 PM, in article
vsrv-sjc.supernews.net, "Jolly
Roger" <com> wrote:
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| wrong code? Posted: 07 Jan 2008 05:27 PM PST I know this isn't what you want to hear [and I don't blame you:-)] but the
characters in the keys can be quite deceptive - it sometimes requires every
conceivable combination of l's versus 1's (that first is a letter, the
second a number) & O's versus 0's (which are less often the culprit, but can
still be a PITA).
Another possibility - where/when did you obtain the software? If someplace
like ebay or elsewhere on the web, it wouldn't be the first time somebody
stuck a CD in another's wrapper & passed it off as "new"... If it's a copy
you've had for a while is it possible it may have gotten switched with
another copy accidentally?
Did the Macbook ever have the Office 2004 Test Drive installed? If you
installed X without a complete & proper Removal of the Test Drive that could
be the cause of the problem. If so, let us know.
--
HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
<com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com...
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| PPT quits when launching slide show with Office 2004 11.3.9 Posted: 07 Jan 2008 04:27 PM PST Whoa!! That's scary :-) I suspect the latest Apple combo update would have
accomplished the same thing.
This sounds like the buggy QuickTime update that came out a few months ago
strikes again :-)
Cheers
On 10/01/08 6:10 AM, in article
googlegroups.com,
"diskgrunt" <com> wrote:
--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/
Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.
John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:name
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| M-I,5.P ersecution - hara ssment at w ork Posted: 02 Jan 2008 03:20 AM PST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
-= harassment. at work -=
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Once I stopped watching television and listening. to the radio at the end of
1990,. "they" had to find other ways of committing abuses. So they took what
must be for them a tried and tested route; they get. at you by subversion of
those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do. that with my family or
friends, that meant getting at people in the workplace. to be their
mouthpieces and do their dirty work for. them.
They supplied my employers in Oxford with. details from what was going on in
my private life, and what I and other people had. said at my home and
accommodation in Oxford. So people. at work repeated verbatim words which
had been said in my home,. and repeated what I'd been doing recently. Often
the. most trivial things, the ones from your domestic life, are the ones
which hurt most.. One manager in particular at Oxford continuously abused me
for ten. months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and threats to terminate
my employment. After ten months I was forced to seek psychiatric help. and
start taking medication, and was away from work for. two months. I spoke
later with a solicitor about what had happened at that. company; he advised
it was only. possible to take action if you had left the company as a result
of harassment, and such an action would have to be started. very soon after
leaving.
Over a. year later the same manager picked on another new worker, with even
more serious results; that employee tried. to commit suicide with an
overdose as a. result of the ill-treatment, and was forced to leave his job.
But he didn't take action against the company,. either. Abuse at work is
comparable to that elsewhere in. that tangible evidence is difficult to
produce, and the abusers will always have their. denials ready when
challenged. And even if a court accepts. what you say happened, it still
remains to. prove that abuse causes the type of breakdown I had at the end
of 1992. In a recent case before a British. court, a former member of the
Army brought a case against others who had. maltreated him ten years
previously. Although the court accepted that abuse had occurred,. it did not
agree that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied. justice to
the. plaintiff.
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| M I.5,Persecutio n ' w ho know s abo ut it ? Posted: 01 Jan 2008 04:01 AM PST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-= who knows. about it? =-
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Many people know, both in the. establishment and media, and among the
general public. Despite an absence of its target from the UK for more. than
two years, the echoes of paranoia can still be heard. loud and clear from
across the water. When it started in 1990, the only people who knew. were
those in BBC television who were. spying on my home, and a few radio
broadcasters. There. were a few cases of public harassment, but very little
compared to the situation. that developed a couple of years later.
The list. today includes BBC TV staff (newsreaders such as Martyn Lewis,
Michael Buerk, Nicholas Witchell), people from. radio stations such as
Chris Tarrant of Capital and Radio 1 DJs, people in the print. media, but
also many people in the general. public. All united in a conspiracy which
breaks the laws. which the UK does have regarding harassment, and all
completely uncaring for any. semblance of decency or elementary respect
for. individual rights.
The British police (obviously) do know. the nature of the harassment and in
all probability. the identity of those behind it. Some time ago I made a
complaint to my local. police station in London, without positive result.
The. UK police are failing in their duty to see the law enforced in not
checking the. abuse.
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| M I.5'Persecut ion ' h ow a nd w hy d id it s tart? Posted: 01 Jan 2008 03:24 AM PST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-= how and why. did it start? -=
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The harassment didn't start by itself, so someone must have been. there at
the outset to give it a firm push and set. the "animals" after me. It looks
as. if I was set up in June 1990, and the timing indicates someone from
university was. responsible.
In May or June 1990, Alan Freeman on Radio 1 read. out a letter from someone
who had known me for a few years, who wrote of the. one who "wore out his
welcome with random precision" (from the Pink. Floyd song). Freeman went on
to say to the. writer "that's a hell of a letter you wrote there". The
indication is strongly that people I had. parted from soon before nursed a
grudge against me and were trying to cause. trouble for me.
The suggestion is that Freeman. might have shown the letter to other people,
and things could have snowballed from there. Right from the. start the real
source (security services. presumed) didn't announce themselves as the
origin, but let the. "talkers", the radio DJs, believe that they were the
originators. Think about it; if. you announce, "we're MI5 and we have a
campaign against this bloke" then people might not go along. with it; but if
you say, "everyone else is getting at. this bloke because he 'deserves' it"
then people. will join in with fewer qualms.
It's the. classic case of hitting a cripple to prove you're stronger. Why
would the security services expend hundreds of thousands of pounds and. more
than six years of manpower to try to kill a British citizen? Because. they
are motivated. by people who knew me at university and feel personal
animosity; because they knew me to be emotionally weak, and it. is in the
nature. of bullies to prey on those known to be weak; and because they can
rely on the complicity. of the establishment, which the security services
manipulate and derive funding from. This is. England's biggest humiliation
today, and the British security services are intent. on preventing their
humiliation becoming reality. by continuing their campaign of attempted
murder to. suppress the truth from becoming public.
1958
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| M`I,5.Persecutio n - bugg ing a nd counter-su rveillance Posted: 01 Jan 2008 01:10 AM PST -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
-= MI5: bugging and counter-surveillance. -=
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PO: >Did you ever look for the bugs in your house. ? If not, why not ? I mean if
PO: >I thought that was happening to. me, I'd search the place from top to bottom,
PO: >I mean I live there I would know if anything was out of place.. If I was
PO:. >really suspicious, I would call in one of those bug detection teams which
PO: >have those machines that pick up the transmitted. radio waves. This
PO: >reminds me of BUGS, that new. programme on BBC1 on
That's exactly what. we did. We went to a competent, professional detective
agency in London, paid them over 400 quid to debug our. house. They used
scanner devices which go to over 1 GHz and would pick. up any nearby
transmitter. in that range, they also checked the phones and found
nothing... but if the tap was. at the exchange, then they wouldn't find
anything,. would they?
CS: >Doesn't this suggest to you that. there are, in fact, no bugs to be found?
You can assume that they've. done this sort of thing to other people in more
"serious" cases, where they would know the targets. would suspect the
presence of electronic. surveillance. So they will have developed techniques
and devices which are not readily detectable either by visual inspection. or
by electronic means. What those techniques might be, I. couldn't guess.
In this case, the existence of bugging devices was clear. from the
beginning, and they. "rubbed it in" with what was said by the boy on the
coach.. It was almost as if they wanted counter-surveillance people to be
called in, who they knew would fail to detect. the bugging devices, causing
loss of credibility to the other things I would have to say relating to. the
harassment.
I did all the things someone in my situation would. do to try to find the
bugs.. In addition to calling in professional help using electronic
counter-surveillance, I made a close. visual inspection of electrical
equipment, plus any points where audio or video. surveillance devices might
have been concealed. Of course, I found nothing.. Normal surveillance
"mini-cameras" are quite. noticeable and require visible supporting
circuitry. It seems to me the best place to put. a small video surveillance
device would be additional to a piece of electronic equipment such as. a TV
or video. It would be necessary to physically break in to. a property to fit
such a. device.
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