--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00012 Date: 09/26/96 From: MARGYNO DEBAAT Time: 08:38pm \/To: LAWRENCE KELLIE (Read 6 times) Subj: Rules and Test LK> My HUB is having difficulty with getting messages out, LK> therefore, "a" response from someone seeing this would be LK> nice. "a" ___ * OFFLINE 1.56 --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00013 Date: 09/26/96 From: MARGYNO DEBAAT Time: 12:00am \/To: SOREN SVENDSEN (Read 6 times) Subj: Encapsulatede postscript SS> I'm using Word 7.0 and have no printer. Is there any SS> possibility to print my documents into an encapsulated SS> postscript file for transport on a disk and printing SS> elsewhere? I'm running Win3.1 but the general idea should work for Win95. Install an EPS printer/driver (any that comes with Win95 should do) and connect it to FILE: instead of LPTx:. Then when you print to that printer you'll be prompted for an output file. Hope that helps. ___ * OFFLINE 1.56 --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00014 Date: 09/13/96 From: JOHN ASCENZO Time: 06:12pm \/To: CHRIS LIVINGSTONE (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: My CDRom Drive Problem... Quoting Chris Livingstone to All Freebies re "My CDRom Drive Problem..." CL> Hi All, CL> I have a Sony CDU33A Double Speed Drive and Windows 95. CL> When I load Windows 95, The CD Rom drive works, but when I exited to CL> DOS, it won't work for my DOS CDRom Games. CL> My Configuration in DOSSTART.BAT under WIN Directory is: CL> LH MOUSE CL> C:\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /L:E I think this line should read c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe /d:mscd001 /L:E Regards, John Ascenzo ... Memory is the second thing to go; I forget what's first. --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group +61-3-9699-6788 (3:632/309) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00015 Date: 09/15/96 From: STEWART TANNER Time: 01:51pm \/To: RACHEL ALLISTON (Read 6 times) Subj: Mail Merge Document Help -=>After the Teddy Bears Picnic Rachel Alliston said to All<=- RA> Hi Hi Yourself, RA> Can someone please help my husband with this query please? I'll offer one possible solution for you I hope. RA> The Company that he works for is setting up a Network in conjunction RA> with a specialiazed software company. RA> The problem is that although there are set up numerous documents and RA> letters there is apparently no way to satisfactorily protect these RA> documents from accidental changes or erasure. *snip* using security levels on the network put all these files in a read only directory. Give the network administrator full access. Everone else can read the document and save their changes to their own area. This way the templates and original docs are safe. Any files that should be saved to the "Safe" dir can be placed in a pending directory and the network administrator can copy them at the end of each day. It is a bit clumsy but it works. RA> The Company setting this up has suggested that the only option to RA> protect the documents is by blocking access to the directory holding RA> the documents on the network to all unauthorized employees. RA> Unfortunately with the "Print Server" being on a separate PC any one RA> can access all the directories by simply going to that PC and playing RA> around:)) again security levels, if the files are in a protected area only admin level users can touch these files. Leave the server logged on as user or guest with no access rights to sensitive material. RA> TIA RA> Andrew & Rachel Alliston Good luck Stewart --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group +61-3-9699-6788 (3:632/309) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00016 Date: 09/15/96 From: WAYNE T. JONES Time: 03:42pm \/To: VALERY FRISK (Read 6 times) Subj: Re: Copy in Word -=> Quoting Valery Frisk to All <=- VF> Hi All! VF> To copy the window MS-Word 6.0 for Window in document Word? VF> Valery VF> -!- GoldED 2.50+ VF> ! Origin: Moscow Technical University of Communiations & Info VF> (2:5020/714.20) G'day Valery I am sorry but I don't understand the question, can you give me more information? Please write back. Regards from Dandenong, Victoria, Australia Wayne ... Any change looks terrible at first. --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group +61-3-9699-6788 (3:632/309) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00017 Date: 09/17/96 From: GARY COVINGTON Time: 11:43pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Word 6 Thesaurus Problems Hi All, I think that this is the appropriate place for this question, but please forgive me if it is not (and suggest the appropriate place of course). I cannot get the thesaurus in Word 6 to work properly on my pc at home. No matter what I do it ALWAYS says that the word has not been found, but it does always give the closest word or phrase in spelling to it under 'Alphabetical List'. My guess is that this information comes from the thesaurus file, suggesting that Word is able to actually find the thesaurus file itself. I don't have any tools that I know of that would enable me to make sense of the thesaurus and/or grammar files to confirm it. I have lived with the problem for a while, but would like to try to get to the bottom of it. The spell check function which is somewhat related has always worked fine. I am running Office v4.2(c) with Windows 95. When I found that the thesaurus wasn't working the first thing I did was check Tools; Options; File Locations; Dictionaries. It was set to c:\msoffice\winword but my thesaurus and spell files were in c:\windows\msapps\proof (which is where win.ini and winword6.ini said they were). I changed Tools; Options; File Locations; Dictionaries to c:\windows\msapps\proof (which also matched what my pc at work had) and that made no difference. I then changed the location setting back to the original (c:\msoffice\winword) and copied the thesaurus and dll files to there but that made no difference either. I also tried copying the thesaurus and dll files from my pc at work on which the thesaurus works fine onto my pc at home, but the thesaurus still refused to work. Using my pc at work I then found that I could change Tools; Options; File Locations; Dictionaries to any old directory at all and the spell checker and the thesaurus still worked fine. My assumption now is that this specification for File Location must be for supplementary dictionaries, not the default ones. I think Word must try to find the default ones using the entries in winword6.ini (or win.ini if winword6.ini doesn't exist - the install seems to create winword6.ini and also copy the entries into win.ini). Using Office Setup I then tried removing and reinstalling the thesaurus and that didn't fix it. Next I tried removing and reinstalling Word - same result. I then tried a full remove and reinstall of the whole Office suite. In trying to be cautious I renamed the original directories and .exes with .bu extensions first, then did the remove. The aim of that was to still leave me the original programs if something went wrong, but let the remove clean up all the .ini etc. entries it could. However, as I found when I tried to then run the various Office products, Windows had been clever (almost) and had faithfully updated the references in the .ini files to .bu as well. It then got into a mess with the remove/reinstall so that I ended up with a mish-mash of .bu and 'proper' references and various things in the Office suite wouldn't work. Time to bite the bullet! I deleted all Office related files and directories (.bu's included) and winword6.ini, then emptied the recycle bin to make that technically the computer should not find anything of them. I also edited out all Office references from win.ini and did a total reinstall of Office from scratch. Guess what - I still have the same problem! The thesaurus doesn't work properly, but everything else in the Office suite works fine. All the help, cbt's, clip-art etc. in Word / Excel / Powerpoint work perfectly. For the sake of my sanity a solution to this problem would be gratefully accepted. I figure it will turn out to be something simple but I want to know what! Thanks, Gary --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group BBS (3:632/309) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00018 Date: 09/21/96 From: MARK SEWELL Time: 05:22pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Word 6 merge problem I have a problem with word 6. When i merge into the main document the it merges with correcxt font point size but it always comes in as new times roman. The default font is set at Arial 12pt, the merge database is in arial font 12pt, and the document is arial 12pt. Any solutions would be appreciated Cheers Mark Sewell --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group BBS (3:632/309) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00019 Date: 09/25/96 From: PAOLO CANTONI Time: 05:20pm \/To: BARRY KOHLER (Read 6 times) Subj: Moving A Macro Hi Barry, BK> I have a macro in Word 7 I made at the office (and assigned BK> to a button on the toolbar) which I would like to move to my BK> computer at home. What is the easiest way to do this--other BK> than re-create everything from scratch? The crude way to do it is to edit the macro, cut and paste the text into a document, take that home and create the macro and cust and paste from the document. If you intend doing this more frequently, then you might investigate creating an add-in but this is a bit more complicated. Hope this helpz Paolo ___ X RM 1.31 2280 X Don't take life too seriously ... it's not permanent. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Sydney PC Users Group Mail Exchange (3:712/505) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00020 Date: 09/25/96 From: MAGGIE INNES Time: 05:36pm \/To: BARRY KOHLER (Read 5 times) Subj: Moving a Macro Moving a Macro re abovecopy and paste the coding from the Macro into a document then opent the doc on your home computer and paste contents into the Macro. Or you could copy Normal.dot from your work computer and load it onto your home computer. --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group BBS (3:632/309) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DDW00021 Date: 09/22/96 From: GRAEME SEYMOUR Time: 12:23pm \/To: GARY COVINGTON (Read 4 times) Subj: Word 6 Thesaurus Problems -=> Quoting Gary Covington to All <=- GC> Hi All, GC> I think that this is the appropriate place for this question, but GC> please forgive me if it is not (and suggest the appropriate place of GC> course). GC> I cannot get the thesaurus in Word 6 to work properly on my pc at Hi Gary, I might be a bit late replying......but I had the same problem... apparently there is a conflict in Win95 that disables the Word 6 Thesaurus A fix is available on the BBS ...I can't think what the name of the file is....but do a file find search using the the look for command.."thesaurus" it replaces the old thesaurus file in Word 6 and you shouldn't have any problems after that. Hang on...I have found the file name......Msthes.dll...it is located in the Win95 area on the BBS Regards Graeme Seymour ... My wife says I never listen to her -- or something like that. --- * Origin: Melbourne PC User Group +61-3-9699-6788 (3:632/309)