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Resource Group in Assignment Summary? Microsoft Project

Resource Group in Assignment Summary?

Posted: 04 Apr 2005 10:39 AM PDT

No problem on the firedrill, it taught me something new for future reference
for other situations, so it was good thing even if it didn't apply to this
problem.

I have just begun playing with the Analyzer, and am pretty low on the curve
for it.

I'm trying to duplicate this report basically:

1. In a normal project, Select View, Reports.
2. Select Assignments
3. Select Who Does What
4. Chose Edit
5. Choose Sort Tab
6. Sort by Group Ascending, then by Name Ascending

That report, across all the published projects in Enterprise.

It seems like it should be so easy. *sigh*

Ray


"Reid McTaggart" wrote:
 

Unique ID renumbering?

Posted: 04 Apr 2005 10:19 AM PDT

If you want to go to a VBA macro to do this, then yes... but it won't be
simple
You would need to create a new project, then copy the tasks over one by one
in the order that you wanted.
Sounds easy, but when you get to maintaining predecessor/successor
relationships etc. it starts to seem like a lot more trouble than it is
worth.
You can use a spare number field if you like to set up your own numbering
scheme.

--
-Jack ... For project information and macro examples visit
http://masamiki.com/project

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"Gérard Ducouret" <fr> wrote in message
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have 

unassiged resource

Posted: 04 Apr 2005 09:41 AM PDT

Thanks Sarah; I hadn't thought about that. It seemed to me that there were
hours assigned, but I'll check it out.

"Sarah" wrote:
 

Writing values to a .mpp from Visual Basic

Posted: 02 Apr 2005 04:43 PM PST

You can also create a VB user form within Project and use that to
update values. Open Project's VB Editor and click Insert ... User
Form. Build your form using Project's objects, methods and properties.
This form is only available from within Project, however - you can't
call it externally.

HTH
Dave

How do I convert centimeters to pixels?

Posted: 02 Apr 2005 03:19 PM PST

There is no direct conversion. For a monitor, right click on your desktop
and in the properties look at the monitor settings. Lets say your monitor
is set for a screen resolution is 800x600. Divide those numbers by the
width and height of your monitor in cm and you've got the conversion for a
full screen image on your computer. But printed images are a little more
complicated - there you deal with a dots per inch or dots per cm variable
and an image of any pixel dimensions can be set to any desired resolution,
hence any desired size. Let's say I've got a picture shot with an
inexpensive digital camera that is a jpg file measuring 1024x768 pixels. In
Photoshop I can set it so the resolution is 150 dpi (60 px/cm) and it will
print as a 12 x 17cm picture or I can set it to 120 px/cm and it will print
as about 6.4 x 8.5 cm picture. FYI, the generally used resolution for high
qualitity printed images intended for display on the wall is 300 dpi
although you can go up to your full printer resolution if you wish for even
higher quality at a sacrifice of image size, ordinary snapshots usually
about 150 dpi, while pictures intended for onscreen viewing and web sites
are usually set about 60-75 dpi (30 px/cm) as most monitor setups typically
fall in that ballpark.

That being said, you really should post such questions in a group
specifically for digital imaging and the software you're using. This group
is specifically for issues regarding project managment and the MS Project
software. Glad to help out with this one though because some of my other
interests aside from project managment include video production and
photography.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"me_0128" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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What is the difference between Lag,Delay&Free Slack?

Posted: 02 Apr 2005 04:59 AM PST

hi,

For linked tasks, lag defines the "delay" between the linked tasks. Fro
example, consider painting a wall and hanging a picture frame. You can add a
lag to the "hang picture task" because it cannot start on completion of just
painting task. The paint needs to dry before you attempt to hang the picture.
It is in this sence that you will add a lag time. Lag time essentially
changes the start of the successor task by delaying it. However on the plan
you won't call it a delay because the schedule will show the gap and a later
start of the task to hang the picture. You may think of lag as a planned
delay.

A true delay on the other hand is the actual amount of time that the task is
behind schedule.

Free Slack is the amount of time that a task can be delayed without delaying
its successor tasks. For a task without successors, free slack is the amount
of time that the task can be delayed without delaying the finish date of the
project.

Regards,

Haris.
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"subzizo" wrote:
 

Split a task with two blocks

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 11:01 PM PST

hi Emily,

When you split a task in MS Project it means that you intend to work on the
task in two (or multiple) intervals. You split the task when you need to
interrupt work on a task, so that part of it starts later in the schedule.
This essentially means that the finish date of the task will change.

Regards,

Haris
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"Emily.." wrote:
 

Work on Fixed Work tasks changes unexpectedly when assigning resou

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 09:51 PM PST

JulieS,

Thanks for the response. To answer your questions, I was working on MS
Project 2003. The work values were stored in a numeric field in MS Excel, to
which I applied a custom format to append "days" to each cell, and I changed
the MS PRoject defaults to display work as days.

Tomorrow when I get back to the computer that I was working on, I'll post
more specifics about the specific field mappings. Thanks!

"JulieS" wrote:
 

How do I turn off effort driven scheduling on all tasks in my pro.

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 08:37 PM PST

Other posts have answered your question but I need to chip in - are you
really sure you want to do this? The setting of effort driven and
non-effort driven shouldn't really be considered global properties. In
fact, it can change several times for a given task over the course of
developing the plan depending on what kind of resource edits you're making
at the moment. I think of it as a switch setting that you, the PM, can use
to insure project recalculates the right thing when you add or remove people
from a task. If you have someone painting a wall and add a second painter,
effort driven is usually appropriate since 2 painters will get it done
quicker than one. OTOH, if you're sending people to attend a presentation,
non-effort driven makes more sense since a 1-hour presentation will take 1
hour regardless of whether there's 10 or 100 people in the audience.
--
Steve House [MVP]
MS Project Trainer & Consultant
Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs


"Dani's Mom" <Dani's microsoft.com> wrote in message
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How do I account for conditional tasks in Project?

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 07:59 PM PST

student3361 wrote:
 

Risk+ from CS Solutions does allows for Conditionals but you are
looking at about $700. But it is a GREAT tool. :-)
http://www.cs-solutions.com/products/?Product=Risk%20Plus

--
Brian K - Project MVP
http://www.projectified.com
Senior Trainer - Electronic Arts
--
QuantumPM Associate

Timescale above graphics does not print

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 03:01 PM PST

hi,

I am using MS Project 2002 and 2003.
For 2000 i think the tiers were referred as major and minor units.

A timescale area on a Gantt Chart displays two time unit levels:
Major Units scale
Minor Units scale

The time units, dates can be formatted to fit into your viewing needs.

To format Timescale area in MS Project 2000:

In the Gantt Chart View, choose Format, Timescale to open the Timescale
Dialog box.

In the Major and Minor scale sections, select the units of time you want.

Each set of units has a Label and an Align box. Select the desired values
and click OK.

Regards,

Haris
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"TM in Cal" wrote:
 

Microsoft Project 2002 Wizard

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 01:17 PM PST

Thanks Julie,

I think I've figured it out, maybe a little differently than you described.
I wanted to add the second calendar for the Night Shift in addition to the
regular calendar for temporary use. What I did was choose "Define a new base
calendar" and then give the calendar a new name for a new calendar template
for my night shift hours. I'm not sure if it's the "correct" way to do it,
but it works.

"JulieS" wrote:
 

Collaboration Email Only

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 03:05 AM PST

Hi Julie.

It worked. Thank you.

Sylvia



"JulieS" wrote:
 

Commenting hork hours

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 11:11 PM PST

Steve, thank you for such a detailed answer.
My question was put in such way because our company has support projects as
well as development ones. If we receive a request from the client to fix
something and it takes just 10 minutes, MS Project will make us spend another
5 minutes creating a new task and commenting it.

Well, may be you're right, support is not a project, but does MS Project
offer anything to deal with such cases?

--
Vlad

"Steve House [MVP - MS Project]" wrote:
 

Good B/U Program - Microsoft Exchange

Good B/U Program - Microsoft Exchange

Good B/U Program

Posted: 21 Apr 2006 12:37 PM PDT

Veritas, and NTbackup doesnt support brick level you can use exmerge to
perform that task though. :)

"John ICS" wrote:
 

Select messages from a large public folder

Posted: 21 Apr 2006 02:26 AM PDT

Thanks Henning


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ISA Server 2004

Posted: 20 Apr 2006 10:10 AM PDT

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:10:39 -0400, "Michael Henderson"
<mindspring.com> wrote:
 
They don't "integrate"
If you're trying to use the Exchange "Form Based Authentication" that
you can activate in ISA rather than on an Exchange FE then forget it.
That's for Exchange 2003 only.

What you need to do is to publish HTTP/HTTPS (whatever you're using to
get to OWA) as if it was a normal website (which is what it is)

www.isaserver.org will assist you in the basic publishing.

Attachments getting stripped to some external domains.

Posted: 20 Apr 2006 06:41 AM PDT

Ok. After doing some more testing, sending attachments works fine using the
OWA, but not with Outlook 2003. I updated the clients Outlook 2003 with the
latest updates but still get the same results. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Steven

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
 

New Lotus Notes Connector dated 12/05

Posted: 19 Apr 2006 12:36 PM PDT

Checkbox?
My MS contact told me to "check" as in "go and see" not as in "tick"

It was the Recipient Policy that didn't kick in (but would still stamp
SMTP address onto new recipients but not Notes addresses even though
the two formats were in the same policy)

Damn odd but damn easy to resolve, once you know to check a little
more thoroughly than you would generally have done.

I assume you're rocking and rolling now?

Exporting Users in a DL to a .CSV file

Posted: 19 Apr 2006 11:43 AM PDT

It took me a little bit, but I got the ADUC query working. Thanks, you're a
life saver. This list was for the VP of IT!

"Bharat Suneja [MVP]" wrote:
 

Scan Mailbox

Posted: 19 Apr 2006 09:30 AM PDT



In news:com,
com <microsoft.com> typed: 

Again, how do you know? Somewhere, some antivirus software is telling you
that you have a virus. If so, why can't it handle the virus when it detects
it?
 

I don't use their software, so I don't know how you'd do this. They must
know how to do it.
Why don't you scan the entire mail store?

This is not something you do in the file system - it's done only through
Exchange-aware antivirus software.

 

Sharing a subfolder

Posted: 18 Apr 2006 12:46 PM PDT

set permission not to read any content in the parent folder and give
permission to the subfolder so as user can able to read the data.

John Mathew

User sending emails after the folder size limit has been reached..

Posted: 18 Apr 2006 11:20 AM PDT

It gets processed by Exchange until it reaches the component to which the
limits have been applied, then it NDRs. If you applied the limit to the
store, and a MAPI client is used to submit the message, it goes into sent
items and they get an NDR. If they submit from an IMAP or Webdav client,
and the limit is a global limit, it get's about more complicated. In fact,
there's a kb specifically about the situation where Entourage clients submit
a message that exceeds the limit and it causes excessive transaction log
growth, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889525/en-us

I guess there is no short answer without knowing where the limit was set and
what client using what protocol is submitting the message.


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Linking 2 or more Exchange Servers

Posted: 18 Apr 2006 02:39 AM PDT



"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
 

Mark,

ok say I did that then what?
there's a few more questions there?

Thanks

Files and file types to exempt from Anti-Virus

Posted: 17 Apr 2006 06:45 PM PDT

Thanks, I never got the notice my question was answered. I finally found the
articles yesterday and was going to post answer myself.

"Mike Talon" wrote:
 

System manager

Posted: 17 Apr 2006 12:11 PM PDT

The problem is solved. System manager snap-in couldn't start because of a
missing key in registry. Here is the article:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3TechRef/bba4748b-26a5-438a-aa4a-c8e10d1334b8.mspx?mfr=true
Thank you for your answer
Gunnar Bega

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Recalling an Email message

Posted: 17 Apr 2006 11:17 AM PDT

Thanks all! Good info!


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Default User's mailbox size

Posted: 17 Apr 2006 10:42 AM PDT

You are correct sir!

"Travturner" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I need to recover an email sent with Delay Delivery Options

Posted: 17 Apr 2006 09:48 AM PDT

Oh I see, another question If I delete the mailbox from the Exchange Server
that mail account with this issue, That will fix the problem? I meant the
addressee won't receive the email or He will receive it anyway, What do you
think about?
My MS Exchange Server Version is 5.5 with MS NT Server 4.0 SP4.

"Martin Blackstone - MVP" wrote:
 

Random characters show in the GAL?

Posted: 17 Apr 2006 05:31 AM PDT

Well in the Outlook GAL, yes. At least at our site.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
 

OWA access denied

Posted: 16 Apr 2006 10:31 PM PDT

The slash is a typo, the userId is an example of my user ID I choose the
Johne Dow and in our company the user ID is the first initial plus the last
name

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" <org> wrote in message
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Win2000 to Win2003 Domain Upgrade / Exchange Server Replacement

Posted: 16 Apr 2006 08:05 PM PDT

Thanks Mark!! One more question if you don't mind. Before the mailboxes are
moved over to the new server, are there any precautions I can take to ensure
mail will flow?

CC

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
 

Microsoft Word - How can I delete multiple styles at once (Word 2011)

Microsoft Word - How can I delete multiple styles at once (Word 2011)

How can I delete multiple styles at once (Word 2011)

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 02:51 PM PDT

This question is about Word 2011 (Mac).

I can open the Style pane and get the list of Styles in my document.  I can select one (at a time) and do a delete.

Several tips for other versions of Word say that it is possible to multi-select a number of styles and do a mass delete of the selected styles.  However, I can't find the way to do a multi-select (I've tried all the typical key combos.)

How can this be done in Word 2011?  I am running Mavericks, if that's relevant.

Thanks!

The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag.

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 02:10 PM PDT

using word 2013 and suddenly the file froze and after that I could not open it again. Tried all sorts of things to get it going again but nothing seems to work. Will be happy to share the dropbox folder if someone can please offer to have it repaired. Worked for weeks on the file and will be great o have it back up again. 

Weird issue with IF THEN ELSE statement

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 01:30 PM PDT

When running these statements -->

Dear «first_or_pref_name» «last_name»,

You are a part of the {IF {MERGEFIELD level_assigned} = "1GA" "1GA Club" "UNKNOWN" }

You are a part of the {IF {MERGEFIELD level_assigned} = "1A" "1A Club" "UNKNOWN" }

I get this result set:

Dear Joe Cool,

You are a part of the 1GA Club

You are a part of the 1A Club

Joe Cool should only be a member of the 1GA Club. If I switch Joe from 1GA to 1A in my Excel data file, the results are the same! Apparently Word 2010 has problems with this mixed number and text value. If I substitute my values in the Excel file to all numerical, things seem to work again (For example, making 1A = 12 and 1GA = 34)

Anyone care to replicate this problem for me on their system? Any ideas? I searched high and low about this possible limitation/bug to no avail. Thanks.

Bad Hyperlink Display

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 01:07 PM PDT

Hyperlink appears like this in my document:

{HYPERLINK"alanpeg.wordpress.com"}. How can I get it to appear like this:

alanpeg.wordpress.com.


Al Rosenfield

How to get rid of Text-wrapping break marks

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 12:30 PM PDT

Hello, I noticed Text-wrapping break marks after colons. How do I get rid of them globally in a large document? No objects/pictures in the document. Just text. Thanks.

Creating a picture with text over it.

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 11:54 AM PDT

I want to write a text over picture and use that as one picture. I was trying different things, but not able to achieve desired result. When I saving it as a picture, only picture showing up (without text). Is it possible to do such a task in Office 365 Word or not? If yes, how?

I want to save this picture and use it to attach as a picture (not in World document).

Thank you.

Word/Excel 2013 file Menu slowdown with One/Skydrive

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 11:13 AM PDT

Hi all,

When opening Word or Excel 2013 (or indeed powerpoint, but I use that less) on my Surface Pro 2 (Windows 8.1 Pro) recently, everything opens speedily, and I can move my cursor over the ribbon without lag or speed issues.  However, when I click on the File menu, everything hangs (sometimes for 5 seconds, sometimes on and off for 1 or 2 minutes).  I've noticed that this coincides with my Skydrive profile being loaded (access to the OneDrive folder withinWord is not accessible, or word is unresponsive, and even my Profile picture not visible).

If I open Word/Excel in Safe Mode this works absolutely flawlessly, but then again, I'm not signed into my Microsoft account in Safe Mode.

There are no addins other than the default OneNote addins running, and I disabled those to test.  It's gotten to the point where I'm using alternative products to make quick documents, and even other clients (my Win 7 machine works absolutely fine).

I've noticed this happened over the last month.

Can anyone help or suggest other tests?  I'm POSITIVE it's Skydrive/Onedrive.

Mail Merge - Not Wanting to Show Negative Fields

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 10:48 AM PDT

Can someone tell me how to use mail merge to the point where when a negative value is calculated the mail merge letter will show $0.00 instead of the actual negative number?  I'd like positive to show the actual positive but the negatives to show $0.

Thanks!

Matt

Word 2013 Crashes on Links

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 09:26 AM PDT

I'm writing a lengthy paper and linking it to Excel 2013.   I copy the link in Excel, and paste link in Word.  It looks fine, but after pasting numerous links, Word crashes and when it recovers, several of the links are no longer linked. 

When I paste the link, I right click and it shows the link at 96% x 105% and reset to 100% x 100%; then go to advanced layout and click "top and bottom" and then center the link in the margin, click lock anchor, move with text and don't allow overlap. 

This works fine until it crashes and I lose a bunch of these and have to go back and start over. 

Product Office 2013 Pro/Service Pack 1

Machine:   MSI Board, 16 gigs Ram, Corsair SS drive for operating system and programs only, 1 TB document drive; Radeon Quad video w/ 1 gig; and 3 monitors.

What am I doing wrong to cause me such aggrevation?    Do I go back to WordPerfect?

Thanks

BobC2

Cannot Remove Wikipedial app and Icon from Word 2013!

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 09:08 AM PDT

After using the Wikipedia app for a few days I decided to use instead the Merriam Webster app with the Define button in Word 2013. I was able to make that work, but the Wikipedia app is still installed even though it's hidden in my MS account.

In addition, there is a Wikipedia icon in the Apps group on the Insert menu. I also noticed that I can click on that icon and it functions whether I am logged into my MS account or not. This is different behavior from the other apps I've tried.

How does one uninstall the Wikipedia app and remove its icon from Word 2013?

Inserting Online Pictures in Office 2013, not working, seeing only gray boxes

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 08:36 AM PDT

I have searched online for answers and have tried a few things.

My problem: In Word 2013 (also having problem in PowerPoint) when I go to Insert tab, Online Picture and I enter a key word and search I get the number of results, but only gray boxes as the actual result. I have read about others and know I am not the only one. I am using a laptop that is basically being used as an Office 2013 test machine, running Windows 7 Enterprise. (basically, not a lot of other software installed). IE is default browser and is IE8. I have tried resetting all zones in Internet Options and I have also done a Repair of Office. I have done other tasks such as clearing cache and cookies.  I checked with a coworker and he has identical issue. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I was hoping for an answer other than, ClipArt is gone and it is best to go directly to clip art site to get images. We have a lot of users and this is not a good option for many of them.

Mass mail merge - is it possible without getting backlisted

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 08:12 AM PDT

I'm using Office 2013 on Windows 8.

I would like to use the Word/Outlook combination to send newsletters.

The problem is that I have a few thousand potential recipients and I don't want to blacklist my email.

Is it possible either in Word or Outlook to tell the process only to send X per hour/day so that I don't get flagged as a spammer?

If there's no parameter that can be set for this, is there a function/macro that can be coded/added to the word template that delays calling the email?

Menu top bars disappered

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 08:04 AM PDT

Hello all.

I have windows 98 and word 2013. The top bars at a top of all of my microsoft office programs have disapeered. These bars are the ones with file, edit etc. (I do not know their real names as I am not that good with computers.)All there is above the page is blank white and it seems completly unresponsive. I have looked it up but I cannot find the solutuion,

Any help would be appreciated.

How do I restore down the "Open" dialog window in Word 2010

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 07:18 AM PDT

Hi. I'm hoping someone can help with my small problem.

I was working in Word 2010 and wanted to open a new file from within Word. I used the "Open" function, got the "Open" dialog window up, then changed my mind and went to close it, but instead I accidentally clicked on the "Maximise" button instead of the "Close" button. Now, whenever I use "Open" it opens the dialog window to fit the screen, and the "Maximise/Restore down" buttons don't appear, and I can't seem to manually re-size the window with my mouse. The correct cursor (for re-sizing) appears when I hover my mouse over the corner of the window, but it won't actually re-size.

Please help - I have having the Open dialog filling the screen!

Thanks!

Converting text to table

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 06:14 AM PDT

I'm trying to convert text to table but the result is totally unexpected and won't respond to "undo".  I am unable to see the "text separator" dialog box while performing this operation and cannot therefore select the delimiter I want to select.  Any suggestions

My headers and footers continuously disappear from my word template design

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:38 AM PDT

Hello!

I have been struggling with this issue for as long as I can remember, and now I finally would like to create a word template for our company that we will - hopefully - be able to work with without causing massive amounts of frustration and headaches.

So, here goes:

Ihave a unique (different) first page (Title Page) with some graphics and 1 title text and 1 sub-title text. All very standard for a normal business document and it works fine.

Then, one the second page, we have our custom designed header and footer, along with our Table of Contents (that might continue on the 3rd page depending on the length of the document). Also works fine and is pretty standard.

Then our document content begins (usually on page 3) along with our custom header and footer.

(Please note that our header and footer should remain the same on all pages that comes after the Title Page. The only unique attribute to the footer is the page numbering on every footer on every page.)

But my problem occurs when I start typing on the 3rd page, which is the first page with "real content", so to speak. At the end of the 3rd page, and if I just keep on typing and it skips to the 4th page, the header and footer of the 4th page doesn't "continue" from the previous page.

They just disappear.

So, in short, it appears as if the header and footer doesn't automatically repeats/continues when I go along typing throughout several pages.

The only way I know to fix this is by creating a manual "Page Layout -> Breaks -> Section Breaks -> Next Page".

That will manually force the header and footer unto the next page. But do I really have to do that on every single page throughout the entire document? That can't be right?

Also, having a long table pasted over multiple pages also removes the header and footer on the continued pages of the table design.

How can I fix this annoying issue? Please help with suggestions!

Thank you so much!

APA 6th edition update to 8th edition

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 05:07 AM PDT

is there an update for the apa 6th edition as it is practically out dated and i need the 8th version for my degree thesis is there an official update for the apa citation and caption system? 

Microsoft office 2010 home and student - unlicensed error message PLEASE HELP

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 04:57 AM PDT

I have owned Microsoft office 2010 home and student since 2010. I tried to use word yesterday and got the above message, I did the control panel 'repair' and it didn't work.  I have the product key but I don't have the cds with the software anymore - so what do I need to do?  

I've looked at these other posts about similar issues and not being technically minded at all I really don't want to go through the rigmarole of having to run special programmes.

I'm not sure if this had anything to do with it but I uninstalled norton internet security last time I used my laptop because my subscription had run out (using a different provider now) and its constant 'you must update Norton' messages were driving me bonkers.  Could this have something to do with it?

Please help, I need word to write my essays on, but I don't want to be referred to a 'read this similar blog post' answer. Please send me straight forward easy to understand instructions - I reiterate, I am not technically minded!

Thank you.

Lauren

Excel linked data and charts within a word template suffer from automatically changing item when a document based on the template is opened. Workaround?

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 04:27 AM PDT

Sorry for the convoluted question. Let me attempt to explain this a little better.


I am currently working on a word template that:

  • has links to charts and data in an excel workbook
  • both the workbook and template will be shared to other users on other machines

The idea is simple. I want to be able to send these two documents to other users, and when they create a new document based on this template, the linked data and charts update with the relevant values. This is simple on one machine, and I have written a macro that allows the users to specify the location of the excel file (using .LinkFormat.SourceFullName = new directory and using a file dialog), so that the filenames are up to date when the documents are shared on different machines. All of this is working fine.


The problem occurs with the item name. For some reason, the macro works fine in the template, but the moment you open a new document, the linked item's name (whether it is a cell reference of a chart name) is concatenated to the filename and the links become useless. For example, in the template, the links appear as:


{ LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\Users\\*******\\Desktop\\Morning comment data.xlsx" "Final flows![Morning comment data.xlsx]Final Flows Chart 5" \a \p }


once the document is opened, the link appears as

{ LINK Excel.Sheet.12 "C:\\Users\\*******\\Desktop\\Morning comment data.xlsxFinal flows![Morning comment data.xlsx]Final Flows Chart 5" "" \a \p }

Am I missing something crucial here?

Thank you!

comparing documents and improving second document into a third document

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 12:57 AM PDT

 I want to work on following thing. Kindly tell me how i will be able to achieve this using MS Word. I have one document which henceforth i will call Doc1. This document has less words in comparison to second document which henceforth i will call Doc2. Doc2 is modified form of Doc1. This modification means adding more words, elaborating the things, adding new words etc. Now i want to 1. Know which new words or concepts have come up in Doc2 which were not their in Doc1. 2. I want to modify Doc2 such that the new words in Doc2 are replaced by some words or concepts taken from Doc1. My main target is point no. 2 Please tell me the commands of MS word which i can choose to achieve both of the above points

2010 Word Gridlines Not Working (PC)

Posted: 10 Mar 2014 12:12 AM PDT

I can't get the Gridlines to display, despite ticking the "Gridlines" box, as you can see here, and for the first time in a long time, Google has failed me. Any ideas?

PC, Windows 7, Word 2010

backspace key acts like control-backspace

Posted: 09 Mar 2014 10:07 PM PDT

I have a Surface Pro 2 with Office 2010. I also have a type cover keyboard. It is a little touchy. Sometimes while typing it switches into another "mode" where all of the keys behave differently than before. For example, when I hit the backspace, it deletes entire strings that I typed instantly. Also if I click on a word to insert text, it does not place my cursor there. Instead it opens up a panel on the side and searches for the word in the dictionary. While the cursor is flashing within a word, I cannot use the arrow keys to move the cursor- pressing the arrow keys does nothing. The only way that I can fix the problem is by saving, exiting, and restarting the application. How can I get it back to normal without needing to exit?

Thanks in advance.

what is meant by a "online repair" of office 2013

Posted: 09 Mar 2014 07:31 PM PDT

My Word 2013 will not display the contents of a document  in which I had pasted the text from a .RTF document from. So, I went to "Programs and Features" to run a repair on my Office installation to try to fix the problem. I would like to know what the "Online REpair" option is. I will appreciate any help with this.  Thanks in advance, Mike

Word has disappeared from my Windows 8 start menu. I cannot open Word documents.

Posted: 09 Mar 2014 06:59 PM PDT

After restarting my computer, Word had disappeared from my start menu and I am not able to open any Word documents. 

When I search "Winword" an icon pops up that physically looks like Word but is called Winword. When I click this, however, a window pops up that says:

"Something went wrong. We couldn't start your program. Please try starting it again. If it won't start, try repairing Office from 'Programs and Features' in the Control panel." 

I tried to do this and chose the Quick Repair option first, and it did not work. I then chose the Online Repair option. It started loading but after a while a window popped up that said: 

"Background installation ran into a problem. Please make sure you're still connected to the internet, or try connecting to a different network. We'll automatically resume installation as soon as possible, and you can keep working once we do". 

I was connected to the internet, and I tried this process with three different networks. The repair process still didn't work I have no idea why this happened, or what to do. Please help!

Thanks 

Need Help - dotm - what is this and why can't I open the file

Posted: 09 Mar 2014 05:42 PM PDT

I have some Microsoft Word 97-2003 files on a CD all have the ext. 'doc'.  I'm getting a dotm when trying to reasave it.  Now all of these files, open with a dialogue box "file conversion" with nonesense verbage. I have a choice of Tex encoding.  How can I get these file to open.  I'm using Word 2013. Thanks for any help that can fix this problem.  I need to open these files.  Thanks.  I have another computer with Word 2010 and the same thing happens.  Surely, this problem can be fixed?

Track changes - deletions to text periodically being restored

Posted: 09 Mar 2014 05:26 PM PDT

After editing documents for two years, I've suddenly started having problems with 'Track changes'.

While any text I add remains, sometimes deleted text reappears without warning. It appears to just be the text I've deleted on the page I'm currently viewing. I'm then forced to delete the text again (and again), substantially increasing the time spent on each page. I haven't noticed any correlations with the text restorations and other factors (i.e., text doesn't reappear after saving, etc.).

Possible contributing factors include:

- a colleague sent me her file with 'Track changes', as she didn't know how to accept all changes. Possibly settings on her file have changed something in my system.

- A few weeks back, I had problems with Word crashing, and losing the document (no auto-recovery, no temporary file - just a dead link. IT support concluded the file had gone). I solved this by backing up most of my files to an external hard drive, which seemed to restore enough memory to allow Word to function without problems.

Thank you very much for any help you can provide!

Strange, drastic visual errors in Office 2013

Posted: 09 Mar 2014 04:52 PM PDT

I'm experiencing strange visual errors when using Word 2013. Entire portions of the screen are offset by several inches, duplicated, or munged. They are so severe that they make it impossible to use the program.

A screenshot is below.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/509mffq107cs8fa/Screenshot%202014-03-09%2019.39.18.png

I use Win7 on an AMD Athlon six-core. I have googled around but haven't had any luck finding anyone else with this problem.

Does anyone know what's happening here?

Is it possible to have more than 5 icons (places) on the XP standard Place Bar? - Microsoft Office forums

Is it possible to have more than 5 icons (places) on the XP standard Place Bar? - Microsoft Office forums

Is it possible to have more than 5 icons (places) on the XP standard Place Bar?

Posted: 13 Jun 2006 10:25 PM PDT

Hi Bob

Thanks for the reply, but I want to know if the standard OS Place Bar
can have more than 5, not the Office verstion of the Place Bar. As I
undertsand it they are two different things and governed by two
regsitry enteries in different locations. The PlaceBar for Office can
only be used by the office applications, like Word, Excel, etc. However
the standard one is used by all other applications like FireFox,
Thunderbird, Paint, etc.

There are many postings about the Office PlaceBar, but not many on the
standard PlaceBar other than using Group Policy and Tweak UI which all
offer 5 slots.

So can the standard PlaceBar have more than 5 icons?
Thanks
Yanwei

Bob Buckland ?:-) (At Beautiful Downtown) wrote: 

uninstalling Office 2000 completely ...

Posted: 13 Jun 2006 01:15 PM PDT

Hi,

You could also check if Word remains open through the following command.

Start> Run> winword /a

Also, if you do get any error report, do we have any field that corresponds
to 'Mod Name'.
Reply back if there is any info you could get off the error message.

Thanks,

Mittu



"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:
 

removal of previous office versions with installation of Office 20

Posted: 13 Jun 2006 11:03 AM PDT

You need to do a Save As.

And **please** make sure you read all forewarnings about betas before you
download them. You should NEVER try a beta on a production system. I won't
run it on my system because the stability of my computer is critical to me.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



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

Won't install after error-

Posted: 12 Jun 2006 05:07 PM PDT

Hi,

If it's Office installation, try disabling softwares like Spy-Sweeper and
try installing Office again.
Do reply back with the version of Office.

Thanks,

Mittu

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:
 

Outlook '07 doesn't complete setup

Posted: 11 Jun 2006 06:31 PM PDT

Thanks Milly,

Will try that this evening - got to use Outlook for work today >grin<

Bye

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
 

Microsoft Office Professional 7 Beta - Installation Problem

Posted: 11 Jun 2006 08:51 AM PDT

Hi,

You could give a shot by disabling softwares like Spy-Sweeper or even try
installing Office in the Windows Clean boot.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310353

Thanks,

Mittu


"David Sherman" wrote:
 

Download corrupt?

Posted: 11 Jun 2006 06:53 AM PDT

Hi Warren,

No, not really :) Some folks have Winzip or another 'unzipper' on the PC and sometimes using that will create an incorrect file
structure to install from when it unpacks. (Inside the Office download is a CD image of Office 2007 Professional Beta 2).

In other cases the temporary files or internet cache folders get clogged/full and get in the way after an incomplete installation so
a bit of file cleanup is needed using just the Windows provided basic tools.

=======
<<"Warren Pierro" <microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:com...
Excellent!
That worked.

Did I miss something in the download directions on the Beta site? >
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office system products MVP
 

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie :)
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net

Windows XP is installed but won't allow any changes

Posted: 11 Jun 2006 01:06 AM PDT

As Milly said, you have posted to the wrong newsgroup but....

If you have updated XP to SP2, the previous version won't install any
"updated" components since you are using a version older than the one you
currently have installed. To get around this problem, you need to
slipstream the SP2 onto the original install disk for XP. Google for
slipstreaming XP updates and see all the answers to your problem.


"Dave Neve" <fr> wrote in message
news:%phx.gbl... 

i need a cd key of microsoft office xp professional?

Posted: 10 Jun 2006 12:11 AM PDT

Hi Danish,

MS Office XP Professional with FrontPage is a Volume License only package, (not available as retail or OEM). If you acquired a home
use copy from your company administrator they should be able to provide you with an installation key as well.

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<<"danish" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
I installed the microsoft office xp professional with front page but it is
not working because it is asking the cd key but i do not have the cd key it
is missed so what should i do???? >>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office system products MVP
 

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie :)
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net

MS OFfice 2007 Beta Activation Problem

Posted: 09 Jun 2006 01:48 PM PDT

Hi Jon,

MS does not provide telephone activation for Beta, Preview or Trial software.

Three common causes of Office activation via the internet not being able to connect are

1. Router security settings too advanced.
2. Proxy servers requiring username/password authentication.
3. Firewall/anti-[something] software not being set to allow the specific programs from Office/Activation to access the internet.

Each of these will need a workaround on your end.

=========
<<"JonB" <microsoft.com> wrote in message news:com...
I also cannot activate MS Office 2007 via the activation wizard. The
telephone activation option is grayed out. The internet activation option
tries but I get a message that my internet connection is off, however, it's
working just fine. I made several calls to MS, reached an activation
department but they referred me the MS support site and told me to post my
question in the search box and that resulted in no responses. They also told
me there was an activation option via their web site, but I'm unable to find
that. Any help would be aprreciated.
--
JonB >>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office system products MVP
 

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie :)
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net

Just installed Office Pro, Product Key invalid for 1st run Word

Posted: 09 Jun 2006 10:11 AM PDT

One of your other options is to call Microsoft Tech Support and explain your
problem. I purchased a copy of software that the PID code label had been
damaged during packing and was of no use. Microsoft not only gave me another
PID over the phone, they even offered to exchange the software at no cost.
Sometimes you get what you pay for if you check out your options.

I have also found that occasionally we purchase something online or at a
swap-meet that isn't what it appears to be - perhaps this is a counterfited
or pirated copy ? This is just a thought...there are resources on
Microsoft.com to identify a bad copy.

If it's a good then you should have no problems in getting a good PID code
or replacement copy - I am quite certain a phone call to Tech Support will
get you everything you need !!



"Concerned User" wrote:
 

Sharing OutlooK Profile, between WinXP local user accounts

Posted: 08 Jun 2006 09:10 AM PDT

The 3 users uses the same common pst file, and it's configured as
default mail folder on all users.

The problem is each xpUser is recognized as diferent location (thougth
they're on same compuer) and the mailsystem returns again all the
emais. We only can solve this, disabbling the "leave on server option"
then when, one user downloads emails, they're erased from server and
they're not exists for nexted users download. But this solution crasesh
with our backup/security policies.

You know how mailSystem determines the user that is attemptting to
download emails?? cockies, id session, ... ???

we're the only users that need manage the same email account,
(preserving a backup copy on server), from from same PC. ... ?? becasue
a think it's normal issue ...

Thanks

Mittu ha escrito:
 

activating office 2007

Posted: 07 Jun 2006 02:40 AM PDT

thanks.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
 
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